A Day in the Life of a Professional Mental Health Counselor By Kelly Fisher Preparing for my day as professional mental health counselor takes time. When I am leaving work at the end of a busy day‚ I always take the time to look at my schedule for the next day. The first thing I do to prepare for my job the next day is to look at my schedule to see with whom I will be meeting with‚ and the time schedule for my first and last appointment. I familiarize
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The article Effects of Serious Mental Illness and Substance Abuse on Criminal Offenses was a very interesting article and it also brought up some interesting facts. It talks about people who have a mental illness are overrepresented in jails and prisons. In the article it says that these people with these mental illnesses need treatment and not punishment and I think that is so true (4). I work in a prison and most of the prison population is mentally ill. I feel that if they would have given these
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Dix: A Mental Institution Reformer Every day is the same to you; you wake up‚ read the paper‚ and drink your coffee. You work at the East Cambridge Prison‚ where you keep the inmates in order by whipping them‚ chaining them up‚ and by not giving them food. You know that the conditions are wrong and inhumane‚ but it’s a well-paying job. You don’t speak out because you’re worried about your family and three kids at home who need to be fed. Stories like these occurred in prisons and mental institutions
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Placement four Anti-Social Personality Disorder To understand antisocial personality disorder (ASPD or APD)‚ it is necessary to learn what having any personality disorder involves. As defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR‚ 2000)‚ a personality disorder (PD) is a persistent pattern of thoughts‚ feelings‚ and behaviours that is significantly different from what is considered normal within the person ’s own culture. Antisocial personality disorder
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I have chosen to critique Rydon’s (2005) article ‘The attitudes‚ knowledge and skills needed in mental health nurses: The perspective of users of mental health services’ because I am interested in finding out service user’s outlook of mental health nurses. When I qualify as a mental health nurse I would need to acquire the correct attitudes‚ knowledge and skills as this would make the nursing process more effective‚ because as McCabe and Timmons (2006) suggest I will be more sensitive to the client’s
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Personality disorders are a class of mental disorders in which a person have a pattern of behaving‚ thinking and perceiving to situations. Individuals may also experience difficulties in cognition and impulse control. . Nearly one in ten individuals in the community (Samuels J. Personality disorders: epidemiology and public health issues. Int Rev Psychiatry 2011;23:223–33)and 30–50% of psychiatric patients [ Melartin TK‚ Rytsa¨la¨ HJ‚ Leskela¨ US‚ Lestela¨-Mielonen PS‚ Sokero TP‚ Isometsa¨ ET. Current
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comparisons in Community Psychology and Public Health to Social Problems. Contents: 1. Introduction…………………………………………………………………..Page 3. 2. Historical Background…………………………………………………….Page 3. 3. The different Approaches/Models to social problems……Page 3. 3.1. Community Psychology…………………………………………...Page 3. 3.1.1. Mental Health Model………………………………………Page 3. 3.1.2. The social Action Model………………………………….Page 3. 3.2. The Public health approach………………………………………Page 4. 3.2.1. Sanitary
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Cross-cultural Medidine Culture Shock A Review of Vietnamese Culture and Its Concepts of Health and Disease MAJ DUONG NGUYEN‚ MC‚ USA‚ Tacoma‚ Washington Misunderstandings of Vietnamese culture and beliefs have led to many unfortunate incidents in the United States‚ including court cases for child abuse and even suicide. These can be avoided by an awareness of the cultural background of the Vietnamese‚ their philosophy oflife and the influence of religion and beliefs on their personalities
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Therapeutic Communication in the Treatment of Mental Health Patients? Donna Turner Bryant & Stratton College Phil 250: Practices in Analytic Reasoning and Critical Thinking Mrs. Lyons June 6‚ 2011 How does Critical Thinking and Ethics affect Therapeutic Communication in the Treatment of Mental Health Patients? An important component of treatment for the mental health patient is knowledgeable‚ therapeutic communication abilities. The mental health patient is not physically sick‚ but is generally
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P2: describe the discriminatory practices in heath and social care P3: describe the potential effects of discriminatory practices on those who use the health and social care service. I am going to write about the discriminatory practices in a care setting and the effects they have on individuals using the service. People can be discriminated against in a number of different ways which can be described as telling people apart‚ and seeing the differences instead of the person’s individualism. Prejudice
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