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Vietnam War Soldiers and Suicides

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

Articles by Fox and Levin and Rosenhan Critiqued

means always present. In any event, it...

Partnership Development and Mental Health Recovery Focus

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

Use of Lithium Within The Field of Psycho-Pharmacology

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

Evaluation of the Beck Depression Inventory

characteristics of the BDI-II: a clinical sample (n-500, 63 percent female; 91 percent white) and a "convenience" sample of Canadi...

Importance of Recreation Programs for Students Who Are At Risk

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

College Education Benefits

off the job as well (U.S. Department of Education, 2003). The DOE also points out that a college education provides a grea...

Senior Citizen Mental Patients and Relocation

and that maintaining the most stable possible environment has been found to help alleviate the impact of such behaviours: it might...

Mental Attitude and Tools for Back to School

be time consuming, but is especially beneficial for students who do not have a grasp of computer technology or who are more tactil...

Overview of the Social Service Agency

into mainstream society. The WCC has completely removed the stigma of the developmentally disabled and positively changed the way...

Animal Cognition and Intelligence

Those misgivings largely fell away with Griffins studies into the communication systems of bees. He used that work to prove anima...

A History of Children In Mental Health Facilities

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

Family Therapy - Three Different Models

Batesons cybernetics model (Niolan, 2002). Tucker (2002, PG) notes that to Bateson familial problems exist in a system of units a...

How Mental Agility Can be Achieved During the Aging Process

phenomena occur in the brain and are directly associated with the hippocampus area in particular. The physiology of the phenomena...

President John F. Kennedy's 1963 Community Mental Health Law

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

Health and the Effects of Gender Roles

the need to purge what one had just consumed in order to "return for additional eating, drinking and merriment" (Kuehnel, 2002)....

Definitions of Mild to Moderate Mental Retardation and Educational Considerations

who would be considered as mentally retarded and in need of some sort of special education. In addition to the below average intel...

Mental Health Agency Organizational Change

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

Blood Glucose That is Not Controlled and Patient Perceptions of Long Term Impact

are certainly those patients who understand that they have a chronic disease which has the potential to be life-threatening and ar...

Children And Adolescents in the Group Home Environment

to treat our children who suffer from mental, psychological, emotional illnesses and behavior and conduct disorders. But, as of ye...

Working Different Shifts and its Health Impact

be causing damage and what they can do about it. CIRCADIAN RHYTHM The Circadian Rhythm refers to the normal and instinctive slee...

Treatment and Rehabilitation of Female Offenders

were carried out by women who had, had it with the system which had failed to protect them from an abusive spouse. Says Nadler, "F...

Overview of Mental Health Courts

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

Unattachment Disorders and Children

in Oklahoma, "When an infant expresses rage and feels no relief for his need, he learns that to survive this world, he must contro...

The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe, and Francie Brady's Mental Disturbance

effect of these two dysfunctional role models acts in a synergistic fashion to create within Francie a tremor of mental disturbanc...

Legal Excuse of Mental Illness

rationale for this plea and the heart of its meaning. The desirability of even raising these questions seems hardly to have been n...

Mental Illness from Ancient Times to the Present

the cause (2003). Again, while today it seems that psychology has focused on physical causes, as history progressed from ancient t...

Mentally Illness Treatment in Geel, Belgium

seems that the seriously mentally ill must live in a hospital setting for their own safety and the safety of others. Yet, in Geel,...

What Leads to Homelessness?

are many people in the lower and middle income brackets who have little put away. If they have no credit, and no one to bail them ...

Case Study on Mental Health and Social Work

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