History of mental health

Counseling is an effective therapy to remedy mental health problems and other erratic behaviors that are usually associated with substance abuse. The negative consequences on the personal and legal side are a great hindrance to anyone, especially teenagers, to achieve balance and sobriety while dealing with their friends, families, and society as a whole. A combination of pharmacological and behavioral treatments is necessary to address the problem. Substance abuse counselors identify the…

Erving Goffman is a well-known sociologist, who contribute to the development of today’s sociology. He has been considered to be very influential, due to his research on stigma and how it feels to be given stereotype when it doesn’t even apply to you. His findings are being used in today’s society. In Goffman’s research has a variety of strategies that incorporate individuals who are used to dealing with people who stigmatize them and their image of themselves. In this research Erving has…

alone does cause reduced psychological well-being however it also shows that this is mainly attributed to the feeling of loneliness. Chronic loneliness is also the most one of these problems that is associated with a variety of health conditions; both physical and mental and can induce life style related problems that can be of serious harm in the long term. These conditions include:- -Depression:…

Physical and mental impairments are key concerns in regard to many facets of society and policy making today. Various aspects of everyday life of people with disabilities are influenced by models of disability in particular the medical and the social discourse of incapacity. This essay will focus on analysing the two models as well as explaining the ideology behind both of them. In addition, it will provide illustrative examples for each approach. Furthermore, this essay will elaborate on the…

There are many disability models but the most important two are the ‘medical’ model and the social’ model. In medicinal model of disability look at inability as an "issue" that fits in with the disabled person. It’s less likely affect anybody except the individual influenced. For instance, student on a wheel chair is not able to get into a building in view of a few steps; the medical model would recommend that this is a direct result of the wheelchair, as opposed to the strides (Ong-Dean, 2005).…

One may argue that Clark’s opinion regarding the opinion in Tarasoff v. Regents is reflective of a utilitarianism, whereby he argues that a duty requiring a breach of confidentiality with regards to the treatment of a patient of a mentally ill patient may reduce the effectiveness of the treatment, thus imposing greater suffering to the patient. Moreover, consider Mill’s interpretation utilitarianism establishes the role of the government, stating that if the government or other institution were…

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…

attention is the tremendous stigma on mental health. People think that someone with a mental illness are “crazy” or “attention seekers” or “not all there” but that’s not the case people with mental illness don’t decide to have one, they can’t control. A stigma is a set of negative and often unfair beliefs that a society or group of people have about something. The mental health stigma would be considered a social stigma. Why treat someone poorly because they only have mental disorder not cancer?…

While international and provincial drug policies have shifted to support harm reduction strategies consistent with a public health approach to substance use, historically the medical model leans toward complete abstinence while media perpetuates a stance on the war on drugs approach. Further work towards harm-reduction may lead to improved access to health and social services and to develop and refine their structures, counselling and trauma-care…

Dear Evan Hansen on Mental Illness Stigma in the Millennial Generation From the earliest days of humanity, mental illness has been been stigmatized as something that is not understood and therefore should be feared. In the Middle Ages, those with mental illnesses were institutionalized in inhumane conditions and stored away from the mainstream society instead of being treated. Into modern times, medical techniques advanced and we began to study mental illnesses not as something to be feared but…