...“The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.” Mental illness is widely spread. They can’t be seen but can be felt. They can happen to anyone which lead in changing routines in an opposite way impact from time to time. Although many people think mental health aren’t problems, one common illness is insomnia and could be treated in different ways. Insomnia is the inability amount of sleep that is needed. Insomnia is not about the number of hours an individual sleeps or how fast an individual sleep, it’s about difficulties falling asleep, maintaining asleep and awakening too soon in the morning, due to the quality or quantity of sleep. For example, Bill Clinton is a president/politician. He claims he sleeps five hours a night Since he is a politician he talks, engages, and stay active in everything political. That’s why he suffers from insomnia. About 54 million Americans suffer from mental disorder every year. Precisely 90% of adults are full of depression meanwhile, they experience sleep problems, so 50% of adults are affected by insomnia....
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...How can culture and history impact on service delivery? As a staff working in a community services industry, sometimes we may find it is very difficult and frustrating to build an open and trusting relationships with people come from diverse backgrounds and vice versa. This is usually due to a lack of understanding about their cultural and historical backgrounds which might have a big impact on issues related to their social and emotional wellbeing and mental health. There are many cultural and historical factors that we (staff) need to acknowledge in order to work with CALD people as well as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. By having an insight understanding and knowledge of their history and its context, it is very helpful for us to identify the recent impacts they have on communities and how we can work with them. It is also undeniable that culture and history affects their present and future. Especially for the Aboriginal people, the history had given them many tough and bad experiences which may affect the way they perceive or interact with other people. What is cultural safety? According to William (1999), cultural safety is defined as :” An environment that is spiritually, socially and emotionally safe, as well as physically safe for people; where there is no assault challenge or denial of their identity, of who they are and what they need. It is about shared respect, shared meaning, shared knowledge and experience of learning together”. The “cultural...
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...Bonner et al. (2009) findings reinforce the strong correlation between being homeless and having mental health issues such as depression and receiving psychiatric services in recent years. In the Population-Based Study, mental health was measured with a series of computer-assisted surveys that asked the respondents if they have ever been diagnosed with depression, prescribed antidepressants in the last 12 months, psychiatric hospitalization in the past 5 years and suicidal ideation in the past 12 months (Bonner et al.,...
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...Could regular school mental health checks be helpful to prevent metal health related violence in schools?Mental illness is a disease that affects 1 in 25 Americans, 20% of those are teens.(www.nami.org/learn-more/mental-health-by-the-number) Some mental illnesses result in violence that a person is unable to control. Whenever a person commits a serious crime one of the first questions that come up is the state of their mental health. Contrary to popular belief, the connection between mental illness and violence is exaggerated and, in the majority of homicides, is not a factor. Though most believe that schools should be the first line of defense for catching young people at risk for mental health issues.Adolescents spend a majority of their time in school, yet mental health screenings are not required. How can regular...
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...Facts A. Child has asthma B. The parents are employed C. Income qualifications exceed limits for state and federal aid D. No one has health insurance 4. Utilitarian Approach – Most good least harm • To perform the most good and the least amount of harm the child would need to be treated without question every time. • The problem with this is there appears to be no resolution to the problem. • Performing the most good means always treating the patient because this also creates the least amount of harm. • From a financial point of view this is not effective for either side. 5. Rights Approach – Chose freely • Rights approach is what this family is practicing. • The parents have the right to take their child to the ER for care. • Their treatment must be fair and honest. • This is not an ideal way to handle the situation since ER visits are costlier than an office visit. • Under rights approach the ER dept. can supply information to help offset cost. • It would be helpful to put the parents in contact with an asthma drug maker to offer discount medications that they can afford. 6. Justice Approach – equals should be treated equally • An idea in the justice approach is, you get what you deserve. Is that true in this situation? We play the cards we’re dealt the best we can. • In this situation, we know this entire family is without health insurance. • The facility must maintain respect and protect the patient. • Without digging into their financial situation, a conversation...
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...Death Lives On Everyone’s lives are constantly being altered by the events occurring around them. This can change your personality and possibly your mental health. In Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, Holden’s life has been drastically altered from specific events that happened to him in his adolescence. Holden’s mental health is significantly altered due to deaths that occurred around him, mainly Allie’s death. Also due to these deaths Holden is lead to a conclusion that everyone is a phony. Finally, Holden refuses to commit to relationships with anyone after the death of Allie; he distances himself and avoids deep lasting relationships. Holden is affected strongly by James and Allie’s deaths; he is suicidal with mental problems and...
