2010年9月27日月曜日

自衛官自殺:後絶たぬ 08年度、一般職国家公務員の1.5倍 背景に「いじめ」など - 毎日jp(毎日新聞)

自衛官自殺:後絶たぬ 08年度、一般職国家公務員の1.5倍 背景に「いじめ」など - 毎日jp(毎日新聞)

防衛省・自衛隊の自殺者が毎年、100人近くに上り、高止まり傾向に歯止めがかからない。04~06年度は3年連続で100人に達し、07年度以降は80人台で推移しているものの、08年度の自殺者83人を10万人あたりで換算すると33人となり、一般職国家公務員10万人あたりの自殺者22人に比べ1・5倍の高率となっている。背景には、厳しい規律や生活環境、拡大する海外派遣による負担増なども指摘されるが、効果的な対策は見いだせないのが現状で、同省は頭を悩ませている。【樋岡徹也】

自衛官自殺:後絶たぬ 08年度、一般職国家公務員の1.5倍 背景に「いじめ」など - 毎日jp(毎日新聞)

自衛官自殺:後絶たぬ 08年度、一般職国家公務員の1.5倍 背景に「いじめ」など - 毎日jp(毎日新聞)

自衛官自殺:後絶たぬ 08年度、一般職国家公務員の1.5倍 背景に「いじめ」など
 ◇背景に「いじめ」や「新任務ストレス」

2010年9月23日木曜日

Tokyo Counseling Services

Tokyo Counseling Services

The TCS counseling center in Shimokitazawa provides a wide range of counseling and psychotherapy services, including individual counseling, couples and marriage therapy, family art therapy and group therapy. Easily accessible by car and train from Shibuya, Shinjuku and Kichijoji, the counseling center is open daily from 9 a.m.

カウンセリング

東京カウンセリングサービス

東京カウンセリングサービス は全て、日本臨床心理士認定協会の臨床心理士など、専門家としての資格やライセンスの有資格者です。又、セラピストは、専門的な経験を積んだ、日本欧州共通サイコセラピー資格の認定者です。

2010年9月22日水曜日

所在不明乳幼児

所在不明乳幼児:35市区で延べ355人 毎日新聞調査 - 毎日jp(毎日新聞)

所在不明乳幼児:35市区で延べ355人 毎日新聞調査

 住民票を移さないまま一家で転居するなどし、行政機関が安否や所在を確認できない乳幼児(0~3歳)が、全国の主要74市区のうち35市区で延べ355人に上ることが、毎日新聞の調査で分かった。こうしたケースは貧困や孤立による児童虐待につながるリスクもあることから、子どもの発見に向け早急な対応が求められそうだ。

 毎日新聞は8月、東京23区、道府県庁所在地、政令市の74市区にアンケートし、乳幼児健診に来なかったため、自治体職員が家庭訪問するなどした結果、住民登録地に住んでいなかった子どもについて、データがある直近年度(09年度か08年度)の人数を尋ねた。「消えた子ども」の全国規模の人数が明らかになるのは初めて。

 乳幼児健診は、市区町村が母子保健法に基づき、子どもの身体計測や診察、歯科指導、発育相談などを行う。同法上は(1)1歳6カ月~2歳(2)3~4歳の2回だが、多くの自治体が生後3カ月ごろから上乗せで実施している。

2010年9月20日月曜日

うつ病

香山リカのココロの万華鏡:うつ病の経済損失 /東京 - 毎日jp(毎日新聞)

うつ病の経済損失 /東京

 うつ病対策、自殺対策にもっと人手と予算を。

 こんなことを口にすると、「いまの日本に必要なのは景気回復。うつや自殺の対策にお金をつぎ込んだって、その費用が回収できるわけじゃないだろう」などと言われることがある。

 ところがこのほど、うつ病や自殺の対策は結果的には“お得”になる、という画期的なデータが公表された。

 発表したのは厚生労働省。

 自殺した人が亡くならなければ生涯、得られたはずの所得額やうつ病の休業にともなう所得の減少などを計算したところ、2009年だけで約2兆7000億円の経済損失が出ている、と推計されたのだ。当然、得られたはずの税収も見込めなくなる。

2010年9月18日土曜日

Japan puts cost of suicides, depression at $32 billion in 2009 - International Business Times

Japan puts cost of suicides, depression at $32 billion in 2009 - International Business Times

The comments on Japan mental health and suicide are inaccurate. There were (not “are” ) samurai warriors who, as part of their honour code, committed seppuku (the correct term in Japanese and not the colloquial misnomer “harakiri” often misused and misunderstood in English media reports) is performed by plunging a sword into the abdomen and moving the sword left to right in a slicing motion. Seppuku was officially abolished as a means of judicial punishment in Japan in 1873. Voluntary seppuku did happen on a sporadic basis from then until the end of the second world war. The last recorded incident of seppuku as a means of committing suicide in Japan took place in 1970 when the novelist Yukio Mishima committed seppuku after failing in his attempt to incite military forces to stage a coup d’etat. No corporate directors have ever “done the hara-kiri tradition”, whatever that odd and meaningless expression would try to suggest is the case.

