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SUMMARYIn the last ten years the concepts of health and mental health have been considerably modified and mental health at work is becoming an important interest of the «specialist» in this field. However, it is difficult to establish with certainty the cause and effect between work and mental health problems since many other factors could possibly be responsible for the onset of those problems. Since work constitutes the principal activity of the human being it is reasonable that it could affect its mental equilibrium. Ergonomy deals with the person at work with the aim of better adapting the work to his needs, capacities and aspirations.
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SUMMARYThe effective use of institutions is strongly related to the importance given to the personnel's training. Therefore, we could use the management of the personnel's training in the public sector in order to redefine the notion of work and to increase the motivation in the helping profession. With that in mind, the nurses training is promising. A survey of the possible avenues available in the training of psychiatric nurses prompted the authors to open up new perspectives in that area.
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SUMMARYIn this article the author draws from his clinical experience those elements which permit him to illustrate how the family therapist constructs a therapeutic system. To this end he focuses on three particular aspects : 1) first he describes what confronts the therapist at the outset. He has to deal with an open or closed system (the family). To assess its degree of openness, he observes its survival rules, behavioural schémas and its homeostatic functioning. He explains how to begin the first interview in the light of the work of Shirley Luthman. He emphasizes the importance of circular logic as a basis for exploring the family problem. 3) He demonstrates the importance of redefining the problem, the therapeutic relation, and the context which may be judicial, or one of madness, protection or expectation. He concludes by insisting on the necessity for the therapist to be concerned essentially with process : how things happen between people.
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SUMMARYThe authors try in this article to analyse the demands encountered by a therapist in regard to his own growth. Beyond the traditional training, the authors underline the importance of self-training inscribed in the daily life of every health worker with a genuine help-relationship.
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SUMMARYThere is, beyond the growth of knowledge that follows training, a first meaning that is the meeting with the consulting subject. There are existing structures that enable one to answer to the subject's needs; the in-training constitutes a priviledged way which firstly separates those needs from the various problems encountered in a work setting and secondly, continually refocusses the trainee on the said needs. Training is to be considered as an activity to the same extent as any other human activities and to this effect it implies a dynamic that underlies the meeting of two individuals with their own sets of needs.
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AbstractMindfulness is the fundamental attentional stance underlying all streams of Buddhist meditative practice. It has been described as “paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally.” During the last years, mindfulness practice has been evaluated and introduced into several mental health treatments (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction; Dialectical Behavior Therapy; Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy). In this paper, the author considers the mechanisms that may explain how mindfulness skills can lead to symptom reduction and behavior change in different emotional disorders and in anxiety disorders.
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SummaryThis study is exploratory and its conclusions preliminary. Its interest is mainly in asking questions and stimulating reflection on a subject what is almost taboo in the field of mental health. The author sets out to examine to what extent the clergy and religious communities, who enjoyed a monopoly in the distribution of psychiatric services to the Catholic population of Quebec in the past, can consider themselves or be considered today as a "community resource" in mental health. To answer this question, the author reviews the literature on the subject as well as a large number of non-structured interviews that she carried out with many people involved ¡n or witness to this question, from the assembly of bishops, to priests and ex-priests, and to mental health personnel (psychologists, psychiatrists, etc.). From these interviews and the literature reviewed, the author questions whether the dramatic break between psychiatry and the clergy in the 1960s in Quebec is showing any signs of lessening today.