Mental Health Measures in Schools Essay

conversational topic in the mental health care field today. Some professionals believe that religion effects mental health in a positive way, other professionals believe that religion affects mental health in a negative way. It’s hard to decide which side is right, because there’s a lot of “expectation to the rules,” when it comes to religion and mental health. Whenever we think of someone who considers themselves to be religiously orientated we normally don’t think of people in mental…

most part seen in mental health facilities. These cases are documented in the United States as far back as 1849, when they were known as, “Bell Mania.” In these documented cases from the McLeon Asylum in Massachusetts under the care of Dr. Bell there were 40 cases which all required restraints and resulted in a 75% fatality rate. In the State of Carolina between the years of 1915-1937 there were 360 documented fatalities that listed the cause of death as, “exhaustion due to mental…

According to UK law, under the Mental Health Act of 1983, a person may be legally detained if they are suffering from a mental illness which makes it appropriate for them to receive medical treatment in a hospital, and it is necessary for the safety of the patient or other people that they receive this treatment, which can’t be provided unless the patient is detained . One definition of mental illness states that it is ‘a condition which causes serious disorder in a person’s behaviour or…

While medications are effective in treating most mental disorders, therapy may be the best option for the treatment of mild disorders such as depression and anxiety. Therapy means a healthier, safer, more cost effective form of treatment for people suffering from these conditions. The first records of depression appeared in Mesopotamian texts from around 2000 B.C. These texts stated that the cause of this illness was demonic possession. Named melancholia after the gloomy sadness it caused.…

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is the nation 's largest grassroots organization for people with mental illness and their families. NAMI is a nonprofit organization that provides education on mental health illnesses, whose purpose is also providing advocacy and support to people and families affected by mental health disorders. NAMI has largely been a force for good in the advocacy of information about mental health issues; equal treatment and access to treatment, and helping…

inmates is if the inmate wins a case of cruel and unusual punishment. The inmate 's lawyer must prove “deliberate indifference” on the part of the administration. Pfeiffer provides the example of a jail that claimed to have “a mental heath services division, a mental health director, and case files.” In reality, none of these…

research can be recognized. Perhaps the most interesting and well recognized ways mental health care professionals can help individuals is through the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. The goal of an accurate diagnosis and effective treatment sounds simple enough, but the scientific, political, and medical fields rarely agree on the best way to achieve it. There is even a large debate over what a mental disorder is in the first place. The controversy of focus here though will be…

PTSD. These mental disorders would begin following these men as they returned from either the battlefields or the hospitals, the injuries following them…

of her children. Over the past two years, Susie youngest daughter has been using drugs and alcohol, running away, and being promiscuous which has resulted in the family being open to Schuylkill County Human Services. Susie has many medical and mental health issues. Susie…

Many know of the controversy surrounding the syphilis experiment conducted in Tuskegee, Alabama by the U.S. Public Health Service at the Tuskegee Institute. During this experiment, African American males were withheld from getting treatment for syphilis. However, not many people know about the controversy surrounding Dr. J. Marion Sims, the “Father of Gynecology.” Sims is greatly known for perfecting a surgery to cure vesicovaginal fistula (VVF). Vesicovaginal fistula is a tear that extends from…