| HEALTH BRIEF | Effective Community Mental Health Care in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act | | Guadalupe Bernardez-Hicks | 1/20/2011 | | HEALTH BRIEF Effective Community Mental Health Care in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act By Guadalupe Bernardez-Hicks INTRODUCTION: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA)‚ includes expansion of mental health services available
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Mental health issues are one of the most misunderstood health crises facing the population in this current day (Procter et. Al eds 2014). One of the main causes as to why people are not seeking and therefore finding the help they so desperately need is due to the negative stigma attached to mental illness (Pescosolido 2013). There are many organisations now trying to “break the stigma” surrounding mental health and some of the ways they are doing this is through public education‚ first-hand sufferers
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MENTAL DISORDER AMONGST ADOLESCENTS Importance and relevance According to the World Health Organization (WHO‚2002)‚ mental health disorders are one of the leading causes of disability worldwide. Three of the ten leading causes of disability in people between the ages of 15 and 44 are mental disorders‚ and the other causes are often associated with mental disorders. Both retrospective and prospective research has shown that most adulthood mental disorders begin in childhood and adolescence (Kessler
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Jacob Shatarang 5/22/13 Mental stability or mental health is the way humans react to‚ think about‚ and feel about what goes on in their everyday lives. It is a psychosomatic and emotional state of being. Throughout history‚ people with odd or dangerous behaviors were seen as witches or ones possessed by evil spirits. These people were thrown in prisons or institutions to isolate them from others. Not too long ago‚ in the 1950’s with a great deal of research and much more highly developed technology
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A major problem that needs to solved is the stigmatization of mental illness and related treatments for mental illness. This problem needs to be solved faster than ever because the number of people diagnosed with mental illnesses such as depression is growing but the way mental illnesses are portrayed is not changing. We need to work towards bettering this mental health system for future generations because the way it has been functioning is not working. When people on the street were asked what
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Summarise and discuss the presentations of mental health in the two newspaper articles given in Appendix 1. In this essay‚ I will summarise how both newspaper articles in Appendix 1 present mental health. I will also compare and contrast the articles with each other‚ as well as compare them to what I know about mental health and the history behind it including psychopharmaceuticals and psychotherapies. The first article‚ titled ‘six in ten of us have faced mental issues such as stress or depression’
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Mental health can come in many forms and many mental illnesses are feared and missunderstood. Although many people suffer from mental illness from one time or another some may not seek help as they can be treated. Getting help for mental illness is the best thing one can do for him/herself or a loved one. There any many types of mental illness which may be interlinked or similer to each other. The major mental illness deals with mood‚ anxiety and psychosis (Canadian Mental Health Association‚ 2006)
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How do individuals that suffer from mental illnesses such as schizophrenia
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regards to mental illness due to the stigma attached. Stigma and misunderstanding surrounding mental illness is widespread across the world‚ no matter what race‚ religion or background you come from. This could potentially lead to abuse‚ rejection and isolation from the health care which is available for individuals who need it. In some extreme cases when individuals feel there is no help available it can contribute to suicide statistics. It is common for people who are living with a mental illness
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10) ‘I don’t think any mental illness has an end point. I mean depending on what it is‚ if medication works for them then there might be middle ground maybe. I don’t think for Schizophrenics or Bi Polars there is ever an end point’ (P 11) Enduring perceptions of chronicity and pessimistic outcomes for people with mental illness results in the perpetuation of a barrier that significantly impacts their personal recovery. That barrier is stigma. The impact of mental illness is a global concern
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