Health Advocacy Campaign: Fighting Mental Illnesses one Day at A Time Millions of American’s are affected by mental health illnesses. As a nurse I understand that mental health illnesses have no respect of person. The National Alliance on Mental Illness reported that approximately 61.5 million Americans are affected by mental illness in a given year‚ and almost 13.6 million individuals live with a serious mental illness such as schizophrenia‚ depression‚ or bipolar disorder (National Alliance on
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Conflict Resolution and Peacemaking Social Psychology-PSY/400 August 16‚ 2010 Matt Diggs Conflict Resolution and Peacemaking Conflict resolution is used in a variety of ways and includes many elements. The goal in this paper is analyze the chosen article for the elements of conflict resolution and peacemaking discussed by David G. Myers in his Social Psychology textbook and to draw parallels. The Article: The Critical Role of Conflict Resolution in Teams: A Close Look at the Links Between
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Advocacy for Diverse ClienteleName Capella University Advocacy for Diverse ClienteleOne of the populations that has a lot of culturally diverse individuals is the military and veterans. In veterans there is a lot of cultural diversity with individuals ranging in backgrounds from all over including African-American‚ Asian-American‚ Hispanic-American‚ and Caucasian-Americans. Veterans suffer from a wide range of mental illnesses including depression‚ PTSD‚ anxiety‚ suicide‚ and substance abuse. PTSD
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Teaching Self- Advocacy When a child has a learning disability it can be overwhelming for the child‚ because they could be unaware that they have one or even when they find out that they do‚ some life style changes need to be made. Throughout the learning experience of having an learning disabilities the special education department can teach children of all ages how to become self-advocates for themselves and be able to communicate not only with their parents‚ but with other peers and teachers
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Abstract Consultation and advocacy are crucial in the effectiveness of mental health counseling among children‚ adolescents‚ adults‚ couples‚ and families. With the increasing needs of individuals and their families; consultation and client advocacy are a priority (Holcomb-McCoy & Bryan‚ 2010). The purpose of this paper is to explore the similarities and differences between consultation and advocacy. The factors that effect successful advocacy and the benefits of advocacy in working with clients
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Advocacy for Juvenile Offenders TaNiece Parker BS/HS 422 When you hear the word offender some have a reaction of fear and prejudice‚ thinking the worst of what this person has done. What about juvenile offenders that are not yet old enough to be held fully responsible for their actions‚ are they any less of a threat? Each state has their own
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Group work in the Human Services Field Introduction Group work has been cited as playing an integral role in ensuring that people achieve more collaboratively than working as individuals. In addition‚ group work has been perceived as a robust mechanism of helping people attain some novel skills and specific goals‚ mostly when a group is founded upon a particular objective. Nonetheless‚ despite these benefits attributed to working in groups‚ it is imperative to be cognizant of the fact that in many
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Skills & Characteristics of Mental Health Human Service Workers Skills & Characteristics of Mental Health Human Service Workers Human Service Workers are made up of a group of people that choice to help those in need. Those service workers that decide to work with the mentally disabled are very special people. The workers are trained to assist with the emotional issues that usually bring the client to the point they are at. There are also other causes that can be a
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self-medicate with drugs and alcohol. I really got to a bad point‚ and finally went to treatment and was diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Months passed‚ I got clean I divorced my first wife‚ and I enrolled into Anderson University in Human Service program with concentration in
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October 30‚ 2013 Board of Registered Nursing P.O. Box 944210 Sacramento‚ CA 94244-2100 Attention: Executive Officer Louise Bailey MEd‚ BSN‚ RN Dear Ms. Bailey‚ As a Registered Nurse‚ an issue I have noticed with nursing as a profession is the lack of common ground for its educational standards to enter the nursing workforce in comparison with other professions. Nursing needs a standard
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