A Day Treatment For Psychiatric Patients

Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder that affects a person’s thinking, language, emotions, social behavior and perception (Herzog & Varcarolis, 2014). The diagnosis involves identifying a range of signs and symptoms that leads to impaired occupational or social functioning (American Psychiatry Association [APA], 2014).

Schizophrenia is characterized as a psychotic disease that dramatically affects one 's nervous system to a point of where every day basic functions can be inhibited. It is defined as the loss of contact with the external environment the person is in due to delusional thoughts and hallucinations. Perception and behavior of someone plagued with this disease is notably altered and their actions can become a concern of the people around them. Like many other diseases that affect the nervous system it is not curable at the current time but it can be treated to lessen the signs and symptoms of the disease.

Schizophrenia is mental disorder that disrupts how a person thinks by: negative, positive or cognitive symptoms. “People with positive symptoms often ‘lose touch’ with reality” (Schizophrenic 19). The most common and almost stereotypical

Working as a mental health and substance abuse use social you do many things in your job.You evaluate and treat mental,emotional or substance abuse problems including alcohol,tobacco,and other drugs.Activities include group therapy and case management and support. You must have active listening,able to speak to others,reading to read documents work related and documenting the patient's actions.You could work anymore like your own office or a hospital setting or anywhere that you work for.Many colleges offer this program.

No matter how big or how small it would be. I have control on how to meet the goals that the client needs to succeed. Therefore, I will put it in good-use and ensure it would improve their mentality status. If the human service professionals continue to help these clients with mental illness and provide the care that they need, then it will help them for a better life. To help terminate the social roles on how mental illness is portray. Ensure that every client is known for their rights and have the require treatments that they need. The treatment plan, case notes, confidentiality and psychotropic medications I have the ability to play in role and assist as much as

As social workers we are responsibly for providing proper medication treatment in conjunction to other services to help all behavioral health patients. The psychiatrist is often in charge of medication

Schizophrenia is an extremely complex mental disorder that has yet to be fully understood. This particular disorder has affected much of the population today, causing many different emotional, physical, and psychological problems in every affected individual. These symptoms include: “distorted thoughts, hallucinations, and feelings of fright and paranoia. Psychiatrists evaluate symptoms, tests, and medical history, and prescribe medications and psychotherapy for treatment” (Kirkpatrick). Schizophrenia affects approximately 2.4 million adults in the United States today (We Live With...). Schizophrenia should be thought of as a neurological disorder with emotional and cognitive symptoms, rather than pure insanity.

When people are unable to participate in the daily activities of their occupation, Brown and Hollis (2013) reported that people can experience a brief pause or disruption in their normal activities, a deprived state of activity that can severely restrict social, cultural, or personal engagements, or create an imbalance when a person becomes “unoccupied, under occupied, or over occupied” (p.1246). Eventually, any of these lapses in functioning can create or intensify other physical or mental issues. Santrock (2012) expressed that occupational therapists “help people regain, develop, and build skills that are important for independent functioning, health, well-being, security, and happiness” (p.45). Perhaps occupational therapy on the whole can be described as utilizing multiple techniques to help different people with one or several distinct impairments that hinder them at various times in their life. Kronenberg and Pollard (2006) stated that “occupational therapy is said to be based

Occupational Profile Introduction to Occupational Therapy as Profession OT 501 Ryan Hogan One of the first things we do as an occupational therapist is to understand our patient. We perform what is know as an occupational profile. This detail profile is a set of questions that the occupational therapist will ask their new client to gain an understanding of their viewpoint and background. This profile is completed with the use of two main techniques. First the occupational therapist will ask the patient direct questions concerning them.

7. Possible occupational therapy intervention that would benefit a client or the clients at the facility.

Bipolar disorder has had a large history full of misunderstandings, wrongful treatments and stigma surrounding the illness. Bipolar, formerly called manic depression causes extreme mood swings that include emotional highs (mania) and lows (depression). (Mayo 1998) When you become depressed you may feel sad, vulnerable and anxious. When you experience mania you will become overly joyful or full of energy, making the crash back to depression that much harder.

Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder that is characterized by a variety of symptoms and the disorganization of feeling and thought. It is an incurable disease whose causes are unknown, yet whose effects are mind and body crippling. (Young, 1988, p.13-14) This topic was chosen because it is interesting to study a disorder that worldwide, is viewed as a classic example of madness and insanity. Another reason of interest is because unlike many illnesses, schizophrenia doesn't have a noticeable pattern and its difficulty to be diagnosed as a disease makes the collection of statistics difficult. It is important to learn more about schizophrenia because a significant numbr of people are affected everyday

My role and function as a clinical mental health counselor are to promote and infused a holistic approach to my clients. As a Rehabilitation Specialist, I want to reproduce my clients back to society. As a mental health profession, I look at each person rather than a client perspective. Holistically, I want to concentrate on environmental factors, mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual aspect of the individual.

This activity relates to the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework because I worked with the clients on areas of occupation such as Leisure and Social Participation. In addition, I helped clients achieve their goals such as improving social participation and management of stress. In addition, I deem that I assisted clients in incorporating something into their routine that will benefit them socially, mentally, emotionally, and

Schizophrenia is the worst of all mental health disorders because it is many severe disorders all put into one such as mood disorders and psychological disorders. It is a mental health disorder that affects a persons’ reality. When the word Schizophrenia is broken into two, schizo means “Split” and phrenia means “mind” (DeWall & Myers, 2014, p.562). According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), about 1% of Americans have schizophrenia. Schizophrenia has many different components such as causes, the people it affects, types of symptoms, and types of schizophrenia all of which will be discussed in this paper. Within schizophrenia symptoms in can be positive or negative and treating these symptoms come with different approaches.