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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 ...

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...

Understanding Health - Two Approaches

Medicine has shifted from the Cartesian way of viewing illness, injury and disease as components of a machine-like body to one whi...

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...

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...

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...

States of Consciousness

is indicative of REM sleep. If one has reached Stage IV, it is indicative that one will shortly be entering the REM stage where d...

Restraint Uses in Psychiatric Nursing

Yet both organizations also observe that, sometimes, it is necessary to use seclusion and restraint, as a last resort, in order to...

Glenwood Resource Center Quality Measures

sets for itself for assistance in achieving its mission include customer focus, excellence, accountability and teamwork (Strategic...

Nursing and Entrepreneurial Opportunities

for APNs. One such path is to be a nurse anesthetist, who is a licensed APN who is considered to be using personal professional ju...

Mental Illness and Substance Abuse Dual Diagnoses

context of the problem of addressing dual-diagnosed populations. The Dual Diagnosis The term dual diagnosis is a relative...

Healthcare and Caribbean vs. South American Perspectives

In a paper that consists of five pages women's mental health care and the differing perspectives between the Caribbean and South A...

U.S. Day Treatment Mental Health Facilities and Demographics

of self-care, vocational training and community living so they might become integrated into society and acquire independent housin...

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...

Relationship Between Psychiatric Nurse and Patient

formulation with others, testing new behaviors, integrating this learning into "new, more satisfying behavior, and then using thes...

Human Behavior, Psychological, Sociological, and Biological FActors on Mental Health Care Delivery

promote recovery and to "replace unnecessary institutional care with efficient, effective community service that people can count ...

Memory and Brain Effects of Classical Music

two separated mood dimensions - arousal and pleasantness - as they related to mood-dependent memory (MDM), having respondents spea...

Social, Physical, and Mental Health and Their Value

problem can affect and be affected by mental processes and social interaction. A common problem that will serve particularly well...

Cocaine Use During Pregnancy Impact Study Research Plan

of a very important area. This is an area where there has been some interest taken already, but this is also a complex area due to...

Mentally Challenged Individuals and Contract Law

stories are legendary about people who receive their tattoos under the influence. The problem is that with mentally challenged i...

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...

Infant Development and Breast Feeding

They are believed to work by enhancing the function of infant T and B cells (Field, 2005). "Neutrophils" are another important pl...

Animals and Their Therapeutic Benefits

social contact with others. They may be lost in their own world because they are essentially put into a retirement home and left t...

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...

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...

Articles by Fox and Levin and Rosenhan Critiqued

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

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...