Psychiatry

candidates on all levels of mental health issues. Mental illness does not discriminate; it affects Republicans and Democrats alike (NAMI, n.d.). NAMI’s advocacy efforts, particularly with Congress and NIMH, reinforced the central tenets of diagnostic psychiatry. NAMI has worked with legislators to introduce and pass laws that would end the discriminatory treatment of those with mental disorders in all insurance plans and companies. A new bill, The Comprehensive Behavioral Health and Recovery…

Have you ever been diagnosed with a mental illness? What was once an idea of human sadness and compassion is now the idea that anyone who suffers from normal sadness, because of societal or personal reasons, is not happy enough and requires medication. The author, Sharon Begley, wrote a piece called “Happiness: Enough Already. This piece focuses on how society is turning into a group of people that believes they will never be happy enough. The tone is centered on fact and it conveys a…

Mental health care and psychiatry is an evolving and contentiously developing practice that leads to continuous emerging issues. One of these issues is the use of physical restraint on mentally ill people which some individuals accept and agree with whilst others disagree with it because it is a practice that is open to abuse and that it causes upset and distress to the individual being restrained. The ethics surrounding the use of physical restraint when treating mental health patients is a…

critically look at the topic “Dilemma of Psychiatric Extend Lengths of Stay in the Emergency Department”. The critique highlights the reasons, the effects of the delayed stay of Psychiatric patients in the emergency rooms as well as the solutions. Psychiatry is a branch of science which deals with diagnostics, and treatments as well as prevention of illnesses concerned with mental, emotions and changes in behavior. A take home from such stay is that is majorly the risks and the costs associated…

Electroconvulsive therapy uses electricity to induce seizures in the brain. It is used to treat severe depression, treatment-resistant depression, severe mania, catatonia, agitation and aggression in people with dementia. This type of therapy originated in Italy during the late 1930’s. Previous methods of inducing seizures had been much more dangerous and feared by patients. A chemical called Metrazol was used to induce seizures and patients who had used it reported feeling immense terror before…

INTRODUCTION Serious Mental Illness (SMI) – also called severe or chronic mental illness – can be defined as mental infirmities that affect individuals long enough to result “… in functional impairment which substantially interferes with or limits one or more major life activities. … All of these disorders have episodic, recurrent, or persistent features; however, they vary in terms of severity and disabling effects” (Federal Register, 1993). Grave forms of depression and a wide range of…

Elizabeth Li Professor Kathryn Kahn TA 100W 29 September 2014 Schizophrenic Soldiers During the Second World War Schizophrenia treatment has evolved since the 1940s. Today, schizophrenic patients can receive antipsychotic medications, psychosocial treatments, specialized rehabilitation programs, and cognitive behavioral therapy. Although psychiatric care had significantly improved since the First World War, World War II military hospitals were not without their flaws. During the Second World War…

exhibit a sense of entitlement. This article is part of one of the five Pulitzer Prize-winning volumes in Children of Crisis (1967-1978). Cole is qualified to discuss such a matter for he studied the issues of children, and got hired as a professor of psychiatry, at Harvard University in medical humanities, as well he did researches. Coles present state that the prosperity of family is not the reason that might spoil the child but he stresses the effects of wealth aren’t necessarily corruption…

When we are ill, we trust our General Practitioners to provide the best treatment available. Doctors take care of all our general healthcare needs. If they do not have the capacity to treat us, we trust to be referred to a specialist that handles our specific needs. This is especially true when the main concern is our children’s mental health. Unfortunately, it has become much more common to get a psychiatric prescription from a primary doctor than from a Psychiatrist; The correct treatment or…

According to recent findings, 1 in 5 Adults have a mental health condition. That's over 40 million Americans; more than the populations of New York and Florida combined (Mental Health America). A Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner makes medical and psychiatric diagnoses, conducts physical and mental health assessments, designs treatment plans, prescribes medications, provides counseling and therapy, and takes on many other tasks to promote psychological health and well-being. Neuropsychological…