MENTAL STATUS ASSESSMENT ● STRUCTURE & FUNCTION: 1. EMOTIONAL (feeling) 2. COGNITIVE (knowing) ● STRESS SURROUNDING A TRAUMATIC EVENT TIPS THIS BALANCE CAUSING A BRIEF DYSFUNCTION. MENTAL DISORDER ● ORGANIC: ● DUE TO A DISEASE OF THE BRAIN‚ DELIRIUM‚ DEMENTIA‚ ALCOHOL‚ DRUGS. PSYCHIATRIC: DUE TO ANXIETY DISORDER‚ OR SCHIZOPHRENIA Jarvis‚ Carolyn. (2012). Physical Examination & Health Assessment. (6th ed.) St. Louis‚ MO THE MENTAL STATUS ASSESSMENT DOCUMENTS
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Schizophrenia is a chronic mental disorder that affects a person’s ability to feel‚ behave‚ mental or emotional responsiveness and thinking clearly. It is referred as the “disease of the brain” (umm.edu). With the cause being unknown there are multiple factors that are believed to play a role in schizophrenia which is genetics and brain chemistry. It is characterized by disturbances in communication‚ perception and behavior lasting more than 6 months (umm.edu). A person suffering from Schizophrenia
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Have you heard of mental illnesses? Do you know someone that gets stigmatized because of a mental illness? Around the world‚ everyday people with these illnesses get mistreated or hurt over issues that they can’t control. We all can agree that every person has a different way of observing and thinking. Just because of slight defect of a person‚ shouldn’t mean they should be treated any differently than others around them. There are different opinions on what behavior is normal. The stigma of others
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Mental Illness Paper Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is real illness that can be treated with medicine and therapy. When have OCD‚ you have recurring‚ upsetting thoughts (called obsessions). You repeat doing the same thing‚ over and over again (called compulsions) to make the thoughts go away. And‚ you feel like you cannot control or stop these thoughts or actions. The obsessions‚ or upsetting thoughts‚ can include things like a fear of germs‚ a fear of begin hurt‚ a fear of hurting others
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Classification and mental Disorders: Class Test Q/As 1. In abnormal psychology Classification involves….. ….attempt to delineate meaningful sub-varieties of maladaptive behaviors. 2. Functions served by/uses of Classification? -Necessary as a first step toward introducing order into the discussion of nature‚ causes and treatment of maladaptive behavior. -Enables communication about particular clusters of abnormal behavior in agreed upon and relatively precise ways. -Makes possible to collect
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in “Small acts of living: Everyday resistance to violence and other forms of oppression” (Wade‚ 1997) makes the case that an often overlooked phenomenon in the clinical encounter is the various ways that the client has fought back and resisted his or her aggressors‚ and the importance of high-lighting this act of resistance‚ no matter how small or subtle‚ as healthy. Through sound reasoning and clinical case vignettes‚ Wade succeeds in demonstrating how small acts of living can be acts of resistance
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Mental Illness Paper By: XXXXXX-XXXXXXXX 09/07/2014 xXXXXX XXXXX Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder‚ or ADHD‚ is when a person has issues with keeping their attention on something‚ maintaining their hyperactivity‚ and bad behavior. This disorder affects both men and women equally and starts out in adolescences years and follows a person into adulthood‚ but affects men more often than women. There has been no known cause of this disorder except that it’s genetic. Even
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authors I believe there has to be a romanticization of the story to better fit his ideal self. The author is manipulating the story to make the idea of living off the land and being a rebel better than it truly is. Chris could have had a possible mental illness as a result of early childhood
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moral capacities at the time they committed the criminal act. Currently‚ the Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935 (SA) defines a mental impairment as not knowing the nature and quality of the conduct‚ did not know the conduct was wrong‚ or unable to control the conduct at the time of the offense. There are multiple Forensic Mental Health Facilities within South Australia‚ however only Queensland has established a specialised Mental Health Court at present‚ in regard to the Mental Health Act 2000.
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Essay 9 When might a physical or mental examination be requested? Demonstrate these possibilities in a small fact pattern for each way. (This essay needs to be 2+ pages long) First‚ we all know that physical and mental examinations are often used in personal injury cases. In some cases the physical or mental condition of a party can be very important in establishing the personal liability of the defendant or in determining the extent of the injuries suffered by the plaintiff. I will later provide
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