Brittany N. McDaniel Mental Health Criminals in Texas Colorado State University Global Campus December 17‚ 2012 Mental Health Criminals in Texas The United States has taken many strides to adequately defend and prosecute mentally ill offenders‚ but some still fall through the cracks of the legal system and do not get the help that they truly need. Mental illness is a serious medical dilemma with severe social implications. Individuals that are mentally ill and
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Community Health Strategies Nursing /405 June 25‚ 2010 Community Health Strategies Alcohol abuse and alcoholism affects every gender‚ race‚ and nationality. Abuse of alcohol is a major cause of preventable deaths associated with violence‚ motor vehicle crashes‚ homicides‚ suicides‚ and is a leading cause of death among youth (Ringold‚ 2006). According to the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse (NIAAA)‚ (2010)‚ approximately 17.6 million people in the United States (about one in every 12
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A geopolitical community is the most traditional view of a community. It consists of a geographical community and a political community. It is geopolitical because a geographical boundary is usually what is followed when creating a political boundary. An example would be a river that separates two counties. In my community‚ the Cooper River separates Berkley county South Carolina and Dorchester county South Carolina. A phenomenological community shares the same mind-set in values‚ beliefs‚ interests
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The APA Task Force on Mental Health and Abortion now believe that a women’s first abortion and her mental health have nothing to do with each other. This group of people started collecting and analyzing information on mental health of women after an abortion in 2006. The task forced observed different information that was posted on women that seriously suffered from methodical problems. But as the team read on‚ they state that these articles just jumped to that conclusion and didn’t look at everything
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According to The Free Dictionary‚ mental illness is defined as‚ “Any of various psychiatric conditions‚ usually characterized by impairment of an individual ’s normal cognitive‚ emotional‚ or behavioral functioning‚ and caused by physiological or psychosocial factors “(The Free Dictionary‚ 2007). Mental illness can certainly be a physical illness‚ but is not as easily diagnosed like a disease such as diabetes. In a disease like diabetes‚ physicians can run tests to look for certain indicators of
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return safely to their communities. During the 1980s‚ the cost of health care increased more than any other cost in our national economy. As a result‚ strategic planning has been made to reduce costs. "The political decision made to deinstitutionalize chronic mental patients started with the appearance of phenothiazine medications. Dramatically reducing the instability influenced by psychosis‚ these medications were of great significance to many individuals with serious mental disorders. At both
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open‚ it doesn ’t have a lead up to the point) In the last thirty years‚ the number of patients diagnosed with depression has doubled. (doubled from what? What percentage) The sharp increase in these diagnoses is due to the fact that the medical community has blurred the distinction between everyday unhappiness and clinical depression. (what percentage or numbers are you getting the 40% from?) The use of Psychotropic medication in depressed patients has increased in the United States by more than
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is hypothesized that counselor burnout‚ measured by the Mental Health Counselor Burnout Assessment (MHCBA) will be associated with greater burnout rates. A positive correlation is expected. In order to gain deeper understanding of counselor burnout and the relationship between caseload sizes it is important to engage counselors in a survey regarding this experience. RESEARCH QUESTIONS 1. What is the effect of caseload size on mental health counselor burnout at an outpatient agency? 2. What is the
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practice. In recent years‚ there has been an increasing need for multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary as well as multiprofessional and interprofessional perspectives on professional work (Bleakley‚ Boyden‚ Hobbs‚ Walsh‚ & Allard‚ 2006). In health care‚ interprofessional practice means that patient care is a joint effort by professionals‚ whose tasks‚ interaction and collaboration need to be synchronized (Baker‚ Day‚ & Salas‚ 2006). Interprofessional collaboration has also been characterized
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Mental illness is any disease or condition that influences the way a person thinks‚ feels‚ behaves‚ and/or relates to others and to his or her surroundings. Although the symptoms of mental illness can range from mild to severe and are different depending on the type of mental illness‚ a person with an untreated mental illness often is unable to cope with life’s daily routines and demands. Mental illnesses can be put into two types - Psychoses and Neuroses. Psychoses: symptoms are normally severe
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