The objective of this case study is to provide an understanding of how a Mental State Examination (MSE) is conducted on a patient. The process is gain an initial assessment of the patient’s current mental health. Outlining their cognition‚ perception‚ mood and affect‚ behaviour‚ appearance and the Mandatory Functional Requirements‚ required for communication. For the purpose of this case study an MSE will be conducted on Lucy a twenty year old woman. Lucy was accompanied by her mother when they
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Chapter 11……….Contracts‚ Consideration‚ Capacity and Legality Consideration: Value given in return for a promise. Consideration must be (1) legally sufficient and (2) bargained for by the party receiving it. Legally sufficient consideration may take the form of: (1) promising to do something that the promisee has no prior legal duty to do (e.g.‚ promising to pay money for the promisor’s goods); Regular consideration (2) performing an action that the promisee is not otherwise obligated to
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Finite Elements in Analysis and Design 59 (2012) 66–75 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Finite Elements in Analysis and Design journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/finel Improved braking torque generation capacity of an eddy current brake with time varying magnetic fields: A numerical study Kerem Karakoc a‚n‚ Edward J. Park a‚b‚ Afzal Suleman a a b Department of Mechanical Engineering‚ University of Victoria‚ PO Box 3055‚ Victoria‚ BC‚ Canada V8W 2Y2 Mechatronic Systems Engineering
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************MENTAL HEALTH************ IT’S NOT JUST PHYSICAL •Your body needs at least 8 hours of sleep each night. •Rest allows you to build and repair new cells. •Stress can make you physically sick. •If you’re upset about something don’t hold it all in. •If you want a healthy body‚ you need a healthy mind. HANDLING STRESS •Many teens push themselves too far. •Parents know that everything can get to be too much. •We tend to be more forgetful when we are over stressed. COPING
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forgotten. They seemed to have lost their voices and cannot advocate for themselves. More than fifty four million Americans are diagnosed with a mental illness any given year‚ and many of them go without the necessary treatment. One in four adults and one in five children will have a mental disorder in their life time. The three major types of mental illness are: schizophrenia‚ delusional‚ and psychotic disorder. The symptoms shown in Schizophrenias are: auditory and visual hallucinations‚ paranoia
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Andrea Sanchez Professor Amanda Gray & Adrienne Baldwin SWU 171 23 June 2013 Mental Health and the Media Let me start off with what Autism is and how common it is. Autism appears to have its root in very early brain development. The most obvious signs of autism and symptoms come about between 2 and 3 years old. “An estimated 1 out of 54 boys and 1 in 252 girls are diagnosed with autism in the United States.” A person with autism will find it much harder to understand the feelings of other
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Fortinash: Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing‚ 5th Edition Chapter 08: Culture‚ Ethnicity and Spirituality Case Studies - Critical Thinking Answer Guidelines CASE STUDY: HOLISTIC ASSESSMENT The patient is a 66-year-old woman who has been hospitalized for an extensive period (approximately 6 weeks). The initial problems were major depression‚ anxiety‚ and a degenerative spinal condition that required several surgeries. The spinal condition is treatable‚ but the process will leave her with
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possibilities of my action. It wouldn’t make sense to say that a sloth should fly (as amazing as that sounds) because they don’t have that capacity. Likewise‚ it wouldn’t make any sense to argue that I should do more‚ be more‚ or effect more then my finitude allows. So why do I‚ why do so many of us‚ insist on denying our finitude? Why do we think we have the capacity to be the arbiters of a universal morality? The war to end all wars This issue runs deeper than the immortality of the soul‚ and it goes
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Mental disorders Panic disorder: Definition- a psychiatric disorder in which debilitating anxiety and fear arise frequently and without reasonable cause. Signs and symptoms- Shortness of breath or hyperventilation. Heart palpitations or a racing heart. Chest pain or discomfort. Trembling or shaking. Choking feeling. Feeling unreal or detached from your surroundings. What are the effects – (Emotional effects) Inability to focus Failure to relax Expecting danger Absentmindedness Getting easily
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(Queensland Courts‚ 2014). It is important this decision is based on factual evidence from the trial and not other information‚ prejudices or biases‚ or on widespread and oversimplified portrayals of particular groups‚ known as stereotypes. The use of mental shortcuts‚ or heuristics‚ within jurors can mean that a decision of guilt is based on social categorisation‚ such as gender or race‚ and the corresponding stereotypes rather than on facts (Hornsey‚ 2014). Gordon and Bindrim et al.’s study (1988) focussed
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