Mental health law

underlying reasons for this problem are objection from society, and a decreased level of self-esteem that may or may not come with the title of mental health services (Corrigan, 2004). Stigma, ultimately is a barrier that prevents individuals from seeking mental health services. Bio-psycho-social risks that accompany this problem, is parental mental health background, parental divorce, negative family environment, marital and family conflict. Protective factors associated with the problem are…

New Zealanders will experience a diagnosable mental condition in any given year (Ministry of Health and Health Promotion Agency, 2014). Contrary to this, despite the commonality of mental illness it is incredibly stigmatised. This can have extremely adverse implications on a person’s recovery. Ill mental health can be described as a condition that causes serious disorders in a person’s behaviour or thinking (Szabo, 2014). Schizophrenia is one mental illness in particular that has a serious…

reporting of mental health checks was the Virginia Tech Massacre, in April 2007, where a Virginia Tech student named Seung-Hui Cho shot and killed 32 people and injured 17 others, then killed himself on the college campus in Blacksburg, Virginia (“Mental Health Reporting”). Cho bought a gun despite going through two background checks through licensed gun dealers and having a mental health history in the records that should have prevented him from receiving a gun. Although Virginia had some…

After reading the article Tale of Two Crises by James Knol and also by watching the film Zimbardo Prison Experiment, I was able to realize how imprisonment and its environment can take a toll on the prisoners overall health. Throughout the experiment, which was conducted through six days, the guards became aggressive towards the prisoners. While the prisoners reacted by becoming stressed and irrational. After the completion of the experiment, they were able to analyze four different lessons. One…

The two similarities between mental health services in community strings and correctional settings are that they serve the same purposes. According to the author, “the basic purposes for mental health delivery systems in both correctional and community settings are the same—to empower persons with mental illness or co-occurring disorders to attain their maximum level of crime-free employment, self-care, interpersonal relationships, and participation in the community or prison population. Power…

increase. According to a recent analysis approximately 2.2 million people are currently incarcerated and of these 2 million, 40 percent suffer from a mental illness. (Aufderheide, 2014) The question of whether these criminals should be placed into mental health institutions or serve their time in prison has been unanswered. Criminals that are diagnosed with mental illnesses that are placed in prison, are assessed to identify what care is needed for them individually. This assessment allows for…

Lawrence Ronald Reagan IB Grade 12 Should psychologists be granted prescription privileges? Katelenn Lawrence Ronald Reagan IB Grade 12 Should psychologists be granted prescription privileges? Currently in today’s mental health care people see psychiatrists for medication management and brief appointments, and they see other professionals, such as psychologists and social workers, for intense, ongoing needs. The debate in the psychology field about…

Mental Illness and Judicial Responsibility The spectrum of culpability is an example of, how the law justifies who we blame for a crime and what is the fate of the offender. Let me give you an example, Jason just came home from work; only to walk in his room and, catch Donna in bed with her paramour. Jason suddenly out of anger kills both his wife and lover. The next moment after he realize what he just done and, regrets killing both his wife and her lover. This is what is known as a crime of…

be different if not getting treatment for TB and psych patients didn’t affect other people. I am a strong believer in equality and everyone having the right to choose what is best for them personally, but without getting treated for both TB and a mental disorder it doesn’t just affect that person, it affects those around them. TB is highly contagious and if a person chooses not to receive treatment for it, not only does it impose a high risk of fatality on their behalf, but it continues to…

You Mental? On December 14, 2015 a man armed with a rifle barged into an elementary school and fatally shot 20 kids and 6 adults(Fox 1). After the incident, the country was in an uproar at what happened and felt that we needed to prevent this from ever happening again. So people started throwing suggestion for ways to prevent it, some wanted to more gun law regulation while other wanted to focus on why the shooter would do this. After the investigation it was determined that the shooter was…