Prevention Nicole Griffin HSM/210 April 5‚ 2015 Elise Merenda Prevention The targeted population that I chose to write about is the homeless. With over 4‚000 people dealing with homelessness in Connecticut‚ the majority of these people facing this problem have some sort of mental illness‚ physical disabilities‚ or dealing with a form of substance abuse problem ("Partnership for Strong Communities"‚ 2015). A lot of this problem stems from the people being released prematurely from mental hospitals
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Eating Disorders a Global Health Issue Denise Gilbert Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College Abstract There is a global health crisis affecting many people around the world. Eating Disorders is a mental health condition often misunderstood by people that do not have the condition. It can trigger vomiting‚ bingeing‚ depression‚ and health issues. Eating disorders are illnesses that cause serious disturbances to the everyday diet. They can affect men‚ women and children of all ages
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Essay is “What is the Extent of the Media’s Influence Regarding Eating Disorders?” To further investigate this question‚ I researched what the media is and what it does‚ how people are affected by the media and many different studies and experiments. Through the use of several sources‚ mostly online and experiments‚ I was able to learn exactly what the media does to possibly be considered an influence on the development of eating disorders. I was able to find a multitude of experiments and studies deciding
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2009 Against Media Causing Eating Disorders (Final Draft) Within the past few years more and more attention has been drawn to the victims of eating disorders. These victims try to lose weight in anyway that they can. These disorders are caused by factors such as stress‚ family problems‚ and traumatic events. Despite the psychologically proven reasons‚ blame is still put on the media. To put blame on the media is ignorant. There are two main eating disorders that deal with weight loss‚ Anorexia
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Body Fat and Eating Disorders Paper Matthew Harper SCI/241 Kim Fisher October 21‚ 2012 Body Fat and Eating Disorders Paper Body composition is the proportion of your body when it comes to fat and fat-free mass (Jennifer Scott‚ 2008). If you have a higher proportion of fat-free mass compared to a lower portion of body fat‚ then you have a healthy body composition. However‚ someone that has an excessive amount of body fat is not as healthy and actually has a better chance of suffering from
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Outline and Evaluate Psychological Explanations for one eating disorder The psychodynamic approach suggests unconscious conflicts from childhood may be the reason for an eating disorder. As adolescent girls are most likely to have the disorder‚ it suggests that anorexia might be due to fear of increasing sexual desires and starvation is a way to avoid becoming pregnant because one of the symptoms of anorexia nervosa is the absence of a menstrual cycle. Another psychodynamic explanation suggests anorexia
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have a “set weight” which is correct for their body‚ if this weight should increase or decrease then the body should make adjustments to regulate food intake to their “set weight”. The hypothalamus is thought to have quite a lot of control over our eating behaviour‚ the lateral hypothalamus (LH) is considered to be the feeding switch that makes an individual begin to feed whereas the ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH) is the satiety switch that makes an individual stop feeding. Garfinkel and Gardner (1982)
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1. What psychiatric disorder does the character (s) in the movie you are watching exhibit? Please explain citing specific behavior relevant DSM IV-TR criteria. The character in the movie “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape” one of the main characters suffers from autism‚ which is characterized by a withdrawal of the child into self and into a fantasy world of his own (Townsend‚ 381). According to the DSM-IV-TR the diagnostic criteria for Autistic Disorder that the character in the movie demonstrated were
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Suicide Prevention Each year‚ suicide in the United States is the cause of more deaths than homicide. Approximately 30‚000 people each year commit suicide. Suicide is the third highest cause of death in ages 15-24. In children younger than 15‚ 1-2 out of every 100‚000 will commit suicide (Caruso). Every year‚ approximately 750‚000 people attempt suicide; failed attempts often result in permanent damage requiring long term permanent care (“America’s Mental Health Channel”). Suicide is relevant
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They have released figures‚ but none strikes the eye as much as the fact that obesity costs Americans over $75 billion annually (“Study: Social‚ Cultural Factors Contribute to Obesity‚” 2006). In addition‚ the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) has released information regarding the percentages of obese people in the United States in 1985 as compared to 2007. In 1985‚ twenty one states were considered to have a less than a 10% of the population as obese (“U.S. Obesity Trends 1985–2007
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