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\"Memory is Copeland-Stark's business. Yet after months of reconsolidation treatments at their sleek new flagship facility, Hope Nakano still has no idea what happened to her lost year, or the life she was just beginning to build with Luke. When the procedures surface fragmented memories, Hope finds herself doubting what she knows, what she's been told, and the man she thought she loved. As inconsistencies mount, her search for answers reveals a much larger secret Copeland-Stark is determined to protect\" -- Back cover.

Background Children living in challenged humanitarian settings (including those in rural/underserved areas, the displaced, refugees, in conflict/post conflict situations) are at greater risk of mental health difficulties or behavioural problems, with caregivers acting as their main protective factors. While many family skills programmes exist, very few were developed for, or piloted in, low resource settings (settings with limited infrastructure, typical of humanitarian settings). We therefore designed a brief and light programme; the Strong Families (SF) programme, consisting of 5 h contact time over 3 weeks. We conducted a pilot study with the aim to test the feasibility of implementation, and a preliminary look at the effectiveness of SF, in improving child behaviour and family functioning in families living in Afghanistan. Methods We recruited female caregivers and children aged 8–12 years through schools and drug treatment centres in Afghanistan and enrolled them in the SF programme. Demographic data, emotional and behavioural difficulties of children and parental skills and family adjustment measures were collected from caregivers before, 2 and 6 weeks after the intervention. Outcome was assessed through the SDQ (Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire), assessing children’s behavioural, emotional, and social issues, and PAFAS (Parenting and Family Adjustment Scales), measuring parenting practices and family functioning. Results We enrolled 72 families in the programme with a 93.1% retention rate ( n  = 67) for data collection 6 weeks post intervention. Mean age of caregivers was 36.1 years, they had 3.8 children on average and 91.7% of them had experienced war/armed conflict in their past. The average total difficulty score of the SDQ (ranging from 0 to 40, with scores above 16 being indicative of high problems) of the 72 children reduced significantly, from 17.8 at pre-test to 12.9 at post-test and 10.6 at second follow-up, with no difference in gender and most noticeably amongst those with the highest scores at baseline. Likewise, PAFAS scores decreased significantly after the programme, again with caregivers with the highest scores at baseline improving most. Conclusions The implementation of a brief family skills programme was seemingly effective and feasible in a resource-limited setting and positively improved child mental health and parenting practices and family adjustment skills. These results suggest the value of such a programme and call for further validation through other methods of impact assessment and outcome evaluation. Trial registration ISRCTN76509384 . Retrospectively registered on March 9, 2020.

Introduction and Objectives: The affected functional domains in patients with degenerative dementias serve as clues to trace with varying levels of certainty the underlying neuropathology (1) and the negative impact on their autonomy reveals part of the clinical diagnosis of the disease. Healthcare professionals often rely on tools that measure this functionality, allowing them to distinguish between mild cognitive impairment and actual dementia (FAQ (2), CDR(3)). According to the science fiction author Philip K. Dick, Kipple is a useless object like advertising cards, matchboxes after the last match has been used, yesterday’s newspaper wrapper, etc. Considering that the deterioration in the autonomy of dementia patients negatively impacts their connection with the environment, it is expected that the kipple around them will be few. The aim of this work is to create a low-cost, simple, and quick tool that allows the physician to measure the negative impact of the patient’s cognitive failures on their functionality.

Objective. Therapeutic intervention can improve the overall level of mental health of American postmodern fiction writers by improving their social communication skills and overall well-being. This paper discusses the application of art therapy in the mental health education of American postmodern novel creators and proves that expressive art therapy intervention is effective in improving the mental health level of American postmodern novel creators. Method. This article attempts to help American postmodernist novel creators understand their own mental health status by means of individualized assessment and therapeutic intervention and to analyze and discover their own potential mental health problems. The writers of postmodernist novels in the USA were measured and screened by means of scales and questionnaires, and the members who met the experimental intervention were divided into experimental group and control group, and the experimental group received a 30-day reception music therapy intervention. After the intervention, the data will be counted, and the quantitative and qualitative aspects will be analyzed to comprehensively evaluate the effect of the intervention. Results/Discussion. Receptive music therapy intervention has a significant effect in relieving the anxiety of American postmodernist novel creators and plays a positive role in helping American postmodernist novel creators better adapt to study life and build good emotional psychology and interpersonal relationships. Psychological counseling relies more on external forces to correct cognition and adjust psychology, while music therapy intervention, as a nonsemantic art, can arouse inner functions and mobilize the self-healing potential of American postmodern novel creators. Practice has proven that when the language intervention of traditional psychotherapy encounters resistance and silence, music as a special language plays a vital role. The nonlinguistic nature of music, through a mode of reproduction of sounds in nature, makes the beautiful and soothing melody stimulate a pleasant and peaceful psychological experience through human hearing.

