Psychiatry

Locking Up for The Good of Society Mental health disabilities are one of mankind’s greatest weaknesses. There is much debate on whether or not mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, paranoia, and depression even truly exist or people make up false symptoms to gain attention or get prescription medications. With a lack of mental institutions for people to get help, the illness can cause outbursts of negative behavior which can lead to criminal acts. Jail time can only help those who are…

Racial Disparities in Mental Health Care and Ways to Avoid Them Since the 1960 's, studies have shown that racial disparities in mental health care have been prevalent in the United States. Even though more attention has been placed on these racial disparities, there is still a substantial difference in the health care and treatment that racial minorities receive when compared to white Americans. Institutions, however, such as the University of San Francisco, California, have developed new ways…

Esther and Holden’s Thoughts on Protection of Innocence, Mental Illness and Death Holden is the boy that just flunked out of his 4th or 5th school and hates everything. On the other hand, Ester is a college girl has everything that a girl her age would have ever wanted; the opportunity to spend a month in NYC editing a national magazine. One might ask what in the world possibly be the same about them? The main characters in the novels The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath and The Catcher in the Rye by J…

Mental illnesses have been around during Egyptian and Mesopotamian ages. And throughout the years many things have changed. Many right movements for the mentally ill have been made, along with many different Act’s have been ruled, and a large hand full of associations have been made to support psychiatric patients. Many people have changed their opinions on the mentally ill because they’ve finally opened their eyes to what people have to suffer through. People have been trying to treat mental…

On an average day for children ages eight to eighteen, they are engaged in some form of media for 7.5 hours (Media, Body Image, and Eating Disorders). In the 21st century, children growing up are significantly influenced by media. Media is the main means of mass communication. Media is television, radio, newspaper, magazines, the internet, and so much more. This mass form of communication is a part of everyday life, and is almost impossible to escape. Adolescents are repeatedly exposed to the…

Developmental issues can be hard to distinguish. The mental health problems of young children are often unrecognized until they become severe and difficult to treat”(e.g., Tolan & Dodge, 2005; U.S. Public Health Service, 2000a, 2000b). Not diagnosing children in earlier stages of development can be detrimental to their adulthood in many aspects. One in twenty children in America establish a form of depression before the age 19. There are multiple varieties of depression that can occur. Major…

Another factor that might have an effect on functional birth order is the sex of the children and the order in which they are born. If a family has two girls then a boy the boy will often be treated similar to that of an older child because he is the first born male. The same rule for youngest first born males also applies to youngest first born females. In both of these cases, the youngest child of the different sibling sex will act similar to the oldest child or may even act like an only child…

Being a mental health professional in the 21st century, caring for the mentally infirm, the emotionally damaged, and the spiritually afflicted from a Christian perspective can be a daunting endeavor to say the least. This is, in no small part, due to how Western civilization has come to recognize pathology, specifically psychopathology. When the word itself is broken down and viewed from its Greek origin we learn that psyche means soul, pathos means suffering, and logos means the study of.…

Stress that comes with the job of being a celebrity can affect their mental and emotional health. Celebrities these days are sometimes hard to figure out, they could be going through mental and emotional problems and we wouldn 't even know it unless some tabloid or paparazzi find out. Some celebrities these days seem to be happy and content with their lives because they achieved what they always wanted in life. Other celebrities even though they seem happy, in their mind they could be going…

Ban the Idiots, not the Guns “Guns don’t kill people” -NRA(National Rifle Association unofficial slogan). There is a problem in America, and it is gun violence. Gun violence affects people every day across the country. Gun can help people, but also kill people. But, there is not a simple answer to this problem. Gun Control has been is a controversial topic in the United States in the past few years. Both political parties have their own option on gun control. Republicans believe that…