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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...

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, ...

Dementia and Mental Health Problem Origins

where, after an initial stage of processing the information will be divided up, for example, one stream of information may concern...

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...

Issues of Schizophrenia, Pregnancy, and Mental Health Nursing

In eight pages this paper discusses schizophrenia in pregnant women from the perspective of mental health nursing. Eight sources ...

Women, AIDS and HIV in the District of Columbia

2009"). In responding to the crisis, the city government has not recognized the way in which "policies, and structural factors hav...

Analyzing John Nash's Mental Illness in A Beautiful Mind Film by Director Ron Howard

original consensus among mental health professionals the schizophrenia developed during late teens or early adulthood. However, a...

Addressing the Problem of Native American Suicide

water for a significant percentage of these people. The dissolution of the nuclear family is another problem that should be mor...

AN OVERVIEW AND ANALYSIS OF DREAMING

be some disagreement as to what dreams signify and how to interpret them (Marszalek and Meyers, 2006). Still, most of those in the...

Family Systems Theory

in psychoanalytical theory away from a focus on individual and towards a focus on the whole. While psychoanalysts had previously ...

Social Workers in Mental Health Services

would have to provide those benefits in the same way as benefits provided to all other medical and surgical procedures covered by ...

The Common Factors Approach to Psychotherapy

"encouragement of facing probl4ems/fears, support of efforts to master problems/ears, affective experiencing/catharsis" (Coady 15)...

Mental Health Services and the Elderly

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Americans 65 years or older increased by 74 percent between 1970 and 1999, from roughly 20 mi...

Nursing Management Issue/Medication Error

systems. The following examination of the problem of medication errors focuses on the context of mental health nursing within the ...

CBT versus family therapy in treating adolescent drug abuse (Article Review/Reaction)

applicable, and service delivery were all the same (Houghton, 2008). Each factor was controlled in this study. The article author ...

Reflection on Counseling Ethics

is eventually taken. Afterward, I reflect on how my choice turned out and, if I could do it over again, the factors that I might c...

Positive Benefits Of Eliminating Stress

stress agent equally intensifies until the point is reached where ones mental status is just as tumultuous as ones living/working ...

Evidence Based Practice & Outpatient Mental Health

on EBP is a fad, however, the authors point out that many institutions have invested time and financial resources into the use of ...

"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...

Greensboro Sit-Ins

turned into many as the protest continued for almost 6 months.5 In addition, it sparked many other protests throughout the South a...

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...

Homeland Security, INS and Epidemiology

problems, but refugees are perhaps most at risk, since many of them "come from areas where disease control, diagnosis and treatmen...

Pet Therapy for the Elderly

topic has been anecdotal in nature, therefore, Banks and Banks (2002) designed a study utilizing pet therapy, or as they term it, ...

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 of Returning Soldiers

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

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 ...

The Challenges of Being an Advocate and Neutral Facilitator (Mediator)

Obviously, the relationship that is formed between a mental health advocate and his or her client is critical. This relationship ...

Homelessness, Mental Illness, and the Advocate Role

Housing is of obvious concern as is successful intervention in the destructive pattern of behavior that has led to the homelessnes...