Mental health professionals

Diego Maradona was a professional soccer player most known for his International achievements. It was said that he failed a couple of drug tests and that he was on cocaine. Many people lost respect for him when they heard this. He denied doing drugs at first, but he then admitted to it. Professional athletes should be banned from their sport for doing drugs because young people look up to them and they are putting a bad example. Doping in sports is not allowed in any sport, and should not be…

Analysis Sandra’s mental illness, bipolar affective disorder, also known as manic depression, is a common psychiatric disorder (Otto 2011). Bipolar disorder often includes natural periods of remission but commonly relapses if adherence treatment is poor (Grande et al 2016). As shown in Sandra’s case, bipolar affective disorder is characterised by both manic and depressive episodes that is severe enough to cause substantial personal distress, impairment to daily living, social functioning and…

a. Significance of the research and literature review Mental health problems are currently considered as a burden in Vietnam. However, there are inadequate studies conducted in the country in this field. In few existed studies in mental health in Vietnam, the researchers present a fact that most Vietnamese people have limited perception of mental health, which leads to stigma and discrimination toward people having mental health problems. Those stigma and discrimination sometimes are…

validity of mental illnesses as an actual genetic issue or something society controls has come to the surface for researchers. Those that self evaluate themselves by diagnosing a mental illness are ones that are the focus point for whether mental illness is actually an illness, or if societal opinion is corrupting their personal belief about their state of mind. An article that comes from Opposing Viewpoints-Overview of Mental Illness, gages the question of society being an aid to mental…

America’s broken mental health care system has been a controversial topic for nearly two hundred years. It affects not only the mentally ill, but also their families and their communities. The evolution of the health care system leaves America currently with a system that is not serving the needs of her patients; instead, the organization’s close-minded philosophy leaves a majority of the mentally ill homeless or in prison, provides inadequate care for the few people who are lucky enough to…

Mental illness has been a hot topic in recent news. From Sandy Hook to the Aurora movie theatre shooting, effects of mental illness has sparked fierce debate and a negative stigma surrounding the issue. However, only 59.6% of individuals with a mental illness report receiving treatment, as often those with mental disorders are seen as “dangerous, unpredictable, responsible for their illness, or incompetent” (Corrigan, Druss, and Perlick). With so much riding on the issue, a question needs to be…

Mental illness in this country, and throughout the world, is a huge, and ever-growing problem. More and more people suffer from mental illness every year and suicide is becoming more and more common. The statistics are troubling, and the way we treat people with mental illness is even more distressing. The root of the problem is the stigma and the outright discrimination against people with mental illness, but in this speech I will specifically address the systemic issues in our country in…

reporting of mental health checks was the Virginia Tech Massacre, in April 2007, where a Virginia 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…

harmful to the individual’s mental and physical health which can affect their personal relationships and ability to function in society. Stress and anger management is highly useful for professional social workers to help individuals incorporate productive coping skills that can recondition maladaptive behaviors when reacting to stressful situations. Negative results from maladaptive coping skills are the underlying cause of symptoms which can manifest themselves in mental dysfunction such as…

for MFTs to be well versed in the use of pharmacotherapy as a treatment option for many type of disorders their clients present. Before any of this though, MFTs should examine our own beliefs and preconceived ideas about psychotropic drugs and mental health. Some students say that children are over medicated, for example. Or perhaps you have seen positive results with medication. In this course you will learn about the potential for medication use with certain clients suffering from certain…