Licensed to Ill

During my senior year at Streator Township High School, a tragic car accident involving four of my fellow senior classmates occurred. One of the boys walked away with only scrapes and bruises. Another one was in a coma for 3 days with a brain injury. One was paralyzed from the neck down and died in the hospital almost 6 months after the accident. The last boy died at the scene of the accident. Having to go through this terrible tragedy involving four of my friends was really eye opening. It…

Tech student named Seung-Hui Cho shot and killed 32 people and injured 17 others, then killed himself on the college campus in Blacksburg, Virginia (“Mental Health Reporting”). Cho bought a gun despite going through two background checks through licensed gun dealers and having a mental health history in the records that should have prevented him from receiving a gun. Although Virginia had some mental health check laws at the time, certain cases were masked from background checks. But, this is…

challenging responsibilities, and I have what it takes to perform above and beyond my expectations. I had the opportunity several years back to interact with some of the most caring, intelligent, and responsible people while visiting and looking after my ill grandmother. The nurses would care for and assist my grandmother while she recovered. The nurses provided my grandmother with the care she required and would on several occasions exceed the challenging expectations of…

Imagine being at work, school, church, the mall, the club, the movie theaters, or even in your own home and being afraid, now stop imagining, did anything change? No, because this is real life, this the real world, the world that we live in today. While The Second Amendment is used to protect Americans and their right to bear arms, It makes you think are our liberal gun laws, worth the ramifications on the wellbeing of society. A mass shooting means that 4 or more people were shot in one place…

UNIT 4 DISCUSSION The demand for money is affected by three factors: Transaction, precautionary, and speculative reasons. 1) Transaction reasons: People demand money for transaction purposes because most transactions involve an exchange of money. Also, people normally demand more money when their incomes are high, or when the GDP is high. Personally, for example, I demand money for transactions such as purchasing groceries, gas, rent, and bills. Each week I have to buy groceries and fill up…

1. Briefly discuss the importance of professional registration to your personal career Goals. Where do you want to go, and how will licensure complement your goals? 20% of engineers in the United States are licensed. This means there are a few number of people how are considered profession engineers. “Basically being a PE means that you are at the top of your game, top of your profession. They don't just hand them out to anybody!" (Randal E. Riebel, P.E.). A professional engineer is a person…

concept to me. Although I understood the legal requirements for mandated reporters, as well as the reasons when to report, I found the training to be helpful and very interesting. I chose to to my training through the California website for Pre/Post Licensed professionals. This was an extremely interesting training as it provided much more information than the usual trainings. In addition to teaching about when to report, how to report, and what to report, the training taught many other…

makes sure to thoroughly infer that sociopaths are products of their genes and environment. He later finishes stating that reason for sociopath's’ behavior is greatly society doing, due to the ostracization of the mentally ill. The article is written by Noah Rubinstein, a licensed psychologist and founder of a psychological treatment online database and news outlet. I chose this source, for Rubinstein’s strong opinion on the nature and resolution of sociopathy, which coincided with my paper. He…

Family therapy practitioners come from professional backgrounds, and some are only licensed in family therapy. Here in the United States there is a specific degree and license as well as a master 's degree that is required to be a marriage and family therapist. However, psychologists, nurses, psychotherapists, social workers, or counselors, and other licensed mental health professionals may practice family…

mental health and substance abuse treatment. The treatment provided include outpatient therapy both group and individual, medication management, inpatient crisis, community crisis intervention, residential, case management, day program for mentally ill and developmentally delayed, and forensic case management. Meridian is one of the only mental health facilities to have permanent therapist in public schools. Meridian does not only provide co-occurring treatment for children and adults but they…