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Homeless & Mental Illness/A Vulnerable Population

necessary health-related behaviors" required for meeting "ones therapeutic self-care demand (needs)" (Hurst, et al 2005, p. 11). U...

Mental Illness/Prisons & Recidivism

inmates is due to the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric services, which began in the 1960s, as this trend resulted in the rele...

United Kingdom's System of Criminal Justice and Mental Illness

range of the problem is quantified 2. What is Mental Illness? 2.1 Definitions of Mental Illness The difficulty with defining me...

Extreme Mental Illness And Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

that depression is experienced, as well as the inability for young adults to understand why they are depressed at such a vulnerabl...

Impact Of Chronic Illness On The Elderly And Families

medications or they could be a sign of depression (Turner and Kelly, 2000). Turner and Kelly (2000) state strongly that it is e...

Reading Whybrow: America's Illness

Adam Smith and his ideas of economics. Smiths theory of economics "is firmly grounded in the biology of human behavior" (Whybrow)....

Chronic Illness Management

of a medical crisis is prudent, but being prepared is imperative. For example, some physicians will prescribe certain medication f...

Illness and Culture in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent by Julia Alvarez

differences between cultures consist of variation in their main pattern in terms of these five dimensions and that these differenc...

Holden, Mental Illness

mean a person who saves children from going over a precipice. As this indicates, he wants to be a "savor/ defender of the innocent...

Deviance: Mental Illness And Homelessness

crime was chemical or emotional disparity. From colonial times where people were chained to block walls in dark, dank dungeons an...

Childhood Mental Illnesses

ADHD assessment tools"; he also questions how ethical it is to give "dangerous and addictive drugs to children" (Stolzer, 2007, p....

Homelessness, Mental Illness, and the Advocate Role

Housing is of obvious concern as is successful intervention in the destructive pattern of behavior that has led to the homelessnes...

Wiener and Dodd/Theory of Illness Trajectory

this understanding using the metaphor of an "illness trajectory." T They point out that the term "trajectory" is borrowed from the...

Article Analysis: Substance Abuse and Mental Illness

inability to regulate decision-making behavior at such times is critical if relapses are to be avoided (Matto, 2007). In addition,...

Diagnostic Approaches to Mental Illness

clinicians rely on the DSM to diagnose their patients. It is credible insofar as it is published by the American Psychiatric Assoc...

Medications for Mental Illness

consent. This presents many problems that begin with whether or not the psychiatrist should tell the patient or guardian every sin...

The Multiaxial Diagnosis of Mental Illness

disorders (Axis I), as well as the presence of pervasive or personality conditions (Axis II). The third axis allows for the ident...

Origins of Mental Illnesses

Treatment included drilling holes in peoples heads to release the evil spirits (Stoker, 2010). Other treatments included exorcism,...

Homelessness and People Who Suffer from Mental Illness

cooperative effort between the psychological establishment and federal, state, and local governments - through policy initiatives ...

Homelessness, Mental Illness, and Social Intervention

least. Description of Agency XYZ is a small organization that attempts to address the needs...

MENTAL ILLNESS AND INSANITY - THE LEGAL ISSUE

held criminally responsible for his/her behavior (Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity, 2010). After this particular finding and after...

Analyzing John Nash's Mental Illness in A Beautiful Mind Film by Director Ron Howard

original consensus among mental health professionals the schizophrenia developed during late teens or early adulthood. However, a...

Adolescent with Chronic Illness

a long-term therapeutic relationship with the teen who has the chronic disease.4 Getting to know and connect with the adolescent c...

One Mental Illness

and friends. Doctor Kohn calls it the most debilitating form of mental illness. The may because it can come on suddenly and becaus...

Chronic Illness and Impact Upon Development and Growth

In fifteen pages a child who is chronically ill is examined in terms of the effects on development and growth with theories of Fre...

Illness and Global Warming

In eight pages arguments regarding disease spreading as a result of changes in termperature are presented in a discussion of wheth...

Patient and Relationship Development, Illness Treatment and Coping

In six pages Erik Erikson's identity development stages are examined and then applied to a case study that involves a young cancer...

Terminal Illness and Counseling

In fifteen pages this research paper discusses how psychologists, clerics, physicians and nurses can counsel patients who are term...

Mental Illness and Social Theory

In five pages this paper discusses mentally ill individuals in a consideration of social perceptions and their impact upon treatme...

Discrimination and Mental Illness

In two pages this paper examines how discrimination regarding individuals with mental disorders vary according to gender and race ...