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The article looks into the changes brought in 2020 by the COVID‑19 pandemic and consequent restrictive measures into the existence of Romanian human trafficking victims, beneficiaries of assistance programmes, in the sense of access to services, but with a focus on mental health challenges. It highlights the perspective of a psychotherapist providing psychological intervention on how the pandemic changed the psychotherapeutic context, framework and dynamics with clients. The paper also takes into account the victimized clients’ perception on the experience of life during COVID‑19 pandemic and how it affected their mental health. The purpose of this paper is to provide a broader image on how impactful the fast adjustment to a VUCA context has been for the most vulnerable, putting a significant burden on their mental wellbeing (activating post‑traumatic symptoms, anxiety, loss, partially processed painful experiences resurfacing), also in terms of restricting access to assistance and other services. A second objective was to offer the professional’s experience on the need to re‑organize the conditions of their work, not having certainty in predicting the results. The paper uses qualitative methods, the psychotherapist’s reflections, being completed by the clients’ perceptions obtained in psychotherapy and in a focus group (on the challenges victims perceived and how their mental wellbeing was impacted), afterwards synthesized in a group report, corroborated with the findings of a dedicated qualitative research and a body of theory centred on psychological trauma. In order to effectively address the impact of the COVID‑19 pandemic on the trafficking victims’ mental wellbeing, the continuity and coherence of assistance services needs to be ensured, particularly of psychological assistance. The victim clients shared the relational difficulties they faced in their family environments which they could no longer distance from, most of which had already been tensed before, or mentioned challenges experienced while living alone and had few social relations. Thus, the paper highlights once again the necessity in difficult times to secure the most vulnerable in terms of physical health, emotional health and economic wellbeing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyses the concepts of violence and harassment at work in order to: (i) better understand the complexity of the processes; (ii) promote a multidimensional perception of the role played by colleagues and superiors; (iii) more clearly define the two concepts and while observing the links between conflict and harassment. The analysis is based on the definition of the concepts, the regulation at international, European and national level, as well as the impact on workers' mental health and the reflection of their application in judicial practice both from the employer's and the worker's perspective, in the context of Romania's ratification of the ILO Convention No 190/2019 on the elimination of violence and harassment in the world of work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article focuses on the influences of pop culture on literary phenomena in the context of the Romanian post-communist period, explaining the cultural-aesthetic differences. Starting from several studies that have influenced the Romanian literary works, the paper presents the contemporary direction in the study of literature published in the past 32 years: starting with the predilection for non-fiction writings in the first years after the 1989 Romanian Revolution, continuing with the ”2000 generation”, which was based on a new style – caustic language, defiance of literary customs or prosaic formulas –, and concluding with the work of the post-2000 generation, where we notice new codes of behavior and sensitivity, new sensibilities, where feelings and anxieties are created and poured into the online environment, while global contexts are becoming more popular (human rights, global warming, pollution, mental health). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study has mainly in view the involuntary hospitalization of a person with mental disorders as a civil protection measure, as regulated by the Law on mental health and protection of persons with mental disorders No 487/2002, republished. In order to complete the characterization of this measure, the paper has also approached the aspects concerning the protection of the person suffering from mental disorders and that are governed by the Civil Code, but also by the new Criminal Code and the new Criminal Procedure Code. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After 30 years, Prof. Dr. Al. Obregia Clinical Hospital of Psychiatry (AO.CHP), Bucharest taken again the tradition of annual conferences. In this way, between 22 and 24 November 2018 carried on at Bucharest the National Conference with International Participation: Modern Assistance in Psychiatry and Neurosciences - AO CHP: 95 years of tradition and excellence. This scientific meeting included 4 workshops, 11 sessions (1 plenary and 10 thematic), 73 specialized papers, over 400 participants, physicians and researchers, psychologists and sociologists, medical and social assistants, academicians and all university degrees. Threefold restitution of hospital founder - Al. Obregia-psychiatry was realized in 1998, after 75 years from the institution establishment. 3 Academies have continued the restitution, from 2009 until now (2018): Academy of Romanian Scientists, Deutsch-Rumänische Akademie Baden-Baden e.V., Germany, American-Romanian Academy. Sacramento, California (CA), USA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The social exclusion of adults with chronic mental health problems acts in all the major domains of life : employment, housing, income, education as well as accessibility of services. The Romanian mental health system is reflecting the discrimination of these adults : the reforms are delayed, the community services are missing, and the treatment is unilateral. In the area of psychiatric recovery, evidence based interventions needs to be implemented, like supported employment and education, family education, costumer-operated services etc. Unemployment is one of the most debilitating effects of the severe mental illness and evidence (as well as experience) shows that a large population of adults with mental health problems want to work. There are some internal as well as external barriers to employment for adults with mental health problems : the attitudes of employers, the symptoms, the lack of confidence, and the fear to lose the disability pension. Supported employment is an evidence-based intervention which aims to combat the internal, as well as the external barriers to employment. The results of a study realised in 2009 (Antal et al.) with the beneficiaries of a community mental health center in Cluj-Napoca, emphasis the importance of supported employment for the vocational reintegration of adults with mental health problems. The present paper underlines the importance of the social work's contribution in the area of psychiatric recovery, especially on those areas that link mental health with broader social issues, such as discrimination, lack of resources, unemployment and education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The national and international