...Mental Health Abstract Introduction: Metabolic abnormalities, predominantly weight gain, are related with the use of Antipsychotic medications. Objectives: This paper will help us understand the underlying factors that cause metabolic and cardiovascular abnormalities; and to advice interventions that would help improve the condition of mental health consumers. Background: The review articles used in this paper shows a high linkage between metabolic and cardiovascular abnormalities with the use of Antipsychotic medications; which is one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity among metal health consumers. Approach: Selective Article Reviews are being used. Findings and Implications: Metabolic and cardiovascular side effects such as weight gain, diabetes and hypertension are some of the risks of Antipsychotic drugs; however, there are other underlying factors that cause this such abnormalities such as genetic factors, lifestyle, and other medications. Hence, education, early monitoring and lifestyle modification is highly recommended. Conclusion: Atypical drugs are the frequently used treatment for mental disorders, particularly schizophrenia; but despite of its metabolic and cardiovascular side effects still it’s used is increasing. Therefore, early intervention and monitoring must be implemented, with the promotions of education, lifestyle and diet management. Introduction It is well known that psychotropic drugs, in general and antipsychotic...
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...Work 30 (2008) 311–316 IOS Press 311 Disclosure of mental health Kathy Hatchard∗ Hatchard Rehabilitation, Penticton, British Columbia, Canada Abstract. As today’s workplaces strive toward a climate of inclusiveness for persons with disabilities, much work remains for employers in developing a process to achieve this ideal. While survivors of mental illness are encouraged to disclose related concerns to their employer, such sharing of personal information remains daunting. Similarly, employers attempting to assist the process are often awed by the extent of collaborations involved in integrating employees with mental health issues back to work as well as concern about compliance with human rights legislation. Needed accommodations in terms of approach to the work itself are often simple; however substantiating the need for adjustments is more complex. This case study introduces a model to support the development of shared goals and shared understandings for return to work (RTW) among workers with mental health concerns, employers, co-workers and therapists. The model of occupational competence is used as a basis to guide dialogue, identify challenges and generate solutions that take into consideration a worker’s preferences, sensitivities, culture and capacities in relationship to the occupational demands in a given workplace environment. A case study is used to demonstrate the potential utility of the model in assisting stakeholders to strengthen collaborations and...
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...professionals provides culturally competent treatment services such as medication management, individual and group psychotherapy and case management services to effectively decrease the prevalence of mental illness, emotional dysfunction and social disturbance in children, youth, adults and families. Substance Abuse: Substance Abuse Treatment services encompass a continuum of preventative and customized treatment regimens for adolescents and adults seeking help for alcohol and drug addictions. Clients receive treatment from their own primary care physician and counselor addressing all aspects of life including mental health, referrals for medication management and other community based support. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Program: PRP services children, adolescents and adults by assigning each client a family service coordinator based upon the clients need and personality traits. The FSC provides one-on-one assistance via mobile treatment in the home, community or OMHC. The family service coordinator navigates the client through improving in areas such as social skills, coping skills, self sufficiency, academic success, anger management, family relationships and community integration, while consistently engaging the client in recreational activities. Expanded School Based Mental Health: ESMH programs augment the existing services provided by schools and help to ensure that a comprehensive range of services such as assessments, preventions, case management and treatment...
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...Leo Agbulos Current Mental Health Care Systems Health care is need around the world from the rich to the poor ranging from emergency services, general care, to vision, and even mental health. Mental health comes in many forms to accommodate a wide variety of mental health issue. Services are rendered in inpatient and outpatient setting, focusing on the patients needs and encouraging patients that can function in society. A care team of health care professionals are available to the patient along with the client’s families to reflect a fundamental change in the client’s attitude and behavior. Some Clients may not be able to afford to pay for these services so how can they receive treatment? Further developed countries offer mental health care coverage the some sort of insurance program private or as free to the community. Mental health is delivered in an outpatient and an inpatient care setting. People are admitted to an inpatient psychiatric care facility based upon need. The decision is based on the client’s severity of the problem, the level of dysfunction, willingness to cooperate, and ability to pay for treatment. Clients admitted will remain institutionalized for 24 hours a day focusing on therapeutic assistance providing safe and stable surroundings. The most important advantage is that inpatient care is it offers a place to focus in a safe and secure environment. Outpatient care is providing in the home environment. Here clients are more responsible for...
