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a wide range of mental illnesses plague a considerable percentage of the general population, the authors apprehension about the le...

there is a legal definition laid down by the Mental Health Act 1983 which states that a mental disorder is ""means mental illness,...

childrens future that parents learn to cope and, hopefully, remain together, or at least learn to act as a team. Research shows ...

mental illness in the individual has become more and more obvious. This emphasis has, of course, been based on previous work but ...

notes that another five percent are victims of occasional despondency, with one of every six people succumbing to a "serious, or m...

claims that the Vietnam soldiers had a 72 percent higher rate of suicide than their other military counterparts (Bower, 1987, p. 1...

systems. The following examination of the problem of medication errors focuses on the context of mental health nursing within the ...

in psychoanalytical theory away from a focus on individual and towards a focus on the whole. While psychoanalysts had previously ...

would have to provide those benefits in the same way as benefits provided to all other medical and surgical procedures covered by ...

"encouragement of facing probl4ems/fears, support of efforts to master problems/ears, affective experiencing/catharsis" (Coady 15)...

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Americans 65 years or older increased by 74 percent between 1970 and 1999, from roughly 20 mi...

were sometimes locked away in unsanitary conditions or exposed to even harsher treatment. This situation was not to improve subst...

for decades to be a disease of the insane, mental conditions like depression that intensify juvenile delinquency have finally been...

the same holds true about the theories with which these people are treated. In the United Kingdom, nurses specializing in forensi...

human perceptions of the world and human interactions in the fields of health care. Oppression is defined as "unequal power relati...

with them to the first American Colonies, and mostly served as a model as to who would provide what services in the early, fledgli...

Frank seems reluctant to leave. Realizing that Frank needs to be met on a different level, Susan switches back to the "Be-with" mo...

underlying the formulation of the nurse-patient relationship. According to Mallik (1998) a great deal of the literature on this to...

a problem that is difficult to define adequately. There is much competition in the health field, and in the mental health field t...

is not an issue in Missouris Boone County, however. There, the local Mental Health Board of Trustees has the power to bypass the ...

money for upgrades and improvements. The payroll is just barely meeting the salaries of the workers, and as a result many short cu...

follow when attempting to improve the system. Some of the most common complaints from patients include the feeling of being shuff...

measuring device is used, there is less need for the student to discuss the reliability and accuracy of the instruments. Statisti...

to three days more than 20 years ago. We ruefully joke that some managed care plans only allow new mothers to be hospitalized on ...

which are applicable to Lisas case, but also the ways in which they can best be enacted, given these constraints. One of the most ...

topic has been anecdotal in nature, therefore, Banks and Banks (2002) designed a study utilizing pet therapy, or as they term it, ...

of social acceptance. Their counterparts often unknowingly make them feel inadequate and worthless when it comes to achievement o...

In eighteen pages current literature is reviewed in a discussion regarding the mental health impacts of personality types and also...

In five pages this paper examines the necessity for mental health services and facilities for homeless individuals. Ten sources a...

In twelve pages this paper discusses the 'Mental Health Parity' law or Nebraska's Legislative Bill 35 in a consideration of its re...