Informative Outline Topic: “Postpartum Depression” General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: To inform the audience about Postpartum Depression Thesis: Postpartum depression is a mood disorder that can greatly effect new mothers. Knowing how to recognize their symptoms and treating it can greatly increase chances of a healthy, happy living. Attention Getter: Imagine a bright sunny morning, lite clouds low chances of rain which is a great example of a perfect day. You receive a call from someone
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Observing a Mental Status Exam Jennifer Broadwell FPSY 4111: Forensic Interviewing and Investigation Walden University April 2015 Mental Status Examinations are conducted to gain perspective into a person’s cognitive functioning. This information can be important in different situations. The information can be resourceful in a clinical setting, a treatment setting, as well as a criminal investigation setting. When interviewing an individual in reference to a crime it is important
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Andrew Lam Professor Singer Expository Writing 201 9 October 2015 Hazel Morse and Alcohol Alcohol is portrayed as a social lubricant in that it brings people together: it loosens people up and makes them more sociable. It can transform the quietest and reserved person into an open and outgoing one. Alcohol can also be used to escape life and all its problems for a little while. Although alcohol can enhance a person’s social performance and help escape reality, indulging too much in alcohol
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The Suicide Scale PSYC 341 SEC402 Fall 2014 12 11 2014 Richelle O. Bowman Hopelessness is a very difficult feeling to deal with; it is an emotional process, linked through feelings of fear and anticipation. An individual may feel hopeless when he/she is submerged in a lack of control, from a situation they feel is out of their hands. They may begin to feel depressed if they feel they can do nothing to stop the negative situation at hand. Furthermore, feeling hopeless equates to the feeling
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Psychological disorders Student Name: Institution affiliated Professor’s Name Date Introduction Psychological disorders are also identified as mental disorders, it is deviation of the brain mechanism which is mostly due to unrelenting activities that are critical and may influence the daily functions of life. Several diseases have been recognized and been classified, they include anorexia nervosa, personality, eating disorders, mood disorders, and
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treatment modalities aimed at the behavioral health patient. The vastness and diversity of the behavioral health field has resulted in more awareness and a focus aimed at increasing my knowledge base on treatments and management of psychiatric disorders. The following pages will highlight the different mental issues I dealt with this semester and how they were managed. Anxiety The objective in managing and treating patients with anxiety was to understand the clinical presentation of anxiety
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One psychological therapy to treat depression is cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). CBT therapists believe maladaptive thoughts cause us to misinterpret reality leading to distressing emotions, physical symptoms and dysfunctional behaviour, which can cause depression. The aim of CBT is to identify and then alter these maladaptive thoughts as well as any dysfunctional behaviour, which may be contributing to depression. They will first look at how the negative schema affects current behaviour and
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Elliot is twenty-two years old. He is not married and has no children. A child of divorce and a nail-biter, he is the only one sitting on the Cobblestone park bench tonight, hugging his knees like Glenn Beck in a crowd “too high for heaven” at Woodstock, some forty years earlier. He is depressed because every girl he has tried to connect with has rejected him. He is taking college courses and, in the meantime, has a job pushing around various fluids of different color and aroma with a splintered
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of teenage depression. Some of these factors are: 1. Being a victim of violence or abuse 2. Having other family members who have committed suicide 3. Having a dysfunctional family 4. Living in a stressful environment 5. Have a disability or disorder that significantly affects one's life Nurses may also have to intervene when they suspect that an adolescent is depressed. Nurses could establish some sort of positive and comfortable relationship with the adolescent so that they can share their
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What would you do if you were dying from the great pain? It is not surprising that there are many people in the world have to encounter with the end of life every single day. Some people died young and some passed away when they reach their aged. But because of the terminal illness, someone decided to cut the last breath of their life with dignity and called it as the euthanasia. It turned out that it has two sides about the point of view towards the euthanasia issue in a positive and negative ways
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