Mental/Behavioral Case Studies Jean Izean HCS/245 May 11‚ 2015 Tynan Mara Jim Wolf is a 45 year auto-parts old store owner who incessantly washes his hands. He continually checks and rechecks his part lists‚ equipment‚ and his employee’s schedules. His wife becomes concerned about his work performance and inability to sleep‚ she advises him to a physician. After a complete evaluation‚ a psychiatrist has diagnosed him with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Obsessive
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explanation. Disturbance: Disturbed‚ or even dysfunctional behaviors of this disorder is maladaptive; meaning they often interfere with a normal day to day life. This clinical significance of thought and emotion is also used as a more neutral term than mental illness. Cognition: Involves clinically significant distortion‚ or impairment in higher functions of the brain; i.e. delirium‚ dementia‚ amnestic syndrome. Emotion Regulation: Often refers to the clinically significant
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or any people in your life been diagnosed with a mental illness and how did that affect you? In 1831‚ I got sick with a cough and general fatigue quite often. Later on‚ with the stress of my illnesses‚ the extreme commitment to my teaching career added more stressed causing the idea of death to be constantly on my mind. I allowed a biographer named‚ David Gollaher‚ to go over my papers and he diagnosed me with depression and later I had a mental breakdown. My own depression ended my career as a
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Mr. Horsfall Yr 11 IB English Thomas Brelsford 11.5 ‘Discuss Owen’s use of visual and aural imagery in three of his poems’ Wilfred Owen was a famous anti-war poet from World War I. He wrote poems about his first-hand experiences during the war. Wilfred Owen uses personification‚ metaphors and similes‚ onomatopoeia‚ alliteration and assonance to increase the effectiveness of the messages he is trying to convey and to create a variety of visual
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NANDA NURSING DIAGNOSIS Activity/Rest-ability to engage in necessary/desired activities of life (work and leisure) and to obtain adequate sleep/rest • Activity intolerance • Activity intolerance‚ risk for • Disuse syndrome‚ risk for • Divisional activity‚ deficit • Fatigue • Insomnia Mobility: bed‚ impaired • • Mobility: physical‚ impaired Mobility: wheelchair‚ impaired • Sedentary lifestyle • • Sleep deprivation • *Sleep pattern disturbed • Sleep‚ readiness for enhanced • Transfer ability‚ impaired
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The district nurse knew that Sara had the right to accept or refuse treatment. According to the Mental Capacity Act (section 1‚ MCA) (2005) a presumption of capacity of a patient should not be made based on their medical condition‚ unless it’s been proven otherwise because every adult has the right to make their own decisions. It is important that an individual rights are protected‚ if their grounds to believe that the individual lack capacity through illness (Leathard and McLaren‚ 2007). The district
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again by involving a psychiatric nurse who did a mental capacity assessment. Resident moved in to Reminiscence department this same day with agreement of family and other professionals ‚however reminiscence department is a secure unit where all door are coded and Mrs X felt like in prison‚ as a manager to make sure that she has her rights I did get the deprivation of liberty department (DOLS) involved where Mrs X was assessed for the mental
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He described his current relationship as "horrible"‚ and stated his wife abuses him physically‚ emotionally‚ and mentally. The client stated he carries a diagnosis of Manic Depression. In addition‚ he believes that the he was diagnosed with other mental health disorders but does not remember specifics related to the diagnoses. He consumes the prescribed psychotropic medications Hydroxyzine 50mg and Quetiapine 150mg. The client carries diagnosis of Cannabis Use Disorder: Severe- F14.20
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Case Study: Tom is 37 years old‚ self-employed and is suffering with depression. He doesn’t know why he has depression but can see the effects of it. It is impacting on his relationship with both his wife and children and he also finds it difficult developing and maintaining productive friendships. Tom is spending a lot of his time in bed. Getting out of bed and doing the essential things‚ such as work‚ proves difficult as motivation is lacking and this is now impeding his family financially. Tom
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Wilfred Owen’s "Disabled" Wilfred Owen’s captivating poem‚ entitled "Disabled‚" sends its readers on a journey into the life of a World War I soldier after he has returned home from the war. Throughout the process of writing this poem‚ Owen made some stunning revisions that served to change the meaning and the direction of the poem as a whole. Through the careful analysis of the final poem and the revisions that were made in order to complete the finished piece‚ it is possible to come to some sort
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