Mental health professionals

He prefers a mental institution over the prison because he believes that it will be more comfortable for him. Yet, he faces the reality quickly: Once you are in a mental institution, everything you do becomes a sign of insanity. McMurphy is depicted as a pretty sane person in the beginning of the movie. He dresses up relatively nicer than other…

Mental Health and Addiction Assignment: In traditional model of mental health services, the decision making to treat a mental health client was carried out by the clinicians (Ministry of Health, 1995). Nowadays, in the contemporary mental health, the consumers are working together with the health professionals to provide a therapeutic contribution to mental health care (Mcallister & Walsh, 2004). The providers especially nurses are relying on the relationship negotiated with their clients to…

organization that strives to detect, treat, and prevent depression more effectively. The UMDC explains in their article “Journaling” that through keeping track of things like thoughts, feelings, and ideas in a journal, people can assess their mental health and treatment progression. In addition to writing being utilized as a way of record keeping, expressive writing improves psychological well-being, argued by Drake Baer in his article “Expressive Writing’ Is A Super Easy Way To Become Way…

Depression is a common mental disorder that affects over 20 million people in the U.S. The world health organization estimate that depression will be the second highest medical disability by 2030, this illness affects people of all ages, cultures, social positions, geographic, and demographic locations. Exposure to violence, abuse, neglect, and poverty are the likely reasons people become susceptible and vulnerable to the illness of depression. What if you were suffering from depression…

Shame Resilience and Jung’s Transpersonal Theory Applied to Mental Illness Mental illness is something that touches almost everyone, and it is important to understand the ways that people can deal with their illnesses. Although there are an overwhelming number of theories that can be applied to therapy practices, I wanted to look at theories that were a little more individual. Two theories that caught my attention when thinking about how people cope were shame resilience theory and…

A Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is a form of psychotherapy and it was originally designed to be treated as a depression, and now it is used for a numeral of mental disorders. This helps to solve some problems and also change unhelpful thinking and also behavior. A fluoxetine is a synthetic compound that inhibits the uptake of serotonin in the brain and is taken to the treat depression. If they are older the…

that makes them more prone to severe mental illness. They fall…

Behavioral Health and Passages Family Support. Erin stated that she is currently on a lot of medications; however, she could only remember two…

States, at over 38,000 deaths per year (Pg. 284). For this reason many people, including professionals, have emphasized the importance of suicide prevention. Teletherapies are a very practical and effective way to aid in the suicide prevention effort. Teletherapy is a convenient and easily accessible therapy method for both psychologists and clients a like. It benefits clients with a variety of metal health issues and can help reach people anywhere they are. It can also be planned around a busy…

young age, she had to learn to survive and adapt while addiction and mental illness destroyed her family. In her memoir Breaking Night, Liz takes her readers through her difficult, yet inspiring journey from being a homeless teenager to a student at the prestigious, Ivy League college, Harvard University. Little is more daunting than being diagnosed with mental illness or observing someone you love struggling with addiction. Mental illness and addiction does not only affect the person but also…