Psychiatric hospital

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“Oh, I have been in this group for more than 12 years” shared by a gentleman from a gambling anonymous (GA) group that I attended as a homework assignment. My first impression for group psychotherapy is that group will help people to reduce stress level without knowing how, why or what group counseling actually is. With the limited knowledge regarding group counseling, I am surprised to learn how much impact a support group can have for each person who participates. During the first lecture,…

The typical patients being served in Metropolitan Hospital vary from one unit to another. ED (a Level I Trauma center) sees an average of 175 patients per day divided in three main groups: adults, pediatrics and psychiatric patients. Maternity unit which uses a labor, delivery, recovery, postpartum approach (LDRP) has an average birth rate of 250 babies per month. While on medical-surgical…

perspective and labeling theory is applied in his article. As Rosenhan stated “ a psychiatric label has a life and influence of its own,” and the pseudopatients from the experiment were treated as if they were real mentally-ill patients. The pseudopatients went in the hospital complaining of hearing “hollow” and “empty” voices. They were diagnosed and labeled as schizophrenic patients and were sent to psychiatric wards. After their admission, each pseudopatients acted sane and normal. They were…

important to understand the context in which it is occurring (Matei & Antonie, 2015). In the psychiatric emergency room where I work, there has been a high degree of staff turnover and change. We have a new nurse manager. Ten nurses simultaneously left full-time positions because they received a grant to attend SUNY Upstate full-time, and become psychiatric nurse practitioners, resulting in many nurses and psychiatric techs quitting, and many starting; thus the staff is mostly new. Relatively…

consistency of psychiatric diagnoses. In this study, eight individuals were given the task of calling a psychiatric hospital and alledging that he or she had been hearing voices lately, specifically voices that were the same sex as the patient. No other differences in symptoms or history were made, besides minor altercations that would not influence diagnoseses, such as where the individual was employed. In the end, all were admitted into the different hospitals they called. Once inside the…

different types of hospitals. According to Goldsteen and Goldsteen (2013), “hospitals are classified as general, special, rehabilitation, and chronic disease, and psychiatry” (pg.37). The primary function of a general hospital is providing patients with services to treat a variety of medical conditions. Special Hospitals are facilities that treat patients with specified medical conditions, which could either be surgical or nonsurgical conditions. Rehabilitation and chronic disease hospitals…

I have been a nurse at the University of Michigan hospital for eleven years. Currently, I work in the psychiatric emergency department. Our patients’ ages range from toddlers to adults. Some of the frequent diagnoses we see are: bipolar disorder, suicidality, psychosis, anxiety, schizophrenia, and obsessive compulsive disorder. These patients can be very challenging and often have complex medical comorbidities such as cancer, diabetes, cardiac problems, and other medical problems. My job is to…

1960s initiated the idea that psychiatric drugs work by balancing brain chemistry (25). This claim suggested a cure to a biological disorder (Whitaker 25). However, this theory remains unproven. In fact, most Psychopharmacology drugs do the opposite, and decrease the accuracy of the brains ability to evoke feelings and emotions (Whitaker, 25). This decrease causes a change in personality, which increases the likelihood that a person will become ill, and get new psychiatric symptoms (Whitaker…

History of Group Work Group work is a wide-ranging training implementing the presentation of awareness and ability in operating a group to support an inter-reliant group of people to accomplish their shared objectives, which may be social, interpersonal, or related to the occupation. The history of group work began in the early 1900’s. There were many theorists who contributed to the evolution of group work. A few will be mentioned from the 1900s and a couple will be mentioned that have recently…