Some companies are beginning to provide better mental health counseling at the workplace but there is no official government provision. Community psychiatric clinics were first established in the mid-1970’s by a generation of young Japanese psychiatrists who wanted to provide an alternative to hospitalization of those people suffering mental illness through community out-patient and adult rehabilitation daycare centers outside of a hospital setting.
As for the comments on what to do if you know someone is suicidal, although perhaps well intended and useful to a point, they are not enough in themselves. If someone is suicidal they need the help of mental health professionals who are trained and experienced in working with people who are depressed and suicidal. If you know someone who is suicidal encourage them to see a psychiatrist or a licensed psychologist. If they are not willing to do so contact a mental health care professional to get their advice on the situation. Also if the person who is suicidal is not willing to get professional help at this point then, if you are in a position to do so get in touch with a member of the person’s family and tell them of your concern. Do something about it and take whatever action you are reasonable in a position to do.
I think this kind of reporting does nothing to help focus on the deeper social and economic causes that brought about the extreme rise in the suicide rate in Japan and has taken the number of people here who kill themselves every year in Japan to over 30,000 for the last ten years. The initial sudden rise in the suicide rate in 1998 parallels the economic bubble years of the 1990's that led to the crash of the Japanese stock market and bankrupt companies nationwide. In America and other countries it might be a better idea to focus on how to protect citizens and provide better mental health care screening and provision for employees and others who are being affected by the fallout of the current economic meltdown and ensuing high unemployment rates, rather that piecemeal articles that focus on seppuku. In modern Japan most businessmen who commit suicide do so by hanging themselves, often alone in their own homes.

2010年9月16日木曜日

School Violence Japan

Number of cases of school violence hits a new high in Japan, IBN Live News

Tokyo, Sep 15 (Kyodo) The number of violence cases in schools across Japan increased for the fourth straight year to hit a record of 60,913 in the 2009 school year through March. Of the total, violence cases at junior high schools accounted for 72 percent, according to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The number of students who committed suicide stood at 165, up by 29 from a year earlier, of whom two were found to be linked to bullying, the report said.

2010年9月15日水曜日

Japanese Psychotherapy

Japanese Psychotherapy


Andrew Grimes
"Well Planted in Fertile Soil: An Introduction to Japanese Psychotherapy "

The Practice of Psychotherapy in Japan: an investigation into all psychotherapies currently being practiced in Japan, the ways and approaches of psychotherapies in Japan, where psychotherapists practice in Japan and how they utilize psychotherapeutic systems to serve the needs and wishes of their clients and patients. With an emphasis on identifying the full range of systems of psychotherapy being used within Japanese society in the treatment of emotional and psychosomatic problems and also in the treatment of problems caused by crisis in life.

a new book just being published on Japanese Psychotherapy by a JCP Psychotherapist who was trained and qualified in Japan under Japanese Senseis and who has been practicing psychotherapy in Japan for 25 years. You may be interested to read it and it is available this week from CreateSpace publisher on Amazon at this e-store:

https://www.createspace.com/3483950
And you can see a full description of this book at:

http://tokyocounseling.com/english/media/japanesepsychotherapy.html

2010年9月13日月曜日

Suicides, depression cost Japanese economy 2.7 trillion yen in 2009 - The Mainichi Daily News

Suicides, depression cost Japanese economy 2.7 trillion yen in 2009 - The Mainichi Daily News

Suicides, depression cost Japanese economy 2.7 trillion yen in 2009

Suicides and loss of employment due to depression cost the national economy almost 2.7 trillion yen in 2009, according to a Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare study released Sept. 7.

The study was presented to the government's suicide prevention measures committee by labor minister Akira Nagatsuma.

This is the first time such a project has been conducted in Japan, though a similar study was held in Britain in 1998 and resulted in major improvements to the public health system's suicide prevention strategies. Nagatsuma was familiar with the results of the British research and directed the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research to undertake the study.

