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Contemporary Appalachia, Transportation Challenges, and Mental Health

Transportation in Appalachia presents problems both in terms of the public and private variety. In summary, public transportation ...

Health and the Effects of Gender Roles

the need to purge what one had just consumed in order to "return for additional eating, drinking and merriment" (Kuehnel, 2002)....

Family Therapy - Three Different Models

Batesons cybernetics model (Niolan, 2002). Tucker (2002, PG) notes that to Bateson familial problems exist in a system of units a...

Overview of Mental Health Courts

is not an issue in Missouris Boone County, however. There, the local Mental Health Board of Trustees has the power to bypass the ...

States of Consciousness

is indicative of REM sleep. If one has reached Stage IV, it is indicative that one will shortly be entering the REM stage where d...

Memory and Brain Effects of Classical Music

two separated mood dimensions - arousal and pleasantness - as they related to mood-dependent memory (MDM), having respondents spea...

President John F. Kennedy's 1963 Community Mental Health Law

a problem that is difficult to define adequately. There is much competition in the health field, and in the mental health field t...

How Mental Agility Can be Achieved During the Aging Process

phenomena occur in the brain and are directly associated with the hippocampus area in particular. The physiology of the phenomena...

Penal System and Mental Illness

population. The figure had been in line with a previous literature review which suggested that about 6 to 15% (1999, p.210) of peo...

Goals and Mental Health Nursing

Frank seems reluctant to leave. Realizing that Frank needs to be met on a different level, Susan switches back to the "Be-with" mo...

British Nursing Advocacy and Law

underlying the formulation of the nurse-patient relationship. According to Mallik (1998) a great deal of the literature on this to...

Animal Cognition and Intelligence

Those misgivings largely fell away with Griffins studies into the communication systems of bees. He used that work to prove anima...

How to Serve a Client with Multiple Physical and Mental Health Issues

combination of these factors can lead to an increase rate of CNS deterioration which in turn can lead to increased neurological si...

Animals and Their Therapeutic Benefits

social contact with others. They may be lost in their own world because they are essentially put into a retirement home and left t...

Social, Physical, and Mental Health and Their Value

problem can affect and be affected by mental processes and social interaction. A common problem that will serve particularly well...

Cocaine Use During Pregnancy Impact Study Research Plan

of a very important area. This is an area where there has been some interest taken already, but this is also a complex area due to...

Mentally Challenged Individuals and Contract Law

stories are legendary about people who receive their tattoos under the influence. The problem is that with mentally challenged i...

Senior Citizen Mental Illness Workplace Management and Prevention of Violence

to nonadherence to medication in the mentally ill elderly is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connot...

Infant Development and Breast Feeding

They are believed to work by enhancing the function of infant T and B cells (Field, 2005). "Neutrophils" are another important pl...

Mental Illness and Substance Abuse Dual Diagnoses

context of the problem of addressing dual-diagnosed populations. The Dual Diagnosis The term dual diagnosis is a relative...

Restraint Uses in Psychiatric Nursing

Yet both organizations also observe that, sometimes, it is necessary to use seclusion and restraint, as a last resort, in order to...

Glenwood Resource Center Quality Measures

sets for itself for assistance in achieving its mission include customer focus, excellence, accountability and teamwork (Strategic...

Nursing and Entrepreneurial Opportunities

for APNs. One such path is to be a nurse anesthetist, who is a licensed APN who is considered to be using personal professional ju...

UK's National Health Services and Decision Making

This position is acknowledged by the government in its document The Expert Patient (DoH, 2002). However, Powers (2002) also points...

Article Overview of 'Nursing Workload Measurements in the Acute Mental Health Inpatient Units'

The methodology utilized in the study by OBrien is quantitative and includes an assessment of a review of literature, the developm...

William Glasser's Cognitive-Behavioral Approach, A Case Study

out various psychological situations. No longer is such treatment considered taboo in a world where mental imbalance is quite pre...

Mental Illness Attitudes in a Correlational Analysis

social distance. The researchers found that individuals with some knowledge of mental illness were more likely to apply stereotyp...

Therapeutic Relationship Between Nurse and Client

36). Both a therapeutic and social relationship are featured in the film Good Will Hunting (1997). The protagonist in the film, ...

Mental Health Services and Limited Use by Asian Americans

that the theory which best describes the underlying expected relationships among variables is related to the stratification hypot...

An Analysis of an Article About Mental Illness and Attitudes of Teens

can speculate that the attitudes of peers complicates or causes depression in adolescents who suffer from mental illness, or it ma...