Introduction: How Mental Health Matters

IF 2.1 3区社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Daedalus Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI:10.1162/daed_e_02029

Anne E. Becker, Giuseppe Raviola, Arthur Kleinman

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Abstract

Abstract The underpinnings of today's mental health crisis include both social structural inequities and neurobiological vulnerabilities. The COVID-19 pandemic has compounded and escalated a long-standing problem, rendering the mental health crisis and its dangerous consequences visible and exigent. We now possess a clearer and more nuanced understanding of the broken mental health care system and its serious inadequacies, as well as its potential for effective caregiving. The professional forms of knowledge and practice are paralleled by an even more substantial system of care involving families, networks, communities, and, of course, those living with mental health conditions themselves. Even when delivered by community care workers, psychotherapy can be as effective as somatic treatments for some mental health conditions. Harm reduction and other public health approaches offer means of preventing or mitigating the disastrous human toll of the substance use disorder epidemic. Social technology offers new opportunities for enhancing mental health and well-being. With these informal systems alongside standardized health care systems, the future could realize a mental health care system with much greater potential to avert the worst harms and offer effective care to many more.

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导言：心理健康如何重要

摘要当今心理健康危机的根源包括社会结构的不平等和神经生物学的脆弱性。COVID-19 的流行加剧了这一长期存在的问题，使心理健康危机及其危险后果变得更加明显和紧迫。现在，我们对残缺不全的心理健康医疗系统及其严重的不足之处，以及其有效护理的潜力有了更清晰、更细致的认识。与专业的知识和实践形式相辅相成的，是一个涉及家庭、网络、社区，当然还有精神健康患者本身的更为庞大的护理体系。即使是由社区护理人员提供的心理治疗，对于某些心理健康问题的治疗效果也不亚于躯体治疗。减少危害和其他公共卫生方法为预防或减轻药物使用障碍流行病对人类造成的灾难性伤害提供了手段。社会技术为增进心理健康和福祉提供了新的机遇。有了这些非正规系统和标准化的医疗保健系统，未来的心理健康医疗保健系统将有更大的潜力来避免最严重的伤害，并为更多的人提供有效的治疗。

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Daedalus Multiple-

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