with a Community Mental Health Team and so the assessment tool used was the Community Mental Health Team Assessment and Progress Record. Carpenito-Moyet (2005‚ p.231) defined an assessment as “the deliberate and systematic collection of data to determine a client’s current and past health status and to evaluate the client’s present and past coping patterns”. Harrison et al (2005) explain that the aims of assessment is to obtain information needed to establish a diagnosis in order to make clinical
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Long Term Care The Continuum of Care What is Long Term Care? Health‚ mental health‚ social and residential services provided to temporarily or chronically disabled person over extended period of time Characteristics of LT Care Physical or mental‚ temporary or permanent Need based on functional disabilities Promotes or maintains health and independence in functional abilities and quality of life To enable us to die peacefully and with dignity Multiple services and multiple
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Human Rights and Mental Health Are human rights infringed in treatments for mental health? The question of whether human rights are infringed in treatments for mental health has many points to consider. To help answer the question‚ this essay will outline the basic principles of human rights and draw some comparisons against medical treatments and choices in patients who are of sound mind against patients who are mentally ill. Emphasis will also be given to ethics and the application of them
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recovery when their wombs are invisible to the outside. Mental illness can be said to be one of those invisible womb. Mental illness is often it is an illness that goes not talked about in certain communities and cultures. Addicts abuse certain substance to avoid the reality they have a mental illness‚ but when they seek treatment for their addiction they are often faced with the reality that they not only need help for drug and alcohol but for the mental illness as well. The recovery model is one that can
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First‚ there are many stigmas about mental illness. One stigma about mental illness is that people with mental illness lack intelligence. While this is a commonly held belief‚ it is not true in the majority of cases. In fact‚ according to psychology today‚ the opposite is true with more intelligent people having a greater likelihood of having a mental illness. A second stigma about mental illness is that illnesses like depression and anxiety are character flaws and can easily be overcome with a outlook
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Understanding Mental Health Problems 1.1 The nature of mental wellbeing and mental health is perceived in many different ways in turn causing conflict. Peoples views on the origin of mental health and the reasoning towards the conditioning of the illness creates many negative but yet also positive views. Negativity towards mental health is largely part of a lack of understanding and education towards the condition. It is believed that this may be due to the fact that mental illness is not a condition
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one detained under the Mental Health Act 1993. A voluntary patient is one that makes the decision and is capable of making the decision to seek treatment in a centre‚ and is able to leave if they decide to. An patient detained under the mental health Act 1993‚ the decision to access treatment is made by other authorised individuals such as medical offers and police due to the person being unable to make that decision. 2. When admitted to an open or closed mental health unit‚ every client
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the Design of a Mental Health Program The targeted populated would be the veterans who suffer with PTSD‚ who are homeless‚ living in poverty‚ and with mental and physical health issues. Among this group will include the veterans of all cultures; Hispanic‚ African-American‚ Whites‚ Asian‚ Native Hawaiian and American Indians. Ethnic minority plays a role in the risk factor for PTSD along with the specific war they were involved in. Race-related stressors need to be addressed in order to properly assess
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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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Prison Inmates Suffer from Mental Illness in Significant Numbers? Approximately 24% of males and 42.1% of the female population were incarnated in the mid 2000’s (Steadman et al.‚ 2009‚ 761). How many of these inmates suffer from mental illness? According to Blitz‚ Wolff‚ and Shi (2008)‚ approximately half of these inmates are known to suffer from a mental disorder (386). The assertion to be examined in this paper is that today’s prison inmates do not suffer from mental illness in significant numbers
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