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...out there for the people in need with mental illnesses. I also had lots of my kid’s old clothing that I needed to get rid of, so I donated it to them. Describe the population the agency serves. The population that the agency serves is those with financial difficulties. They may have lost their job or had an unexpected expense where their car needed repaired. Identify the services provided by the agency. They rarely see the homeless population. Identify the services provided by the agency. The services provided by the agency are food services and clothing. Most clothing items are from donations. They will also help with $100.00 of your electric bill per year. They are open Monday through Friday from 9am-12pm. They see 12 customers per day and the clients are seen on a first come basis. Each client comes every three months to get free food and clothing. They are able to choose three outfits and receive several food items at that time. To qualify for the services you must have an address and must be considered low income. They also have a counselor at the church and they are available for the client. They put prices on some of their donated items and have two yard sales per year to raise money for the people in need. How would an individual be referred to the agency? An individual is referred to this agency by churches. The individuals do not have to be a part of a church to receive services. Lexington Mental Health refers some of their clients to this agency...
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...STaCS Submission Front Sheet | | | |STUDENT/ REG No | | |33267992 | | | | | |PROGRAMME | | |NAME & YEAR | | |BA Social Work 2013/2014 | | | | | |MODULE CODE: | | |SW51020A | | | | ...
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...study 2 https://hwguiders.com/downloads/cis-331-week-8-case-study-2 CIS 331 week 8 case study 2 After reading “A Patient Information System for Mental Health Care”, I found it necessary that I explain how this system works for the best. In this essay I will explain things such as, the overall architecture for a kind of system. I will explain why this pattern and architecture is important. There will also be key features explained such as architecture patterns, how these patterns can be applied ad implemented and even the shortcomings associated with the architecture. I will also present a UML diagram explaining how the process will work. Patient Information System We use the patient information system to support mental health care. This is a medical information system that maintains information about patients suffering from mentalhealth problems and the treatments that they have received while in recovery. Most mental healthpatients do not require dedicated hospital treatment but need to attend specialistclinics regularly where they can meet a doctor who has detailed knowledge oftheir problems. To make it easier for patients to attend, these clinics are not justrun in hospitals. They may also be held in local medical practices or communitycenters. Mental Health Care-Patient Management System The MHC-PMS (Mental Health Care-Patient Management System) is an informal system that is intended for use in clinics. It makes use of a centralized database of patient information...
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...everyone have a strongly willing to be a successful person no matter in which area such as business, communities, study and family life. Although people can find lots of method to achieve the goal, there still are some characters should be aware and conscious cultivation if people want to better integrate with varied of fields. Resilience as a vital role to play in our life and it consist with different kinds of factors. In this essay, it will divide into three parts to discuss four important characters of resilience, including hardiness, adaptability, recovery and flexibility. Besides, in these four parts, it will also present these components how positive connect with communities, organizations, business or individual life. Hardiness Winston Churchill said that “success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” It is a good explain and describe for the word, hardiness. Maddi (2013, p. 7) states hardiness can be as a channel to resilience when face the stress and resilience always as a component to keep individual performance and health no matter in psychological or physiological when they under the pressure environment. It is clear that hardiness has strongly connection with resilience and it is an important factor in our life. White, Absher & Huggins point out hardiness can help people to deal with the transforms from circumstance with high stressful level into less-stressful life events like activity of organization and business and survival from extremely...
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...Abstract This paper explores the impact of divorce on children under the age of eighteen with research studies reported by internet and non internet resources such as, Journal of Psychosocial Nursing & Mental Health Services, American Journal of Family Law and also author written research by Elisabeth Joy Lamotte and Kathleen Stassen Berger. Since 1973 at least one million children have been affected by divorce and typically one out of two marriages ends in divorce. The truth remains that marriage does offer greater benefits to children rather than divorce such as a higher standard of living, exposure to effective and cooperative parenting, greater parent-child bonding, and less stress overall. This paper will cover the psychological impact of divorce on children under the age of eighteen from infancy to toddlers all the way through adolescence and on to adulthood. References Berger, Stassen Kathleen (2010). The Developing Person Through the Lifespan Eighth Edition. New York, NY: Worth Publishers. Lamotte, Joy Elisabeth (2008). Overcoming Your Parents Divorce. Far Hills, NJ: New Horizon Press. McGuinness, Teena M, PhD (2006). Marriage, Divorce, and Children. Journal of Psychosocial Nursing & Mental Health Services. Portnoy, Sandford M, PhD (2008). The Psychology of Divorce: A Lawyer's Primer, Part 2: The Effects of Divorce on Children. American Journal of Family Law. Child Study Center (2001). Divorce and Children. Retrieved from http://www.aboutourkids.org/files/articles/sep_oct_1...
