distribution management, financial services, food services) saw an immediate downturn with glimmers of possible hope in recent months, based on the financial economic recovery. Finally, other non-healthcare sectors (e.g. Some of that dependency was exacerbated by regional flares in the virus. Other sectors reported challenges when a profession was dependent upon the financial health of medical facilities (i.e. Those organizations representing healthcare professions or first responders reported a drastic uptick in demand if the profession related to the needs of pandemic response. The difference seems to have largely depended on how the professionals within an industry or sector were impacted by the pandemic itself. While some professions and industries have suffered in light of the pandemic, others have thrived. With one notable exception, we may have reason to be optimistic for the year ahead. Executive DirectorĪs we come to the end of this unprecedented year of 2020, I can’t decide if I want celebrate, let out a huge sigh relief or just quietly turn the page to welcome in 2021 - though it’s always beneficial to take time to reflect before moving (however quickly) into the new year.ĭespite all of the despair and tumult and seismic shifts in our political, cultural and business environments, I believe there are some foundational concepts that have endured and were proven to be a source of survival this year. APA President Dilip Jeste, MD, Explains Positive Psychiatry – Video Interview. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: A Peer Reviewed Academic Resource. The Principles of Medical Ethics with Annotations Especially Applicable to Psychiatry. New York: Oxford University Press 2009.ĪPA 1998 Annual Report. 08 December, 2014 The Reilly Center for Science Technology, and Values. The Reilly Center for Science Technology, and Values Releases 2015 List of Emerging Ethical Dilemmas and Policy Issues in Science and Technology. The Principles of Medical Ethics with Annotations Especially Applicable to Psychiatry, 2013.
The many ethical implications of emerging technologies. Suitable case vignettes are presented all through the write-up to clarify concepts.Īristotle's four causes - Material, Efficient, Formal and Final Autonomy Balancing Beneficence Bioethics Common morality Double-effects Ethics Justice Morality Non-malfeasance Optimism Particular morality Personal mastery Positive Mental Health Positive Psychology Positive Psychosocial Factors Principlism Pseudo-optimism Pseudo-resilience Resilience Social engagement Specification Spirituality/Religiosity Wisdom.Īl-Rodhan N.
Finally, the paper looks at where, and how, the field is headed, and why, if at all, it is proper it is headed there, based on Aristotle's concept of the four causes - Material, Efficient, Formal and Final. It also takes note of the salient points of caution and alarm that many incisive analysts have presented about further development in the related field of Positive Mental Health. The paper then looks into the further development of the branch by studying the connectivity, synergy and possible antagonism of the various Positive Psychosocial Factors, and presents technical terms in place of common terms so that they carry least baggage. It then evaluates them on the basis of the 4-principled bioethical model of Beneficence, Non-malfeasance, Autonomy and Justice (Beauchamp and Childress, 2009, 2013), first offering a brief clarification of these principles and then their bioethical analysis based on the concepts of 'Common Morality', 'Specific Morality', 'Specification', 'Balancing' and 'Double Effects'. It then studies the implications of positive and negative findings in the field, and presents the Positive Psychosocial Factors (PPSFs) like Resilience, Optimism, Personal Mastery, Wisdom, Religion/Spirituality, Social relationships and support, Engagement in pleasant events etc. Further discussion proceeds after offering operational definitions of the concepts fundamental to the field - Bioethics, Positive Psychology, Positive Psychiatry and Positive Mental Health - with their conceptual analysis to show their areas of connect and disconnect. The paper begins by asserting the need for bioethical and related philosophical considerations in the emerging subspecialty Positive Psychiatry.