Classification of mental disorders

Community Connections is a mental health agencies established in 1984. Its mission during establishment was to, “provide mental health services to consumers who were transitioning from institutional care into society” (“Community Connections History,” 2008). The focus of the agency then was to, “provide treatment for people who were diagnosed with major mental disorders and needed help to regain skills lost after years of institutional care” (“Community Connections History,” 2008). The founder…

Act, health plans must cover preventive care which in previous years was not catered without copayment and deductibles. This includes the coverage for mental health, substance abuse use disorder that is comparable to coverage of medical and surgical care. The purpose of this paper is to analyses and explore the affordable care act related to mental health…

Delusional Disorder, also known as psychosis, is a disorder that which a person cannot tell what is real from what is imagined. People with this type of disorder tend to think that things and people are always out to get them. They jump at the fear of their own shadows and are always constantly thinking that people are trying poison or kill them. They are afraid that people will deceive them, conspire against them, or love them from a distance. What could have happened in a dream may be a…

The digital revolution has made it imperative for virtually all individuals to learn how to use and access the Internet. The latter provides a highly convenient and cost effective channel of obtaining information on a wide array of topics and subjects. The creation of websites is one of the popular ways in which the Internet is used to create a specific place where information on a specific topic can be accessed. A website can be described as an umbrella that houses an ocean of relevant facts…

shootings. Times also reported that in 2012 people in America spent an estimate of $6 billion dollars in guns and ammunition. The NRA spend a lot of money opposing gun control when that money could be spent helping schools with security, or making mental health awareness known. When a school shooting happens resulting in death tax payers see the cost from there pocket. Times reports that 229 billion dollars are spend protecting a 6-billion-dollar industry. If gun control was imposed as a law, we…

Physical safety and mental health have been common issues work places have come across and tried to deal with. In a number of ways, they have been able to diminish the amount of preventable injury through stricter training and regulation methods as well as imposing work-safe programs which give benefits for years gone by accident free. School systems offer security measures and rule based regulations to create safer learning environments for their students and staff. Mental health programs have…

Dix’s interest in mental health reform didn’t materialize out of the ether. It had roots in her personality, as well as experiences she had while in England. Dix’s personality had the desire to make some sort of mission out of her life, hungering to find a cause to devote herself to. Without any solid purpose in her life, she floated, untethered. In 1838, in response to a letter that Dix had sent her, Dix’s friend Anne noted that Dix was a “…wanderer, doomed to know many a thing of grief and…

Now that the diagnostic criteria, supplemental features, comorbidities, and differentials have been identified and described, there will be a review of supportive evidence. There were a lot of concerns with regards to frotteuristic disorder being in the DSM-5 such as the social stigmas and legal liability associated with the diagnosis. So, the DSM-5 adapted by providing absolute “what if” solutions to avoid over diagnosis. As frotteurism is not a victimless action, distress can be an outcome,…

On the initial patient interview it seemed as if staff were eager to label the pseudopatients with mental illness and to seamlessly incorporate them into the mental hospital which they had become so used to. The details of patient’s history, while reported normally by the pseudopatient were interpreted by the psychiatrist as confirming to the diagnosis no matter how inconsequential…

according to the studies the authors researched and their own studies as well. it has been proven that “ Although the first-semester transition deeply challenges the developmental core of all students, those coping with internal stressors as a result of mental health conditions are particularly vulnerable to adjustment problems that may compromise their longevity at the institution” (qtd. in Pascarella & Terenzini,2005 ).” The authors use this…