Journal of Mental Health Nursing (2000) 9‚ 166–176 F EATURE A RTICLE The use of the Liverpool University neuroleptic side-effect rating scale (LUNSERS) in clinical practice Paul Morrison‚1 Deanne Gaskill‚2 Tom Meehan‚2 Paul Lunney‚2 Gayle Lawrence2 and Paul Collings2 1 School of Nursing‚ University of Canberra‚ ACT 2601 and 2Centre for Nursing Research‚ Queensland University of Technology‚ Kelvin Grove Campus‚ Brisbane‚ Qld 4509‚ Australia ABSTRACT: Forty-four mental health clients completed
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INDEPENDENT STUDY LEVEL THREE Exploring the relationship between physical health and mental health for the person with dementia. 4915 Words Introduction “Dementia results in a progressive decline in multiple areas of functioning‚ including memory‚ reasoning‚ communication skills and the skills to carry out daily activities. Alongside this decline‚ individuals may develop behavioural and psychological symptoms such as depression‚ psychosis‚ aggression and wandering
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"Substance Abuse And Mental Health Services Administration" (2009)‚ “more than 45 million adults or 26% of the adult population reported experiencing a mental illness in the past year. Of those who reported experiencing mental illness‚ also reported they are not under the care of a mental health or medical professional‚ in other words the mental illness is going untreated” (Mental Illness and Mental Health Service) . Additionally‚ almost half of the people suffering with a chronic health condition suffer
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Managing Stress as a College Student Imagine you are back at your first day of college. You are trying to forget the fact that you have left your family‚ friends‚ and old life behind and beginning to accept that you are staring a new one. You walk into your first classroom and instantly forget all the good and exciting aspects and start to realize exactly how different this whole experience is going to be. After taking a look at the syllabus you begin to get anxious and overwhelmed. You start
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Introduction This essay considers a scenario of a troubled 37 year old mother and looks at the support from health organisations and other support services which could be accessed in terms of the impact on the service user and her family. This is a case where Community Care is appropriate and calls for a multi discipline team. How the team would be drawn together is discussed on the basis of the problems highlighted in the scenario and the professional help that might relate. It is of course
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student’s physical and mental health? Students are suffering from major mental and physical breakdowns such as‚ stress which can even cause depression due to the amount of homework they receive weekly. Homework is also meddling the student in other areas such as rest. The students are not sleeping the required amount of hours to do well in school the following day. In short‚ all teachers in America should decrease the amount of homework assigned to prevent affecting the students physical and mental health
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As mental health nurses‚ we are granted a seemingly disproportionate power and latitude to practise when compared to our colleagues in general nursing. This is due to a number of factors; firstly‚ that mental illness is difficult to define‚ in the eyes of the public it constitutes an intangible wrongness about an individual that cannot be measured or even seen clearly. Due to misrepresentation and scaremongering by the media‚ mental health services are often viewed as taking the role of protecting
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FORENSIC MENTAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT REPORT TO THE CIRCUIT COURT Chapter 916‚ Part II‚ Florida Statutes I. IDENTIFYING INFORMATION: Defendant: Full Name Sex: Marital Status: DOB: Race and Ethnicity: Case Number(s): Related Charges: II. REFFERAL AND SERVICE INFORMATION: The evaluator should name the State Attorney/designee‚ Defense Attorney/designee‚ or Judge who referred the case. For example‚ "John Q. Public‚ Assistant State Attorney referred this case on June· xx‚ 2030
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and one detained under the Mental Health Act 2009. A voluntary patient is one that makes the decision and is capable of making the decision to seek treatment in a centre‚ and is able to leave if they decide to. A detention and treatment order authorizes the detention of a person in a treatment centre so that psychiatric treatment can be given. People who are subject to detention and treatment orders are required to stay in the center and receive treatment for a mental illness‚ even if they do not
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individual‚ while extrinsic motivation is influenced by external elements‚ such as status‚ threats and poverty (Be´nabou & Tirole‚ 2001). In terms of occupation‚ researchers maintain that an appropriate work design leads to a high level of job satisfaction‚ and a high level of job satisfaction is linked to high motivation (Clark et al.‚ 1998)‚ which in turn‚ is linked to a good work performance (Gibbons‚ 1999; Herzberg‚ 2003). This essay expresses the fact that supervisors should pay attention to encouraging
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