Mental Health Care for Latin or Hispanic Americans Megan E. Gillard Texas A & M International University Abstract The Hispanic population in the United States has rapidly increased over the last decade and is underrepresented and cared for in mental health services. By understanding their culture and learning about the environment they live in therapists can better meet the patient’s needs. This paper covers Historical content‚ Family structure‚ Education‚ Rates of Psychiatric Disorders
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Criminology Course Paper Title Page Mentally Ill Criminals and Mental Health Court LaToya Bruns DeVry University Part One: Introduction to Mentally Ill Criminals Are the mentally ill consider criminals? Are all criminals mentally ill to some extent? I wouldn’t say all but I think that it depends on the extent of the crime when comes to someone that has already been diagnosed as mentally ill. Committing a crime without actually knowing that you are doing it would be a different case for a mentally
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According to NAMI—nearly one in five adults in America experience mental illness. When an organ is damaged‚ you go to a doctor--so why wouldn’t you do the same for the brain? Mental health is just as important as you physical well-being and should not be ignored or stigmatized. According to the World Health Organization‚ “Every year about 800‚000 people commit suicide every year with suicide being the second leading cause of death among 15-29 year olds”. Yet to this day‚ many of those individuals
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behavioural/mental health sector is a $99 billion industry‚ yet mental health still remains to be one of the most neglected and under resourced areas in public health‚ regardless of the fact that the need is ever growing (Bhattacharya et all. 2001). In the diagram displayed below‚ it is clear that mental disorders represent one of the top burdens worldwide‚ therefore has more than enough reason to take action more seriously in terms of funding. Figure 1: Burden of diseases worldwide (World Health Organization
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Mental health professional providing services to military personnel present unique ethical challenges when working with this culture. According to Vogt (2011)‚ although a significant number of military personnel require treatment for a mental illness‚ the culture is one of the greater contributors preventing individuals from seeking treatment. The constant state of war experienced within Operation Iraq Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom caused a significant increase in mental health issues
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In what ways does the concept of risk in mental health policy and practice represent a problem for mental health service users/ survivors. With the closing of the large intuitions in the early 1990s and the rise of smaller units being set up within communities‚ the policy change ideology was for individuals who have a mental illness to live independent lives‚ and to learn skills to function within society. It was deemed that these vulnerable individual’s faced more risk from staff than what small
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Abstract Mental health conditions usually affect rational‚ emotional and volitional aspects and functions of the personality‚ which are also functions of interest in law‚ as they are essential at the time of deciding guilt. This report deals with the issue of the mental health patients in prison and who are on remand. By looking it at a different angle‚ it may be that the association between criminality and mental illness flows not from a causal relationship‚ but is only the result of inadequate
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E-PORTFOLIO Hevi Amin BSN Student E Portfolio 1. Professional Development a. Mission Statement i. Nursing gives me the opportunity to provide compassionate‚ innovative‚ and expert nursing care by partnering with the patient‚ families‚ and health care staff. My mission is to proudly provide the best care nonjudgmentally to those in need‚ regardless of their race‚ beliefs‚ financial status or being disabled. ii. My caree iii. iv. r goals are to work as a labor and delivery nurse. After a few
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Supporting Children’s Mental Health Patricia S. Dailey ECE214: Nutrition and Health of Children and Families Tina Grasby-Assa Aug 6‚ 2010 Children’s mental health is a very important part of learning because children need to be able to control their emotions and behaviors in order to function in developmentally appropriate ways. Mental health refers to children’s abilities to understand and manage their emotions and behaviors‚ to function positively with others in age appropriate and developmentally
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Should Know About Mental Health Counselor Life is full of unexpected surprises. You never know what the next moment might bring and can even turn a happy-go-lucky person into a total recluse. It often happens that a tragic incidence turns an individual’s world upside down and thus affect his/her physical and mental heath. While it is easy to overcome physical health problems with the passage of time‚ it is equally important to pay attention to mental health issues. A mental health counselor is a
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