the use of covert medication is discussed with the multi-disciplinary team‚ which it has and has got approval from the psychiatrist. A protocol is put in place and it is all documented. There are also legal guidelines as client is detained under the Mental Health Act with a Compulsory Treatment Order and is under Adults with Incapacity. It is still hard to agree whether this is ethically right‚ as although the situation is for the clients best interest and follows guidelines‚ it is still going against
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Treatment of Mental Ill Inmates By: Richelle Williams June 11‚ 2013 Theory and Practice of Correction Professor: Michael Bryant In the United States we have the highest rate of adult incarceration. With nearly 2.2 million incarcerated‚ inmates with mental health illnesses have been increasing year after year‚ (Daniel‚ 2007). The correctional system has been transformed into the mental asylum for the modern day. The American Association urges prisons to develop procedures for properly
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include such factors as basic intellectual or emotional immaturity‚ high levels of stress such as post-traumatic stress disorder or as severe mental retardation‚ severe mental illness‚ intoxication‚ severe sleep deprivation‚ Alzheimer’s disease‚ or being in a coma. Questioning and challenging decisions that are made by others this would depends on the mental capacity of the individual you want to support. First‚ you would obtain their permission and then you must get them to explain as exactly as
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substantial impairment by abnormality of mind and automatism play a vital role in avoiding criminal liability. Principally‚ the defences reflect the idea that intellectually challenged individuals should not be penalised but rather treated of their mental impairment. However the outcomes of each defence have also been criticised as ‘anomalous and arbitrary’ due to conflicting legal and medical definitions. Consequently‚ support for the abolishment of these defences has been proposed to be replaced
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Meditating on her situation‚ I dropped the formalities and spoke from the core‚ speaking from inspiration rather than protocol and made it my mission to help liberate this women from her pain. Working with people like her and other people with mental illness on the hotline‚ will prepare me for working
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For many‚ mental health and gun violence seem to go hand in hand. While it seems logical that individuals that perpetrate mass shootings must have some mental illness such as in the case of Adam Lanza who in December 2012 carried out one of the most tragic mass shootings at the Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown Connecticut. In that shooting Lanza‚ who was 20 years old at the time‚ killed his mother then went on to slaughter 6 adults and 20 children between the ages of 6 and 7 and finally
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she had lived herself. Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Warren Smith are two of the main characters who portray these themes throughout the book. They both suffered mental illnesses whilst living in their past. However‚ the way it is expressed is completely different. Clarissa and Septimus are quite similar when it comes to their mental state. The life they lead is bothered and disturbed by flashbacks of their past. To fulfill the life she is now leading‚ Mrs. Dalloway constantly reminisces the joyful
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mostly from people who are using the DSM-5 handbook to try to find some sort of inherited illness to blame her actions on‚ especially bipolar‚ aspberger’s and manic depression. This is the way we try to understand things like this in modern society. We try to find a chemical imbalance‚ we suggest that if she were medicated the outcome all would’ve been different‚ we suggest that she was born with a mental problem that drove her to her actions... but I think Christine was just an unfortunate product
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the rest of the world. In Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime the protagonist‚ a fifteen-year-old boy Christopher Boone is faced with the challenge of battling his autism and the repercussions that come along with the mental illness. Christopher‚ due to the fact he is autistic‚ filters information much differently than most and reacts quite illogically to shocking news. Throughout the story Christopher is faced with countless incidents in which he responds quite oddly. For
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In my opinion‚ diagnosing young children with mental illnesses that are usually found in adults and prescribing multiple medications is ridiculous. I understand that a child with an adult mental illness is possible‚ but I don’t think a pediatrician or general health doctor should be able to diagnose these illnesses‚ let alone prescribe medications. They should be trained to recognize signs and symptoms and make a referral to a children’s mental health doctor that is more knowledgeable on the subject
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