Mental health plays a role in everyone’s lives if they know it or not. Record of mental illness dates back as early as 3500 BC in ancient Mesopotamia as evidenced by the discovery of trephined skulls. Along with Mesopotamia‚ the ancient civilizations of Egypt‚ Greece‚ Rome‚ and India attributed the will of the gods or demonic possession to why individuals would act outside of the norms of society‚ when the root of the problem had less supernatural reasons‚ and was actually caused by mental illness
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The Mental Health Act The mental health act is an act design to protect people with mental illness. It was originally written in 1983 and reformed in 2007. It sets out clear guidance for a health professional when a person may need to be taken into compulsorily detained in a hospital. This is known as sectioning. This helps carers who are unable to cope without help. People can be sectioned if the health care profession thinks they are a danger to themselves‚ they are a danger to another person
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Obesity and mental health. The assignment extract addressed obesity‚ various associated health risks and some of the challenges relating to diet and weight management. This literature search will investigate if there is any link between an individual’s mental health and obesity‚ while outlining related challenges to effective weight management. Are people with mental health issues‚ such as depression‚ anxiety or schizophrenia more likely to be obese than the general population? If so is there
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Alcohol consumption poses a threat for many public health harms. Impaired driving is one of the largest contributors to motor vehicle crashes (Burris‚ Grunwald‚ Anderson‚ &ump; Filippoli‚ 2011). In the United States each year roughly 13‚400 people die and an additional 255‚500 are injured in motor vehicle crashes involving an alcohol-impaired driver according to Burris et al.‚ 2011. In 2006‚ these crashes accounted for almost a third of all U.S. traffic-related deaths (Burris et al.‚ 2011). Alcohol
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Alcoholism is a big problem because it can not always be cured‚ it is a disease‚ and treatment does not always work. Alcoholism can be cured by these 3 ways. You can go to treatment for alcoholism‚ but you are not always guaranteed a positive outcome you can be an outpatient during the week‚ and be home on weekends‚ or you can check into a sobriety house. Treatment does not always work for these reasons; you could relapse‚ sobriety houses don’t always work/help‚ you could check into a sobriety house
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Psychological Disorder: A syndrome marked by a clinically significant disturbance in an individual’s cognition‚ emotion regulation‚ or behavior. Consider the definition above‚ explain what is meant by clinically significant. Break the definition into smaller parts for your explanation. Disturbance: Disturbed‚ or even dysfunctional behaviors of this disorder is maladaptive; meaning they often interfere with a normal day to day life. This clinical significance of thought and emotion is also used as
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Heather Smith MS Word Assignment: ‘Mental Health in the Workplace’ People experience a variety of painful issues in their lives. From the beginning‚ some issues are more challenging than others‚ in part because of struggles with either addiction or depression. People who manage their concerns are also managing them when they step into their daily jobs. The problems people carry with them can affect their job performance and their relationships. Their compromised attention
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An Introduction to Mental Health in the Workplace Increasingly‚ good mental health in the workplace is an issue being raised. Job stresses are being recognized as affecting work performance and also an individual’s over-all well-being. There is a lot of information available about how to promote good mental health in the workplace but perhaps insufficient initiatives actually being used. Providing employees with information promoting good mental health alerts them to the problems but may not achieve
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Psychopathology looks to better understand the mental disorders that can affect a person by understanding the factors and aspects at work such as genetics‚ social causes‚ biological‚ and even psychological factors. There are a variety of different ways that an individual may develop a mental disorder and the study of psychopathology focuses on these ways so that there is a better understanding of the developing and thus a better idea on how to treat the mental disorders that arise in individuals. Psychopathology
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Running head: MENTAL HEALTH AND COMMUNITY COUNSELING Mental Health and Community Counseling COUN 501 Abstract: Counseling is within the reach of anyone in today’s society. The fields of mental health and community counseling allow services to be rendered to anyone that may need these services while in the past these service were only accessible for a person of a higher social standing in essence the rich. Mental health and community counseling had its beginnings several centuries ago. The
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