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Mental Health Parity Act: Interplay of Policy, Cultural And Societal Attitudes Within Clinical Social Work Practice

mental health arena. Anyone is vulnerable to the onset of mental illness which can be triggered by any number of occurrences, not...

Mental Illness And The Juvenile Offender

to the nature of the crime they are still classified as a juvenile for the purposes of this paper. The definition of mental illn...

A Colonial Newspapers Review

Boston newspaper. Combing through a variety of papers from this era, and meticulously reading the articles, it appears that much a...

Mental Health Changes on TV

For decades, the media has portrayed people with mental illnesses or disorder in such a way that others did not want to be around ...

John Demos, Joseph Plumb Martin and Wartime Experience

one stroke" (Demos 29). Williams and his five children make it to Montreal alive. Once they arrive in Montreal, the Indians begin ...

The Quiet Room

Mental illness can strike anyone and should not be stigmatized. This paper discusses the issues a student might face if he or she ...

Mental Illness Definition

In eleven pages this paper discuses how to define mental illness and its psychological basis as well as treatment approaches for v...

A Case Study to Demonstrate Influences on the Delivery of Mental Healthcare

influences can be broken down into political, economic, social and technological. Political influences are one of the most importa...

Mental Illness' Stigma

The control group was give a similar questionnaire, except that the words "mental illness" were replaced by "heart disease" (Lai, ...

Mental Health Therapy Options, Maintenance of Treating Mental Health Issues, and Cost Effective Measures

Cost-Effective Mental Health Care a) 12-Step Self-Help Group Therapies Researchers at the Stanford University School...

Overview of Mental Retardation

In ten pages this research paper presents a mental retardation overview that includes definition, its causes, negative perceptions...

Designation of Mild Mental Retardation

In three pages this paper discusses the definition of MMR according to special education criteria and the changes brought about by...

Community and Mentally Retarded Individuals

In nine pages this research paper examines the community transition of individuals with some form of mental retardation. Twelve s...

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...

Nursing Research Article 'Predicting Family Health in Families of Young Adults with Severe Mental Illness' Reviewed

new research is needed in the area. The style of the literature review is appropriate in that the author divides it into we...

History of Mental Retardation

typically unnoticed by Marcia herself and were never studied formally or even named by her(Richardson, 1996). It was determined t...

Characteristics of Mental Retardation

severely physically disabled special needs students into a more mainstream atmosphere, it encourages a wider scope of classroom pa...

Americans and Mental Retardation

In five pages this paper discusses mental retardation in terms of definition, etiology, and incidence as it affects the American p...

Depression: A Deeper Understanding

have a drastically smaller volume of a section of the left PFC that sits behind the bridge of the nose. In some cases this sectio...

MENTAL PROCESS PAPER

this is the ubiquitous "sticky note." We see these everywhere, and theyve become an important part of paperwork. But the original ...

Developmental Life Issues and Mental Retardation

and federally mandated law support the idea that children with mental retardation should spend "some or much of their school day i...

Documentary History of the Contemporary World Jew

In five pages this paper discusses the contemporary era and the quest for Jewish Identity in an assessment of the text portrayals ...

The Physical Realm According to Rene Descartes

examine carefully Descartes famous "cogito ergo sum" statement, which was the original Latin for "I think, therefore I exist" - or...

Form of Mental Retardation Known as the Autistic Savant

In four pages the autistic savant is the focus of this informational overview. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

Robert Edgerton's Cloak of Competence and Mental Retardation

In seven pages this paper examines the Pacific Hospital research study and its outcomes as featured in Cloak of Competence by Robe...

Juvenile Delinquents and Mental Retardation

In five pages this paper examines mentally retarded adolescence and the increases in juvenile crime which result. There is the in...

Mental Retardation, Impact on Education and the Curriculum

with fewer or no disabilities" (Disability definitions, 2005). In addition, they often have additional disabilities "including mov...

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...

The Death Penalty and Mental Retardation

arguments about the death penalty run the gamut and include rhetoric embracing issues of constitutionality to morality to fairness...

Troubled Artists: Creativity As A Catharsis

starry starry night! This is how I want to die" (Sexton, 1981). Like Sexton (1981), van Gogh utilized art as a catharsis while e...