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Australia's System of Criminal Justice and Mental Illness

evidence in a large amount of literature that there is a link between mental illness and crimes (Drake and Pathe, 2004). T...

Relationship Between Psychiatric Nurse and Patient

formulation with others, testing new behaviors, integrating this learning into "new, more satisfying behavior, and then using thes...

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...

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...

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...

Human Behavior, Psychological, Sociological, and Biological FActors on Mental Health Care Delivery

promote recovery and to "replace unnecessary institutional care with efficient, effective community service that people can count ...

Albert Ellis, William Glasser, and Sigmund Freud

during the 19th century, Sigmund Freud managed to be one of the first to actually map the subconscious as a key to the motivations...

United Kingdom and Mental Health Status

"Psychologist" it was reported that Health Minister Jacqui Smith observed: "Our mental health legislation remains...

Mental Health Industry Audit

significant changes to the existing system but have not yet covered too much ground where modifications are concerned. This is pa...

Questions on Health Care Delivery System in the U.S.

therefore, highly desirable to have a variety of types of LTC settings. Furthermore, alternatives to institutionalized care can o...

Australia's Policy on Mental Health

policy, rehabilitation, and consumer rights. The paper finishes with a section on rehabilitation and the elderly in Australia as i...

Healthcare and Caribbean vs. South American Perspectives

In a paper that consists of five pages women's mental health care and the differing perspectives between the Caribbean and South A...

Importance of Recreation Programs for Students Who Are At Risk

of social acceptance. Their counterparts often unknowingly make them feel inadequate and worthless when it comes to achievement o...

Middle East and Mental Health Treatment

health (except for a few exceptions) is not dealt with very well in the Middle East, and therefore requires a differing model when...

Vietnam War Soldiers and Suicides

claims that the Vietnam soldiers had a 72 percent higher rate of suicide than their other military counterparts (Bower, 1987, p. 1...

Partnership Development and Mental Health Recovery Focus

mental illness in the individual has become more and more obvious. This emphasis has, of course, been based on previous work but ...

Use of Lithium Within The Field of Psycho-Pharmacology

notes that another five percent are victims of occasional despondency, with one of every six people succumbing to a "serious, or m...

Occupational Therapy Practice and Recovery Framework Applications

recovery. Recovery is an admirable goal, and likely the only goal that carries true meaning for the patient and his family....

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, ...

Long Term Solitary Confinement and Its Mental Health Impact

Prisoners spend as much as 22 hours a day in their cells, and the cells are now overcrowded (Weinstein and Cummins). The prisoner...

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...

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...

"What About Bob?"

good fit that does not easily occur, if indeed it occurs at all. For his part, Dr. Marvin is only a caricature of...

Nurse Education: Lesson Plan for Navigating a User Crisis

completing the ranges of study required to attain the licensing level each holds. Aides are not licensed individuals and may or m...

Nursing; Engaging, Development and Disengaging From a Therapeutic Relationship

of chemicals in the brain that result or enhance depressive conditions. For some patients this treatment is not always effective, ...

Skills Needed by a Forensic Nurse

McAndrew, 2006). With communication skills there are includes skills of listening as well as tact as essential to facilitate effec...

Mental Health and Dementia

there is a legal definition laid down by the Mental Health Act 1983 which states that a mental disorder is ""means mental illness,...

Divorce in Families w/Special Needs Children

childrens future that parents learn to cope and, hopefully, remain together, or at least learn to act as a team. Research shows ...

Mental Health of Returning Soldiers

need of treatment following tours in Rwanda, the Balkans and Somalia" (Auld). Mental health problems in regards to soldiers retu...