African American’s view of Mental Health Introduction Mental illness in any culture can be viewed with stigmatism‚ which is based on cultural beliefs. People have various ways of coping with instabilities of the mind and are deeply influenced by the environment in which they have been exposed to or by the experiences in which they have lived. Admission The patient of interest is an African American female eighteen years of age with bipolar type I and Asperger’s disorder. She was brought to
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Mental and physical health: a contrast or a simile The mind and the body are actually a single system. In western cultures‚ the mind is somewhere in the head and that everything else is body. This dualism can be traced back to Descartes and his writings. This dualism can even be seen in the way health insurance is treated in the United States. Most insurance policies provide much better coverage for "physical" disorders than they do for "mental" disorders. No such dualism ever existed in eastern
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on why I have chosen the path to become Psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner over other master’s degree in nursing. Mental illness is one of the major medical concerns in our country today. There is significant shortage of psychiatric mental health practitioners to meet the demand of the mental illness population. I want to be a part of a big change in the health care setting by providing care to those who are not receiving mental health services. I have a passion as a nurse to care for mentally
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COUN-6100-12‚ Intro to Mental Health Counseling. Hynson Discussion Week # 3 History of the Counseling Profession A. A brief description of the one historical event you selected. Brooks and Weikel (1986) traced the historical roots of mental health counseling back to the "moral treatment" of the mentally ill that was started by Philippe Pinel‚ director of the Bicetre (the largest mental hospital in Paris)
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Mental illness assessment in Pottstown‚ PA Located only 20 miles southwest of Reading‚ PA on the Schuylkill River you will find Pottstown is an area densely populated with mental illness. According to the last national census held in 2010‚ Pottstown Borough is composed of about 75 % Caucasians‚ 17 % African American and about 8 % Hispanics. Population in 2014 was about 22‚684 with 10‚988 males and 11‚ 696 females (US Census‚ 2010). The community is mostly composed of lower-middle-class income families
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Mental Health Issues in Transgender Females Defining Transgender In the past decade‚ the term transgender has rapidly come to be used to describe a range of social identities‚ a political movement‚ and a community that had no name until the early 1990s. Transgender women identify themselves as being a man either by feeling as if they are men or by having both genitalia at birth and the penis being removed leaving only a vagina. They are uncomfortable being identified as a woman and choose to
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various mental health wards in a number of local hospitals. Diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of 27‚ an illness he maintains he has never had‚ Mr X blames his family‚ in particular his father and brother‚ for his many stays in hospital including numerous detentions under Sections 2 and 3 of the Mental Health Act (1983). Mr X had been encouraged by his care co-ordinator‚ under Section 131 of the Mental Health Act (1983)‚ and the Code of Practice paragraph 4.9 (Department of Health and Welsh
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Skills and Characteristics of Mental Health Tony Lee Merriwether CJHS/410 September 22‚ 2014 April Stewart Running head: SKILLS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF MENTAL HEALTH 1 SKILLS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF MENTAL HEALTH 4 Skills and Characteristics of Mental Health Domestic violence recently attracted international media attention because of the of high profile status of the victims and abusers (e. g. Ray Rice‚ Nicole Simpson‚ Rihanna‚ and Chris Brown). The remainder of the victims remains nameless
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I have always been interested in psychology and the study of human behaviour‚ particularly as it relates to mental illness. I did psychology both for A’ Level and for my degree‚ and I particularly enjoyed the aspects of the courses relating to the understanding and treatment of mental illness. When I left university in 2007 with an upper second class degree‚ I did consider pursuing a career in clinical psychology but decided at that stage to pursue full-time employment instead of engaging in further
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Is Our Mental Health Determined By Nature or Nurture Nature vs. nurture is an age old argument‚ hereditary or environment. The argument basically debates if genetic makeup or environment predetermines certain things about the human development. In my paper I am going to discuss the argument of nature as well as the argument of nurture and how it affects the mental health of a child. I am also going discuss the argument that both nature and nurture determines our mental health. I am going to first
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