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Mental Health Services Mentally Ill
476 wordsRequirements for Mental Health Technician (MHT) 1. Must take post test after each video b. Intoxication & withdrawal side effects 2. Read assigned books & chapters & complete workbook questions. Chapter assigned are as follows 1, 2, 3, 4, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, (25 - 33) 3. Verbal discussion with a Registered Nurse (RN) / Scheduled Classroom lecture with Instructor (You will be notified of Classroom Lectures) 4. Mandatory Quiz after each video / (Mandatory Test after...
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Mental Illness Mentally Ill
2,167 words... e we avoided this potentially positive side of the equation and repressed any spiritual connections of the experience of having a psychiatric illness? Sullivan proposes that we typically fear the discussion of the symbolic and mythic dimensions of the experience because it might encourage the person to become preoccupied with their inner life and consequently precipitate a relapse. But as he adds a person returning from such a journey with profound psychic experiences do not feel completely ...
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Problem Solving Skills American Psychiatric Association
1,653 wordsConduct disorders are a complicated set of behavioral and emotional problems that afflict between nine percent of male boys and two percent of female girls. Persistent aggression, theft, lying, destruction, and vandalism characterize the disorder. Most of all the child or adolescent violates societal norms and the basic rights of others (Appendix). The etiology of the disorder is still in debate. Some theories relate the disorder to inconsistent home lives, a predisposition to the disorder, mode...
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Electro Convulsive Therapy Severe Depression
1,405 wordsPsychiatrists are well-trained physicians who treat patients suffering from mental, emotional, and behavioral symptoms (Hopke 538). He or she will offer several various approaches of giving different explanations of how the patients symptoms or medical disorders develop and how they intervene with the patients functioning and how or why diagnosis or diagnostic treatment can alter them (Kahn 308). Psychiatry offers a wide variety of employment options for people who enjoy helping others and have ...
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Life Sustaining Treatment Terminally Ill
1,642 wordsThe issue of euthanasia has become progressively known about in America as well as in many other countries. There are many different questions that are asked about the legalization of euthanasia. One specific question frequently asked about euthanasia is whose decision should it be to end a life? People's judgments about euthanasia are based on misunderstanding of information, history, and misinterpretation of data that is presented (Emanuel 1). Definitions of specific terms should be clarified ...
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Dissociative Identity Disorder Diagnoses Amp Treatment
1,368 wordsIt is very important to diagnose a case of dissociative identity disorder; if it is not diagnosed, it may lead to death. However, therapists have had many problems in diagnosing this type of disorder. This is due to two major factors. The first is that DID is seen as a very unusual disorder, and most cases of DID are mistaken for Schizophrenia. The second factor is that there is a lack of guidelines for the diagnosis of DID. Hence, even when DID is diagnosed it usually takes multiple weeks-or ev...
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Dependent Personality Disorder American Psychiatric Association
1,195 wordsOn October 25, 1994, Susan Smith drowned her two sons, Michael and Alex, in the John D. Long Lake in Union County, South Carolina. For nine days she lied about knowing where the boys were. On November 3, she confessed to the killings and would soon go to trial. Susan's defense team hired a psychiatrist to conduct a psychiatric evaluation of her. She was diagnosed as having dependent personality disorder. He described her as a person who feels she cant do anything on her own. She constantly needs...
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Adolescent Depression Affective Disorders
1,664 wordsThe suicide rate for adolescents has increased more than 200 % over the last decade. Recent studies have shown that greater than 20 % of adolescents in the general population have emotional problems and one-third of adolescents attending psychiatric clinics suffer from depression. The majority of teenage depressions can be managed successfully by the primary care physician with the support of the family, says Maurice Blackman MB, FRCPC. Depression has been considered to be the major psychiatric ...
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Antisocial Personality Disorder American Psychiatric Association
616 wordsThere is a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others occurring since age 15 years, as indicated by three (or more) of the following: 1) failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest 2) deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure. 3) impulsivity or failure to plan ahead 4) irritability and aggressiveness, a...
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Money To Pay Commit Suicide
2,857 wordsSuicide is defined as an intentional, self-inflicted death that occurs in all cultures and usually is executed by people who are suffering from some sort of extreme emotional pain and feel unable to cope with their problems (Shneidman 6). Suicide is seen in our culture to be something that happens to only the crazy or drug-addicted people. But the reality is that normal, everyday people commit suicide as well. Since suicide-ology is a fairly new field of scientific study there is still much to l...
