Compare and contrast the terms "disability" and "chronic illness." Compare: Affect people of all ages the very young‚ middle aged‚ and the very old (Hinkle & Cheever‚ 2014‚ p. 131). Found in all ethnic‚ cultural‚ racial‚ and socioeconomic groups (Hinkle & Cheever‚ 2014‚ p. 131). Can be visible or invisible (Hinkle & Cheever‚ 2014‚ p. 131). Federal assistance programs provide financial assistance for health related expenses (Hinkle & Cheever‚ 2014‚ p. 147). May cause activity limitations
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The Mental Health Act The mental health act is an act design to protect people with mental illness. It was originally written in 1983 and reformed in 2007. It sets out clear guidance for a health professional when a person may need to be taken into compulsorily detained in a hospital. This is known as sectioning. This helps carers who are unable to cope without help. People can be sectioned if the health care profession thinks they are a danger to themselves‚ they are a danger to another person
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functions of a Mental Health Worker A Mental Health Worker is someone who contributes to the treatment‚ recovery and normalising the life of someone with a Mental health condition. A team of Mental Health Workers will work with a person in primary care settings to help them in all aspects of which their illness has affected‚ including housing‚ employment‚ relationships and general wellbeing. Mental Health Workers may be assigned to people experiencing mild to moderate mental health problems
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Introduction to Psychology SCHIZOPHRENIA April 30th‚ 2011 Abstract Schizophrenia is a complex mental disorder that has many long term symptoms‚ caused by both genetic and environmental factors and their interactions. Research on pathogenesis has traditionally focused on neurotransmitter systems in the brain‚ particularly those involving dopamine. Schizophrenia has been considered a separate disease for over a century‚ but in the absence of clear biological
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Submission Smells of Sulfur: Gender and Illness in The Yellow Wallpaper During the 19th century‚ when Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper takes place‚ men reigned and women had little power over the definition of their roles‚ particularly middle and upper class women due to the lack of necessity for them to work outside the home. It was their only responsibilities to be modest‚ God-fearing‚ respectable women who took care of themselves and did not distract their bodies from the
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This is one of the reasons Hamlet is such an understandable character. The mental afflictions that affect Hamlet also disturb “people of all ages‚ ethnicities‚ religions‚ socioeconomic groups and geographic locations”(buttecounty.net). Butte County collectively has one of the highest rates of mental illness in California. More specifically‚ the suicide rate of Butte County is almost two times higher than that of all of California. The soliloquy
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Salmonella SCI/163 06/17/2013 Denny Meline Salmonella is a bacteria that can cause salmonellosis disease‚ which is usually caused by ingesting raw or undercooked food. Salmonella can move from the intestines into the bloodstream and may cause death if not treated quickly with antibiotics. A person who is sick with salmonella might experience diarrhea‚ abdominal cramps‚ and fever within 12 to 72 hours after infection and symptoms can last four to seven days. The majority of
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In the opening passages of Daša Drndić’s Trieste‚ an elderly woman‚ Haya Tedeschi‚ sits in a rocking chair in her third story apartment in the Northern Italian town of Gorizia‚ close to the port of Trieste: Is that the chair whimpering or is it me? She asks the deep emptiness‚ which‚ like every emptiness‚ spreads its putrid cloak in all directions to draw her in‚ her‚ the woman rocking‚ to swallow her‚ blanket her‚ swamp her‚ envelop her‚ ready her for the rubbish heap where the emptiness‚ her emptiness
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Profound Mental Retardation Mental Retardation – is a developmental disability that first appears in children under the age of 18. It is defined as an intellectual functioning level (as measured by standard tests for intelligence quotient) that is well below average and significant limitations in daily living skills (adaptive functioning). Description Mental retardation occurs in 2.5-3% of the general population. About 6-7.5 million mentally retarded individuals live in the United States alone
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America Mental Health George Bush developed the Commission on Mental Health Services (CMHS) in response to the obstacles that exist for people to receive adequate mental health care in the US. The CMHS came up with six goals to transform our mental health care in the US. First goal is to successfully have Americans understand that mental health is essential to your overall well-being (Achieving the Promise). Often times‚ too many Americans are not knowledgeable about the different types of mental
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