The article I chose to read on the deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill was entitled: “Victimization of the Mentally Ill: An Unintended Consequence of Deinstitutionalization”. According to this article‚ one issue the deinstitutionalization brought about that affected communities was the increased number of displaced‚ homeless‚ mentally ill patients. Because so many of these patients are left untreated‚ they are unable to cope in a normal society‚ often causing these deinstitutionalized patients
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According to Nagaraja D‚ 2008 an individual suffering from mental illness is entitled with the same dignity and respectable behaviour as any other human being. Just because a person is mentally ill does not make him worthless. A mentally ill persons rights flow from the basic right to life as in Article 21 of the constitution which includes right to living accomodation ‚ food water medical treatment education‚ acceptable livelihood‚ income and compatible life‚ right to privacy‚ speedy trial‚ information
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B062 practical use of ICT Introduction I have been asked by the deputy head teacher at Lakeview School‚ Mr Brown to produce a system that will help him to give out awards. Therefore Mr Brown is my target audience. Since Mr Brown is not an experienced user of ICT I will have to make a system which is easily usable. Analysis Design specification My system will need to have the following: * Text which is changeable * Store numerical data (e.g. book token budget) * Do calculations
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be described in a variety of ways. The American Heritage Dictionary (4th edit.‚ 2000) describes it as: "Any of various conditions characterized by impairment of an individual’s normal cognitive‚ emotional‚ or behavioral functioning‚ and caused by social‚ psychological‚ biochemical‚ genetic‚ or other factors‚ such as infection or head trauma. Also called emotional illness‚ mental disease‚ mental disorder." Insanity or mental incompetency is a severe form of mental illness and is addressed separately
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What are ICTs and what types of ICTs are commonly used in education? ICTs stand for information and communication technologies and are defined‚ for the purposes of this primer‚ as a “diverse set of technological tools and resources used to communicate‚ and to create‚ disseminate‚ store‚ and manage information.” These technologies include computers‚ the Internet‚ broadcasting technologies (radio and television)‚ and telephony. In recent years there has been a groundswell of interest in how computers
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throughout modern times. The 13 century in the history of psychopathology it’s known by the time when asylums began to emerge. (Roberts‚ A. 1981/Birth of the City London Bedlam) In the above developments there weren’t specific places for the mentally ill‚ because in most cases they were pursued and punished. That’s why in this century another paradigm comes in and changes the way people saw the mentally disable. By this time people know and have an idea that the illness is located in the human body
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How Overpopulation Causes Social Problems Introduction The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how overpopulation causes social problems. To do so you must take many things into consideration‚ such as different views of racial problems and conflicting definitions of a social problem. Social problems can be defined in many different ways. They effect everyone and some of us encounter problems everyday as a result of our race‚ religion‚ gender‚ or low income. Others experience problems
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Why is Smoking Bad For You ? You know that smoking is one of the worst things kids or adults can do to their bodies.Then‚ why do you smoke? I think‚ you have not really become conscious about all the effects’ smoking.Whereas‚ there are a lot of harm of smoking.Some of them are that smoking affects your healt‚you spend a lot of Money‚you make some rude behaviours people around you. The first reason “Why is smoking bad for you?” is that‚ smoking is responsible for several
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LATEST DEVELOPMENT IN ICT 1.0 Introduction Open source is an approach to the design‚ development‚ and distribution of software‚ offering practical accessibility to a software’s source code. Some consider open source as one of various possible design approaches‚ while others consider it a critical strategic element of their operations. Before open source became widely adopted‚ developers and producers used a variety of phrases to describe the concept; the term open source gained popularity with
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Was Hitler mentally ill? There is a great deal of debate on whether Adolf Hitler might have been mentally ill. Several books were written on this issue and one of them‚ The Medical Casebook of Adolf Hitler by Leonard L. Heston‚ MD‚ and Renate Heston‚ RN‚ suggested that Hitler did not suffer from bipolar‚ schizophrenic‚ paranoid schizophrenic or Parkinson’s disease. He was diagnosed as a chronic addict to amphetamine and barbiturate. The authors offered numerous clues to this addiction. Hilter
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