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...Yasmin Moosagie 44670540 UNISA Pyc4811 Assignment 1: Unique no: 805932 2016 2016 Write an essay in which you critically compare and contrast the community psychology and public health approaches to social problems. At first glance, there seems to be a fine line between community psychology and the public health approach, however on further examination it is more than semantics that separate these two principles. Both, community psychology and the public health approach, started as a result of the frustration of main stream psychology not being able to address broader social issues. The realisation that psychology needed to focus a great deal more on community and social change in order to address mental health and illness. Although community psychology and the public health approach seem to share the same intrinsic values, the focus of community psychology seems to be more aimed at the cultural and political aspect of social behaviour and outcomes, whereas the public health is focused more on health and prevention of diseases and self actualisation within the social context. “Whereas public health considers physical health and well-being as paramount to successful living and aims to reduce the individual's engagement in high-risk behaviour and dangerous environments, community psychology is more concerned with the social and political context of mental health” (S. Van Niekerk,2013) Treatment...
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...Critical Essay The main ideas according to this article, which was written by Jeremy E. Uecker, is basically the causal relationship between marriage of young adults and mental health. In other words, how marriage influence on mental health. Actually, some recent researches have been indicated that the marriage itself bears a mental health benefits, indeed the age at first marriage, life cycle and transition to adulthood are all the identical variables, which may describe the influence on mental health. Hence, this article was organized to test the main hypotheses, how the marriage confer mental health in accordance with different life course. The reason for studying this particular phenomena and interestingness of this issue is probably that this current issue has been rising and becoming popular in our modern days. Millions of examples of early marriages, high rate of divorce and abandoned children, amount of uneducated people, are all consequentially have an impact on mental health with what lot of young adults face with. In this study, the author is willing to answer the for several questions which might explain the causal relationship between marriage and mental health of young adult, beside this he classified young adults into different categories to analyze what sort of mental health outcomes would arise out of different group of adults. The questions, which are assigned to this study, are: a. What is the effect of marriage on mental health and other relationship...
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...The issue of mental health is a major issue in Australian health with as it affects all geographic regions and demographics with a wide range of illnesses. 17.4% males and 18% females Australians have experienced mental illness, with some estimates of up to 21.6 % (Andrews, 1999). The need for trained professionals to treat and implement preventative measures is suggested by these numbers, using a wide of treatments such as the recovery model (Cochrane, Barkway & Nizette 2010, p.15). This essay will discuss what constitutes is mental health and mental illness, using the framework of the recovery model with present themes. The central theme to this paper will be the eating disorder Anorexia nervosa looking at the symptoms that present, etiology...
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...Evaluation of whether biogenetic explanations of mental illness help or hinder efforts to reduce social stigma associated with these conditions “People suffering from mental illness and other mental health problems are among the most stigmatized, discriminated against, marginalized, disadvantaged and vulnerable members of our society” (Johnstone, 2001). Wrong assumptions and undesirable judgements connected with mental illness may be as damaging as the disease itself. Schizophrenia may cause hallucinations including violence. Depression could cause thought of laziness and substance abuse. Social stigma reduces opportunities available for people with serious mental illnesses (Johnstone, 2001). Medicalization is expected to be a strategy that could be used to reduce blame and stigma, although those who oppose this have said to proceed with caution as attributing mental illness to biogenetic causes may cause unnecessary side effects that could worsen prejudice and rejection (Kvaale, 2013). This essay will review the definitions of mental illness and stigma and the impact that social stigma has on people with these illnesses. It will look at whether increased ‘medicalization’ of mental illness, as thought by the biogenetic explanations, has any impact on public attitudes towards people with such illnesses. Perceptions on mental illness is not always accurate as definitions have mostly been biased over the years. One of the definitions used to describe the mentally ill were...
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