approach for teaching. Prepare a presentation to accompany the teaching plan and present the information to your community. Select one of the following options for delivery of the presentation: PowerPoint presentation – no more than 30 minutes Pamphlet presentation – 1 to 2 pages Poster presentation Appropriate community settings include: Public health clinic Community health center Long-term care facility Transitional care facility Home health center University/School health center Church
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The Mental Health Act Mental health law is about securing benefits for‚ and protecting the rights of people with mental disorder with the primary objective to make sure individuals can receive effective care and treatment. The Mental Health Act (1983) is a significant statutory framework for anybody working within mental health‚ providing a framework for decision making‚ by providing a logical format in which balances the law and legal values in order for a mental health worker to reach a decision
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Mental Health in the African American Community Introduction African Americans‚ can also be referred as the Afro Americans or the Black Americans‚ are the residents and citizen of the Unites States who have their roots linked to at least the partial ancestry of the native population of Sub-Saharan Africa. They are also the direct descendants of enslaved Africans that were within the boundaries of the present day United States. Most of the African Americas are the descendants from West Africa
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you think having a mental illness should result in the withdrawal of your rights? Reforms to the mental health system have certainly progressed care over the years but institutions are still stigmatized which could be due to the reforms still in progression. Early institutions neglected the proper care for patients‚ sometimes leading to them worsening. Although care has greatly improved‚ there are still some institutions where patients are insufficiently treated. The mental health system has come quite
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Mental health also contributes to crime in Lane county. One out of 35 adults has a Severe and Persistent Mental Illness (SPMI) (DATA USA‚ n.d.). Individuals with SPMI are at greater risk for poverty‚ homelessness‚ incarceration and early death. Self medication through drugs or alcohol is a likely event when appropriate mental health care is not available. People with a mental health disorder and a substance use disorder are a co-occurring disorder. Many people in the criminal justice system have
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Student Name: Goal: I aspire to eat at least one salad for a meal during at least five of my workouts and make sure I am getting all of the benefits of fresh vegetables no long than July 13‚ 2013. Date Warm-Up Physical Activity Intensity(Light‚ Medium‚ or High) Cool – Down Minutes 07/06/2013 Walking Jogging Medium Calf stretches 50 07/07/2013 Push ups Running Medium Yoga 50 07/08/2013 Curl ups Jogging Medium Arm Stretches 50 07/09/2013 Squats Jogging High Walking
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I recently saw a young 18-year-old female in my clinic who was seeking pain medications for abdominal pain. Her urine pregnancy test was positive. The moment I told her the results‚ the patient was in tears. She broke down and told me that she was addicted to opiate pain medications. She was suffering from severe withdrawal symptoms and did not know what to do. She said that her father left the family when she was 9 and her mother died from an overdose last year. She did not have a job‚ nor had
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Sections of the mental health act * Definitions * Section 1 of the mental health act 1983 was amended in 2007. This section of the act defines a mental disorder as ’any disorder or disability of mind ’ it goes on to state that a “learning disability” is define as a state of arrested or incomplete development of the mind which also includes impairment of intelligence and social functioning (MHOL‚ 2010). For the purpose of the act a person who has a learning disability is not considered
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Mental Health Treatment in Prison Luke Myers Argosy University What are the services provided by mental health courts? Mental health courts are criminal courts set up to deal with people who have mental health issues or learning disabilities who have committed crimes. Instead of putting these people in jail‚ mental health courts (MHC’s) look to enroll them in community treatment to deal with their mental health problems so that they will not commit crimes again. “MHC’s have been created
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