History of mental health

A clear concern, visible from the literature and the forum posts, is the amount of mental health cases that police assist feeling unequipped and unqualified to deal with (Thames Valley Police 2015). Yet, neither the police or the mental health services, alone, can effectively serve the mentally ill and therefore it is essential the two work together (Bradley Report 2009). With this in mind, it is important to investigate the progress of multi-agency partnership in order to decrease the issues…

want to be able to balance my personal experience with addiction and my long history of sponsorship with my newly acquired clinical mental health counseling skills. I realize that addiction can be an amazingly difficult problem to treat. I know that it takes a strong minded, experienced sponsor to help individuals find their way to sobriety. I also believe that recovery must go beyond just being sober, and a mental health counselor is in a better position to help with compounding issues that a…

organ that produces sperm. Testicular Cancer represents only one percent of all cancers in males, but it is the most common malignancy in men between ages 15 and 35.”1 Whether or not Testicular Cancer is the most serious health problem among Māori is arguable and additional health related problems should be discussed before coming to a conclusion. First of all, Testicular Cancer creates significant damage on…

professional mental health services. Although Canada provides a basic universal healthcare nationwide, professional mental health services seems to be inaccessible more so for certain populations, including immigrants. There are a lot more challenges and hindrances when you are an immigrant, a foreigner to a completely new country, when it comes to thinking about your mental health well being. Being exposed to so many stressors and anxieties, it is not a secret that immigrants face a lot of…

but client Medicaid is only for Medical Emergency, therefore she cannot received the services. On site RN scheduled the client an appointment on 4/13/2016, to go to HealthCare Choices (“HCC”) with van picked up. On 4/13/2016, client refuses to go to Health Care Choices. Onsite RN rescheduled another appointment for 4/18/2016. Client was scheduled for medical follow up at Wyckoff on 4/18/2016, but client missed HCC appointment and she was issued with an appointment slip to go to Wyckoff Hospital…

should maintain a healthy well-being (Warren et al., 2010). Learning and practicing how to stay healthy is the counselor’s responsibility to uphold. Vicarious trauma occurs within a mental health professional after emotionally involving himself/herself in the client’s trauma as a response to personal traumatic history, current stressors, or trauma within his/her support system (Dass-Brailsford, 2007, p. 293). Compassion fatigue is similar to vicarious trauma but occurs at the expense of…

Hungary, offers a variety of courses conducted in English, but more importantly, offers psychology courses that are essential to my graduation. Learning will not take place in the classroom only; Budapest’s history goes back hundreds of years, although often disregarded in the typical history book. This led me to choose Budapest as a study abroad location as it is a city off the beaten path. I have a desire to learn about all cultures, and Central Europe is a region I have yet to explore. A…

Children and Mental Health Research suggests that family income affects the mental health of children (Kuruvilla, 2007). Children that come from low income families tend to have higher rates of depression, cheating, and anti-social behaviour such as bullying, telling lies and breaking things (Kuruvilla, 2007). If the family is chronically poor, a child has an increased tendency to have a lower cognitive performance (Kuruvilla, 2007). As they reach adolescence they are more likely to engage in…

is being shown to them. The bias in certain media organisation is seen but there is a level of respect and ethics towards certain topics before it is published out to the public. The topics are usually sensitive issues such as suicide, grief, mental health and trauma. These topics needs to be very thoroughly checked before being distribute and published to not trigger the community who have been affected by it. Identification With sensitive topics being not too commonly reported in the media…

book Crazy by Pete Earley showcases the mental health crisis in America. Earley discovered the crisis when his college-aged son, Mike, suffered a breakdown. Earley quickly learned that options to help a mentally ill individual that didn’t recognize they were in need of help was nearly impossible. Crazy tells many stories that grip the reader and give them a good shake. Unethical encounters and research presented throughout the story paint a story of mental illness in America that is unfortunate…