Overview of international challenges faced by psychiatrists through their practice
Collaborative work of:
1-Dr Yomna Gaber Senior Registrar Psychiatrist
2- Dr Hosam Kasseb Senior Registrar Psychiatrist
3-Dr Wasem Marey Consultant Psychiatrist
International Challenges of
Practicing Psychiatry
Journal Club 7/4/1436
Dr Hosam H Kaseb
Registrar Psychiatrist
Al Taif Mental Health Hospital
Under Supervision of
Dr Wasem Marey
Consultant Psychiatrist
Al Taif Mental Health Hospital
Challenges
1. Nature of The Disease
2. Stigma
3. Anti-Psychiatry
4. Updated Evidence-Based Practice
5. Cross-Culture Psychiatry
6. Ethics & Medico-Legal Aspects
Nature of The Disease
Sequale
Quality of Life Stigma
Course & Prognosis
Acute Episodic Chronic
Management
Pharmacotherapy Psychotherapy Physical Therapy
Diagnosis
Misdiagnosis Classification systems Over diagnosis
Etiology
Biological Psychological Social
Fighting Stigma
Fighting Stigma
Protest
Media
Fighting Misconceptions
published by media
Opening channels
of communication
Society
Protesting against negative
attitudes
Least Effective
Education
Health workers
Children &
Adolescents
Families
More Information
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Less Stigma
Direct
Communication
Role Models of
Effective Patients
Most Effective
methods
(yet sometimes
regarded as
exceptions)
Beginning of the Movement
Ex-Patients
National
Mental
Health
Council
England
WANA
We Are Not Alone
USA
Scientology
Clifford
W. Beers
Psychiatrists
A Mind That
Found itself (1908)
Reasons for the Movement
Harmful
Therapies
ECT
Anxiolytics
Psychotropic
Side Effects
Over
Prescription
Psychosurgery
References
1. Portraying mental illness and drug addiction as treatable
health conditions: Effects of a randomized experiment
on stigma and discrimination
McGinty EE, Goldman HH, Pescosolido B, Barry CL 2014
2. Key Ingredients of Anti-Stigma programs
Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 2014
3. Stigma, Conscience , Science in Psychiatry ; Past , Present
& Future
John Z. Sadler 2009
4. Cross Cultural Validation & psychometric Properties of
Arabic Brief Religious Coping Scale (A-BRCS)
Ashraf ElHadethe et Al 2014
5. An Examination of the Evidence in Culturally adapted
Evidence-Based or Empirically Supported Interventions
Janet E. Helms 2014