Mental health

legal, ethical and NSW Health Policy contexts to show the rationale of a cto and the powers behind this treatment order. Involuntary Community Treatment Orders (CTOs) are sectioned under the mental health legislation of each jurisdiction in Australia. CTOs are a legal document which gives authority to a mental health team to give coercive treatment to consumers with a mental illness while still living at home in the community. The consumers with persistent or severe mental illness are most…

screening children for their mental health, could schools prevent campus violence? This article has the opinions of 6 mental health experts on whether or not schools should screen their students for mental health problems. Most of their points support the screening in schools based on many factors. The lack of mental health care causes a burden to many children. Since school is where students spend a majority of their time,it is the ideal place to have access to mental health screening and…

University of Minnesota to expand mental health services 2. Associated Press. (2017, April 08). University of Minnesota to expand mental health services. Retrieved April 08, 2017, from http://www.sctimes.com/story/news/local/2017/04/08/university-minnesota-expand-mental-health-services/100215186/ 3. The University of Minnesota’s School of Nursing is going to use a $2.1 million grant to expand mental health services to undeserved parts of the state. 4. A health director, Amy Ward, for the Wilder…

Topic Overview Mental health in the corrections system has been a persistent problem since the dawn of incarceration. For a long period, before we knew about mental health disorders, people suffering from these diseases often ended up in prisons. In the 1840’s, a woman named Dorothea Dix began to investigate the treatment of mentally ill in the prison system. She soon urged for the creation of institutions that would house and treat mentally ill, rather than condemn them to jail cells. Dix…

In this assignment I intend to discuss, in detail, the importance of mental health nurses in promoting recovery in persons with mental health difficulties. I will mention how nurses work in multi-disciplinary teams and the role they undertake as part of the multi-disciplinary team. Throughout the assignment I also wish to explore the general needs of sufferers of mental health illnesses and the skills and knowledge must gain to help promote the recovery of sufferers. In more recent times more…

Mental Health Counselor Being a Mental Health Counselor has many important things that you have to do and many skills that you have. The educational requirements for this job are; you have to have a Master’s degree and you have to be state licensed. It requires six years of college education. The first four years you go to school to get your Bachelor’s degree and then the next two years it is to get your Master’s degree. The colleges that are good to go to for this job are; John’s Hopkins…

Research Study This study aims to better understand the prevalence of mental health within the homeless population. In order for this to be achieved, this study will survey a population of homeless people who are at risk of being homeless, have been homeless in the past, or are currently homeless. This is the dependent variable for this study so this criterion must be met in order for them to be part of the sample. Being at risk for homelessness will be determined by their income level being at…

socially. All levels of health can be described differently by the person based on individual perspective. Physical health is when the body is free from disease or any abnormality and is in that “optimal state of well-being”. Rest and sleep can play a huge role in physical health both negatively and positively, which can be well tested as one goes through first semester of nursing school. A well balanced diet and proper fluid intake health promote good levels of physical health whereas alcohol…

Mental Health Care for Children and Adolescents Our treatment of children and adolescents with mental health problems will be a candidate for moral rejection if it isn’t already. Without proper treatment, many young people end up with tragic consequences including suicide, substance abuse, involvement in the correctional system and the inability to live independently. If we do not do something now to protect and treat this population, we will only be able to blame ourselves and our future…

easy to say that these players are living their dreams with no struggles or downfalls. Behind the hidden doors of football, many of these players are facing a trauma that is not easy to resolve, mental health. This trauma does not only come from concussions and physical discomfort, but also through mental instability. The problem today is that numerous football fans envision that players are cut off from this present reality with their popularity and fortune as a way to escape life’s daily…