Psychiatry

Dance/movement therapy is a type of therapy that uses movement to help people achieve emotional, mental, physical and social integration. Movement is used as a vehicle for self-expression since it works with the entire person, it integrates movement, creative process, and verbal communication. It is beneficial for the physical and mental health. It can be used to reduce stress, prevent diseases and mood management. It also increased muscular strength, coordination, mobility, and decrease…

Has Kim Kardashian gained too much weight? Is Meghan Trainor’s song, “All About That Bass,” a new forefront in body positivity? Are people unhealthily wrapped up in health? Many people wouldn’t think so, but lately eating habits, excessive exercise, and even yoga, have been popularized into big fads, and not actual solutions. Society focuses on how your body looks and judges you based on it; nobody thinks to ask about the state of your mental health. Over twenty percent of people worldwide…

There is an ever present negative stigma against those suffering from mental illnesses in the world today. Even though around 1 in every 4 people, aged 18 or older, suffer from a diagnosable mental illness, most of the population still view these people with distrust and even worse, disgust. In order to stop this stigma we must first admit that there is one and see the full extent of it. In doing this we find ways to address the problem and educate the population in ways that will…

This student encountered a case involving an 11-year-old Hispanic female, who was brought into services by her mother for school performance issues. According to the girl’s mother, the client is smart but struggles with staying focused on school work in both her school and home environments. The following paper provides a client map of this client’s case, which includes her diagnosis and treatment options. Also, this student presents an analysis of several diagnoses considered during the…

BIID, Bodily Integrity Identity Disorder, formally known as, apotemnophilia (love of amputation), is “a psychologically based condition in which an individual has a fantasy of having a missing limb”("Apotemnophilia ", 2016). In patients diagnosed with BIID who do not receive the surgery they need, the desire to have an amputation is so overbearing that they will go to extreme lengths to conduct the operation themselves. Patients have been known to “pour drain cleaner into her [their]…

The classical labeling theory, first introduced by Frank Tannenbaum in 1938, focuses on rejection, stereotyping, and stigma as factors leading to the demoralization and social exclusion of individuals (Gyllensten, 2011). We believe that individuals with a mental illness experience this demoralization and social exclusion. Through providing education we attempt to alter stigmas that are potentially present. As assumed by this theory, this will lead to an increased social acceptance. Restrictive,…

Malo has a dysfunctional family that affects everyone in their home in different ways. Uzi misbehave in school and been expelled from every school he attended. Malo hangs outside and steals his mom car. Chaka is never home and when he is home he do not stay for long. All the troubles from Uzi, Malo, and Chaka does nothing but stress Amina out who already have mental illness and choose not to speak on it but write about her troubles in a journal. Malo decides to read his mom journal one day…

The term Medical Model is used to refer to abnormal behavior. Abnormal behavior includes mental illness, psychological disorder, and psychopathology disease. The medical model purpose is that it is useful to think of abnormal behavior as a disease. By treating abnormal behavior as if it were to be a disease, the individual(s) who are diagnosed with the illness can receive the treatment that need. With the rise of the medical model, the individual(s) who fall victim to the illness are viewed…

The Pursuit of Happiness The Declaration of Independence declares that life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are inalienable rights that have been bestowed to all humanity by its Creator. While Americans enjoy the benefits of life and liberty, the pursuit of happiness seems to lead many down a road that ends in a very unhappy state. That state of despondency, in which many people of our nation seem to have found themselves, is having a devastating effect on the quality of life of…

Interventions Increasing Quality of Care Quality of care for those who are mentally ill or at risk of suicide is a crucial aspect of reducing the suicide rate. Quality care involves sufficient, well trained professionals who can act quickly to treat patients. General Practioners General Practioners are the primary point of contact for most people entering the health system, and as such are the first line of treatment for those suffering from mental illness or at risk of suicide. However,…