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Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disease Or Not
2,377 wordsCompulsive Sexual Behavior: Disease or Not Sex and love addiction is a relatively new conception for understanding and treating compulsive sexual behavior and relationship dependency. This paper is aimed to prove that compulsive sexual behavior is a disease, driven sexual acting out and intensive, unending, and unhealthy romantic attachment. Compulsive sexual behavior requires treatment and recovery. Unfortunately, the medical profession continues to debate the diagnostic terminology to be appli...
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Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
2,409 wordsThere are at least two million children and adolescents with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in the United States. All around us, ADHD causes clever children and adults to under function at school or work. ADHD needs to be taken seriously. People need to be aware of what ADHD is, what some of the characteristics and symptoms are, what some of the probable causes are, and some ways it can be treated ADHD is one of the most common childhood behaviors. The prognosis for ADHD can be ...
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Physical Fitness For Youth And Adults
2,167 wordsPhysical fitness for youth and adults According to A Comprehensive Lifestyle Approach: physical fitness is the body's ability to function efficiently and effectively. It consists of health-related physical fitness and skill-related physical fitness, which have at least eleven different components, each of which contributes to total quality of life. Physical fitness also includes metabolic fitness. Physical fitness is associated with a person's ability to work effectively, to enjoy leisure time, ...
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Antisocial Personality Disorder American Psychiatric Association
2,566 wordsAntisocial Personality Disorder Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD) is perhaps the most frightening of all personality disorders, as well as one of the most difficult to diagnose. Personality disorders in general are defined as inflexible, maladaptive, personality traits that cause personal distress or an inability to get along with others. APD specifically is characterized by deceitfulness, lack of regret or remorse over actions, impulsiveness, aggression towards others or animals, irresponsi...
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Negatively Affect Physical Activity
2,260 wordsPsychiatric Rehabilitation is a philosophy as well as specific strategies that has been formed over the past 30 years about how treatment should be provided to those individuals who suffer from a mental illness. During the 1970 's, due in large part to pioneers like Fountain House and Fair-weather Lodge, a shift began in the paradigm that had till then defined the "treatment" of mental illnesses. A growing consciousness emerged that, in addition to medications, skill building and social support ...
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Elderly People Intervention Programs
1,900 wordsNursing Research Falls of the elderly people are the main causes of severe injuries and complications. According to Mary E. Tinetti, M. D one third of 65 year old people or older fall each year and half of them fall several times (Mary E. Tinetti, M. D). Due to the age of the people falls result serious injuries such as hip fracture, other fracture, subdural hematoma, other serious soft-tissue injury, or head injury. Falls are the main results of the hospitalization of the elderly people. The co...
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Cultural Studies Third World
2,494 wordsFrantz Fanon Frantz Fanon was born in 1925, to a middle-class family in the French colony of Martinique. He moved out of Martinique and volunteered to fight with the Free French in World War II. He later started writing political essays and plays that remain controversial even today. Fanon's biography can be looked through two different prisms, despite the fact that Frantz Fanon is among the 20 th century's greatest theoreticians on philosophy of liberation emanating from the Third World. Psychi...
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Deviant Behavior Personality Traits
486 wordsSociologist utilizes several perspectives to explain individual motivations of deviance with an emphasis on biological, psychiatric, psychoanalytic, and psychological terms. The emergence of these ideals temporarily displaced social disorganization theory, which stresses a rapidly changing environment as the cause of deviant behavior. Social pathology seeks to explain deviance by evaluating conditions or circumstances, uniquely, affecting the individual. Sociological theories recognize the exist...
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Traumatic Stress Disorder Post Traumatic Stress
1,747 wordsPost Traumatic Stress Disorder Psychological trauma is defined by the American Psychiatric Association as an experience beyond the range of usual human experience, that would be markedly distressing to almost anyone, and is usually experienced with intense fear, terror and helplessness (DSM-IIIR, p. 247). Examples include a serious threat to ones life (or that of ones children, spouse, etc. ), rape, military combat, natural or accidental disasters, and torture. Sexual activity with an adult is a...
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Flew Over The Cuckoo Nest One Flew Over The Cuckoo
1,914 wordsKen Key s One Flew Over The Cuckoo s Nest deals with control, manipulation and destruction. These elements are portrayed in the novel by what is referred to as the Combine. A combine is a farming machine that is used for cutting, threshing and cleaning. In One Flew Over The Cuckoo s Nest the Combine is a metaphor for society and how it controls, manipulates and destroys. The Combine exists both inside and outside the ward. In the novel, Nurse Ratched is a high ranking official (165) of the Combi...
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