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Changing Views on Caring for the Mentally Ill

The treatment of the mentally ill has changed drastically since the asylums of the 19th century. This paper examines the historic...

The Transformation of Attitudes about Death and Dying

11 pages and 11 sources. This paper provides an overview of the transformation of views on death and dying in the 20th century. ...

Massachusetts' Polices Regarding Care of Mentally Disabled Individuals

them. In common with other regions, Massachusetts is currently looking towards ways in which policies relating to those with menta...

Discussion of Change Theories for Specific Field

The paper begins by briefly identifying and explaining three of the standard change theory/models. The stages of each are named. T...

The Healing Applications of the Hypnotic Technique

Hypnosis is sometimes regarded more as a parlor trick than as an effective approach to influencing human behavior and...

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...

Mentally Ill Individuals and Medical Insurance

illnesses, for example, often encounters problems in convincing their insurance provider to provide the appropriate reimbursement ...

Patient Dignity and Concept Analysis

need for theory in accomplishing the tasks of direct patient care. There are routines and required protocols to follow, but the p...

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

Adolescence is considered one of the most crucial periods of socialization because of the very pressure it places upon youth. Thr...

Forensic Psychiatric Nursing

endeavor. Nursing in any context requires a detailed knowledge of individual patients. Specifically, a forensic nurse will have a...

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...

The Health Care Continuum

Virtually everyone had access to health care in some form, either with the assistance of health insurance or through public health...

An American View of Dying and Death

that many adults have to being placed in nursing care (Ciechanowski et al, 2004). The degree of social isolation along with depen...

Not Criminally Responsible Because of Mental Defect

This paper explores the verdict of NCRMD, a verdict that can be rendered when the defendant is found to be mentally ill. There ar...

Mental Health Hospital Quitting Smoking

There are hundreds of smoking cessation programs in the country. Most focus on a specific population. This essay is part of a prop...

Quitting Tobacco Use

This paper includes one Table and one Gantt Chart. One of the two heaviest smokers are the mentally ill. Why is not exactly known....

Herod the Great

of his crimes were magnified only because of the power he possessed. It should also be noted that during Herods reign, things imp...

Mentally-Ill Homeless/Mexican-American Women

of child care (Rosenheck, Bassuk and Salomon, 2003). Homeless women and men are more likely to have a history of mental illness th...

Mexican-American Women/Access to Care

A 5 page research paper. A previous research paper on this topic (khmexamh) discussed mentally ill homeless Mexican American women...

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,...

Problems Faced by Deinstitutionalized Homeless

In a paper consisting of 5 pages the homeless individuals that are mentally ill are discussed with proposed research regarding a s...

Performance Issues, Job Placement, and the Mentally Ill

Behavior therapy theories focus upon unconscious conflicts that cause anxiety or maladaptive behavior. Aggressive behavior ...

Homelessness and People Who Suffer from Mental Illness

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

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...

Mentally Ill Individuals and Substance Abuse

that "as a consequence of their illness they may find themselves living in marginal neighborhoods where drug use prevails" (Hatfie...

Mentally Ill Elderly/Syphilis Screening

A 5 page research paper that offers a summary of evidence relating STD incidence in older populations and how whether nor this con...

Legal System Punishment and the Mentally Ill

be debated. However, returning to the consequentialist rationale, inherent in this justification of punishment is that a system ...

Right to Die Defense

and the bitterness on both sides of that unfortunate incident have brought the debate about the right-to-die to the fore. Ironi...

Mentally Ill Clients and Therapeutic Relationships Challenges and Benefits

resistance without the benefit of therapeutic relationship. A particularly good example of this resistance to engagement can be f...

Liability and Negligence Chain in the McCollum Case

and that they were negligent in their public dissemination of his music. In other words, they had effectively encouraged McCollum ...