Community mental health service

Solution Criteria Although people with mental illness who are involved with the criminal justice system require addition services, according to a study of the Mental Health Court of Indiana, nearly 13% of defendant did not receive addition services (Luskin, 2013, p. 259). This paper proposes three solutions to the nation’s issue of overpopulation of people with mental illness being incarcerated in its jails and prisons. These solutions dissect both advantages and disadvantages of applying its…

“Mental health is an integral part of health; indeed, there is no health without mental health” (World Health Organization, 2014). Furthermore, the World Health Organization website (WHO) defines mental health as: “a state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community” (World Health Organization, 2014). In the United States, the…

The MI unit serves adults diagnosed with mental illnesses which most of the time, the adults are unable to live independently or without any sort of support. Some of the reasoning behind this is the sudden dangers that can arise from just missing a few meds, not connecting with the community, or the lack of initiative to take of themselves or their environment. The understanding and evaluating the actual need of the client can be difficult and frustrating for the case manager, the client, and…

Introduction The present study on knowledge, attitude and practice of Paniya tribes on mental illness gives an idea about tribe’s perspective on mental illness their belief and health seeking behavior. Tribes believed to be original inhabitant of the country. Because of that they called that Adivasi. Adivasi is an umbrella term used to represent the set of ethnic and tribal people of India. There around 580 tribal groups are in India. The study will conduct in people of the Paniya tribe,…

but will be able to have a life in the community with proper treatment from a community health center. This makes deinstitutionalization sound like a terrific idea, but it does not come without problems. Deinstitutionalization has created a huge crisis among the mentally ill population (Fuller 1). Deinstitutionalization has had a large effect on mental health hospitals, community health centers,…

Mental illnesses are classified as a health condition that impacts upon a person’s thinking, feelings, and behaviour. These cause the individual distress and difficulty in daily functioning. Everyone has had some exposure to mental illness, but many have only a basic understanding of the topic. Therefore, prompting the discussion of whether society is insensitive to those suffering from mental illnesses. Firstly, mental illnesses are treated as illegitimate when compared to a physical illness.…

Gay But Not Happy: The Impact of Queerness on Mental Health Introduction Four years prior to his suicide, 16-year-old Bobby Griffith wrote in his diary: "I can 't let anyone find out that I 'm not straight. It would be so humiliating. My friends would hate me, I just know it. They might even want to beat me up. . . . I guess I 'm no good to anyone . . . not even God. Life is so cruel, and unfair. Sometimes I feel like disappearing from the face of this earth" (Miller 88). After realizing he was…

psychiatric population is a special populations group that the health care community has failed from the beginning of medicine. Mental illness covers a spectrum from depression to schizophrenia. The mental health community is often associated with maladaptive behaviors that have created a negative stigma in health care. This negative stigma has promoted less than stellar care from health care providers. The lack of resources in the community and area hospitals continues to perpetuate…

Many know of the controversy surrounding the syphilis experiment conducted in Tuskegee, Alabama by the U.S. Public Health Service at the Tuskegee Institute. During this experiment, African American males were withheld from getting treatment for syphilis. However, not many people know about the controversy surrounding Dr. J. Marion Sims, the “Father of Gynecology.” Sims is greatly known for perfecting a surgery to cure vesicovaginal fistula (VVF). Vesicovaginal fistula is a tear that extends from…

agencies designed to address mental health care. In effective clinical settings, psychoeducation can reduce the cost for the government to create and provide additional funding for patient readmission due to unsuccessful treatment goal (Jun, Merinder, Belgamwar, 2011). On the part patients, psychoeducation is one way of improving their understanding about their mental illness, and it also provides them useful information and options on where to access mental health services (Jun, Merinder,…