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...I currently work in the mental health field on a psychiatric unit and I can attest 100% that the mentally ill is very under served. There are not very many resources to help these types of patients in our community. Recently the VOA in Salt Lake City Has closed due to lack of funding. There is not enough resources to reach out to every single one of these patients that suffer from mental illness. After reading articles about the Presidents New Freedom Commission according to the 19th annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on mental health policy. Half of the respondents reported that at least one change has been made in the organization in response to the commission’s report. The specific findings on successes and challenges suggest areas for ongoing efforts to transform mental health care. Respondents of organizations said that only 25% of them considered the transformation as a relevant and feasible goal for their organization. This discrepancy suggested that the first goal which is critical to transformation called for the New Freedom Commissions report, can’t be accomplished by mental health policy makes it will require everyone involved healthcare policy makers, health providers and the general public (1). As the future changes and the need for more psychiatric hospitals and substance abuse centers we are going to need a lot more providers and public support than we have in the past. It seems that a lot of our patients are substance abusers that are causing psychiatric...
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...Mental Health Counseling The reason I chose to obtain a MS in Mental Health Counseling is because I have already obtained a MS in Criminal Justice and learned why individuals commit crimes and the different theorist that have studied to criminal mind to try to find an answer to this age old questions, why do individuals commit crimes? Which many has come to conclusions but the end results is many have been incarcerated when they needed medical attention. I have obtain many reasons as to why individuals commit crime but I want to get to point of knowing what influenences are there are mental health issues one of the reasons why our prison system is being overflowed and are these individuals being overlooked. These factors motivates me as an individual which I believe will prepare me to become a competent counselor. I feel as though we are not in the individuals life to judge but to motivate, to achieve a common goal of seeking and resolving a issues/problem that he/she is conflicted with. I intend continue to grow within the counseling field by continuing to research issues that effect society today, such as mental health and seeking solutions for these individuals to be able to live normal lives without the ridicule or label. Being able to write about mental issues and ways to resolve it is a lifelong dream but I feel as though with any profession comes experience and the more experience one has the more knowledgeable one becomes and it is at this point that I feel as though...
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...Social Policy: Texas Mental Health Elizabeth Awad University of Texas at Arlington Social Policy: Texas Mental Health Historical Background A recent change in the Texas law was passed for the Code of Criminal Procedure under the 84th Legislature, Under Texas Law Article 46B.102. CIVIL COMMITMENT HEARING: MENTAL ILLNESS is covered when (a) the court determines that the defendant may be a victim of mental illness, then the court shall hold a hearing to determine whether the defendant should be court-ordered by the state of Texas to mental health services under Subtitle C, Title 7, Health and Safety Code. And (b) Proceedings from the committed defendant determine that they should be court ordered mental health services that are governed by Subtitle C, Title 7, Health and Safety Code. “Mental Health does not respect zip codes, mental health affects everybody and formed the Texas State of Mind to ensure that Texans can have access to mental health help when they need it” states Tom Luce, Chief Executive Officer of the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute who decided to advocate for court ordered and non-court ordered state funded mental health treatment for all Texans (Texas State of Mind., 2015, March 24). Texas Mental Health has been a longstanding concern for Texans and Americans altogether. In 2014, The Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute initiated to help serve Texans. Back in July and August of 2012, The Meadows conducted a quantitative research project to its previous...
