Homeland and its use of bipolar disorder for sensationalist and dramatic effect

When a lead character in a critically acclaimed and award-winning television programme is depicted as a proficient and meticulous heroine with a mental disorder, it is crucial to examine if this reflects a change in the media depiction of people with mental illness. This article employs framing analysis to examine the portrayal of lead CIA agent with bipolar disorder, Carrie Mathison, in Homeland. Although the show did initially associate competence, intellect and astuteness to this character, as it progressed, the framing decisions used for dramatic and sensational purposes ultimately presented Mathison within the usual stereotypical depictions: as impulsive, irrational, unpredictable, unstable, dangerous and disordered. Given the popularity of the show, responsible depictions should take priority over dramatic effect at the expense of a character with mental illness because sufferers may be deterred in speaking about their illness and seeking appropriate treatment if such negative themes persist.     

职务犯罪的心理防治

反腐教育需要入心入脑,法制教育要重纠正认知偏差,警示教育要重调适不良心理,形势教育要重辨析错误观念。预防犯罪需要打击为先,可以从提高刑事追诉力度、完善腐败制裁体系、平衡刑事制裁等方面提高打击效果。控制犯罪需要提早干预,可以尝试诱因免疫、权力监督、条件控制、心理干预等措施。     

Adoptions Gone Awry: Enhancing Adoption Outcomes Through Postadoption Services and Federal and State Laws Imposing Criminal Sanctions for Private Internet Rehoming

The federal government should invest in adopted children who make up the future of the country and are in dire need of rehabilitation and therapy because of their past circumstances. If the government steps in to rescue vulnerable children from inadequate or abusive birth parents by removal, it should also intervene when adopted families are faced with behavioral problems of adopted children that the adopted parents cannot address on their own. Postadoption services need to be accessible and effective to ensure the success of adopted families. Assisting families in crisis postadoption will lower the instances of dissolution and rehoming and keep adoptive families intact. In cases in which postadoption services fail, uniform federal legislation is necessary to make it a federal crime to advertise children for adoption on the Internet without proper certification and state legislation is required to make it a crime to pass on adopted children to strangers without judicial consent, to dissuade Internet rehoming. Internet rehoming of adopted children should be a serious crime as it is tantamount to child trafficking.© 2014 Association of Family and Conciliation Courts

Key Points for the Family Court Community:
• Postadoption services need to be more accessible and more narrowly tailored to the needs of adoptive families to ensure the success of adoptions.
• Better postadoption services create better adoptive families and adoptive parents will not reach the point of dissolution or private Internet rehoming.
• Adoptive parents should be provided with information regarding all available postadoption resources after adoption is finalized and a government Web site should be created that lists all available resources.
• The federal government needs to provide funding to states that specifically target postadoption services.
• A uniform federal statute is required to punish parties who use Internet forums to avoid government oversight and privately rehome their adopted children.
• States should enact laws that criminalize the unauthorized interstate placements of children.

     

Mental Capacity Act,Anorexia Nervosa and the Choice Between Life‐Prolonging Treatment and Palliative Care: A NHS Foundation Trust v Ms X

The Court of Protection decided in A NHS Foundation Trust v Ms X that an anorexia nervosa patient lacked the capacity to refuse treatment for her eating disorder, but that it was not in her best‐interests to be subject to force‐feeding to prolong her life. The Court, vindicating previous judgments in similar cases, considered that the eating disorder rendered the patient incapable of deciding on nutrition and, therefore, that she lacked the capacity to refuse treatment for anorexia nervosa. This paper questions the narrow way in which the patient's decision was characterised by the Court in this and previous cases, which led to an application of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 that is incompatible with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities because, based on a diagnosis only, anorexia nervosa patients were denied the right to decide where the balance lies between quality and duration of their own lives.     

