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Childhood Mental Illnesses

ADHD assessment tools"; he also questions how ethical it is to give "dangerous and addictive drugs to children" (Stolzer, 2007, p....

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...

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...

Extreme Mental Illness And Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

that depression is experienced, as well as the inability for young adults to understand why they are depressed at such a vulnerabl...

United Kingdom's System of Criminal Justice and Mental Illness

range of the problem is quantified 2. What is Mental Illness? 2.1 Definitions of Mental Illness The difficulty with defining me...

Florida's Laws on Mental Illness Counseling and Substance Abuse

examination" (Anonymous, 2003). Marchman empowers other entities beyond parents and guardians with the ability to involuntarily a...

Senior Citizen Mental Illness Workplace Management and Prevention of Violence

to nonadherence to medication in the mentally ill elderly is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connot...

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...

An Analysis of an Article About Mental Illness and Attitudes of Teens

can speculate that the attitudes of peers complicates or causes depression in adolescents who suffer from mental illness, or it ma...

Fictional Short Story 'Into Her House, With Flowers'

In seven pages this short story which features a woman's fight to freely live her life despite several mental impairment is presen...

Mental Illness and Social Theory

In five pages this paper discusses mentally ill individuals in a consideration of social perceptions and their impact upon treatme...

Discrimination and Mental Illness

In two pages this paper examines how discrimination regarding individuals with mental disorders vary according to gender and race ...

Mental Illness and the Law

In two pages insanity is defined and the ways in which the law dictates mentally ill individuals are to be treated by society are ...

Pregnancy and Mental Illness Treatment

This paper discusses how to treat mentally ill pregnant women in a consideration of various topics in ten pages including the feta...

Mental Illness and Government in the Film Dead Man Out

This paper examines this film's complexities in terms of the intertwining government and societal factors throughout in five pages...

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,...

Deviance: Mental Illness And Homelessness

crime was chemical or emotional disparity. From colonial times where people were chained to block walls in dark, dank dungeons an...

Holden, Mental Illness

mean a person who saves children from going over a precipice. As this indicates, he wants to be a "savor/ defender of the innocent...

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...

Analyzing John Nash's Mental Illness in A Beautiful Mind Film by Director Ron Howard

original consensus among mental health professionals the schizophrenia developed during late teens or early adulthood. However, a...

Homelessness and People Who Suffer from Mental Illness

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

Homelessness, Mental Illness, and Social Intervention

least. Description of Agency XYZ is a small organization that attempts to address the needs...

One Mental Illness

and friends. Doctor Kohn calls it the most debilitating form of mental illness. The may because it can come on suddenly and becaus...

Medications for Mental Illness

consent. This presents many problems that begin with whether or not the psychiatrist should tell the patient or guardian every sin...

Case Studies: Mental Illness and Treatments

are dysfunctional if their recall leads to distressing and/or dysfunctional responses (Paunovic, 2010). There are two major comp...

Diagnostic Approaches to Mental Illness

clinicians rely on the DSM to diagnose their patients. It is credible insofar as it is published by the American Psychiatric Assoc...

The Multiaxial Diagnosis of Mental Illness

disorders (Axis I), as well as the presence of pervasive or personality conditions (Axis II). The third axis allows for the ident...

Origins of Mental Illnesses

Treatment included drilling holes in peoples heads to release the evil spirits (Stoker, 2010). Other treatments included exorcism,...

Senior Citizens and the UK's Mental Health Act of 1983

In thirteen pages the United Kingdom's Mental Health Act of 1983 is discussed in a basic overview with concentration being the imp...

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...