Mental health law

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…

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?…

This paper aimed to assess the extent that viewing mental illness as either biopsychosocial or psychosocial, has an effect on stigma or social exclusion and help seeking behaviour. It sought to determine if there is any change to the consequences on stigma and help seeking when either model is used. A multistage cluster sample of 381 participants interviewed face to face. Each participant was provided a fictional vignette about schizophrenia to read and respond to. The results were analysed by…

A collaborative effort involving 15 agencies was formed and introduced the Federal Strategic Action Plan on Services for Victims of Human Trafficking in the United States that covers a 5-year period. The Federal Strategic Action Plan defines four goals, eight objectives, and contains more than 250 associated action items for victim service improvements (Presidents, I.T.F.T.). The four goals are to align efforts by promoting a strategic, coordinated approach to the provision of services for…

Echoing the quote used earlier when examining social interactions and those with ID, “one common assumption, often limiting participation in research, is that people with IDD are a homogenous group with similar opinions, experiences, and severities of impairments” (p 9). Besides the quote influencing social interactions, this quote can also be used to express society’s views of those with ID. As a majority of social interactions are linked to society’s views as a whole. The influence of…

Doctors still find it difficult to diagnose this mental illness, as not long ago, it was often confused with Unipolar Disorder Schizophrenia. However, in today's world, there is a better understanding of mental illness. Psychiatrists usually base the diagnosis on abnormal behavior reported by the patient's parents, teachers, or close friends. Psychotherapy is also a very useful tool for a diagnoses. Signs detected during sessions are taken into consideration. Along with evaluations, there are…

ADHD formally was recognized as a disorder by the medical community and included in the DSM II in 1968 under the title hyperkinetic reaction of childhood. This then expanded to include criteria for adults in the DSM 5 of 2013. However before the inclusion in the DSM II there were several examples of attention problems by early physicians and philosophers. The earliest reference to attention was made by William Shakespeare. In 1623 Shakespeare describes one of the characters in King Henry VIII…

CSA has been linked to mental health issues in the victim’s adult lives such as depression, PTSD, and anxiety to mention a few (Johnson, Pike and Chard, 2001). It was found that women who had a history of CSA are more likely to experience these outcomes than those women who were not abused (Romans, Martin, and Mullen, 1997). In a study conducted by Catan and Sossalla (2015), a sample of 56 volunteers who were at a welfare center who attended people with intellectual disabilities was gathered.…

Environmental therapies provide a powerful element of consequence, containment and motivation that give children and families the chance of self-knowledge, self-awareness and understanding (Fryer-Kelsey et al., 2012) Environmental therapies are based on the human behaviour or behaviourism, which emphasize the importance of external factors in producing thoughts within the human mind. Most of the behavioural therapies are based on the classical conditioning (Ingleby and Oliver, 2012). An…

gender influences on mental illness perception, however, seem to focus on media impacts, the characterizations of mentally ill persons in popular culture, and long term attitudes towards the mentally ill in relation to mental health literacy or illness recognition, usually taking the form of a meta or content analysis (Pirkis, Blood, Francis, & McCallum, 2006; Lauber, Nordt, Falcato, & Rossler, 2003; Nairn, 2007). When literature utilizes an experimental design concerning mental illness…