Occupational therapists are trained professional that help individuals achieve independence in all aspects of their lives. A few of the health conditions that benefit from occupational therapy include: work-related injuries including lower back problems‚ limitations following a stroke or heart attack‚ arthritis‚ multiple sclerosis‚ or other serious chronic conditions‚ birth injuries‚ learning problems‚ or developmental disabilities‚ mental health or behavioral problems including Alzheimer’s‚ schizophrenia
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dictionary (n.d.)‚ Dementia is a severe impairment or loss of intellectual capacity and
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Challenges of Identifying Mental Illness Trevor Endre Dr. Jack Colyar Argosy University November 2‚ 2016 It is very difficult for one to simply diagnose someone of a mental illness‚ today I am going to cover some of the ways that the professionals use to diagnose a patient with an illness. I will also be covering the reason it is so difficult to determine normal behavior and abnormal behavior. According to the American Psychological Association‚ “Diagnosing mental illness isn’t like diagnosing
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more in females than in males. Anorexia nervosa usually develops during adolescence and early adulthood. Due to the fear of gaining weight‚ people with this disorder restrict the amount of food they consume. This restriction of food intake causes metabolic and hormonal disorders. Some common myths and misconceptions are people with anorexia do not eat‚ people with anorexia are incurable‚ and all anorexics are thin or emaciated. Signs and Symptoms When a person has anorexia nervosa there are contain
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Animal Assisted Therapy Rachel Ann Rodriguez Candidate Number: 00243-014 May 2012 Word Count: 3636 Abstract Animal Assisted Therapy‚ a type of therapy that involves the use of different animals with specific characteristics‚ can be a natural aid in a patient’s treatment‚ as this approach successfully addresses a variety of physical‚ emotional‚ and psychological illnesses. Drug treatments and other means of healing are effective; however‚ they often have negative effects on the patient’s
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occurs to people in any situation; some being dealt with positively while others in an hyperbolic way. In “The Fall of the House of Usher‚” Edgar Allan Poe creates a metaphor of the codependence of one’s mind and body through the use of the Usher twins. First‚ the twins are bond together in an excessive mean that the two are as of one psychologically unfit person. The relation of the two Usher siblings is not alluded to until later in the
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convey is mistreating people with mental disability. In this story‚ Charlie believes that Joe and Frank were his friends and believes that they liked him; however‚ Joe and Frank were using Charlie for the sake of their own entertainment by misleading him to do which aren’t healthy‚ for example‚ mixing drugs or dose of medicine in his drink‚ leaving him alone in the night time‚ and later lying that the police had beaten him up. This shows us how people who don’t have mental disability try to take advantage
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To begin this conversation‚ one must remember that one cannot choose what illness they have‚ nor can they tell exactly how it will affect the people around them. Realistically‚ 1 in 4 people in the world suffer with a mental illness of some sort. 50% of children 14 years and under‚ as well as‚ 75% of people 25 and under‚ have shown some sign of a mental illness‚ yet around 85% of those people go undiagnosed and untreated. This is true in developing and developed countries. Many cultures‚ such as
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Autism Treatment & Therapy A: Always‚ U: Unique‚ T: Totally‚ I: Intelligent‚ S: Sometimes‚ M: Mysterious‚” by CafePress. Autism is a spectrum disorder that affects certain parts of the brain and lets the child view the world in a different way then we do. There is sadly no known cure for autism‚ but there are ways of treating it. Autism can be managed with different types of treatments and therapies. So how do you tell if your child has autism? Do you know what is wrong with them? Well there
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How To: Avoid Mental Illness Discrimination Have you ever been surprised to find out a loved one is mentally ill? Mentally ill people are found almost anywhere in North America among many other countries. In some of Canada ’s cities‚ you can see panhandlers who haven ’t bathed in a month or people who are having conversations with themselves or others who are extremely inappropriate. Although there has been progress in the diagnosis and treatment of the mentally ill‚ stereotypes‚ mistreatment and
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