Mental health law

Most experts tend to say that mental illness causes veterans to make poor judgement or cannot really function back into society. While there are programs across the country that help veterans with their mental disables, but many veterans don’t really know how to receive help with their current problem. The major issue is that these veterans are not really receiving any…

Homeless with Mental Illness It seems like majority of the homeless you see on the street day to day are suffering from some sort of mental illness. The stereotype of any mentally ill homeless person is schizophrenic, bi-polar or manically depressed. More than 124,000 – or one-fifth – of the 610,000 homeless people across the USA suffer from a severe mental illness, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. (Jervis, 2016) Why is it when you just look at as a whole that…

injury is a result of a self-harming behavior or a suicide attempt (Trepal, et al., 2007). Once determined that the behavior is indeed self-harm the treatment process could move on and consider likely possibilities. Due to the high association, mental health professionals likely should probe to see if the client has a past experience with abuse. If it has been determined that there has been experiences of abuse than treatment may be given and the abuse could be ended if it is ongoing.…

questions pertaining to their mental illness. Thus, the treatment team, usually the psychologist, conducts thorough inquiry into the patient’s bio, psycho, and social history, by use of the psychosocial assessment inventory form. This information is gathered from either one on one interview, or through the courts, and from previous commitments. Additionally, in regards to treatment and goal setting the treatment team also assess patients through suicide risks assessments, mental status exams,…

Mirror Therapy in Conjunction with Conventional Therapy The Benefits of Mirror Visual Feedback Introduction Optical illusions have long been thought of as fun experiments to trick our eyes. It is difficult to imagine a circumstance in which we could use an optical illusion in a rehabilitation setting to help improve a patient's condition. It wasn't until about two decades ago that Ramachandran and his colleagues had the idea of using something similar to an optical illusion to help reduce…

More often the answer to this question is no and probably for good reason, despite the counselor's intent of wanting to help those who want or trying to recover from alcohol and drugs, the outcome may not be what is being looked for for. The alcohol and drug counselor, may struggle with cognitive dissonance (behavioral and attitude issues) that will help them focus on there own recovery instead of the clients. The problem with someone going through therapy and recovery themselves can be a…

depression, bipolar disorders, and other mental and physical conditions. The idea of performing lobotomies was taken from a similar experiment performed on two monkeys named Becky and Lucy. Dr. John Fulton and Dr.…

Schizophrenia can be described as “a mental disorder that is characterized by a person’s abnormal patterns of thought and perception” (Corcoran & Walsh, 2015). The cause of this illness is still unknown. Schizophrenia occurs in all socioeconomic classes. However, there are many individuals within the lower socioeconomic class, who receive this diagnosis. Reasons include increased stressors due to living in a low socioeconomic area. A diagnosis has a lot of power in an individual’s life.…

My immediate reaction to Haywire: Children Living with Schizophrenia (2010), was disappointment because of how the media portrayed Schizophrenia, which contributes to exacerbating the stigma. This was evidenced by the insensitive use of language when phrases such as, “The innocent siblings in a psychotic world” and “Down the rabbit hole of hallucinations, for these kids and families, it’s no fairytale”, were used to spike the viewers’ interest. The broadcast seemed to provide the viewers with…

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:…