Previously‚ I never thought much about mental health‚ as I had never had much to do with it. Due to not having confidence in my knowledge of mental health‚ I feel afraid and anxious in relation to my ability to help those that are mentally ill. The stigma that I have experienced within today’s society is that mental health patients are different and stereotyped to have disturbed behaviours. Not only have I seen stigma and stereotypes‚ but I have also seen the discrimination that exists. Because of
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People With Mental Illness Should Be Exempt from the Death Penalty by: Courtney People that are mentally ill or people that do not know the difference between right and wrong are more likely to commit violent crimes. Over sixty people with mental illness or retardation have been put to death since 1983 in the United States alone (Death). It is estimated that between five and 10% of people on death row are severely mentally ill. It has been shown that almost all people on death row have brain
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What Causes Mental Retardation In Children? Giving birth to a child is‚ perhaps‚ the most significant event in the life of almost any woman. Though today women often prefer to follow a career rather than give birth to children‚ the majority of young mothers state that it is a life-changing experience. Without a doubt‚ a beautiful healthy child is the most valued and loved living being for every mother. But‚ unfortunately‚ a certain percentage of children are born with different deviations‚ both
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INTRODUCTION Mental Health is the state of our mind. The way we respond with changes in our everyday life shows our mental health. According to WHO‚ ‘it is the state of wellbeing in which individuals are able to realise their own abilities‚ can cope with the normal stresses of life‚ can work productively and fruitfully‚ and are able to make a contribution to their community’’ (WHO‚ 2004) Good mental health is when we are able to feel good about ourselves and being able to get on effectively with
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Social Structure and Mental Health: Competing Conceptual and Analytic Models We have discussed in class that social status plays a significant role in determining the likely hood of a person to have mental illness. In the previous article for paper assignment three‚ it provided a research with data collected concerning the effect of social class on mental illness. The data results in the previous article supported the relationship between the two variables(social status‚ mental illness) stating that
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INITIAL MENTAL STATUS EXAMINATION I.APPEARANCE The client appears to be at her age. She wears blouse with shorts‚ sometimes with short pajama. For me‚ she is neat. She has a long and shiny hair. She has clean fingernails and always combing her hair. She brings a comb with her every time we had an activity. II.MOOD AND AFFECT The client facial expression appears to be appropriate. She is energetic and you will observe that she is enjoying our activity because she was happy. III.BEHAVIOR
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The standard way of thinking about mental illness disorders has it that every person with the same diagnosis will have their own experience‚ that impacts the person’s thinking‚ feelings‚ and mood causing them to not have the ability to interact with others or even function on a daily basis. Not just one event but multiple events tend to trigger the beginning of a mental disorder‚ Not only does it affect the person with the illness but family‚ friends‚ and community is also affected. When it comes
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Mental and physical health: a contrast or a simile The mind and the body are actually a single system. In western cultures‚ the mind is somewhere in the head and that everything else is body. This dualism can be traced back to Descartes and his writings. This dualism can even be seen in the way health insurance is treated in the United States. Most insurance policies provide much better coverage for "physical" disorders than they do for "mental" disorders. No such dualism ever existed in eastern
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Mental Health Parity Act of 1996 The Mental Health Parity Act of 1996 is legislation in the United States that required the annual caps and lifetime maximum benefits for mental health insurance to be equal to those for other forms of health insurance. The main goal of this act was to create equal coverage between medical and surgical services and mental healthcare services. The principle beneficiaries of the Mental Health Parity Act would be persons with the most severe‚ persistent and disabling
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The understanding of mental illness today since the early 1900s has changed significantly. In the 1900s‚ people still had no real understanding of what caused mental illnesses‚ let alone how to treat the disease. The disease was feared and was seen as incurable. Mentally ill patients would be sent to asylums‚ and as a form of treatment they were tortured. Until in the later 1900s‚ it was discovered that certain factors and drug therapy could be a treatment to cure the mentally ill. Today there are
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