...Throughout the years researchers have been studying ways to help the elder community, by developing programs to benefit the older generation in health related issues. The programs are forms of inclusive and therapeutic recreation. Therapeutic recreation (Bullock, Marhon and Selz, 1997) is defined as; “a purposeful intervention directed at the individual and his environment that aims to enhance health and impact functioning in many critical life domains.” Meaning that when looking at therapeutic recreation within the senior citizens is purposeful due to the change in body functioning. Programs can be developed to help the elderly stay active; some programs may be simply eating healthier foods or more advanced programs such as aerobic classes. The main ideas of these classes are to introduce programs that might expand their life span and improve physical capabilities. When dealing with the elderly, there are common changes that occur. Firstly, the body will not be in as good of shape compared to the past and secondly, experiences encountered may have an affect on your life, such as; friends passing away etc. Therefore, when dealing with elderly, the programs need to be created with these aspects in mind. Three main areas dealing with improvements are; Physical, Emotional, and Mental. When the body is changing you start to rely on others to help you with daily chores and activities. Sometimes, families are not willing to help those in need and go through the feeling of loneliness...
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...underpinnings of Mental Health Courts (MHCs), their growth, and the defining elements and operations of the earliest MHCs, which are best, viewed as evolving models of practice. Finally, the paper reviews studies of MHC operations and effectiveness and suggests future directions for MHCs. Rehabilitating the Court System In 2000, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reported there were an estimated 283,000 prison and jail inmates who suffered from mental health problems. That number is now estimated to be 1.25 million. The rate of reported mental health disorders in the state prison population is five times greater (56.2 percent) than in the general adult population (11 percent). MHCs were developed in an attempt to solve the problem of criminalizing the mentally ill; this phenomenon occurs when the mentally ill are arrested and prosecuted for minor offenses rather than being treated by the mental health system. A greater focus on this may foresee a decrease in the rate of reported mental health disorders within the prison system. The basis for the above approach was founded on the concept of Therapeutic Jurisprudence (TJ), the notion that the law can play a role as a potential means of therapeutic influence and this could be achieved by making court proceedings more therapeutic to mentally ill prosecutors through involvement in treatment, MHCs hope to produce better outcomes for their defendants. The underlying belief of this approach is that...
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...High rates of incarceration and acts of crime have impacted on society at community, individual, and national levels (1). Mass incarceration is a concern, as high rates of incarceration cause considerable disadvantages to society (16). Policies derived from the War on Drugs influenced the widespread of mental and substance abuse disorders among populations of incarceration (16). In order to accomplish the goal of preventing incarceration, evidence based treatments within corrections focus on prevention strategies (16). Evidence supports the idea of healthcare interventions aiding in the reduction of crime, and recidivism rates (16). These types of interventions can reduce costs to society, and improve the therapeutic outcomes of individuals who suffer from substance abuse and mental disorders (16). Mental health courts (MHC) offer a promising alternative to incarceration. Crime can produce inevitable effects, and cause society to experience considerable economic costs (1). The combination of correctional and drug policies in the United States have contributed to the rise in prison populations across the country, resulting in billions of dollars in economic losses (1). Programs such as problem-solving courts can generate benefits by reducing costs caused by crime. The objective of many MHC studies is to provide evidence that...
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...RUNNING TITLE: MAGNOLIA THERAPEUTIC SOLUTIONS CASE STUDY Magnolia Therapeutic Solutions Case Study Tamara Owens University of Phoenix Financial Management in Human Services/BSHS 373 Frieda Flowers October 28th, 2013 In the Magnolia Therapeutic Solutions case study the board member made decisions based on what if’s. Working in the financial area in the nonprofit industry I have seen decisions like this come about numerous of times. The board decided to approve a budget and spend money on a grant which they received the previous year and was almost sure that they would be rewarded on that grant again in the future. The boards decision caused the organization to take a vital financial fail because the grant was not renewed so this caused layoffs and other organization cut backs. If I was on the board I would have definitely rejected the decision to spend money which was not approved or in present. Majority of grants are city, state or government funded. This means there are certain stipulations which may come with getting approved for those grants and sometimes the funds are not always available. Magnolia was a new organization which was growing at a steady pace. The jump and demand of services happened because of a major event “911” which had occurred in their city. It was great that Magnolia was able to assist the victims and their families with PTSD. Which this is why they receive the grant they received to increase staff and services. However, I would have based...
