Persons with Mental Illness

Annotated Bibliography: Persons with Mental Illness

Waslser, R. D., Ruzek, J. I., Naugle, A.E., Padesky, C., Ronell, D.M., & Ruggiero, K. (2004). Disaster and terrorism: Cognitive-behavioral interventions. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 19(1), 54-63.

The authors provide an in-depth about the impact of disaster and terrorism and how it can affect the mental health of the victims or personnel involved during and after a disaster. When people are exposed to a disaster such as 9/11, they are usually affected psychologically and emotionally, leading to trauma-related mental issues. The use of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has effectively dealt with conditions that arise from terrorism or a person’s experience with a disaster, which often leads to guilt or blame. The victims of disasters and terrorism often avoid talking about their experiences due to anxiety, which can be solved through CBT. CBT intervention has been vital in treating terrorism disaster victims by dealing with PTSD and dealing with depressionand anxiety.

The article sheds more light on the best ways that victims of disaster and terrorism responses can be helped deal with mental and psychological issues such as panic disorder, PTSD, and GAD through the use of cognitive-behavioral therapy interventions. The authors use the qualitative method in conveying the research by incorporating references to other works that illuminate more information on the same subject. The presentation is informative and persuasive because it is informative and brief and offers persuasion of why the CBT intervention is critical in helping people with mental illness from disasters and terrorism.

Harmon, K. (2011, September 10). The changing mental health aftermath of 9/1—Psychological “First aid” Gains favor over debriefings. Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-changing-mental-health/

The author provides an overview of the psychological and mental health-related repercussions that emerged from the 9/11 terrorist disaster, which significantly affected the victims. The aftermath of the disaster proved to be less physical but more damaging psychologically. Most victims had to deal with mental health issues such as trouble sleeping, flashbacks, anger, and anxiety, while others do not experience any form of PTSD. The victims had a risk of developing PTSD varied, with people who earned less than $25,000 yearly being more likely to report mental health issues while those who earned $100,000 a year have a minimum experience with PTSD. However, most of the victims who experience PTSD, such as guilt, were not directly involved in the disaster. Still, most of them benefitted from cognitive behavioral therapy, which proved beneficial to many who wanted to deal with depression from the terror attack.

The project’s strengths lie in the illustration of how CBT intervention has prevented to work in dealing with health illnesses that arose after the terror attack. The author strictly uses the qualitative method in the article in informing the reader about the impact of CBT intervention in treating mental illnesses among the victims of the 9/11 disaster. The author uses the qualitative method through references to present a stronger argument about the best treatment of people who had PTSD after being involved in a disaster. The presentation used is informative because the argument presented is brief and concise. The number of references used throughout the article is not many, making the article a tool for informing the reader on how to deal with mental illness.

Miu, A. S., Vo, H. T., Palka, J. M., Glowacki, C. R., & Robinson, R. J. (2020). Teletherapy with serious mental illness populations during COVID-19: telehealth conversion and engagement. Counselling Psychology Quarterly. DOI: 10.1080/09515070.2020.179180

The authors explore how the COVID-19 disaster has impacted the severe mental illness (SMI) populations in engaging in teletherapy. The spread of the oedemic to the SMI population exacerbated pre-existing difficulties, which meant that most of the patients with SMI would not attend therapy sessions. The teletherapy intervention proved to work for the SMI and non-SMI population, with the latter proving to be more engaged than the former. The patients with mental illnesses are more vulnerable as COVID-19 continues to inflict emotional and physical pressure on people worldwide. It is essential to ensure that vulnerable populations such as SMI populations are exposed to the teletherapy intervention to benefit during this pandemic.

The project strengths lie in the use of both quantitative and qualitative methods of research. The methods provide literacy and numeracy figures and tables on how the SMI population performed in embracing the teletherapy intervention to treat mental illnesses. The use of conversion to understand the number of SMI population that responded to telehealth intervention backs up the article with statistical data. The presentation can be described as informative because it is relatively brief and to the point.

Altun, S., Abas, M., Zimmerman, C., Howard, L. M., & Oram, S. (2017). Mental health and human trafficking: responding to survivors’ needs. BJPsych International, 14(1), 21-23. https://doi.org/10.1192/s20564700000163x

The authors explore the mental illnesses that emerge from human trafficking disaster and how best to treat PTSD disorders. These individuals have been exposed to mental issues such as depression and anxiety due to their experiences in the traffickers’ hands. To solve the evidence of severe mental illnesses that face these individuals, the use of trauma-focused cognitive–behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) because people who tend to suffer from mental illnesses will also show traumatic symptoms. However, when human trafficking disasters are experiencing severe stressors, it is imperative to use antidepressants.

The project’s strengths revolve around the various interventions that can be adopted for people suffering from mental illnesses due to exposure to the disaster crisis of human trafficking. The authors’ argument concludes that the best approach to dealing with human trafficking victims ispsychological interventions. The qualitative method is used in this article by incorporating a sizeable number to support the argument that psychological interventions are the most applicable for trafficking disaster victims. The presentation used is informative, which sufficiently offers informative knowledge on the human trafficking face’s mental issues and the best intervention to treat these conditions.

Foa, E. B., Cahill, S. P., Boscarino, J. A., Hobfoll, S. E., Lahad, M., McNally, R. J., & Solomon, Z. (2005). Social, psychological, and psychiatric interventions following terrorist attacks: Recommendations for practice and research. Neuropsychopharmacology, 30(10), 1806-1817.

The authors explore the mental issues that affect the victims of terrorist attacks and how they suffer from depression, anxiety, and PTSD, and how best to treat their mental illnesses. The article presents CBT as the primary intervention plan for treating PTSD disorder that tends to affect the most victims of a terrorist attack. Exposure therapy hasmainly been significant in treating terrorist attacks and has been incorporated in Israel and United States clinics. All types of CBT effectively treat the victims of terror, although medications are still widely used. However, most people who can access therapy tend to embrace it more than medication.

The article’s strength is the detailed use of qualitative research methods that have significantly highlighted the different ways that people who have PTSD can benefit from CBT interventions. The extensive use of credible references authenticates the information and argument provided, making the intervention approach used the best approach to helping victims of terror attacks deal with mental illnesses. Lastly, the presentationcan be deemed instructional because the author directs the most appropriate method of helping terror victims deal with mental illnesses that arise after the disaster.