Walid Abdul-Hamid
Biographic Data
| ID | 6554842 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Walid Abdul-Hamid |
| GIVEN NAMES | Walid |
| FAMILY NAME | Abdul-Hamid |
| SIGNATURE | ABDUL-HAMID W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mental health and conflict
Background: The Syrian conflict has been ongoing since 2011. Practical and scalable solutions are urgently needed to meet an increase in need for specialised psychological support for post-traumatic stress disorder given limited availability of clinicians. Training forcibly displaced Syrians with a mental health background to remotely deliver specialised interventions increases the availability of evidence based psychological support. Little is k…
Displaced Syrian Mental Health Workers
This study investigates levels of secondary traumatic stress, burnout, and compassion satisfaction in Syrian mental health workers (MHWs) in a low-resource post-conflict environment. Sixty-one Syrian MHWs completed a cross-sectional questionnaire, in Arabic, incorporating the professional quality of life (ProQOL) scale. Our Arabic-translated ProQOL scale showed acceptable internal consistency estimates of reliability for all subscales. Relative t…
Psychiatry, homeless patients and welfare reforms
The birthplace of the specialty of psychiatry was in the asylum, which was created to divert patients from workhouses where the most disadvantaged and destitute people with mental illness were to be found. The current welfare reforms are endangering the welfare and livelihood of the most disadvantaged of our patients. These reforms in the authors’ opinion are related more to the historical cycle of societal attitude to homeless people than to see…
Nothing New under the Sun
Herodotus' account of the Athenian spear carrier Epizelus' psychogenic mutism following the Marathon Wars is usually cited as the first documented account of post-traumatic stress disorders in historical literature. This paper describes much earlier accounts of post combat disorders that were recorded as occurring in Mesopotamia (present day Iraq) during the Assyrian dynasty (1300-609 BC). The descriptions in this paper include many symptoms of w…
The Surpu
The history of the medical description of personality disorders is generally accepted as starting in the late eighteenth century with Pinel. However there may be a much earlier record of the problems of severe personality disorder. In this article we examine the Surpu, an ancient Mesopotamian incantation written in cuneiform on tablets found at the palace of Asurbanipal originating in the eighth century BC. The Surpu is an incantation by a man wh…
The Camberwell Elderly Mentally Ill and Their Needs for Services
Background: Previous studies on the elderly mentally ill (graduates) have been undertaken in mental hospital settings and on populations being resettled from hospitals. This paper aims to assess the characteristics and service needs of an epidemiological sample of elderly mentally ill. Aims: The aim of this study was to identify the characteristics, problems, service utilization and needs of a sample of elderly patients with functional psychosis …
The mental health needs of homeless people; a trans-Atlantic comparison
This trans-cultural comparison was undertaken to describe the the needs of homeless people for mental health services in London and New York and the way services are meeting these needs in the two cities. An individual needs assessment procedure was undertaken on a random sample of individuals from a New York shelter for men to assess their needs for psychiatric services. These needs were compared with the needs of a sample of homeless men from h…
The Homeless Clients of a Community Psychiatric Nursing Service in Inner London
The records of Community Psychiatric Nursing service (CPNs) clients over a period of two years have been analysed. The clients had been classified into 'homeless' and 'home-based' according to their accommodation. The two groups were then compared in respect of their socio-demographic characteristics; and presenting mental health problems. The CPNs' homeless clients were more likely to be unemployed, single and from an ethnic minority. The presen…
The Homeless Clients of a Community Psychiatric Nursing Service in Inner London
The 'homeless' and 'home-based' clients of the Community Psychiatric Nursing service (CPNs) in Bloomsbury described in the first paper were examined further. The referral process and the CPN intervention were compared in the two groups. The homeless clients had different referral pattern, different types of care provided, and had less time spent with them even when control for the type of problems they were presenting with was made. It seems that…
Nothing New under the Sun
Herodotus' account of the Athenian spear carrier Epizelus' psychogenic mutism following the Marathon Wars is usually cited as the first documented account of post-traumatic stress disorders in historical literature. This paper describes much earlier accounts of post combat disorders that were recorded as occurring in Mesopotamia (present day Iraq) during the Assyrian dynasty (1300-609 BC). The descriptions in this paper include many symptoms of w…