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...Therapeutic Courts Through out the court system there is a up and coming alternate approach to sentencing, this approach is called therapeutic court. Therapeutic court is an alternate sentencing that can either shorten the jail time the offender was sentenced to or erase any chance of the offender serving any jail time at all. This sentencing combines both individual counseling as well as group counseling, also allowing these counselors to give random check ups with home visits and strict supervision. This type of court gives nonviolent offenders the chance to not only to stay out of prison but also the chance to better themselves by completing this “rehab like” sentencing and beating their addiction of drugs/alcohol. The history of therapeutic courts started in the mid 1980s when drug cases increased due to the war on drugs crackdown. More and more people were being arrested, prosecuted, and imprisoned for possession of illegal drugs. As time went on, drug abuse violations grew to “the largest single category of police activity - more than 1.5 million per year”(America’s Courts pg106) the majority of these crimes taking place in the countries largest urban areas. With the rapid increase of caseloads that were not seen as extremely dangerous crimes, courts soon began to seek alternative methods to help manage this drug abuse crisis. The idea that was created is known as drug courts and they viewed offenders not as criminals but as offenders with a drug abuse addiction. Soon...
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...Approaches to Ethical Dilemmas Evanya S. Perry 335 January 20th, 2014 Dr. Tami Frye Approaches to Ethical Dilemmas When trying to apply different approaches to ethical dilemmas there are several different steps that need to be taken. Understanding the case study, providing answers to difficult questions, determining an approach to take that would best suit the ethical dilemma, and identifying the ethical issues encountered along with providing an approach method will be the first few steps taken. These steps are important to recognize before proceeding in any way. In case number five we are introduced to a woman named Janet Lewis who is a registered nurse. The case study describes her as a motivated worker that has a child with special needs that she raises on her own. Other important information about Janet is the fact that she volunteers to pick up extra shifts to help her employer cover available hours. The case study describes the hours leading up to the situation that happens one day with Janet. On one particular day Janet had covered so many hours that she worked without getting any sleep and was exhausted. Later in her shift because of her exhaustion she misreads a label of medication and proceeds to give the wrong medication to the doctor to be administered. This mistake proves to be fatal and the patient dies. Janet tells the doctor about her mistake and is overheard by the patient’s family. An incident report is filed shortly after and...
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...Social Work and Chemical Dependency Purpose: Social Workers intervention can be cost effective and reduce relapses. This proposed research paper it to reflect that by having Social Worker case manage people with chemical dependency may limit relapse of addition. First is understand why a Social Worker would come into contact with a person who has chemical dependency issues. Social worker and a person chemical dependency will come together under various circumstances. Person life has fallen apart and family life is at stake. There was a call to an agency asking for help with the person and family members. What would the Social Worker triage the situation and come up with an assessment to get help for the person? One has to ask...
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...“Transforming your care “ report (Department of Health Social Service and Public Safety, (DHSSPS) 2011a) made recommendations to increase care in the community, making home the centre of care aiming to reduce the strain on limited resources and give value for money. Within the community care district nurses are vital, there role is autonomous, unique and varied. Furthermore there expert theory, skills, and knowledge of self and practice adds to their advanced interpersonal communication skills to assess clients with increasing complex needs (Blazor et al 2008). Communication is the cornerstone of the nurse patient therapeutic relationship and is the essence of good care (Stein-Parbury, 2009). Within the community care setting, therapeutic relationships are a high priority of the health service to enhance the well-being of the growing ageing population and patients with complex palliative care needs (Bain and Baguley 2012). The Department of Health (2006) acknowledges that communication is paramount for human interaction, otherwise people cannot relate to others effectively, make their needs known and identify what is happening to them. A fundamental aspect for district nursing staff is to ensure the whole family unit is included in the communication process which is an essential part of the therapeutic relationship. The therapeutic relationship is grounded in an interpersonal process that occurs between the nurse and the client. It is a purpose, goal directed relationship that...
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...history. More recently, studies have shown that creating art has had positive results for groups and individuals. The effects can be found in the individual with a mental illness as well as helping to build relationships between them and the surrounding community. These benefits can also be found at the Vision Quest Studio in Bradford, Vermont, where the director, Bob Claflin, LCMHC, provides an environment to create art with three men with mental illnesses. Art therapy is the combination of visual expression and therapeutic healing. Historically, it has been known that art is beneficial, as it is one of the oldest forms of healing: art has been recognized for its positive effects physically,...
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...quite magical. It's complexities stretch beyond our own horizons of comprehension and reach out into the mystic of the unknown. The mind possesses powers unrivalled by anything else - powers which extend to the self-healing of the human body with no aid other than faith - alias `the power of thought!' The use of the Placebo in medicine and pharmacy harnesses this incredible power and instigates the phenomenal self-healing process. The `Placebo Effect' has been used extensively throughout the history of medicine. Physicians have discovered the power of the human mind in healing and have tried to utilise this to it's full potential in all applicable aspects of therapeutic intervention. This report aims to discuss the Placebo Effect, it's power and history in relation to other forms of therapy, Case studies, the Ethical issues involved and whether they should be used or not. The `Placebo Effect' was defined by Wolf as "any effect attributable to a pill, potion or procedure but not to it's pharmacodynamic or specific properties" (Wolf, 1959. Cited by H.Brody, 1980). To date, the placebo has played a dynamic role throughout the history and development of medicine. Substances with no perceivable pharmacological benefit such as spiders, crocodile dung and human excrement have been prescribed up until the beginning of modern scientific medicine to treat various maladies. Obviously each of these substances induced a `Placebo Effect' in order to achieve the desired result...
