understanding mental health. I really like how he explained the importance of understanding a disease and early detection even if it is heart disease or a mental disease. The DSM-5 scares me because I have never really had to deal with it‚ but the assignments are helping. As I understand it‚ one of the changes made in the DSM-5 is that everything will be considered a general medical condition. This is a crucial change‚ because there seems to be more of an urgency when there is a medical illness vs. a mental
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A client’s culture can contribute in a big way when it comes to personal bias and diagnosis. In the African American community specifically mental illness is a disease that is not discussed and something that you definitely do not go to see a doctor about. African Americans are presumably more affected by mental than any other culture does to reasonings such as ongoing racial discrimination‚ high poverty‚ and constant segregation(Clifton‚ D‚ 2015).Those in the African American community tend to rely
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are benign until ingested and can make you very sick. When it comes to the prevention of foodborne illness there are four steps to food safety you can take to protect you and your family every day. They are: clean‚ separate‚ cook‚ and chill. Prevention is one of the main factors to staying healthy. By following these four steps you strive to decrease the possibility of causing a foodborne illness either from your actions or an unclean kitchen. The Centers for Disease Control notes that foodborne
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Running head: MENTAL HEALTH AND COMMUNITY COUNSELING Mental Health and Community Counseling COUN 501 Abstract: Counseling is within the reach of anyone in today’s society. The fields of mental health and community counseling allow services to be rendered to anyone that may need these services while in the past these service were only accessible for a person of a higher social standing in essence the rich. Mental health and community counseling had its beginnings several centuries ago. The
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"The Yellow Wallpaper" is considered a feminist piece of literature because it is written by a woman‚ and deals with the issue of male doctor’s treatment of women with possible mental illness; based on unscientific theories about what causes mental illness and the best treatments. The male medical hypothesis is that the lady in “The Yellow Wallpaper” is suffering from‚ “…-a slight hysterical tendency-…” (526) ‚ according to Gilman. This was a common diagnosis at the time and was a way to keep women
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Food Borne Illness Doneisha Jones October 1‚ 2012 SCI/220 Dr. Angela Branch Food that is mishandled can lead to foodborne illness. While the United States has one of the safest food supplies in the world‚ preventing foodborne illness remains a major public health challenge. Often when you purchase foods from the grocery store or the food market‚ you have to check all the expiration dates. When a food is expired‚ they tend to give you a sign that the food is no good. For example‚ when you
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Should We Pray About It: Mental Health in the Black Community Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience‚ particularly those of the African American community to seek mental health services when combating traumatic experiences. Central Idea: African Americans are victims of mental enslavement due to the urban community’s taboos and stigmas about mental health and the reliability of family‚ spirituality‚ and community for salvation. Introduction I. Mental health refer to an individual’s psychological
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Is Addiction a Mental Illness Is addiction a worldwide controversial debate for everyone‚ to me it’s a mental illness that can be cured because you can break obsessions and bad habits it just takes help from people who are willing to help them. There are more than just one type of addiction‚ there is gambling‚ overeating‚ playing video games‚ working‚ internet are all other types of addictions. For those other people who think that you can fix an obsession or bad habits by punishment is a bad choice
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sympathized character. This is a symbol of her family’s history of mental illness‚ which she in turn inherited and ultimately affects her as her life progresses. Homer Barron’s close resemblance to Emily’s father‚ an unwillingness to let people go‚ and her isolation from the world which resulted in subsequent loneliness all point towards the argument that Emily’s mental illness is what lead to her killing Homer Barron. Mental illness
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DISSCUSS THE WAY IN WHICH GILMAN WRITES ABOUT MENTAL ILLNESS Charlotte Perkins Gilman ’s "The Yellow Wallpaper‚" relays to the reader something more than a simple story of a woman at the mercy of the limited medical knowledge in the late 1800 ’s. Gilman creates a character that expresses real emotions and a psyche that can be examined in the context of modern understanding. "The Yellow Wallpaper‚" written in first person and first published in 1892 in the January edition of the New England Magazine
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