Anne Aboaja, Prashant Pandurangi, Susana Almeida, Luca Castelletti, Guillermo Rivera-Arroyo, Annette Opitz-Welke, Justus Welke, Stephen Barlow
{"title":"Erratum: Six Nations: a clinical scenario comparison of systems for prisoners with psychosis in Australia, Bolivia and four European nations - ERRATUM.","authors":"Anne Aboaja, Prashant Pandurangi, Susana Almeida, Luca Castelletti, Guillermo Rivera-Arroyo, Annette Opitz-Welke, Justus Welke, Stephen Barlow","doi":"10.1192/bji.2023.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1192/bji.2023.10","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1192/bji.2022.16.].</p>","PeriodicalId":36441,"journal":{"name":"BJPsych International","volume":"20 3","pages":"76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10387424/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9935316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cyrine Ben Said, Hela Ben Abid, Mohammadreza Shalbafan, Mariana Pinto da Costa
{"title":"The World Psychiatry Exchange Program in Iran: a unique academic and personal experience.","authors":"Cyrine Ben Said, Hela Ben Abid, Mohammadreza Shalbafan, Mariana Pinto da Costa","doi":"10.1192/bji.2023.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1192/bji.2023.11","url":null,"abstract":"The World Psychiatry Exchange Program in Iran is an academic experience we are delighted to share. As two participating early career psychiatrists, a local psychiatry faculty member manager, and the lead founder and international coordinator of the programme, we focus in this article on the unfolding of this new learning experience, the difficulties we encountered and the main lessons learned by the participants: commonalities and differences in training and practice in general adult psychiatry and child psychiatry in Tunisia and Iran, as well as in idioms of distress between the Arab and Persian cultures.","PeriodicalId":36441,"journal":{"name":"BJPsych International","volume":"20 3","pages":"71-73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10387435/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9929273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psychiatry in Qatar","authors":"Mohammed Mohammed, Ibrahim Makki, Suhaila Ghuloum","doi":"10.1192/bji.2023.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1192/bji.2023.23","url":null,"abstract":"The first article written about psychiatric services in Qatar was published in BJPsych International in 2006. Since then, the health system in Qatar has undergone significant transformation in the areas of service delivery, research and education. International accreditations are sought in all these fields to emphasise the standard achieved. In this article, we follow up on the mental health services currently available in Qatar, their strengths and the associated challenges.","PeriodicalId":36441,"journal":{"name":"BJPsych International","volume":"133 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135754660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Randa Ahmed Abdalrheem Altamih, Osman Kamal Osman Elmahi
{"title":"Social interactions within the Sudanese healthcare system: traditional healers and psychiatrists.","authors":"Randa Ahmed Abdalrheem Altamih, Osman Kamal Osman Elmahi","doi":"10.1192/bji.2022.27","DOIUrl":"10.1192/bji.2022.27","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>From a cultural perspective, traditional healing has had a substantial impact on psychiatric management in rural African communities, but the services provided by traditional healers are not integrated with the mental health services provided by primary healthcare. In Sudan, modern psychiatry has seen minimal development beyond the capital city of Khartoum. In rural communities, traditional health practitioners (THPs) are the first point of entry to mental health services. Effective collaboration between THPs and consultant psychiatrists should be encouraged by the introduction of health education that targets THPs, especially in rural communities. This would facilitate the integration of mental health services into primary healthcare and help achieve universal health coverage for psychiatric disorders in Sudan.</p>","PeriodicalId":36441,"journal":{"name":"BJPsych International","volume":"20 1","pages":"29-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10895484/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44865290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Telehealth: a new opportunity for out-patient psychiatric services.","authors":"Erica Bell, Cornelia Kaufmann, Gin S Malhi","doi":"10.1192/bji.2022.34","DOIUrl":"10.1192/bji.2022.34","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare systems rapidly embraced technology as a means of providing care while adhering to social distancing protocols. In this brief article, we report on a new telehealth initiative recently implemented in an out-patient psychiatric setting and outline the novel role telehealth may serve in facilitating psychiatric care globally. The uptake of telehealth represents a new and exciting opportunity to increase both access to, and quality of, care for people with mental illness.</p>","PeriodicalId":36441,"journal":{"name":"BJPsych International","volume":"20 1","pages":"33-37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10895482/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47695023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A partnership between Māori healing and psychiatry in Aotearoa New Zealand.","authors":"Wiremu NiaNia, Allister Bush","doi":"10.1192/bji.2022.25","DOIUrl":"10.1192/bji.2022.25","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper describes an example of Māori healing and psychiatry working together in an Indigenous mental health context in Aotearoa (New Zealand). Each author outlines their perspectives on the context and the partnership. The case of a Māori teenager with pseudo-seizures and voice-hearing is described to illustrate the partnership in action.</p>","PeriodicalId":36441,"journal":{"name":"BJPsych International","volume":"20 1","pages":"31-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10895480/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42515890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development of adolescent mental health services in Sri Lanka.","authors":"Onali Bimalka Wickramaseckara Rajapakshe, Mohapradeep Mohan, Swaran Preet Singh","doi":"10.1192/bji.2022.32","DOIUrl":"10.1192/bji.2022.32","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sri Lanka has faced two major catastrophes in recent history: the civil war (1983-2009) and the tsunami (2004). Furthermore, there is a continuously changing socioeconomic situation which is becoming ever more challenging. Nearly a quarter of the Sri Lankan population is a youth or adolescent, and this age group is particularly vulnerable to adversity. Over the past decade Sri Lanka has acknowledged the need to support these young people and embarked on developing adolescent mental health services, but they require further expansion. This article provides a critical review of the state of current adolescent mental health services in our country and makes suggestions for improvement.</p>","PeriodicalId":36441,"journal":{"name":"BJPsych International","volume":"20 1","pages":"41-43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10895478/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43583678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Climate change and mental health in the Philippines.","authors":"Rowalt Carpo Alibudbud","doi":"10.1192/bji.2022.31","DOIUrl":"10.1192/bji.2022.31","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The mental health repercussions of the climate crisis are observed annually in the Philippines, one of the world's most climate-vulnerable countries. This paper explores these repercussions by examining the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan. It shows that mental health problems persisted beyond the typhoon's immediate aftermath among a large number of survivors. Since the mental health system was fragile, the affected community improved their mental health services through the help of local and international non-governmental organisations. Nonetheless, several challenges must be addressed as the country faces the climate crisis.</p>","PeriodicalId":36441,"journal":{"name":"BJPsych International","volume":"20 1","pages":"44-46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10895483/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44081622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}