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...turn that is unlike the Great Depression of the 1900’s. It is also seen throughout the United States as well as North America where the unemployment rates are at very high. The economy’s struggling state has left us all seeking for solutions. In the cases of such economic dire straits, the people who are likely to suffer are the poor, the homeless and maybe even some low middle class families as well. Here in the Caribbean, the government have been applying cuts through out a number of departments as well as a number of services that were being offered to the members of our community. It appears that our mental health services drew the shortest straw. Ironically, it appears that due to our economic down turn mental health issues are on the rise. These services are being eliminated or decreased at a time when the issues are more prevalent than ever and very much needed. The Department of Health is understaffed, overwhelmed and in dire need of equipment to provide adequate care for our community as a whole much less those in need of mental health services. Our Mental Health services are dormant and our government is incapable of handling the number of cases of mentally ill patients visible and undiagnosed around the community. Consequently, one must look towards the private sector for help in this matter. There is a need for a joint relationship between the public and private sector to provide a valued mental health care system. In Antigua, there is an agency that has stepped...
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...Three of the most widely used types of alternative juvenile justice programs included functional family system therapy, multisystem therapy, and multidimensional treatment foster care (Lipsey and Howell, 2012). Additional types of juvenile justice programs that were implemented in these states include boot camps, deterrence, strict supervision and surveillance, and therapeutic intervention (Lipsey and Howell, 2012). Some of these programs proved to be more effective than others. Specifically, Lipsey and Howell (2012) reveals that family system therapy, multisystem therapy, multidimensional treatment foster care, and other forms of therapeutic interventions were more successful in terms of reducing recidivism, improving behaviors, and reducing the negative characteristics of juvenile offenders when compared to traditional and other non-traditional types of juvenile justice programs (Lipsey & Howell,...
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...achieve the desired result as the treatment itself had no real medical value. However, as the medical sciences developed further, the incredible power of the placebo effect was anything but discredited - the power of the human mind in it's self-healing was deemed by clinicians as `voluminous'. It is quite profound, for instance, how a patient will commonly react much better when they are administered with a placebogenic injection as opposed to a lesser response from a tablet or capsule. This infers that the reaction received will vary in proportion to how potent the patient feels their treatment really is; obviously with the injection seeming to be the most potent agent. It is in conjunction with these hypotheses that the therapeutic sciences such as psychotherapy are formulated. It is also through the application of various forms of these `insight therapies' (communication therapy) that the use of the placebo effect becomes evident in real-life medicine and pharmacy. Psychotherapy (a form of insight therapy) relies heavily upon good communication. The interaction between the therapist and patient builds an environment in which the patient is helped to come to terms with his/her feelings and inner conflicts. The use of the placebo effect in therapy is quite relevant to...
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...Relationship among three kinds of communication (source: Northouse &Northouse, 1998, p. 2) Many organization has defined health care communication in different ways. Just like any other human communication, it is person specific. This is a skill health care professionals need to learn by practice. According to The United States Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (2010), "the art and technique of informing, influencing, and motivating individual, institutional, and public audiences about important health issues. The scope of health communication includes disease prevention, health promotion, health care policy, and the business of health care as well as enhancement of the quality of life and health of individuals within the community" (Terminology, para. 4). Communication is a skill that professional needs to learn and practice to be an effective communicator. While practicing, they should employ the four basic communication skills: Engage, Empathize, Educate, and Enlist. Proper communication is an essential aspect of health care service. To be effective, clinicians needs to have specific skills such as how to open an interview with the new patient, how to engage the patient in the discussion, show empathy to the patients’ issue, educating the patient, make the patient a partner in the...
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...responsible citizens within the global community and seek avenues for life-long learning. Our Goals Program goals for each department in the College derive from the philosophy of the College and the domain competencies, as follows: Knowledge • ability to examine and explain phenomena • ability to construct and organize knowledge • ability to integrate and synthesize knowledge • ability to apply quantitative and qualitative concepts Proficiency • ability to solve practical problems • ability to collaborate with multiple disciplines • ability to communicate effectively • ability to practice competently and skillfully in a changing health-care environment Culture Care Values • ability to preserve/maintain cultural identities • ability to accommodate/negotiate diverse life ways • ability to re-pattern/restructure health-care delivery methods • ability to apply ethical and legal principles to health care The Associate of Science in Nursing Program (ASN) is a two-year program of study combining didactic and clinical nursing courses as well as general education courses. The Program prepares beginning nurses who function as providers and leaders of direct and indirect nursing care for diverse individuals, families, and groups. The ASN graduates function as collaborative members within the discipline of nursing and the health care team. The ASN graduates use basic knowledge of therapeutic nursing interventions, communication...
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