Misinformation creates challenges for the general public in differentiating truth from fiction in web-based content. During the COVID-19 pandemic, this issue has been amplified due to high volumes of news and changing information. Evidence on misinformation largely focuses on understanding the psychology of misinformation and debunking strategies but neglects to explore critical thinking education for the general public. This viewpoint outlines the science of misinformation and the current resources available to the public. This paper describes the development and theoretical underpinnings of a mnemonic (Conflict of Interest, References, Author, Buzzwords, Scope of Practice [CRABS]) for identifying misinformation in web-based health content. Leveraging evidence-based educational strategies may be a promising approach for empowering the public with the confidence needed to differentiate truth from fiction in an infodemic.

The explicit definition of the protagonist's psychiatric diagnosis, and the frank, realistic portrayals of her interactions with mental health services and pharmacological therapy, made Am I Normal Yet stand out among other contemporary young adult fiction upon publication, especially in the UK. The novel's target demographic covers both those individuals who are most at risk of developing the illness, as well as their peers, with a particular focus on the perceived stigma of mental illness in the high school environment. Am I Normal Yet provides us with invaluable insights into the belief systems, social environments and cultural expectations that influence how teenagers interact with healthcare services and manage their conditions; insights that can help improve how we manage some of our youngest and most vulnerable patients.

This contribution investigates in what way digital narratives, such as hypertext fiction (HTF), could be conceptually integrated in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms to discuss and promote 'Mental Health Literacy' (MHL) among secondary level learners. Through the analysis of the potential offered by HTF, a well-established but often overlooked type of digital literature characterised by decision making through hypertextual links (similar to Choose -Your-OwnAdventure books), the author examines how the distinct affordances of the genre can support the development of MHL in the EFL context. To do so, this contribution first explores the possibilities and limitations offered by the concept of MHL for being embedded into English Language Education (ELE) with a focus on the potential offered by literature education. Based on this approach, it sheds light on the ways digital fiction, but also other forms of literature, can be utilised as authentic language resources to promote positive mental health as well as the concept of MHL. Overall, this article contributes towards the body of literature that offers insights for both researchers and educators working within the ELE context on how to approach and discuss such difficult topics related to mental health in current practices of teaching and learning. It furthermore stresses the potential of HTF for being used to facilitate critical reflective reading as well as expressive writing approaches in which novel multimodal designs can support the engagement with mental health struggles.

Popular media can provide psychiatrist authors with a platform for broad readership and, as a result, can exert considerable influence over public attitudes toward the field of psychiatry [7–9]. Since mental illness remains poorly understood and stigmatized by much of the American public [10], many have called on psychiatrists to interact more with popular media [11–13]. In another example, Dr. Elizabeth Ford, Chief of Psychiatry for Correctional Health Services for NYC Health + Hospitals, recognized a disconnect between her work caring for patients in the criminal-justice system and public perceptions of this patient population [26]. Many Americans do not learn about mental health topics from medical literature or conference abstracts, and media outlets like newspapers, books, and social networking sites can considerably widen a psychiatrist author’s readership [28]. [...]CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post each recorded over 90 million unique visitors to their digital platforms in January 2018 [29]. Because of their medical training, psychiatrist authors may find publishing in medical journals, including preparing abstracts, submitting structured manuscripts, using citations, and undergoing peer review, to be familiar.

In this paper, we use concepts and insights from the literary linguistic study of story-world characters to shed new light on the nature of voices as social agents in the context of lived experience accounts of voice-hearing. We demonstrate a considerable overlap between approaches to voices as social agents in clinical psychology and the perception of characters in the linguistic study of fiction, but argue that the literary linguistic approach facilitates a much more nuanced account of the different degrees of person-ness voices might be perceived to possess. We propose a scalar Characterisation Model of Voices and demonstrate its explanatory potential by comparing two lived experience descriptions of voices in interviews with voice-hearers in a psychosis intervention. The new insights into the phenomenology of voice-hearing achieved by applying the model are relevant to the understanding of voice-hearing as well as to therapeutic interventions.

Mental illness is often misunderstood, misinterpreted, and misrepresented in the social-cultural context of society. Even with the development of psychology, there is still no widespread understanding of mental disorders and depression. Eating disorders, like anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa, are psychological disorders where the victim never eats food or binge eats and purges after eating, respectively. Young men and women are influenced by body shaming in society. They lose their self-esteem because they do not have that picture-perfect body portrayed in the media and mainstream culture, they use binge eating, purging, and starvation in their struggle to attain a body that is accepted by mainstream culture. Some fall into unhealthy eating practices causing nutrition deficiency, anemia, and ulcers; thus, they ruin their overall health. Graphic narratives about psychological disorders like eating disorders provide a realistic picture of the suffering of the victim through words and imagery. This research paper analyzes the graphic novel Inside Out: Portrait of an Eating Disorder (2007) by Nadia Shivack, a memoir that elaborates on the author’s struggle with an eating disorder. The subjective narrative of the eating disorder highlights the struggles of the patient as well as society’s concern for those who overlook the disorders. Moreover, graphic narratives help victims of eating disorders pave the way for self-acceptance and creating a positive self-image.