繁荣与危机:透视国内心理健康工作

我国的心理健康工作起步较晚,但发展迅速,短短十几年的时间,就初步形成了较为繁荣的局面.但在繁荣的背后,我国的心理健康工作也存在着一些深层次的危机,主要是:1、心理健康基础研究工作的薄弱;2、心理健康临床工作者专业水准的普遍低下与合适培养模式的缺乏;3、心理健康工作中一些不合理的混乱.     

颅脑损伤所致精神障碍的相关因素研究

目的探讨颅脑损伤所致精神障碍的相关因素。方法以成都市公安交通管理局事故处理大队提供的因道路交通事故造成颅脑损伤的255名存活者为研究对象,在颅脑损伤治疗终结后进行智商测验、记忆商测验、SCID -I评估、PDQC和SCICP评估、脑电地形图检查,并完成人口学资料的收集。依据CCMD-3诊断标准中有关器质性精神障碍的分类进行精神障碍的诊断。结果 255例颅脑损伤患者中,罹患各类精神障碍者共185例,发生率为 72．5％。与颅脑损伤所致精神障碍相关的因素有:患者的文化程度低、脑挫裂伤、脑损伤程度重、左额叶和左颞叶损伤、多脑叶联合损伤及BEAM异常程度重。结论颅脑损伤所致精神障碍的发生率较高;患者的文化程度、颅脑损伤的性质、程度、部位及多脑叶联合损伤等因素对精神障碍的发生具有一定影响。     

脑外伤所致精神障碍与道路交通事故伤残评定

目的　探索道路交通事故伤残评定中脑外伤所致精神障碍的临床症状特点、影响因素及鉴定中应注意的问题。　方法　回溯即往一年半的鉴定资料 ,根据CCMD -3器质性精神障碍的症状分类对被鉴定人临床表现进行整理归纳 ,整理被鉴定人颅脑受伤的类型 ,统计分析评定时机及评定结论。　结果　 65例样本纳入本研究 ,平均评定时机10 .2 3± 7.2个月 ,临床主要表现为智能和记忆损害 ,人格改变和神经症样综合征占有较大的比例 ,精神病性障碍和情感障碍较少 ,未见意识障碍和癔症样障碍 ,Logistic回归分析显示智能损害的严重程度及精神病性障碍与伤残等级负相关。　结论　智能和记忆障碍在脑外伤所致精神障碍的道路交通事故伤残评定中具有重要的地位 ,一般应在伤后六个月才宜进行伤残评定。     

传销心理分析与矫治

传销组织的发展对象往往被传销组织采用多种手段洗脑,加之其个体方面存在浮躁心态、性格弱点和缺乏法制观念等因素,他们的心理在经历排斥、饱和及相融等阶段后发生恶变,由受骗者转变为施骗者。对传销违法犯罪人员,应采取分散矫治、心理关助、认知干预和帮扶救助等措施进行转化。     

“无声语言”在讯问中的运用

无声语言比有声语言多而深刻.讯问中的无声语言是侦查员通过手势、眼神和面部表情等姿态向犯罪嫌疑人传递信息的媒介,它可以增强有声语言的感染力、威慑力,可以为审讯赢得时间和战机,在提高审讯效率中发挥极其重要的作用.     

Mental Health Court Outcomes: A Comparison of Re-Arrest and Re-Arrest Severity Between Mental Health Court and Traditional Court Participants

Mental health courts have been proliferating across the country since their establishment in the late 1990's. Although numerous advocates have proclaimed their merit, only few empirical studies have evaluated their outcomes. This paper evaluates the effect of one mental health court on criminal justice outcomes by examining arrests and offense severity from one year before to one year after entry into the court, and by comparing mental health court participants to comparable traditional criminal court defendants on these measures. Multivariate models support the prediction that mental health courts reduce the number of new arrests and the severity of such re-arrests among mentally ill offenders. Similar analysis of mental health court completers and non-completers supports the prediction that a "full dose" of mental health treatment and court monitoring produce even fewer re-arrests.