Mental illness assessment in Pottstown‚ PA Located only 20 miles southwest of Reading‚ PA on the Schuylkill River you will find Pottstown is an area densely populated with mental illness. According to the last national census held in 2010‚ Pottstown Borough is composed of about 75 % Caucasians‚ 17 % African American and about 8 % Hispanics. Population in 2014 was about 22‚684 with 10‚988 males and 11‚ 696 females (US Census‚ 2010). The community is mostly composed of lower-middle-class income families
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How do people improve their mental health Mental Health is how we think‚ feel and behave. Mental Health is a person’s everyday worry that could lead to a person’s life long worry. It can affect a person’s daily life‚ relationship with other people and physical health. Most people in Canada are affected by mental health disorder through a family member‚ friend or colleague and it also affect people of all ages. 8% of adults in Canada experiences major depression. 1% of Canadians will experience a
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Violence is the leading concern of most health services in Australia. Mental health nurses are continuously subject to physical and verbal violence‚ as part of their daily work routine. Studies indicate that mental health nurses face the highest risk of violent attacks by patients (Shiao et al‚ 2010). Workplace violence can cause job stress and lower life satisfaction due to the constant stresses of their workplace. Life satisfaction is described as how a person gauge their life as a whole rather
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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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Ethical and Legal Aspects of Health Services‚ HEA 203 Dr. Christine Connolly December 6‚ 2012 Case Review ii Abstract Being hired as a new administrator for Gotham City Medical Center which mainly focus on mental health issues comes with a host of task. The inpatient and outpatient services are housed in separate buildings on the same campus which caused problems by the center during file recording. After an audit conducted by the New York State Office of Mental Heath several findings
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MENTAL HEALTH INFLUENCES PHYSICAL ONE Many researchers are concerned with mental health and its potential influence on people’s physical lifecondition. They carried out multitude of experiments on animals to check how they react to different stimuli. The study showed that stress is one of the main factors which determine the cause condition of our physical health. Stress which is provoked by a variety of stimuli may lead to different emotions such as fear‚ anger‚ helplessness and depression
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awareness of well-being and satisfaction of “ affect hunger.” Support offers a healing process- an integration of all parts of the person. (1) The relationship itself‚ where the helpee experiences the helper’s acceptance and warmth. (2) Direct counseling help in the form of reassurance or
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2. Rhetorical Situation The author is interested in this topic because so many children have mental health disorders and thy are going unnoticed by parents and schools. Primary Audience: The primary audience is parents and the government because the government is not funding offices for children’s mental health and they like many others are just putting it off and hoping they will grow out of it. Secondary Audience: The secondary audience would be psychologists and psychiatrist C
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Mental Health Issues in Transgender Females Defining Transgender In the past decade‚ the term transgender has rapidly come to be used to describe a range of social identities‚ a political movement‚ and a community that had no name until the early 1990s. Transgender women identify themselves as being a man either by feeling as if they are men or by having both genitalia at birth and the penis being removed leaving only a vagina. They are uncomfortable being identified as a woman and choose to
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What is the mission statement? 1. The Mental Health Association’s mission statement states‚ “The Mental Health Association in Greensboro provides leadership in identifying and addressing mental health needs and serves as an advocate for those dealing with mental health challenges by promoting hope and recovery” (http://www.mhag.org/about-us/‚ 2015). This mission statement provides an excellent foundation for the organization‚ and is a good example of a quality mission statement based on guidelines
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