Mental health professionals

The negative effects of mental illness and emotional health are something that most Americans are aware of and acknowledge. When mental illness and emotional health effects ethnic minorities and women there is a great amount of stigma that connects to this. If an individual is lower on the social pyramid there is less of a chance that they will be treated accordingly. Mental institutions are being closed due to a lack of resources and the ones that are open are not always sufficient or effective…

Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston reflect on experiences in the authors’ lives that have impacted their transition into womanhood. Kaysen has borderline personality disorder and recounts her struggle with mental illness during the time she spends at a mental institution when she was 18 years old. Kingston is Chinese-American and she reflects on her battles with her cultural identity in her coming-of-age memoir. Both Kingston and Kaysen include different types of…

defines this allied health field as, a career which assists people throughout the lifespan engage in the activities they want and believe are necessary by utilizing everyday activities as a means for therapy (“What is”). The field involves both psychological and physiological aspects of the patient. Therefore an occupational therapist must be trained in a variety of subjects. Mary Anne Peabody and Stephen P. Demanchick note an occupational therapist must be competent…

In Smith’s point of view, he believes that PED’s will “suddenly make the playing field even” (Smith). Smith also writes “the primary reason why Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDs) are outlawed in professional sports is that they give users an unfair advantage over the rest of the field. Various professional sports leagues have attempted to set a level playing field by testing for drug use and suspending those found guilty. This is a noble effort, but it’s clearly not working” (Smith). Smith…

concern and ethical violation to the person’s attention, trying to resolve the issue informally first (ACA, 2014, I.2.a) If neither of these are successful in resolving the issue actions can include “referring to the state or national committees on professional ethics, voluntary national certification bodies, state licensing boards, or appropriate institutional authorities” (ACA, 2014, I.2.b.) (p.19) Section #7: Enumerate the consequences (risks and benefits) of potential course of action from…

Alliance on Mental Illness called “Depression Is,” Ingrid Vasquez shares her story of her journey through depression and how her culture disrupted her mental illness. This blog is part of a series titled “You are Not Alone,” which gives individuals who have mental illness the opportunity to share their stories and impact the lives of others, whether that impact be to professionals (i.e. doctors, researchers, therapists), those who can relate to the situations (i.e. others with mental illness or…

as they relate to the principle. The article that will be summarize in this answer will be Making the Case for Peer Support’ Report to the Mental Health Commission of Canada Mental Health Peer Support Project Committee. This journal is about the principle and value of peer support. The authors in this report believes that people who have experienced mental illness and gain a state of recovery can be a benefit to others who are starting their journey. Peer support is a benefit because it has…

our society mental illness has been highly stigmatized and making it hard so people to go to a phycologist and get diagnosed or get the proper treatment for their condition. In some cases, mental illness is also dismissed as a real sickness and these attitudes that the public project on the mental ill is not only detrimental to the patients but can also have major impact on the society. So in the article the author explores a few experiments that investigates the attitudes of mental health…

emphasis on educating the public on mental health issues – for example, on the harms of delaying treatment, on the accessibility to mental health resources, as well as to the emergency and community support facilities. To address systemic barriers that exist at the levels of government and health care system, the following policy interventions have been advanced to deal with the treatment gap problem: (i) enact appropriate legislations to promote and protect mental health; (ii) develop and…

holds. The rapid decline of mental health institutions in the United States can be correlated to the rise in prison population and homelessness. America is a country with such advanced medical technology and supposed equal opportunity, and this would lead one to believe extensive resources are being poured into treatment and protection for those with mental illnesses, but this is not the case. With a disturbing history, people have a flawed idea of what inpatient mental health institutions would…