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Program to Promote Good Mental Health in a Refugee Community

not just to the move, but the circumstances under which the individual became a refugee. In general terms for all migrants the pot...

Pet Therapy for the Elderly

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

Skills Needed by a Forensic Nurse

McAndrew, 2006). With communication skills there are includes skills of listening as well as tact as essential to facilitate effec...

"What About Bob?"

good fit that does not easily occur, if indeed it occurs at all. For his part, Dr. Marvin is only a caricature of...

Nurse Education: Lesson Plan for Navigating a User Crisis

completing the ranges of study required to attain the licensing level each holds. Aides are not licensed individuals and may or m...

What Can Therapists Say About Patients

There are numerous regulations and codes that mandate and/or guide the mental health professional on the subject of confidentialit...

Prevention of Health Care Access: Stigmas

This 10 page paper gives an overview of health care access problems. This paper includes mental illness, substance abuse disorders...

Substance Abuse Treatment Privacy

Confidentiality and privacy are demanded for medical and mental health professionals. Psychologists and therapists live by the Eth...

Do e-cigarettes Work

The question is whether or not e-cigarettes work in terms of quitting smoking. This paper continues some earlier papers that were ...

Program in Mental Health Hospital

This essay adds to the papers on conducting a smoking cessation program in a mental health hospital research project. It discusses...

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....

Stop Smoking in Psychiatric Ward

Numerous articles conclude that people who have mental health disorders are more likely to smoke than people who do not have such ...

Health Care Team

This paper discusses a nurse's quality improvement goal in a mental health unit. The paper identifies members of the team, how to ...

"The Gift Of Therapy" By Irvin D. Yalom, M.D.: Reactionary Report

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

Divorce in Families w/Special Needs Children

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

Mental Health and Dementia

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

Mental Health of Returning Soldiers

need of treatment following tours in Rwanda, the Balkans and Somalia" (Auld). Mental health problems in regards to soldiers retu...

Evidence Based Practice & Outpatient Mental Health

on EBP is a fad, however, the authors point out that many institutions have invested time and financial resources into the use of ...

Nursing; Engaging, Development and Disengaging From a Therapeutic Relationship

of chemicals in the brain that result or enhance depressive conditions. For some patients this treatment is not always effective, ...

Occupational Therapy Practice and Recovery Framework Applications

recovery. Recovery is an admirable goal, and likely the only goal that carries true meaning for the patient and his family....

Contemporary Appalachia, Transportation Challenges, and Mental Health

Transportation in Appalachia presents problems both in terms of the public and private variety. In summary, public transportation ...

Public Schools and Mental Health Services Increases

health services available to students. Changes over the years have diminished that role to the point of eliminating it in many sc...

Article Review of 'Free Mental Health Benefits for Returning Soldiers'

grant from the Community Health Improvement Fund of the Moses Cone-Wesley Long Community Health Foundation (Townsend, 2005). Hence...

Dementia and Mental Health Problem Origins

where, after an initial stage of processing the information will be divided up, for example, one stream of information may concern...

Therapeutic Relationship Between Nurse and Client

36). Both a therapeutic and social relationship are featured in the film Good Will Hunting (1997). The protagonist in the film, ...

Long Term Solitary Confinement and Its Mental Health Impact

Prisoners spend as much as 22 hours a day in their cells, and the cells are now overcrowded (Weinstein and Cummins). The prisoner...

William Glasser's Cognitive-Behavioral Approach, A Case Study

out various psychological situations. No longer is such treatment considered taboo in a world where mental imbalance is quite pre...

UK's National Health Services and Decision Making

This position is acknowledged by the government in its document The Expert Patient (DoH, 2002). However, Powers (2002) also points...

Australia's System of Criminal Justice and Mental Illness

evidence in a large amount of literature that there is a link between mental illness and crimes (Drake and Pathe, 2004). T...

Australia's Policy on Mental Health

policy, rehabilitation, and consumer rights. The paper finishes with a section on rehabilitation and the elderly in Australia as i...