THE FIVE STATUTORY PRINCIPLESThe five principles are outlined in the Section 1 of the Act. These are designed to protect people who lack capacity to make particular decisions‚ but also to maximise their ability to make decisions‚ or to participate in decision-making‚ as far as they are able to do so. There is a lot of detail in the MCA but there are some key principles that are important to understand. 1 All adults have the right to make decisions for themselves unless it can be shown that they
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Unit 11: Understand Mental Wellbeing and Mental Health Promotion Unit code: CMH 301 Unit reference number: F/602/0097 QCF level: 3 Credit value: 3 Guided learning hours: 14 Unit summary This unit aims to provide the learner with an understanding of the key concepts of mental wellbeing‚ mental health and mental health promotion. It focuses on the range of factors that can influence mental wellbeing and how effectively to promote mental wellbeing and mental health with individuals and groups
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counselor in a mental health specialty area that helps clients and families that have difficult emotions mental health disorders and trauma. An established counselor provides therapy and coaching to assist his clients‚ manages their stress‚ redirect disturbing emotions and set goals for themselves. The professional counselor in the specialty areas might focus therapy sessions on recovery or better management of the client’s conditions. Provided the mental health counselor assist their client learns to
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A. Public Health Approach to Mental Health A Public Health Approach to Mental Health contains must focus on a specific group of people‚ stress promotion and prevention‚ and address the determinants of health. A Public Health Approach must also place an emphasis on “assessment‚ policy development‚ and assurance” (Miles et al.‚ 2010‚ p. 40). B. Description of Disorder Depression is a mood disorder that causes a persistent emotions of sadness and loss of interest‚ it is also called Major Depressive
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Act Utilitarianism states that the right choice is the one that will benefit the majority of the society and only takes into account that single act. I think that Act Utilitarianism would allow us to look at this situation and automatically decide that the best choice would be to allow this Alien to take those 10‚000 people. There are
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The assignment will discuss the importance of assessment in Mental Health nursing‚ focusing on a 54 year old lady suffering from major depression. The Department of Health (DoH‚ 2010) pointed out that depression is a disorder of mood and may be characterised by low mood and feelings of unhappiness‚ exhaustion‚ self blame and suicidal thoughts. The assessment scale called Health of the Nations Outcome Scales (HONOS) (see appendix B) and the rational for using this scale will be explored. A brief profile
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Understand Mental wellbeing and Mental Health promotion CMH 301 1. Understand the different views on the nature of mental well-being and Mental health and the factors that may influence both across lifespan: It is a well known fact‚ that everyone is one of kind unique if you like. There for there will be always different views on this as well as other matters. ( diet‚ fitness ect) while " this and that " is working for some‚ it may not work for the other. However there is
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essay will begin by discussing poverty and the groups who mostly live in poverty and who are affected by it. It will then move on to discuss in depth‚ three different vulnerable/disadvantaged groups‚ and how poverty negatively influences the health of a person in one of these groups. "People are living in poverty if their income and resources (material‚ cultural and social) are so inadequate as to preclude them from having a standard of living which is regarded as acceptable by Irish society generally
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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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request euthanasia to avoid the weakness and loss of mental faculties that some diseases cause‚ and many feel these wishes should be respected. But euthanasia also seems to contradict one of the most basic principles of morality‚ which is that killing is wrong. Viewed from a traditional Judeo-Christian point of view‚ euthanasia is murder and a blatant violation of the biblical commandment “Thou shall not kill.” From a secular perspective‚ one of the principal purposes of law is to uphold the sanctity
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