As mental health nurses‚ we are granted a seemingly disproportionate power and latitude to practise when compared to our colleagues in general nursing. This is due to a number of factors; firstly‚ that mental illness is difficult to define‚ in the eyes of the public it constitutes an intangible wrongness about an individual that cannot be measured or even seen clearly. Due to misrepresentation and scaremongering by the media‚ mental health services are often viewed as taking the role of protecting
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Mental Health Essay Mental health is all about how we think‚ feel and behave. It refers to our cognitive‚ and/or our emotional wellbeing. It describes a sense of wellbeing. Mental health ‘problems’ or ‘difficulties’ are terms used to describe temporary reactions to a painful event‚ stress‚ or systems of drug or alcohol use‚ lack of sleep or physical illness. It can also be used to describe long-term psychiatric conditions‚ which may have significant effects on an individual’s functioning. Some
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indirect health risks to all segments of the population‚ particularly the elderly‚ young children‚ and the disabled. Overcrowding results in insufficient ventilation in homes‚ causing or exacerbating respiratory illness. Susceptibility to disease‚ the severity of diseases‚ the spreading of illness‚ and the mortality due to disease all increase as a result of social and physical overcrowding. Overcrowding physically and emotionally overburdens mothers and other caregivers‚ increasing health risks of
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Andrea Sanchez Professor Amanda Gray & Adrienne Baldwin SWU 171 23 June 2013 Mental Health and the Media Let me start off with what Autism is and how common it is. Autism appears to have its root in very early brain development. The most obvious signs of autism and symptoms come about between 2 and 3 years old. “An estimated 1 out of 54 boys and 1 in 252 girls are diagnosed with autism in the United States.” A person with autism will find it much harder to understand the feelings of other
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Mental Health Mental health is a person’s psychological and emotional well-being. What kind of mental health I there? Anxiety Depression Bipolar disorder Schizophrenia Hallucinations Neurotic Psychotic Mental health break down Alzheimer’s Why is it important to recognise and value an individual with mental Health problems? You must talk to the individual because you are showing them attention and you will get to know them and understand what they like. You need to talk to the individual because
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Introduction Mental retardation is a condition characterized by limitations in performance that result from significant impairments in intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior‚ expressed as abnormal conceptual‚ social‚ and adaptive skills that occurs before age 18. Mental retardation can occur in any family and cuts across all racial‚ educational‚ social and economic backgrounds. The degree of impairment can be divided into mild (IQ 50- 70)‚ moderate (IQ 35-50)‚ and severe (IQ 20-35). Mental retardation
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Jenna Brandt‚ RN. Grand Canyon University NRS 434 April 11‚ 2015 Environmental Factors and Health Promotion Pamphlet: Accident Prevention and Safety Promotion for Parents and Caregivers of Infants Part II: The subject for the pamphlet used for this project was lead exposure. Children ages 1-5 are defined by the CDC as one of the highest risk group‚ as they tend to stick toys and contaminated objects or fingers in their mouths‚ have poor hygiene‚ and play in the dirt more than older children. The
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serious enough to cause a mental disease‚ which is what we normally call "depression". Women statistically are the majority group who is diagnosed each year with either anxiety or depression. It is nearly twice as many as men. In addition‚ they have some unique risk factors for the disorders; they are also facing some variations of depression specific to their sex (Dennis and Charles 147). There’re several major causes of depression that may occur in women involving biological (i.e. genetics‚ hormones)
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The objective of this case study is to provide an understanding of how a Mental State Examination (MSE) is conducted on a patient. The process is gain an initial assessment of the patient’s current mental health. Outlining their cognition‚ perception‚ mood and affect‚ behaviour‚ appearance and the Mandatory Functional Requirements‚ required for communication. For the purpose of this case study an MSE will be conducted on Lucy a twenty year old woman. Lucy was accompanied by her mother when they
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Evaluate the extent to which cognitive and biological factors interact in emotion The definition of emotion is simply a cognitive‚ physical‚ or behavioral state. The behavioral response humans have are things like crying or taking an action upon some situation e.g. humans would run if they saw an explosion. The physiological state can be for example arousal of the nervous system and endocrine system in our bodies‚ which would lead to the production of many hormones. And finally the cognitive explanation
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