Ama Case Studies Mental Health

{text:bookmark-start} Assignment: Case Study {text:bookmark-end} Mental illness is any of various conditions characterized by impairment of an individual’s normal cognitive, emotional, or behavioral functioning, and caused by social, psychological, biochemical, genetic or other factors, such as infection or head trauma. Also call emotional illness, and mental disease. (www.thefreedictioary.com). No mental illness can not be define as a physical illness such as diabetes, because mental illness is that it can not be diagnosed like physical ailments, most diagnoses are determined by what the patient tells the doctor. Physical conditions can cause mental illness. When these are treated, mental illness (such as depression) may subside it can be
In regards to mental illness, advances in technology have proven that there are clear and verifiable chemical and physical changes that occur in mental conditions. Treatment options vary, just as with physical disease, there are numerous symptoms and treatment options, the same holds true with mental illness. The concept of deinstitutionalization, beginning in the cash strapped 1960’s but coming to the fore front in the 1980’s, focused on releasing mentally ill patients into the community, into half-way houses or other partial care facilities, or even back into their family situation. The pendulum swings widely in this issue---but emptying the hospitals, and expecting the mentally ill to monitor them has provento be a disaster in some places. There were no adequate out patient facilities to help keep track, and most of them were left on their own, and fell prey to abuse, neglect, and crime. I have and uncle since he was six he has been in a mental institution was release some weekends to my grandmother’s care and it did not work out due to the fact that she did not have proper training and education on how to take care of a mental
Yes there are a few health care professions who do provide mental health care with other care systems. As for our clinic we have a couple of patients that need mental help and the doctors will help them with medications and referring them to a psychiatrist. They see both the doctor and psychiatrist and report back and forth, we have one patient that will not see a psychiatrist so the doctor will treat her in our office and make sure she is taking her medication properly. In Chicago now with private insurance they do have coverage for mental care, back in the 70’s and 80’s insurance’s did not want to cover for those who had mental care, but thanks to the growing numbers of institution now insurances will cover with minimal for the patient to pay. However, in terms of managed care, unlike many physical aliments, mental health can not necessarily be boxed into a time and easy treatment plan. Individuals vary, and unlike prescribing an antibiotic treatment for an infection, requires numerous trial and mediation prior to finding the right treatment, which in term take far longer and be far more costly, and other standard physical treatments (NMHIC). It is still important to remember that mental illness is not as easy to quantify economically as physical