Mental confusion

Working in field of social work I do not feel that the fieldwork has changed my perception. I started social work due to my curiosity of people will mental illness. I wanted to know what cause them to act the way they do. In my quest to uncover what cause mental illness I became captivated in helping them. I felt that to find solution to help clients with mental issues or other issues, you first have to understand what is causing the problem, and it will give you a better understanding of what…

by patients, caregivers, and community-based organizations as the point-of-system access to care foe mental health problems, resulting in a serious challenge to timely access to mental health services. Individuals will present for all manner of reasons, ranging from insomnia or difficulty coping with life crisis, to suicidal thoughts and self-harming acts, to full-blown psychotic episodes”. “Mental health patients also bring with them to the ED societal stigma, particularly concerns that they…

learned a lot about mankind and diversity in the mental health profession. They all have a similarity, but are affected differently by the same disorder. When remember looking at this population and wondering how…

author Charlotte Perkins Gilman describes the mental state of the main character, “the narrator”, through the narrator’s personal journal. In this short story, the narrator is a young new mother married to her husband who works as a doctor. She admits in her journal that her husband does not believe that she is sick and that may be the reason that she is not healing faster (467). During the late 1800’s, doctors did not have a good understanding of mental illness. It was very typical that they…

this agency because they may fall into the category of the mentally ill, higher functioning clients. Many times the homeless people that we often come into contact with or see on the streets are more than likely chronic homeless clients, dealing with mental issues but are the higher-functioning rather than the lower-functioning clients. This particular group are less likely to ever have permanent housing; the rate of the clients that graduate at the Beacon recidivism rate is less than 10%, the…

Review of Literature Research has confirmed that youth offenders experience a significantly higher rate of diagnosable mental and behavioral health disorders in relation to the general youth population. More specifically, Schubert and Mulvey (2014) reported that, “roughly 50 to 70 percent of juvenile offenders experience a diagnosable mental or behavioral health disorder, whereas only 9 to 13 percent of youth in the general population experience a diagnosable disorder” (p.3). Scholars have also…

Does it ask all of the necessary questions to determine what the client’s presenting problem is? The Mental Health Intake Form (See Appendix) asks all of the pertinent information to determine the client’s presenting problem. The first page has a question concerning the purpose the client is seeking treatment. The first page also requests that the client list what their treatment goals are, check off their current symptoms and complete a suicide risk assessment. The symptoms checklist has 22…

care. Even though poor child care is an opinion based on who views it, it does lead to struggle in later life because scientific proof shows that mental illness can form and children can get kicked out of the classroom due to communication issues. A child that was plagued with poor child care by his or her caretaker has a high chance of developing mental illnesses later down the line. According to the article “Early Childhood…

novel went into detail about the mental institutions and how the patients were treated in an insane asylum in Oregon. Events that happened to Kesey throughout his childhood and adult life reflect within the novel and help give the reader insight into what life was really like in the 1960s. His personal experiences through his jobs reveal some of the dark spots of mental health during this time period. Ken Kesey explains the harsh treatment of patients in the 1960's mental institutions through…

understand what my parents said to each other night after night. I would be laying in bed and listening to curse words, harsh remarks and threats almost every night. I didn’t seem to know that this form of anger from my Father would deteriorate my mental health, eventually leaving me…