the study of psychotropic medications‚ which are used for mental disorders that have the ability to alter a person’s behavior and mental state of mind. Because of potentially serious side effects of many of these drugs‚ psychotropic medication should only be prescribed by qualified medical professionals who monitor the effects on patients. The purpose of week seven’s application assignment is to explain the boundaries that mental health counselors have in regards to recommending and prescribing
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Psychological and Physical Health. Becca Rubio Abstract For many years‚ numerous studies have analyzed the effect of Optimism on Psychological and Physical health. Optimism is generally known as being confident that there is a positive outcome to any situation and hopeful for a positive life in the future. It is also believed that those who tend to be more pessimistic than others have a larger amount of stress which can ultimately cause physical illness and emotional/mental exhaustion. There
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Mental Health Worker The field of mental health counseling is evolving‚ growing‚ and changing. The pioneers of this change brought very important enhancements to the field of mental health counseling. Counselors are professionals who assist individuals and groups with their personal problems in order to help them become more self-sufficient. Individuals that specialize in mental health counseling concentrate on promoting optimum mental health through various programs and services. In this paper
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Impact of Hydration on Physical and Mental Performance By Raeey Melaku. Introduction Our body has its own way of indicating when we need a certain aspect that is essential for us to live. For food‚ there is hunger. For urination‚ there’s the need to use the bathroom and in this case‚ for water‚ there is thirst. Water is by far the most essential nutrient in the world. We need water everyday. We can go up to three weeks without food and yet we can only survive three days without
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counseling process‚ as described in the Clinical Mental Health Counseling in Community and Agency Settings textbook‚ (Gladding‚ S. & Newsome‚ D.‚2018)‚ consists of three phases; these phases include initial‚ working‚ and closing. The initial phase is essentially an introduction process towards the helping progression for the counselor as well as the client. This is the time an interview is conducted to collect information about the client’s health‚ family‚ and background identity. Initial sessions
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ROLE OF NURSE IN COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH INTRODUCTION The trend in psychiatric care is shifting from that of inpatient hospitalization to a focus of outpatient care within the community. Community mental health services include all those activities in the community connected with mental health other than the institutional or hospitalized setting. The community approach focuses on the total population of defined geographical area rather than individual patient. Emphasis is mainly on preventive services
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Mental Health Issues in Transgender Females Defining Transgender In the past decade‚ the term transgender has rapidly come to be used to describe a range of social identities‚ a political movement‚ and a community that had no name until the early 1990s. Transgender women identify themselves as being a man either by feeling as if they are men or by having both genitalia at birth and the penis being removed leaving only a vagina. They are uncomfortable being identified as a woman and choose to
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eighteen years old. There are also disadvantages. One disadvantage is mental illness not only for the service member but a topic that has recently come to light is the connection of mental illness in children of service members and also why. One thing that could attribute to it is it the constant feeling that your parent can and will be deployed and when they do get deployed they may never come back. “A team of researchers tracked health claim records during 2006 and 2007 of nearly 650‚000 children ages
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HEALTH AND HEALING AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Throw out the bottles and boxes of drugs in your house. A new theory suggests that medicine could be bad for your health‚ which should at least come as good news to people who cannot afford to buy expensive medicine. However‚ it is a blow to the medicine industry‚ and an even bigger blow to our confidence in the progress of science. This new theory argues that healing is at our fingertips: we can be healthy by doing Reiki on a regular basis. Supporters
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Does excessive use of social media contribute to addictive behaviours and mental health issues? It does because the influencing obscene information on the internet can make people crave more of it. It will influence them to do worse and may lead to addiction. People who use social media including Facebook‚ Twitter and Instagram for hours on end are most likely to have mental health issues. Over the years social media is the main cause in the way people communicate and interact‚ these changes will
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