Mental health professional

Kennedy Ms. Ragan 12B English 3rd 28 March 2016 Beating Mental Illness Imagine a normal day, the sun is out, and there is a pedestrian crossing the street. This pedestrian has to walk in front of a car that is waiting for them to cross. They walk quickly across the street in fear that the driver waiting for them thinks that they are taking too long. This pedestrian starts shaking, suddenly she doesn’t have control of her body or mental state. She is overcome with worry and self doubt.…

The Pursuit of Happiness The Declaration of Independence declares that life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are inalienable rights that have been bestowed to all humanity by its Creator. While Americans enjoy the benefits of life and liberty, the pursuit of happiness seems to lead many down a road that ends in a very unhappy state. That state of despondency, in which many people of our nation seem to have found themselves, is having a devastating effect on the quality of life of…

that stood out to me from these groups were athletic trainer, counselor, dental hygienist, teacher, social workers, physical therapist, and health administrator. The Career Profile scores were high for social, enterprising, and artistic interest. The suggested careers obtained from this inventory were health care social workers, school counselor, mental health counselor, speech-language pathologist, and and occupational therapist. If I were to select three careers that the inventory…

agencies are located within all areas of health and human services. Some examples are hospitals, nursing homes, family counseling, and home care agencies. However, the meaning of sectarianism will vary significantly within each agency. It is difficult to access the number of health and human services agencies that are related to religious organizations (Ellor, Netting, and Thibault, 1999, pp.…

on adolescents’ mental health outcomes. This essay will explore the question of if social media has a positive or negative impact on an adolescents’ mental health. Social media that is the most prominently mentioned…

Youth Horizons Clinical case management Youth Horizons provides a range of services to meet the needs of children, young people and their families/whānau with challenging conduct, anti-social behaviour and/or mental health needs. Youth Horizons use their own strategies which are expressed all over New Zealand with assistances of three major environments. These are in home support which is within the home of a young person. Secondly, community which is supported in a community based surroundings…

were confined to mental institutions from 1955 to 2010 may have had the opportunity to use the money saved or not used to run the institutions on something considered to be more important at the time. In 1955 there was a peak of 560,000 mentally ill in psychiatric hospitals and by 2010 that number dropped to 43,000. (Pan, McClelland, Vongkiatkajorn, Levintova, & Patterson, 2013) With a drop of 92.32% I believe there may have been quite a bit of money saved but I also read mental institutions…

A Theoretical Approach to Psychiatric Nursing The importance of theory within the psychiatric nursing setting is to develop foundations for one’s practice. Once a foundation is established nursing theory improves patient care, enhances professional development, improves interpersonal relationships and provides the framework necessary for further educational enhancement. By definition theory is described as “a set of interrelated concepts that provide testable relationships and direction or…

self-administered as the difficulty of interpretation of some clinical terms. Once the questions are answered the number is added up and the higher the score the more severe the depression. With the Hamilton score, mental status and history of present and past history, the mental health professional can assess the…

The amount of individual that go through the criminal justice system that have a mental illness has become a growing issue in the criminal justice system. Many individual that enter the criminal justice system are bound to end up in prison, where they have little access to mental health help. The amount of individual that enter the criminal justice system that have a serious mental illness is estimated to be 16.9 percent. These individuals are usually repeat offenders that circulate through the…