Mental Illness is a term used for a group of disorders causing severe disturbances in thinking‚ feeling and relating. They result in substantially diminished capacity for coping with the ordinary demands of life. (Mental Illness Defined) There are some different perspectives on the causes of mental illness. The perspectives include the biological‚ psychodynamic‚ humanistic and existential‚ behavioral‚ cognitive‚ and sociocultural. Advances in brain imaging techniques have helped scientists study
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American Association on Mental Retardation‚ Mental Retardation: Definition‚ Classification‚ and Systems of Support (1992). The definition of mental retardation is the below average level of intellectual functioning‚ usually defined by an IQ of below 70 to 75‚ combined with limitations in the skills necessary for daily living. Daily living skills include such things as communication‚ the ability to care for oneself‚ and the ability to work. The definition of mental retardation has evolved over the
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CONFIDENTIAL test questions. It MUST BE KEPT SECURE. It should not be opened until the mental mathematics test is due to start on Thursday 12 May. Early opening‚ up to one hour before the test starts‚ is permissible only if papers are needed for administrative purposes. Mathematics tests Mental mathematics test Audiotape/CD transcript This booklet contains a transcript of the key stage 2 mental mathematics test. It should be used ONLY in cases of audiotape or CD failure or for specific
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Zealand Journal of Mental Health Nursing (2000) 9‚ 166–176 F EATURE A RTICLE The use of the Liverpool University neuroleptic side-effect rating scale (LUNSERS) in clinical practice Paul Morrison‚1 Deanne Gaskill‚2 Tom Meehan‚2 Paul Lunney‚2 Gayle Lawrence2 and Paul Collings2 1 School of Nursing‚ University of Canberra‚ ACT 2601 and 2Centre for Nursing Research‚ Queensland University of Technology‚ Kelvin Grove Campus‚ Brisbane‚ Qld 4509‚ Australia ABSTRACT: Forty-four mental health clients
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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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“What is Mental Health?” Within this essay‚ I will examine the definition of mental health‚ as well as it’s connection in our daily lives. I will be discussing a particular mental health problem which is depression under mood disorder. By examining a scenario of a patient who I have looked after who is suffering from this mental problem‚ and the available treatment options. I am please to focus in this topic that made a real difference to people lives‚ most especially to the patients who are suffering
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Douglass and Blake - Voices of the Mute Tolerance of inhumane actions has occurred throughout the entire history of the world. From one place to the next‚ there has always been a single person or a group of persons that will claim dominance over another - this is simply how institutions such as government and social classes are formed. In some cases‚ there is little argument and much agreement and diplomacy between those who are in charge and those who are under dominance of the more powerful
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Mental Illness: Treatment in the Middle Ages Alyssa Berck Block 4 English 12 Berck 1 Alyssa Berck Mrs. Atkins English 12 2 November 2009 Mental Illness: Treatment in the Middle Ages Throughout time‚ the causes‚ effects‚ and treatment of mental illnesses has been debated and treated in numerous‚ sometimes odd‚ ways‚ but no treatments varied as widely as those in the Middle Ages. During The Middle Ages the lack of the technologies‚ sanitary procedures‚ and knowledge
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************MENTAL HEALTH************ IT’S NOT JUST PHYSICAL •Your body needs at least 8 hours of sleep each night. •Rest allows you to build and repair new cells. •Stress can make you physically sick. •If you’re upset about something don’t hold it all in. •If you want a healthy body‚ you need a healthy mind. HANDLING STRESS •Many teens push themselves too far. •Parents know that everything can get to be too much. •We tend to be more forgetful when we are over stressed. COPING
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A common trend that I notice in this class when it comes to the readings‚ is that those readings show a great depth into what was only mentioned in passing during high school history class. In Frederick Douglass’s book‚ he gives a first-hand account of being a slave‚ and the many traumatic experiences that occur not only to him but to many others in his place in society. Douglass’s telling of his experience as a slave presents a view of the slave state of mind as well as the slaver’s justification
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