Psychiatric and mental health nursing

in four Americans suffer from mental illness, a number that adds up to over 45 million people (Barbara Wexler). This is not a number to be ignored and one that certainly isn’t. Over half of those aged eighteen and older received the treatment they needed between 2005 and 2006. This percentage is expected to rise and continue to rise as further developments are made to support the mentally ill; as of now, all that can be done for those suffering from a form of a mental disorder is being done.…

Risk Factors for Late-Life Suicide Article Critique In the article by Turvey, Conwell, Jones, Phillips, Simonsick, Pearson, & Wallace, (2002), titled Risk factors for late-life suicide: a prospective, community-based study, the authors wanted to know what some of the risk factors for suicide in adults ages 65 and older. They performed a 10-year long study on 14,456 individuals that met the researchers criteria to see if any particular risk factors could be identified. This is an article…

substance abuse and mental illness issues facing Maryland: Mental Illness is Maryland: Maryland has 5.6 million residents. Within that population, 175,000 adult residents currently live with serious mental illness on a daily basis. Another 62,000 children also live with mental conditions. Mental illness left untreated can have devastating consequences. In Maryland alone, 495 adults took their own life in a suicide. In many of these cases, there were undertreated or untreated mental illnesses…

Among the commonly known unethical MC practices include, stereotyping, controversial messages, targeting vulnerable groups and covert marketing. Stereotyping is to form a fixed idea that many people have about a thing or group that may often be untrue or only partly true (Merriam-webster.com 2017). For example, the elderly are often shown as ignorant, and helpless and other cultures of the world are often portrayed in a stereotypical way that may offend them and stimulate prejudices in society.…

The gender-focused event that I attended was ‘Girlfriends Guide to Mental Health: From self-loathing to self-loving’. The sold out event was presented by The Royal Ottawa Mental Health Center; a mental health care center devoted to creating faster recoveries for those suffering with mental illness. The goal of the presentation was to teach participants to “silence the malicious voice in [their] head[s], the one that says you will never be good enough, loved enough or valued enough”, as well as…

A mental illness is a disease that disturbs thoughts or behavior, resulting in not being able to cope with life’s ordinary things and routines. Mental illness is a common thing and, more than 54 million Americans suffer from a form of mental disorder each year. There are more than 200 forms of mental illness. Some of the names you might have heard are depression, anxiety, dementia, and bipolar disorder. These disorders can make a person miserable and cause issues in their life. There are many…

Mental issues does not increase the levels of violence According to, (Gilbert and Daffern, 2011) those who engage in violent and non- violent offending are likely to meet the criteria for personality disorder. Personality disorders are conditions in which individuals differ significantly from an average person this is through the way they feel, think, how they perceive things and relate to situations and people. Other symptoms may include negative feelings, emotionally disconnected, abusing…

The problem: What policy reforms are need to provide mental health care services to the nation’s rapidly increasing elderly population? Background: The U.S. population is aging at a rapid pace, by 2030, over 71 million Americans, over 20% of the population, will be 65 and older. The current system does not provide adequate mental health care services for older adults, and is ill prepared to meet the projected increase in demand (Jeste 1999). As the nation’s population ages during the next two…

of nowhere, the hunger artist loses his popularity and his audience. The hunger artist than fires his manager and joins a large circus where he later dies in a cage of what seem to be starvation. When most people see a mental ill person they automatically assume the worst. Mental illness can range from a variety of disorders, some can have mild distress that impairs a person daily life. I personally feel like mentally ill people is the most misunderstood and stigmatized out of all due to the…

My ambition to study a HND course in public services and to make career in this field has increased over the years. Working as a mental health worker and solving problems of patients suffering from a variety of mental health problems such as bipolar, schzorphinor and dementia. My roles as mental health worker include caring for patients experiencing acute mental health distress, assessing and talking to patients about their problems and discussing the best way to plan and deliver their care,…