- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Healthcare innovation and challenges
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Music Therapy and Health
- Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Occupational Therapy Practice and Research
- Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Social Work Education and Practice
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
James Cook University Singapore
2018-2024
The University of Sydney
2019-2023
Institute of Mental Health
2021-2022
Despite health behavioral change interventions targeting modifiable lifestyle factors underlying chronic diseases, dropouts and nonadherence of individuals have remained high. The rapid development machine learning (ML) in recent years, alongside its ability to provide readily available personalized experience for users, holds much potential success promotion interventions.
Peers support specialists have positive impacts on the mental health of their service users. However, less is known about how changes as a result activities.We followed 10 peer over first year employment and interviewed them thrice. We used grounded theory to analyse way in which participants changed.Self-reported our did not change course study. role help grow learn condition strengths. While sharing past experiences could be taxing, they learned harness recovery journey without risking...
Peer support workers are an important addition to the mental healthcare profession. However, much of literature and knowledge peer role is derived from western countries. This concept relatively new in Asian
Mental health recovery has shifted from clinical conceptualizations to more personal ones. However, much of the lived experience literature focused on people living with mental conditions, and less attention been placed various professionals, especially in Asian countries, where base is its nascent stage.We sought contribute a growing body work by exploring lens different professionals Singapore.Mental Singapore were invited participate an online interview through social media. The...
Abstract More contemporary personal recovery conceptualisation of mental health emphasize the need to consider perspectives people who experience ill-health. Most lived research has been done in Western cultures with relatively few studies Asian ones, creating a gap that needs be addressed due differences cultural worldviews. This study explores notion from lens experiencing challenges Singapore. We adopted constructivist grounded theory perspective evaluate qualitative data 21 participants....
Abstract The current study seeks to determine how peer support roles change as specialists’ positions within organizations and departments mature. We followed ten specialists over the course of a year, interviewing them at three points, starting approximately months after they began working specialists. used an inductive process analyze our data guidelines on structuring longitudinal qualitative trajectories divide into watershed moments. Our participants worked in variety hospital, their...
Since the 1990s, mental healthcare field has begun shifting to conceptualisations of personal health recovery, emphasising heterogeneous nature how people develop and overcome difficulties associated with ill health. Despite three decades research on topic, most recovery-oriented studies have been conducted in predominantly Western cultures, lacking necessary nuances when applied Asian settings.We sought contribute a growing body fill this gap by exploring experiences who experience...
Recovery in mental health remains inconclusive where the two most prevailing definitions "clinical" and "personal" remain. In nursing schools, students are predominantly taught straightforward concepts of clinical recovery, which result only a perfunctory rudimentary understanding recovery among undergraduates.To explore perceptions undergraduates on for people experiencing conditions.A descriptive qualitative study was conducted 14 from Years 1 to 4 study. Participants were recruited...
The conceptualisation of recovery in mental healthcare, for which two definitions (‘clinical’ and ‘personal’) prevail, remains inconclusive. In most curricula medical education, undergraduates are taught straightforward concepts clinical recovery, result their perfunctory rudimentary understanding. A qualitative descriptive approach was adopted to explore undergraduates’ perceptions people with health conditions. Participants were recruited from a Singapore-based university through...
Stigma towards people with mental illness is widely prevalent in Singapore despite nearly 2 decades of anti-stigma efforts. The latest and most ambitious initiative to tackle stigma, "Beyond the Label", was launched 2018. We believe that it timely highlight missing gap Singapore's efforts-the lack evaluative research on programmes. It crucial organisations involved battle against stigma publish peer-reviewed papers detailing construction effectiveness their programmes vis-à-vis established...
The personal recovery movement is beginning to gain traction within Singapore’s mental healthcare systems. We believe it timely give a broad overview of how developed and provide suggestions on can evolve further. From the early custodial care in 1800s community-centric programmes 1900s 2000s, we now find ourselves at forefront yet another paradigm shift towards more consumer-centric model care. following decades will allow practitioners researchers innovate identify unique but culturally...
Introduction: In occupational therapy, emphasis is placed on the complex interplay between client, occupation and environment, providing an opportunity for its practitioners to adopt recovery-oriented outcomes in interventions people with mental health conditions. this study, we seek understand therapy undergraduates’ perceptions of recovery Method: A qualitative descriptive study was conducted at a university Singapore, which provides pre-registration programme. Seventeen undergraduates...
Purpose Contemporary interpretations of mental health recovery emphasize the need to understand better lived experience people with conditions and how they define idea recovery. While traction for such ideas has been building in many western countries, movement is still its early stages within most Asian countries. Hence, this study aims add growing effort by understanding various factors that influence Singapore. Design/methodology/approach Braun Clarke’s thematic analysis was used on...
Background Despite a growing body of research exploring the application recovery-oriented models mental healthcare in Asia, few studies have sought to illuminate people’s experiences mental-health recovery culturally diverse countries such as Singapore.Aim To demonstrate why constructivist grounded theory (CGT) is suitable technique for unravelling recovery.Discussion Mental-health still an emerging concept Singapore. CGT can guide design and analysis, enabling more specific understandings...
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