Week 8 Mental Illness Paper HCA 240 For this week’s assignment‚ I have selected to write about Post traumatic stress disorder. I have quite a bit of experience will this illness as well because my husband suffers from Post-traumatic stress disorder following a severe car accident that he was in about 6 years ago. Exposure to trauma is anything but new to the humankind. Post-traumatic stress disorder‚ also known as PTSD‚ has been around for centuries but was not given the name Post-traumatic
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Health & Fitness for Life—HHP 295 Winter ‘14 Final Exam Name: _____________________________________ Date: 3/19/14 1-3: The process of goal setting is very important when attempting to make a positive lifestyle change. Setting goals enables the ‘goal setter’ mark and eventually achieve a desired lifestyle change; i.e. I chose to quit smoking‚ I set several ‘mini’ goals in the process of accomplishing my end goal of total abstinence from cigarettes. There are several
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The standard way of thinking about mental illness disorders has it that every person with the same diagnosis will have their own experience‚ that impacts the person’s thinking‚ feelings‚ and mood causing them to not have the ability to interact with others or even function on a daily basis. Not just one event but multiple events tend to trigger the beginning of a mental disorder‚ Not only does it affect the person with the illness but family‚ friends‚ and community is also affected. When it comes
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An acute illness versus a chronic illness has always been a definition I could easily define. Acute illnesses are sudden and often severe‚ for example an asthma attack or a broken bone. Chronic illnesses are prolonged and develop over time‚ such as asthma or osteoporosis. A chronic condition can develop into acute conditions as well; a child who has asthma could come into the ER with an exacerbation of their chronic condition‚ which is now an acute condition‚ an asthma attack. The way acute and chronic
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are benign until ingested and can make you very sick. When it comes to the prevention of foodborne illness there are four steps to food safety you can take to protect you and your family every day. They are: clean‚ separate‚ cook‚ and chill. Prevention is one of the main factors to staying healthy. By following these four steps you strive to decrease the possibility of causing a foodborne illness either from your actions or an unclean kitchen. The Centers for Disease Control notes that foodborne
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very common in the Philippines where it affects around 10.5 million Filipinos. 25% of this figure is unaware that they have the condition and adherence to treatment is around 50-70%‚ 13% of this is only controlled over the last three decade. (World Health Organization‚ 2003) A number of effective medications have been discovered‚ developed‚ and improved for the treatment of hypertension. Medication adherence is crucial to hypertension control and has generally been defined as consumption of 80% of
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ACCIDENT‚ ILLNESS and EMERGENCY POLICY Policy Statement: The safety of children in my care is paramount and it is my policy to take necessary steps to keep children safe when they are in my care. I will promote good health‚ will prevent accidents and take steps to prevent the spread of illness and infection. I have a responsibility to all children in my care to ensure that a safe and healthy environment is provided at all times. I hold contact details of parents (or another appropriate person
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Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient is a personal narrative written by Norman Cousins. He shares his experience of crippling arthritis and his hospitalization. He quickly realizes that the hospital environment doesn’t suit him well so he begins to self-medicate with laughter and vitamins. He argues that one’s mental health can positively or negatively affect one’s physical health through a personal experience littered with detail and emotion. The first paragraph were Cousins begins
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"The Yellow Wallpaper" is considered a feminist piece of literature because it is written by a woman‚ and deals with the issue of male doctor’s treatment of women with possible mental illness; based on unscientific theories about what causes mental illness and the best treatments. The male medical hypothesis is that the lady in “The Yellow Wallpaper” is suffering from‚ “…-a slight hysterical tendency-…” (526) ‚ according to Gilman. This was a common diagnosis at the time and was a way to keep women
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A client’s culture can contribute in a big way when it comes to personal bias and diagnosis. In the African American community specifically mental illness is a disease that is not discussed and something that you definitely do not go to see a doctor about. African Americans are presumably more affected by mental than any other culture does to reasonings such as ongoing racial discrimination‚ high poverty‚ and constant segregation(Clifton‚ D‚ 2015).Those in the African American community tend to rely
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