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    Mental health within childhood is a long standing problem within society. One in ten children suffer with mental health issues (Mentalhealth.org.uk‚ 2015)‚ by adopting different perspectives‚ models and explanations for childhood mental health‚ an evaluation can be made on the best course of prevention. The different views we adopt however have an effect on the way we think about the issue‚ such as the way we assess and identify it‚ how we treat it and most importantly how we try to prevent it (Kearney

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    Cited: Crawley‚ Craig. “The Catholic Religion”. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/242627/the_catholic_religion.html?cat=34‚ 12 May.2007. Web. Scheper-Hughes‚ Nancy. Saints‚ Scholars‚ and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland 1979‚Uinversity of California Press

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    Demographics: The patient presented for this SOAP note is a 17 year old Caucasian female who comes into the clinic today with her father for a comprehensive mental health evaluation. This patient will be addressed as patient 003. She denies any religious or cultural preferences during the interview. Recent Travel Outside U.S. - Recent Exposure to illnesses: The patient and her father deny any recent travels outside the United States. Chief Complaint: The patient’s father reports that the patient

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    “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman portrays a story around the narrator who is suffering from mental illness‚ which is internal. The narrator begins to explain how she knows something is wrong with her even though her high standing physician husband‚ John‚ and high standing physician brother don’t see anything except a temporary depression. John takes the narrator to a house over the summer to get her away from people and society‚ because John believes it makes her think of her condition

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    Under the medical model of disability disabled people are defined by their illness or medical condition. It views disabled people as needing to be cured or cared for‚ and justifies the way in which disabled people have been excluded from society in the past. The disabled person is the problem‚ and this shapes society view of disabled people. Being viewed in this way can make someone with a disability feel as though they are a failure in society and they would be given a diagnosis and label. For example;

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    E1 - Explain the ‘social model’ and the ‘medical model’ of disability. Even though there are several ‘models’ of disability that have been discussed and defined recently‚ two of the most frequently mentioned ‘models’ of disability are the ‘social’ and the ‘medicalmodels of disability. The medical model of disability sees disability as a ‘problem’ that the disabled person has. Something that is to be treated‚ mitigated or even cured. It is not looked at as something that affects‚ or is the

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    everyone in the world has been somehow affected by mental illness. You don’t need to have a mental illness to feel an impact from it‚ for it is everywhere. You interact with people every day that have mental illnesses that you may never even know have them. You may have a parent‚ sibling‚ co-worker‚ or a friend that is suffering from a mental illness or multiple mental illnesses. So‚ as much as we can or maybe cannot recognize that mental illness is all around us‚ how much do we really recognize how

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    she desires. He hates himself for not being able to satisfy his wife‚ and he becomes distraught when men talk about her. Because of his past with his wife‚ the loss of his "man hood" from her flirtatious behavior and non-satisfactions‚ it causes his mental

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    A depiction of mental illness in literature would be “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Gilman. Charlotte writes about a woman who finds herself feeling a bit under the weather. She does not tell us exactly what is wrong with this woman but gives us a clue that she had recently had a baby. So for argument sake let’s assume that the narrator‚ who is the sick woman‚ is suffering from postpartum depression. Her husband John who is a doctor tells her that there is nothing wrong with her. He believes

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    strengths and weaknesses of the biomedical and socio-medical models of health. Biomedical model of health Biomedical model of health is an approach which eliminates psychological and social factors (environment) but only comprises biological issues in trying to recognize or understand an individual`s medical illness/disorder. The biomedical model of health looks upon treatment in expression of changing the body by medical intervention forms. Also this model seeks to look at what is wrong and fix that part

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