Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome is caused by a virus‚ not a certain type of bacteria. This virus belongs to a class of viruses called coronavirus. Since SARS was an outbreak caused by a virus that was previously unknown‚ scientist named the virus that causes SARS‚ SARS-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV). World Health Organization (WHO) physician Dr. Carlo Urbani identified SARS as a new disease in 2003 when he diagnosed a severely ill 48-year old businessman who was traveling from the Guangdong
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Introduction This purpose of this paper is to critically appraise a research article titled ‘ Aggressive behavior on acute psychiatric wards: prevalence‚ severity and management ’ by Choloe Foster‚ Len Bowers & Nijman (2007). This article was published in the Journal of advanced Nursing 58(2)‚ 140 – 149. Accepted for publication 31 August 2006. The reason why this research article is chosen is because aggressive behavior on acute psychiatric ward are major nursing care problem that overwhelm
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Phineas Gage is considered to be one of the severe brain injuries. Gage suffered from personality changes after the brain injury. Gage was injured when excavating rocks to create a path for railroad track. Gage and other employees were injured by rail roads during the construction work. Gage was later treated after the accident as he his brain had been damaged. The accident caused damaged to brain structures and doctors argued that Gage started behaving differently after the accident (Damasio‚ Grabowski
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Severe Depression: Clinical Psychology Angelice Szabo ABS 200 Instructor: Ruth Scott March 31‚ 2014 Applied Psychology is the application of knowledge‚ theories‚ principles‚ and techniques of psychology to real life settings. It refers to several branches of psychology‚ Clinical psychology is one of them. This paper is discussing severe depression and the role that clinical psychology has in the intervention and treatment of it. Clinical psychology is the branch of psychology that
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There are about seven-hundred thousand annually‚ of individuals who are admitted into the hospital with the case of severe head injury. There are more than seventy-thousand individuals who survive serious head injuries‚ but many of them suffer long term consequences‚ such as impaired physical‚ cognitive‚ and psychosocial human function. This can significant impair every part of an individual’s daily life‚ such as personal‚ familial‚ social‚ educational‚ and recreational. With a serious head injury
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create psychological barriers rather than physical barriers to functioning” (Mental Illnesses Under-treated Compared With Physical Illnesses). Although mental disorders have equal‚ if not more‚ negative effects on human lives they are considerably undertreated in comparison to physical defects. Disturbingly‚ only a minority of people with severe mental illnesses are receiving the necessary treatment. A study conducted by the World Health Organization concluded that mental illnesses are much more common
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The Effects of a Supported Employment Program on Psychosocial Indicators for Persons with Severe Mental Illness William M.K. Trochim Cornell University Running Head: SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT Abstract This paper describes the psychosocial effects of a program of supported employment (SE) for persons with severe mental illness. The SE program involves extended individualized supported employment for clients through a Mobile Job Support Worker (MJSW) who maintains contact with the client after
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A case-study showing the use of Cognitive behaviour therapy on client with severe anxiety. ABSTRACT I would like to point out here that this female client was not known to me until she got in touch with me about 3 months ago. She heard of me through my local community with my phone number passed on to her as I had informed the heads of the Inter-Faith group and voluntary organisations to pass my information to anyone seeking psychological helps. My tutor has been kept informed and gave
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The Effects of Being a Twin Some people‚ more than often‚ make the statement‚ “I wish I had twin.” Then I think to myself‚ “You do not know the half of it.” Most people would assume that being a twin is totally awesome with no life altering effects‚ but it can be quite challenging. Being a twin has so many effects and I face them every day of my life. The first effect twins may encounter from birth is the name situation. You may be called your twins name forever; some people may never get it
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The Crucible has such a title‚ meaning severe trial‚ because puritans believe that life is a test. They lived a very strict style and understood that if you do anything wrong in life‚ god would harshly punish you for it. This puts a lot of stress on the characters to live up to the expectations of living perfectly and faithful. People are willing to do anything to make themselves look good. For instance in the play Abigail lies about several things to save herself. One of the things she lies about
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