adoptions are the „great solutions” for the physical and mental health of the abandoned or orphan child. The adoption process is managed by the child welfare and the social worker are the important facilitator and manager of the entire process. In Romania, where the child abandonment is still high, and the international adoptions are banned, the national adoptions are the solutions bringing the maximum stability for the child's life. The child attachment quality toward the adoptive parents will support the child development, his/her mental health and happiness. The case study which we are presenting here is included in the research project: „Identifying the factors which are supporting the success in the national adoptions” (FISAN), funded by CNCSIS, for the period 2009-2011. The evaluation is done with Friend and Family Interview (FFI), Parent Development Interview (PDI), Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) and School Success Profile (SSP). The instruments bring into the light the parental functions, the family atmosphere, the child attachment development, possible behavioral dysfunctions and the school performance of the adopted child. The meeting with the adopted child and the adoptive family is done when the child is on his/her adolescence age (11-17 years) and the adoption was done before 4 years of the child. The papers are based on a case study of an adopted child and his adoptive family met within FISAN project, during 2009. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper is built on the idea that mental health issues are paramount for professionalizing social work. The concern for social worker's mental health represents a priority, analyzed here from two points of view: on one hand, working with clients requires emotional involvement (relation work) from the part of the social worker; on the other hand, the helper must manage not only his or her own problems but also those of the clients. Further, our interest for mental health derives from the fact that any form of intervention at individual, family, group or community level aims to harmonize social functioning and mental health. To accomplish their goal, social workers need supervision. The study presents a model in which both the premises - at the level of the social worker - and the results of the work - at the level of the client - are directed towards mental health. Its achievement is only possible via supervision. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The concept of mental health is a very controversial one. First of all it must be made the distinction between the mental health understood as a psychic health and mental health as a predominantly preventive kind of intervention. The latter is based on a pluridisciplinary system of theoretical and practical means meant for defending, preserving and improving the psychic health or, in modern terms, the psychic well-being, respectively the positive psychic health. The last option offers four direction to select from: (1) mental health limited to primary psychoprophylaxis (the original meaning of the concept); (2) mental health as concern for the psychic well-being or positive mental health, a modern development of the first approach; (3) mental health as a general term for all prevention forms -- primary prevention (attention - no primary care) secondary and tertiary -- expressing the whole of its preventive purpose which includes important healing valences as well; (4) and mental health as an umbrella concept which covers and unifies everything concerning normal and pathological psyche. The last direction, generally preferred for the advantage of offering a spotless side of the field, has its risks. These risks are the neglect of primary prevention, medicalization and psychiatrisation of mental health. Among the causes are: the complex and vaguely delimited character of primary psychoprophylaxis, the skepticism it is regarded with, the passivity of the community, prohibitive costs, the limited amount of resources, long-waited results, the pressure of manifest psychic pain, the lack of authentic professionals and even the psychiatric training of many of those who promote it. The paper shows that, at least for the communities with limited economical resources, it is preferred to accept the complementary character of the relationship between psychiatry and mental health, the latter being a field in which the primary prevention together with the concern for the promotion of the child's and adolescent's mental health should be dominant. In addition, a new paradigm becomes necessarily for health management: the pyramid of health services-mental health-longevity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Children mental health it is a public health problem. Often, health personnel must offer conseiling regarding normal children development. In this paper are presented data about the role of self esteem in harmonious children development. There it is a link between education and self esteem. It is underlined its role in social integration and we selected some advices educator/parents to facilitate a positive and stable self esteem in children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mental demands in occupational environments increased in the current socioeconomic context, this trend imposing stress management policies to promote health at work, in particular mental health. There are many methods and assessment tools belonging mainly to psychology, and can be used successfully in support of mental health promotion as a requirements argument among workers. This paper outlines some of the methods currently used in the U.S. and Europe, and also proposes the using of stress control card at work, as a very accessible instrument for Romania. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyze the logistical means and methods used by patients with schizophrenia to achieve suicidal act. The basis of this study is a retrospective study on a total of 53 subjects diagnosed with various forms of schizophrenia, which between 2000-2009 died by suicide. The analysis of methods used by schizophrenic in achieving suicidal act deffined two ways, one of which was violent and nonviolent and second both with the same fatal result. It is considered necessary to implement standardized assessment criteria to evaluate suicide on a global scale, going over the differences from one country to another in labeling a death as self-inflicted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In 1991, the International Labour Office said that occupational stress is the end of the century disease will not bypass any country, affecting all levels of work. Each job has a certain degree of stress, but staff work related stress involves an intensive intervention with mental and physical health impact on employees. Recent studies have shown that prolonged stress can be correlated with both onset and maintenance of the disease. This paper aims to study the effects of occupational stress for staff intervention by analyzing correlations between stress and some physical and physiological responses. Methods and techniques used were: biochemical investigations (glucose, cholesterol, triglycerides, lipids, LDLC, HDLC), investigating blood pressure and heart rate (AV), psychological tests for stress, depression, personality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]