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...MHF Module: Investing In Mental Health Mental Health Worksheet Part 1 Research mental health in a a country other than the United States. An example of a mental heath problem is provided below. |Example: | |According to the World Health Organization (2005) Botswana, Africa, spends only 1% of the country’s health budget on mental health. The | |country does offer locations in communities for the training of mental health nurses. There are also community care facilities for | |patients suffering from mental disorders. However; due to a lack of psychiatrists in the country, the mental health trained nurses are | |responsible for all aspects of mental health services for the population. These nurses are also responsible for training others in mental | |health. According to the World Health Organization there are only 1.1 psychiatric beds per 10,000 people and only .7 beds in mental | |hospitals, the rest being in general hospitals. In 2005, there were only .3 psychologists and 3 social workers per 100,000 people, the | |country did not have any neurologists and doctors had to come from neighboring countries to help with the mental health needs of Botswana. | Select a country and a mental health issues within that contry. Then compose a 150- to 200- word description of the probem (...
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...When someone breaks their arm or has the flu they go to the doctor. The doctor will then prescribe them medicine or guide them to the path of recovery. This, however, is not the case when it comes to mental illness. It is not widely accepted or talked about to get treatment for a mental illness, but mental health is just as important as physical health. In today’s society, those with disorders like depression are told to simply “get over it”, to “stop being so sensitive”, or that they are simply seeking attention. There is a major negative stigma surrounding mental illness that leads to more harmful effects, and it needs to be eradicated. One of my close friends has been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, depression, and has quite...
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...Neuroscience has long fascinated Psychologists as they look for explanations into mental health issues, aspiring to understand the relationship between the human mind and behaviour. The purpose of this essay is to address the issues of misperceptions in the link between mental health problems and violence. It will be argued that various factors contribute to violent behaviour while noting the limitations in studies which contribute to mental health labelling. A summary of the categorisation in positive and negative psychological health will be reviewed, followed by examining any relationship between violent behaviour and emotional well-being. A discussion of the academic findings around this relationship will be explored while identifying and discussing the various external factors that contribute to the risk of committing violence. There are two main organisations that have produced clarifications of mental disorders which are used throughout Western culture, Chapter V of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) which was constructed by the World Health Organisation and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-S) constructed by the American Psychiatric Association; however concepts of mental disorder vary depending on culture and country. The World Health Organisation and National Surveys report there is no single agreement in the classification of mental illness and phrasing depends on the social, cultural, economic and legal context (Scheffler...
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...Mental Illness Ellen is a 35 year old laboratory technician, she is happily married and has a beautiful three-year-old daughter Emily. Unfortunately in the last three years she has been unable to enjoy her life or her family as well as she wants to. She has been suffering from a severe form of Postnatal Depression which has forced her to leave her job and spend eleven months in a psychiatric hospital. While now on the road to recovery, Ellen admits that the hardest part of her illness is coping with the attitude of others: "I had no history of mental illness prior to my daughter being born. I was happy and successful in life but now I find myself being treated as an alien. People, including family and friends, seem not to know what to say to me - so they say nothing. Little is known by the majority of folk about "clinical depression", so you're treated as an outcast". 1) Poor mental health is something which will probably affect everyone of us to some degree, either directly or indirectly, at sometime during our lives. 2) But despite the fact that mental disorder is classified as an "illness" which can be "treated" just like physical illness, many psychiatric patients can identify with Ellen's experience of feeling like an outcast. 3) Society can be very uncomfortable around those with mental health problems and as a result, there is a general reluctance among people to admit to mental distress or to reveal that one has been hospitalised, taken medication or had...
