Psychiatric and mental health nursing

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is the nation 's largest grassroots organization for people with mental illness and their families. NAMI is a nonprofit organization that provides education on mental health illnesses, whose purpose is also providing advocacy and support to people and families affected by mental health disorders. NAMI has largely been a force for good in the advocacy of information about mental health issues; equal treatment and access to treatment, and helping…

do not receive any form of treatment. Others are on “meaningless and outdated” treatment plans or abruptly stop receiving medication. In recent years, there have been major cuts to substance-abuse programs in jails. Many jails and prisons have psychiatric units, but some refuse to accept violent inmates into these units, claiming that they must face consequences for their actions. Ironically, punishments like solitary confinement are likely to exacerbate violent and self-harming behavior, while…

research can be recognized. Perhaps the most interesting and well recognized ways mental health care professionals can help individuals is through the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. The goal of an accurate diagnosis and effective treatment sounds simple enough, but the scientific, political, and medical fields rarely agree on the best way to achieve it. There is even a large debate over what a mental disorder is in the first place. The controversy of focus here though will be…

PTSD. These mental disorders would begin following these men as they returned from either the battlefields or the hospitals, the injuries following them…

of her children. Over the past two years, Susie youngest daughter has been using drugs and alcohol, running away, and being promiscuous which has resulted in the family being open to Schuylkill County Human Services. Susie has many medical and mental health issues. Susie…

Many know of the controversy surrounding the syphilis experiment conducted in Tuskegee, Alabama by the U.S. Public Health Service at the Tuskegee Institute. During this experiment, African American males were withheld from getting treatment for syphilis. However, not many people know about the controversy surrounding Dr. J. Marion Sims, the “Father of Gynecology.” Sims is greatly known for perfecting a surgery to cure vesicovaginal fistula (VVF). Vesicovaginal fistula is a tear that extends from…

If health care companies can eventually diagnose mental illness by social media activity, it would be wise to reach out to users in a personal way, rather than simply a notification. In addition, lack of consideration that users are not always honest with posts and lack of in-depth analysis with every single user will subsequently lead to extreme controversy for social media platforms and health care companies. Furthermore, the stigma that medical…

In a Ted talk titled “Confessions of a depressed comic,” 19 year-old comedian and mental health activist Kevin Breel states that every 30 seconds, someone commits suicide. This adds up to almost 3,000 deaths every day. According to the CDC’s suicide datasheet, an estimated 9.3 million adults in the US reported having suicidal thoughts in 2013. That’s 3.9% of the entire population of the United States. Now, these numbers can seem so gargantuan, almost unbelievably so, that they fly over the heads…

appreciation, health care, and guidance concerning proper diet, illnesses, drug abuse, and general care during pregnancy. Lack of social and family support during pregnancy and after childbirth also puts the young adults at a great risk (Oberlander & Black, 2011). This paper seeks to discuss the relationship between family and social support and the health of adolescent mothers. Moreover, the paper will analyse the impact of the information from the discussion to future nursing practice of…

Cofactor in violence Among People With Mental Disorders, Silver explains how the mental ill are more likely to live in socially disorganized neighborhoods. Silver studies the violent behaviors of the mentally ill through an individual level and social contexts. It is stated that high rates of insanity appear to cluster in the deteriorated regions surrounding the center of the city because the “confused, frustrated, and chaotic” behaviors of people with mental illness resulted in them living in…