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.