2010年10月10日日曜日

Amazon.com: Well Planted in Fertile Ground: An Introduction to Japanese Psychotherapy Andrew Grimes: Books

Amazon.com: Well Planted in Fertile Ground: An Introduction to Japanese Psychotherapy (9781453821442): Andrew Grimes: Books

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Amazon.com: Well Planted in Fertile Ground: An Introduction to Japanese Psychotherapy (9781453821442): Andrew Grimes: Books

Amazon.com: Well Planted in Fertile Ground: An Introduction to Japanese Psychotherapy (9781453821442): Andrew Grimes: Books




"An Introduction to Japanese Psychotherapy" is an investigation into modern Japanese psychotherapy practice currently 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." Extract: "The current of psychotherapy in Japan has long been naturally moving towards all current psychotherapies being used in a form of integrated psychotherapy. The teachings of all the most leading and influential teachers of the predominate schools of psychotherapy at least since the end of the war in the Pacific have favoured an acceptance and respect for all other major systems of psychotherapy. The answers and comments provided by all respondents surveyed as part of this research on the use of all of the major methods of psychotherapy currently utilized to nurture the well being of clients and patients of all kinds overwhelming show that they vary and tailor their approach for each and every one of them. So very few practicing psychotherapists here insist on just one approach. Therefore it is a very personal and consensually concordant current that has resulted in integrative psychotherapy becoming popular in Japan too. The very nature of Japanese culture with its Buddhist roots still deeply influencing the ways that all people relate to one another here is integrative in nature and current modalities of Japanese psychotherapy too have been adopted, adapted and encouraged to grow and advance in a spirit of harmony and cooperation between professionals and clients and patients always with a respect of the intrinsic inter-relationship of human interaction being at the heart of things."

About the Author: Andrew Grimes was educated, trained and qualified in Japan as a Clinical Psychologist with a focus in person centered psychotherapy under the clinical supervision of Dr Noboru Hozumi and the educational supervision of Dr Akihisa Kondo. He was qualified in 1996 as a Clinical Psychologist by the Japanese Society of Certified Clinical Psychologists. In 2003 he became the first non-Japanese mental health professional to be awarded qualification as a registered Psychotherapist in Japan by the Japanese Federation for Psychotherapy. He has practiced here as a counselor, psychotherapist and group therapist in Japan for over twenty years in both Community Psychiatric Adult Daycare Rehabilitation Centres and JSCCP recognized Counseling Centers. Currently he is the Principal Director of Tokyo Counseling Services which he founded in 1999. Tokyo Counseling Services Website: http://tokyocounseling.com

2010年10月4日月曜日

こころの健康国民フォーラム

香山リカのココロの万華鏡:不況だからこそ /東京 - 毎日jp(毎日新聞)

香山リカのココロの万華鏡:不況だからこそ /東京

 「不況だからこそ精神保健サービスの強化を!」

 こういうメッセージを見たら、驚きを感じるだろうか。

 これは、10月3日に東京で行われる「こころの健康国民フォーラム」のテーマのひとつだ。このフォーラムを行うのは、当事者、家族、専門家が協力してこころの健康を守る基本法の制定を目指す構想会議。

 以前、このコラムで、うつ病や自殺によって年間2兆円もの経済損失が起きている、という話題を取り上げた。日本に先駆けてこの試算を行い、精神疾患による膨大な社会経済的損失を明らかにしたのはイギリスの医療経済学者たちだ。彼らは、精神保健改革のための積極的な初期投資により、結果的には社会的コストも節減できるのだ、という推測も行った。それに基づいてイギリスでは実際に精神保健関連の制度や施策が新たに作られ、一定の効果が得られている。

 このイギリスの経験を踏まえて、日本の構想会議の人たちも、「不況である今だからこそ、精神保健医療の政策的優先度を高める必要がある」と主張しているのだ。

2010年10月1日金曜日

児童虐待

児童虐待:288人、安全確認できず 19人が行方不明--厚労省調べ - 毎日jp(毎日新聞)

児童虐待:288人、安全確認できず 19人が行方不明--厚労省調べ

 全国の児童相談所(児相)が6月末までに対応した児童虐待で、児相などに義務づけられた安全確認が8月30日時点でできていない子供が288人おり、このうち19人が行方不明となっていることが30日、厚生労働省の調べで明らかになった。同省は「大変大きな数字」としており、親族に捜索願を出してもらうことなども含め、さらに確認に努めるよう児相側に求める。

 7月に起きた大阪市の2幼児放置死事件を受け、同省が緊急に調査。4~6月、各地の児相が受理した虐待相談1万3469件中、安全確認できなかったのは261人。このうち氏名や住所などが特定できていないのが238人。氏名や住所が判明した20人のうち、転居したまま追跡不能となった行方不明の子は6人、児相などから接触を続けるものの親が訪問を拒んだり不在などで未確認のケースが14人。他に2人は7月に放置死に至り、別の1人は4月に堺市内で死亡している。