Journal of Mental Health Disorders

Review Article Open Access

Military Training: Does It predispose service personnel to Negative Mental Health Issues?

Michael Bonner, Graham Ellender

At initial (basic) training recruits from all services and most nations are subject to an intense environment where they are physically and mentally challenged throughout their waking day. Their civilian experiences and identity are systematically remodeled to fit the requirements of the nation’s services. Most recruits are able to cope with this extreme environment, albeit with some impact on their mental wellbeing, whereas those unable to cope either physically or emotionally are discharged from the Military through medical or administrative procedures.

Commentary Open Access

Personality Functioning: An Opportunity for Treatment Personalization

Paula Dagnino, Guillermo de la Parra

As the literature shows, the categorical diagnosis of personality has received numerous criticisms. Over the years, authors suggest that personality dysfunction is distributed along a dimensional continuum. Dimensional assessment of personality severity has been included in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Section III, and in the World Health Organization’s International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, where levels of personality functioning are posited to account for personality complexity

Research Article Open Access

A New Adaptive Procedure for Estimating Perceptual Thresholds: The Effects of Observer Bias and Its Correction

Chiara Fioravanti, Christoph Braun, Axel Lindner, Sergio Ruiz, Ranganatha Sitaram, Diljit Singh Kajal

Perceptual thresholds might vary due to different variables such as fatigue, fluctuations of attention, or sensory learning [1]. Adaptive threshold estimation procedures are most effective by providing quasi-instantaneous estimates of an otherwise fluctuating sensory threshold. 

Mini Review Open Access

Biomedical Gastronomy in the Management of Smell and Taste Disorders

Graham Ellender

Whether one lives to eat or just eats to live, the consumption, ingestion and digestion of foods and beverages comprise a complex system of intertwined signals and rituals. 

Commentary Open Access

The Loneliness, Loss and Reflections Set off by COVID-19

Susan E. Schwartz

“Nothing was as it seemed. I was not as I seemed…I was confronted by the possibility that perhaps the truest thing about me was a coiled identity, my irrealis self, a might-have-been self that never really was but wasn’t unreal for not being and might still be real, though I feared it never would”

Commentary Open Access

Commentary: Actioning Community Attachment Parenting Program Review Recommendations

Tina H. Bonnett, Lisa McCorquodale, Karen R. Schouten

Attachment and mental health have long intersected within research and policy [1]. Expressly, attachment relationships developed in the formative years are one of the most influential contributions to longitudinal holistic well-being [2]

Commentary Open Access

Educators as Essential Workers in the Era of COVID-19: Applying Lessons from Disaster Recovery

Denese Shervington, Lisa Richardson, Jakevia Green

In the article, “Mental Health Framework: Coronavirus pandemic in post-Katrina New Orleans” [1], Shervington and Richardson offer recommendations about how to anticipate and address disaster-related, trauma exposures associated with the coronavirus pandemic