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    Pinel‚ Rush‚ and Dix all made a tremendous impact on the treatment of the mentally ill in history. First‚ Pinel wrote persuasive articles stressing the importance for humane treatment of those who have mental disorders. As soon as he became a director of an asylum‚ he started to get rid of harsh treatment such as bloodletting‚ exorcism‚ and chaining of the patients. Instead he favored occupational therapy‚ baths‚ and purgatives. Additionally‚ Pinel separated patients based on their behavior. Secondly

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    Dorothea Lange Analysis

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    Dorothea Lange was born on May 26‚ 1895 in Hoboken‚ New Jersey to Joanna and Heinrich Nutzhorn. Her father worked as a lawyer and her mother stayed home to raise her and her brother. At the age of seven Dorothea came down with polio‚ which left her with permanent damage to her right leg. Suffering from this disease cause Dorothea to develop her compassion for people suffering since she had lived through suffering herself. At the age of twelve her parents separated‚ and Dorothea blamed her father

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    DOROTHEA OREM’S NURSING THEORY RED TEAM MEMBERS S T E FA N I E B U R I C S U N D A RA D E VA RA J S H A N E D RY I A L E W I S T H O M A S VA DA K A N W E N D I S L E VA 08/18/2014 INTRODUCTION Nursing theories offer an organized and systemic way to express statements related to questions in nursing. This provides nurses with the opportunity to describe‚ predict‚ explain and control phenomenon related to their practice GENERAL THEORY OF NURSING Dorothea Orem’s theory is comprised of three related

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    Prison and Asylum Reform in the 19th Century In early American society‚ criminals that were held by our government we executed‚ whipped‚ and held in a dark cell for a short amount of time. The insane wandered around as a danger to themselves and people around them; and the churches caer took the poor. In the 1820s and 1830s there was a growing number of criminals‚ lunatics‚ and the poor people. Reformers wanted to establish an official institute for them. The reformers believed

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    While Australia is not the only country to detain unauthorised arrivals‚ it is the only country to mandatory detain children. (Keks‚ 2013) This movement is widely criticised by rights groups and the UN. A church group even describe it as "state-sanctioned child abuse". They treat children and other asylum seekers in the same way. Children are facing the long processing time without adequate access to schooling and other special services. They are held in some closed detention facilities or detention

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    Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar better know as Dorothea Mackellar was a famous Australian poet and fiction writer and was born on the 1st of July 1885 to father- physician and parliamentarian Sir Mackellar and mother- Marion Mackellar at Dunra‚ on Point Piper in Sydney. She grew up with two older brothers (Keith and Eric) and one brother (Malcolm) that was younger than her. Dorothea died at the age of sixty two after suffering an extended period of sickness. Dorothea’s poetry is regarded as bush

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    their lives and in reality. In spite of all their problems‚ Dorothea Dix‚ Irena Sendler‚ and Thurgood Marshall always helped people no matter their age‚ race‚ or gender. Dorthea Dix’s early life‚ humanitarian acts‚ and later life have contributed to the way mankind views the mentally ill today. To begin with‚ she was born on April 4‚ 1802 in Hampden‚ Maine. Dorothea was the first of three children; daughter of Joseph Dix and Mary Bigelow Dix (Bumb‚

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    Prison/Asylum Reform (through 1865) The Prison/Asylum movement was established to improve conditions of the mentally ill in prisons. At that time‚ there were cruel and negligent practices in place for the incarcerated mentally ill. There were few people who cared for them and most were forgotten. Some of the awful things done to the prisoners were caging the prisoners‚ confinement deprived of clothing‚ and painful bodily restraint. When the movement began‚ there were a lot of confined individuals

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    “Orem was born in July 15‚ 1914 in Baltimore‚ Maryland” (Nickle‚ n.d.). Dorothea E. Orem started off her career by achieving her first nursing diploma from the Providence Hospital School of Nursing. Following this‚ she studied at the Catholic University of America to work towards her Bachelors of Science in Nursing‚ as well as her Master’s of Science in Nursing (MSN). “Her earliest years in nursing were spent in practice at Providence Hospital‚ Washington‚ D.C. (1934-1936‚ 1942) and St. John’s Hospital

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    Janet Sonka Mrs. Kniesely English 1 – 4th period 29 September 2013 Dix Hill Original Source/Context: Dorothea Dix was an advocate for improvements in the treatment of patients suffering from mental and emotional disorders and was the most visible humanitarian reformer of the 19th century. In March‚ 1841 a student was frustrated with his teaching efforts for a class of women incarcerated in the East Cambridge jail. Dix decided to teach the class herself. What she saw shocked her and changed her life

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