Unit One: Role of the Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Scope of the Problem How many people ages 15 – 54 had a psychiatric or substance abuse disorder in their lifetime? Name the top three medical morbidities in the developed world: How many of the 15 leading causes of disability in developed countries are mental problems? 25% affected in a year 1 in 5 children in U.S. 18 million in U.S. have problem with etoh 23 million in U.S.
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Mental health professional providing services to military personnel present unique ethical challenges when working with this culture. According to Vogt (2011)‚ although a significant number of military personnel require treatment for a mental illness‚ the culture is one of the greater contributors preventing individuals from seeking treatment. The constant state of war experienced within Operation Iraq Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom caused a significant increase in mental health issues
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INDEPENDENT STUDY LEVEL THREE Exploring the relationship between physical health and mental health for the person with dementia. 4915 Words Introduction “Dementia results in a progressive decline in multiple areas of functioning‚ including memory‚ reasoning‚ communication skills and the skills to carry out daily activities. Alongside this decline‚ individuals may develop behavioural and psychological symptoms such as depression‚ psychosis‚ aggression and wandering
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Description What is mental health illness? Mental health can be defined as a person’s condition with regard to the psychological and emotional well being of an individual and the way we interact. It plays a roll in how we think‚ feel‚ and act. Mental health effects how people live their day to day lives. Decisions we make‚ how we associate with others and deal with stress can be quite difficult with someone who has a mental illness. Factors that indicate why people have mental illness’s are genetics
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Mental Health and Religion · Abstract The aim of this investigation was to study the relationship between good mental health and religion. To study a group of participants I designed a questionnaire‚ which used a likert scale‚ and the data collected was analysed using a program on SPSS. The data collected had a significant negative correlation‚ so the results were similar to those from other studies examining religion and its relationship with mental health. In general the individuals who
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Mental health legislation is complex and how this relates to ethical practice is open to critical debate. This essay will focus on some of the key ethical issues when implementing the Mental Health Act 1983 and the amendments to it‚ now called the Mental Health Act 2007. The Human Rights Act 1998 gives right to freedom and liberty (Human Rights Act 1998). Limitations to the right of liberty essentially revolve around three key legal principles in mental health: 1) If you are deemed to have a mental
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Should Know About Mental Health Counselor Life is full of unexpected surprises. You never know what the next moment might bring and can even turn a happy-go-lucky person into a total recluse. It often happens that a tragic incidence turns an individual’s world upside down and thus affect his/her physical and mental heath. While it is easy to overcome physical health problems with the passage of time‚ it is equally important to pay attention to mental health issues. A mental health counselor is a
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In what ways does the concept of risk in mental health policy and practice represent a problem for mental health service users/ survivors. With the closing of the large intuitions in the early 1990s and the rise of smaller units being set up within communities‚ the policy change ideology was for individuals who have a mental illness to live independent lives‚ and to learn skills to function within society. It was deemed that these vulnerable individual’s faced more risk from staff than what small
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NUR4023 Health in Society Depression is an exceedingly common psychological disorder that affects approximately 19% of people over the age of 16 according to The Office for National Statistics. The DSM V (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) describes the criterion for MDD (Major Depressive Disorder) as “depressed mood or a loss of interest or pleasure in daily activities for more than two weeks” that leads to “impaired function”‚ in one’s occupation‚ education or social life. As
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Write after the Midterm Election: See American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Shuming Cao PART 1: INTRODUCTION It seems that the midterm election has judged for Present Obama and the Democratic Party by their activities during the last two years. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is the main policy of Present Obama’s administration to face the financial crisis so that the Act should afford a lot of duties for the low approval rate of Present Obama and the Democratic
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