2010年9月12日日曜日

世界自殺予防デー

9月10日は世界自殺予防デー、意外と知られていない自殺にまつわる数字いろいろ - GIGAZINE

9月10日はWHO(世界保健機関)が定めた「World Suicide Prevention Day(世界自殺予防デー)」ということで、自殺予防のために意識を高めようと、自殺に関するさまざまなデータや自殺を減らすにはどういった取り組みが必要なのかといった情報が公開されています。

詳細は以下から。

WHO | World Suicide Prevention Day

WHO | Suicide prevention (SUPRE)

WHO | How can suicide be prevented?

世界では、年間100万人近くの人々が自殺により亡くなっています。これは40秒間に1人地球上のどこかで誰かが自殺しているという数字です。なお、死には至らなかった自殺未遂はその20倍の件数とのこと。

Suicide Japan

Suicides, depression cost Japanese economy 2.7 trillion yen in 2009 - The Mainichi Daily News

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Suicides, depression cost Japanese economy 2.7 trillion yen in 2009

Suicides and loss of employment due to depression cost the national economy almost 2.7 trillion yen in 2009, according to a Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare study released Sept. 7.

The study was presented to the government's suicide prevention measures committee by labor minister Akira Nagatsuma.

This is the first time such a project has been conducted in Japan, though a similar study was held in Britain in 1998 and resulted in major improvements to the public health system's suicide prevention strategies. Nagatsuma was familiar with the results of the British research and directed the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research to undertake the study.

2010年9月8日水曜日

自殺やうつ病

自殺やうつ病:09年経済的損失2.7兆円 厚労省初調査 - 毎日jp(毎日新聞)
自殺やうつ病:09年経済的損失2.7兆円 厚労省初調査
自殺やうつ病による経済的損失
自殺やうつ病による経済的損失

 厚生労働省は7日、自殺やうつ病での失業などによる09年の経済的損失額が推計で約2.7兆円に上るとする調査結果を発表した。長妻昭厚労相が政府の自殺総合対策会議に報告した。同様の調査は英国で実施され、その後の精神保健医療改革が自殺対策に大きな効果を上げている。日本での調査は初めて。

 調査は、英国の取り組みを知った長妻厚労相が指示し、国立社会保障・人口問題研究所の金子能宏(よしひろ)社会保障基礎理論研究部長らが実施した。

 損失額は、09年に15~69歳で自殺した2万6539人が亡くならずに働き続けた場合に得られた生涯所得額と、03年のうつ病患者数の推計値をもとにした失業給付額や医療給付額など、計6項目の総額を加え推計した。

2010年9月7日火曜日

Suicide Japan | Tokyo Counseling Services

Suicide Japan
s a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist working in Japan for over 20 years, I would like to put forward a perspective on the unacceptably high suicide numbers in Japan. Mental health professionals in Japan have long known that the reasons for the high suicide rate are unemployment, bankruptcies, and the increasing levels of stress on businessmen and other salaried workers who have suffered enormous hardship since the post-"bubble" economy hit a low point around 1997. Until that year, Japan had between 22,000 and 24,000 suicides a year. In 1998 the rate increased by around 35 percent, and since 1998 the number of people killing themselves each year in Japan has consistently remained over 30,000. The current worldwide recession is, of course, impacting Japan, so unless the new administration initiates very proactive and well funded local and nationwide suicide prevention programs and other mental health care initiatives, including tackling the widespread problem of clinical depression suffered by so many of the general population, it is very difficult to foresee the previous government's stated target to reduce the suicide rate to around 23,000 by 2016 as being achievable. On the contrary, the suffering that people who become part of these numbers have to endure may well stay at current levels. I would like to suggest that since many Japanese have high reading skills in English, any articles dealing with mental health issues in Japan provide contact details for hotlines and support services for people who are depressed and feeling suicidal. Here are two useful telephone numbers for Japanese- and English-speakers who are feeling depressed or suicidal and need to get in touch with a mental health professional qualified in Japan — Inochi no Denwa (Lifeline Telephone Service): Japan 0120-738-556/Tokyo 3264-4343

2010年9月6日月曜日

Gmail - Google Alert - Andrew Grimes Tokyo - tokyocounselingservices@gmail.com

Gmail - Google Alert - Andrew Grimes Tokyo - tokyocounselingservices@gmail.com
Bringing down the suicide rate

By ANDREW GRIMES
Tokyo

As a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist working in Japan for over 20 years, I would like to put forward a perspective on the unacceptably high suicide numbers in Japan. Mental health professionals in Japan have long known that the reasons for the high suicide rate are unemployment, bankruptcies, and the increasing levels of stress on businessmen and other salaried workers who have suffered enormous hardship since the post-"bubble" economy hit a low point around 1997.

上半期の自殺者7%減 依然年3万人超ペース - 47NEWS(よんななニュース)

上半期の自殺者7%減 依然年3万人超ペース - 47NEWS(よんななニュース)