The Homeless Clients of a Community Psychiatric Nursing Service in Inner London
The records of Community Psychiatric Nursing service (CPNs) clients over a period of two years have been analysed. The clients had been classified into 'homeless' and 'home-based' according to their accommodation. The two groups were then compared in respect of their socio-demographic characteristics; and presenting mental health problems. The CPNs' homeless clients were more likely to be unemployed, single and from an ethnic minority. The presen…
The Homeless Clients of a Community Psychiatric Nursing Service in Inner London
The 'homeless' and 'home-based' clients of the Community Psychiatric Nursing service (CPNs) in Bloomsbury described in the first paper were examined further. The referral process and the CPN intervention were compared in the two groups. The homeless clients had different referral pattern, different types of care provided, and had less time spent with them even when control for the type of problems they were presenting with was made. It seems that…
The Camberwell Elderly Mentally Ill and Their Needs for Services
Background: Previous studies on the elderly mentally ill (graduates) have been undertaken in mental hospital settings and on populations being resettled from hospitals. This paper aims to assess the characteristics and service needs of an epidemiological sample of elderly mentally ill. Aims: The aim of this study was to identify the characteristics, problems, service utilization and needs of a sample of elderly patients with functional psychosis …
The mental health needs of homeless people; a trans-Atlantic comparison
This trans-cultural comparison was undertaken to describe the the needs of homeless people for mental health services in London and New York and the way services are meeting these needs in the two cities. An individual needs assessment procedure was undertaken on a random sample of individuals from a New York shelter for men to assess their needs for psychiatric services. These needs were compared with the needs of a sample of homeless men from h…
The Surpu
The history of the medical description of personality disorders is generally accepted as starting in the late eighteenth century with Pinel. However there may be a much earlier record of the problems of severe personality disorder. In this article we examine the Surpu, an ancient Mesopotamian incantation written in cuneiform on tablets found at the palace of Asurbanipal originating in the eighth century BC. The Surpu is an incantation by a man wh…
Psychiatry, homeless patients and welfare reforms
The birthplace of the specialty of psychiatry was in the asylum, which was created to divert patients from workhouses where the most disadvantaged and destitute people with mental illness were to be found. The current welfare reforms are endangering the welfare and livelihood of the most disadvantaged of our patients. These reforms in the authors’ opinion are related more to the historical cycle of societal attitude to homeless people than to see…
Nothing New under the Sun
Herodotus' account of the Athenian spear carrier Epizelus' psychogenic mutism following the Marathon Wars is usually cited as the first documented account of post-traumatic stress disorders in historical literature. This paper describes much earlier accounts of post combat disorders that were recorded as occurring in Mesopotamia (present day Iraq) during the Assyrian dynasty (1300-609 BC). The descriptions in this paper include many symptoms of w…
Displaced Syrian Mental Health Workers
This study investigates levels of secondary traumatic stress, burnout, and compassion satisfaction in Syrian mental health workers (MHWs) in a low-resource post-conflict environment. Sixty-one Syrian MHWs completed a cross-sectional questionnaire, in Arabic, incorporating the professional quality of life (ProQOL) scale. Our Arabic-translated ProQOL scale showed acceptable internal consistency estimates of reliability for all subscales. Relative t…
Mental health and conflict
Background: The Syrian conflict has been ongoing since 2011. Practical and scalable solutions are urgently needed to meet an increase in need for specialised psychological support for post-traumatic stress disorder given limited availability of clinicians. Training forcibly displaced Syrians with a mental health background to remotely deliver specialised interventions increases the availability of evidence based psychological support. Little is k…
Medicine (8 works) · Psychiatry (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Mental health (7 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (4 works) · History (3 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (3 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments (3 works)