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Issues of Schizophrenia, Pregnancy, and Mental Health Nursing

In eight pages this paper discusses schizophrenia in pregnant women from the perspective of mental health nursing. Eight sources ...

BILLY PILGRIM: PTSD OR SEVERELY PSYCHOTIC?

shelters to get corpses out "as a sanitary measure," is how he puts it (Hayman et al). Even more gruesome was his description of t...

Reflective Learning; CPA and a Schizophrenic Client

as other duties, such as those set out under section 117 (Department of Health, 2006). This meeting required the input from the di...

The Portrayal of Schizophrenia in “A Beautiful Mind”

seems to ring true" (Rosenstock, 2003). In the film, Nashs hallucinations take a visual form; his roommate, the man he believes re...

Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment and Effect on Families of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder

patients experiencing either symptoms or full episodes of depression much more frequently than those of mania or hypomania" (Micha...

Paranoia and Schizophrenia

p. 5). Nevertheless, the fact that a diagnostic criteria is listed in the book, detailed and complex, tends to encourage the perce...

Cultural Influences on Attitudes to Schizophrenia

have on patient outcomes. It was found patients from the Mexican American families, where there was a lower level of EE were also ...

Schizophrenia and How to Live with It

to traumatic stress could provide a general prediction model for suicidality among those who have schizophrenia (2001). Here, it s...

Comparison of McCarley, Hobson, and Freud on Dream Theories

activity of the brain, especially in terms of physiological linkages that exist between consciousness and extreme mental disorders...

Mentally Ill Individuals, Dreams, and the Theories of Carl Jung

account but does not negate the deep dark crevices of the mind that dreams grow in. Everyone has had a horrific nightmare a...

Assessing Ethics in Research

has been demonstrated to increase as the patients own baseline in terms of their general irritability and hostility increases, and...

How to Better Help Schizophrenic Patients

This paper points out the importance of using evidence-based practices with people who have schizophrenia. The paper includes sect...

One Possible Intervention for Schizophrenia

There have been a number of psychotherapeutic approaches used to treat schizophrenia and other serious mental disorders. The one d...

Schizophrenic Homeless Placement, A Proposed Project

This research paper presents a plan for a proposed project that will utilize a sample group of 30 homeless male participants who ...

Impact of Schizophrenia on Patients and their Families

The paper is a literature review on the topic of schizophrenia and the impact and influence that the condition has on patients and...

Adult Psychoses

This essay discusses two adults, one diagnosed with anorexia, low self-esteem, and interpersonal relationship problems, the other ...

Sanity, Madness, and the Family by R.D. Laing and A. Esterson

In five pages this paper discusses the symptoms of schizophrenia as featured in the family profiles described in this text. Three...

Questions on Psychosocial Issues

In fourteen pages this paper answers student posed questions regarding love, gender identity, attention deficit disorder, depressi...

DSM and Axes I through Psychological Assessment

In twelve pages this paper considers the diagnostic techniques the American Psychiatric Association uses and the definitions assoc...

Neuroleptic Drugs and Schizophrenia

which to help both patient and family cope with associated stresses. Music therapy may prove only marginally effective depending ...

DSM IV Criteria for Schizophrenia

descriptions for various mental and psychological disorders and breaks them down into diagnostic classes. Utilizing the DSM IV al...

Defining and Treating Schizophrenia

prevention. Today, researchers are not disregarding the genetic component, but see this component as working in conjunction with o...

Living a Normal Life with Schizophrenia

stress and/or have substance and alcohol abuse. Some people are able to recover completely from schizophrenia while other may have...

Disease of Schizophrenia

known to manifest various peculiarities or disorders of thinking and behavior. Correctly speaking, however, these are diseases of ...

A Critique on a Research Project Article

it represented a quantitative approach, which begins with an idea that is usually articulated as a hypothesis. From there, throug...

Schizophrenia in Adults

factors still were largely obscure. "One suggestion is that brain damage occurring at or around the time of birth in some way con...

Schizophrenia and Genetics

Study to Hunt for Genetic Causes, 2003). However, while there are medications to treat these conditions and reduce sympt...

Hispanic and Urban Black Populations and Schizophrenia

mental health evaluations, support systems and treatment programs (Urdaneta, Saldana and Winkler 70). The current literature re...

Frederic Flach's Rickie

In two pages this paper briefly considers how the author recounted his daughter's schizophrenia battle in Rickie. There are no ot...

Role of Neurotransmitters

In six pages this paper examines disease and the role of acetylcholine, serotonin, and dopamine neurotransmitters and also conside...