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...Treatment of Mental Health: Institutionalism versus Community Care Sandra L Pauwels Saint Leo University Treatment of Mental Health: Institutionalism versus Community Care For many centuries people with mental illness have been shunned and avoided as if they had the plague. Many view the mentally ill as frightening and horrifying individuals. Our treatment of them has often reflected current or prevailing public sentiment of them. In 400 B.C., Hippocrates viewed people with mental illness as having a physiology of “dis-ease”, or, rather, an illness (Randy MacLowry, 1999-2002). Hippocrates’ position was definitely not the popular opinion. The opinion held by the general population was that mental illness was a punishment for displeasing the Gods. From the beginning in the Middle Ages, locking our mentally ill individuals away from society was common. Because we feared the mentally ill, they were considered to be outcasts of society. Some were even executed as witches in the early days of our country. (Micah Steele, 2009). It was believed that the mentally ill were possessed by demons or witches. The mentally ill were shunned, banished, or locked away because they were feared. Because people believed that mental illness could be “caught” from those who were afflicted. In the 1980’s focus shifted from long term facilities that locked up the mentally ill to community mental health centers. It was hoped that treating individuals within the community would help people understand...
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...of the world mental health is a most important matter and is the second main cause for children and young people communicating child helpdesks from countries ordered in the top nine of the Human Development Index (HDI), with the development of science and the advancement of civilization, children's mental health difficult has achieved an increasing number of attention. In the past few decades, children's mental health difficult cannot get enough attention, which caused much irreparable damage to many family and society. When children's mental health problem cannot get the correct processing, is likely to cause much bad effect. For instance, some children with mental health difficulties may have the actions which is to hurt themselves or hurt other people. (Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care, 2000)Therefore, the government need to invest to found professional treatment child mental disease hospital and to establish the school to train the professionals to treat the children’s mental health illness. First, only the professional hospital can give children suffer from mental illness to provide the best treatment. Next, the professional psychological disease hospital need professional psychological doctor, and the doctor need the professional school. Finally, government investment to establish corresponding schools and hospitals are more prestige and more reliable. The first reason is only the professional hospital can give children suffer from mental illness to provide...
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...success we have begun to cloud our vision of what values we deem important. This can ultimately culminate in a feeling of being pursued and trapped and society’s mental health has subsequently deteriorated. Accordingly the Ministry of Health Statistics 2009 1/5 New Zealanders experience a mental disorder sometime during their life, of these only 39% have visited mental health services, the Ministry of Health also found that 4.5% of New Zealanders have attempted suicide with males being 3.6% more likely to commit suicide than females. This is also reflected in OECD (Organisation for economic co-operation and development) statistics, New Zealand currently has the highest rate of youth suicide, ages 15-24, in countries belonging to the OECD and 29th highest overall suicide rate. This is why I have decided to explore ‘the catalysts prevalent in established society which can be detrimental to our populations overall mental health.’ This theme is prevalent within the following combination of texts; Howl by Allen Ginsberg, Mental Cases by Wilfred Owen, Requiem for a Dream by Darren Aronofsky and Shutter Island by Martin Scorsese. These texts explore different aspects of the human psyche and of mental illness by examining these texts I hope to identify and expose which aspects of our society could be injurious to our mental health. Howl written in 1955 is Allen Ginsberg’s most famous piece of poetry to date which proved to be provocative and test the boundaries of the society which Ginsberg...
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...The Mental Health System Sheyanne Nichole Gravette Virginia College Online Abstract A journey in the mind of an individual suffering from mental health issues is a frightening ride; fear or worthlessness around every turn. There is no happily ever after in sight without the proper treatment an individual can feel lost in their own mind and lose touch with the reality that care can be administered and a normal life is a possibility for the future. The mental health system has evolved dramatically over the years and options are endless, there is a way to find health and healing. Throughout history the stigma of the condition has wreaked havoc on all those suffering, but present day options have halted such stigma and aided in the rehabilitation of patients. The history of mental health began near the times of 1880; when it was sometimes blamed on religious punishment or demonic possession. Most of those individuals suffering from disorders of the mind were treated in horrible ways and taken into confinement, in special facilities. By removing those people, the general population could ignore the fact that conditions like this existed. Treatment options were scarce, but confinement, hair pulling, and several other horrible experiments were made to try and turn a crazy mind sane. It wasn’t until the 1930’s that innovative therapies were implemented; the minds of those suffering from fits of madness were finally being understood and mostly because of a man named Sigmund Freud...
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