Mental retardation

misrepresentations of disabled people existed in countless amounts of works of literature. Although the ableism in television and film is incredibly prevalent today- it is built off of the hundreds of years of creative work that depicts people with physical, mental, and cognitive disabilities as an object used to produce certain emotions from audience. It is a common practice to tell a person offended by this ableism to not read, watch, or listen to these pieces of work- but it is not that…

Introduction Client JN is a twenty-year-old Caucasian male who is has high functioning Asperger’s syndrome, an Autism spectrum disorder. JN has been admitted approximately 10 times for psychiatric care at different facilities around the Birmingham area in the past. JN came into the emergency department by ambulance after an altercation with the step mother. JN’s step mother has been in an intimate relationship and living with JN’s mother for about 10 years. The step mother and JN have never…

Forensic Psychology Portrayed in the Media Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, created by Dick Wolf, is a television show that follows detectives who work towards investigating and solving sexually based crimes (CTV WEBSITE source 1). Season 14 episode 19 called “Born Psychopath” follows a wealthy family of four whose ten year old son, Henry, begins tormenting his family and neighbors within his building (NETFLIX, SOURCE 2). Forensic psychology is “the practice of psychology within or in…

If health care companies can eventually diagnose mental illness by social media activity, it would be wise to reach out to users in a personal way, rather than simply a notification. In addition, lack of consideration that users are not always honest with posts and lack of in-depth analysis with every…

In a Ted talk titled “Confessions of a depressed comic,” 19 year-old comedian and mental health activist Kevin Breel states that every 30 seconds, someone commits suicide. This adds up to almost 3,000 deaths every day. According to the CDC’s suicide datasheet, an estimated 9.3 million adults in the US reported having suicidal thoughts in 2013. That’s 3.9% of the entire population of the United States. Now, these numbers can seem so gargantuan, almost unbelievably so, that they fly over the heads…

students, but it does show that an overwhelming majority does not want non students to have the right to carry while they are on campuses. Studies on students show that “both graduate students and international students are particularly vulnerable to mental health problems due in large part to their increased levels of stress” (Fox and Savage 1475). In a 318 student survey at…

Jessica T. Smith Brown Mackie College Mental Health October 17, 2016 ABSTRACT Major depression is a form of postpartum depression (PPD) women experience during and after pregnancy. Pregnancy can result in a mother experiencing the most memorable time of her life either joyous or depression most commonly known as “baby blues”. If baby blues is left untreated it can result with the mother facing a more serious condition called postpartum depression disorder. This disorder can…

Teenage mothers are in most cases viewed as failures and promiscuous. Therefore, they are stigmatized by the society, at school, at home, and at health care facilities and it could lead to stigma-related unsupported issue, which could lead to mental illnesses and if not attended to, it may escalate to suicidal behavior among the adolescent mothers. Teenage mothers drop out of school, failing to acquire the skills required for securing decent employment that can only guarantee a poor life for…

Susanna Kaysen’s 1993 best-selling novel “Girl, Interrupted,” is a memoir about her time spent at McLean Hospital, a psychiatric facility in Massachusetts, in 1967 after swallowing 50 aspirin. She only spends less than twenty minutes speaking to a doctor during which he diagnoses her with having borderline personality disorder with schizophrenic tendencies. He then swiftly and forcibly sends her to McLean Hospital where she spends nearly two years of her life, at the age of 18, in the ward for…

health. One particular area of research that is being expanded is the effect that pets have on our mental health, as well as their usefulness as a form of therapy. We are already seeing service animals trained to deal with specific types of mental illness, but even animals undesignated to service seem to provide benefits just by living alongside humans. Just how much do pets support and improve our mental health, and how effective are pet-based therapies? Participants in a STARS (Study of…