Case Study Mental Health

AT is a 22-year-old female who presents for treatment of depression. Psychosocial predisposing factors include growing with strict and controlling father who is dismissive of her views and choices. Her mother used to be busy with work, yet she made herself available much to her, and her brother cared of his sister who is 10 years older than her. Furthermore, when she was 8-year-old her brother used to take her for parks, activities, CNE to play with him and she experienced that as a great support.

Social workers are faced with different dilemmas each and every day. It is a social workers job to be committed to their jobs and committed to their clients. Social workers are those people who are interested in helping people and helping to improve their lives. All help isn’t good help. Some of the things that social workers decide to do with their clients end up being unethical. As we explore the Jones case study, there are several different unethical decisions that were made. There are a few different dilemmas throughout the case study. Confidentiality, receiving gifts from clients and their family, social media, and also developing relationships (dual relationships). It important for social workers to have the resources such as the NASW and the standards of practice manual. The code gives us a set of values, principles, and standards to guide decision making and conduct when ethical issues arise.

Katie Young is a 15 year old Caucasian female that was referred to my agency from the Virginia Family Assessment Planning Team and Colonial Behavioral Health due to the issues of stability with the intensive in home services. Her family history consists of rapid cycling Bipolar Disorder. Along with the bipolar II disorder, Katie suffers from PTSD that includes panic attacks 1-2 times per week, intrusive thoughts, flashbacks, high reactivity to being touched by others and trauma echoes regarding interaction with staff at school. She attends a school that is supposed to use behavior interventions with children with emotional disabilities. She has had an IEP on file since the age of 7 for ADHD and mood related needs. She is unfortunately uninformed of how to return to the public school in her city of residence or her current grade, which is possibly the 9th or 10th.

Living Arr: Jy'Nir was admitted into the YCS Laurie Haven Program back on 8/11/17. Since youth admission into the YCS Laurie Haven Program he has been engaging in treatment. On 9/12/17 Jy’Nir was placed on Red Alert for threatening staff. At this time Jy’Nir has not had any physical controls. It has been reported youth works well with Mr. Delroy. He also well working one on with staff. On September 24th and 30th Jy’Nir had an offsite visit that went well.

Millie had expressed concerns of joint pain, financial difficulties and being incontinence that plays upon her having a negative body image. These concerns placed a toll on her health and this require immediate

D-The patient requested to see this writer, at which this writer agreed. The patient appears worrisome. The patient asked for assistance by this writer to help fill out an application for the probate court to file a custody petition for her grandson. This writer asked the patient if she had asked her DCF worker for help and the patient response was yes. The patient inform this writer that her DCF worker does not help her with anything or even have the answers to her questions regarding to her grandson care. This writer agreed to help the patient as much as possible and struggling urges the patient to have someone at the Probate Court to view the application to file a petition. The patient asked questions to this writer about receving financial assistance for her grandson since the patient needs help with the child basic needs. The patient been using her benefits from the state to care the child and is only

Objectives/Progress: Pt. has discontinued her use of opiates according to the last quarter UDS results, Pt. is now eligible to receive phase 1 take home privileges if she maintain her abstinence. Pt. demonstrated a improvement on her commitments to maintain regular dosing attendance. Also P During this upcoming quater, this writer will meet with pt. to establish rapport and trust. This writer will reinforce the importance of remaining in recovery and to resolve her current legal issues by the next month. Pt. identified her children as a motivational factor to change and to . The counselor told Pt. that he needs to be free from drugs (cocaine) in order for his prescribed medications to work and be more effective. Counselor will help patient understand the importance of restitution to self worth and then help in developing a plan to provide restitution.

Team Recommendations: Joshua should continue in the program and continue working on sustaining his commitment towards the treatment goals and objectives established.

The report of the grand jury in Dade County, Florida had several recommendations for dealing with the mentally ill who find themselves incarcerated. What this jury concluded was that far too much tax dollars is being spent on trying to temporarily control the issues associated with the mentally ill and too much focus is on reacting to crisis care. This panel of jurors believes that shifting the focus to long-term care would not only save costs, but also prevent the predicament we face by incarcerating the mentally ill.

On 12/27/16 I was faxed 26 pages of the initial evaluations and treatment plans, from the Lighthouse, speech, physically therapy and counseling all provided reports.

A review of the records reveals the member to be an adult female with a birth date of 12/31/1952. The member has a diagnosis of increased weakness and decreased conditioning and a history of multiple falls over the past couple of months. The member’s treating provider, Marianne Nikas, MD has recommended that the member be admitted to a skilled inpatient facility from home.

I: CM used open ended questions to inquire about the client’s missed appointments with LAMP VASH. CM questioned client regarding updates with his social security payment. CM discussed a plan with the client that will help the client prioritized all of his housing appointments. CM explained to the client the importance of keeping all of his housing options available by attending all of his appointments and meeting all of the requirements.

According to The Free Dictionary, mental illness is defined as, “Any of various psychiatric conditions, usually characterized by impairment of an individual 's normal cognitive, emotional, or behavioral functioning, and caused by physiological or psychosocial factors “(The Free Dictionary, 2007). Mental illness can certainly be a physical illness, but is not as easily diagnosed like a disease such as diabetes. In a disease like diabetes, physicians can run tests to look for certain indicators of the disease in the blood like the levels of blood glucose and hemoglobin A1C. Sometimes physical conditions can cause mental illnesses. Unlike diseases like diabetes, mental health diagnoses’ often rely more on the patient relaying their symptoms

She was found to be on her back in a semi – fowler’s position at 35°. She has full bilateral chest expansion on ventilator assisted breaths. Her ventilator settings were SIMV – PRVC, set rate of 18, tidal volume of 320, PEEP of +6, pressure support of +10, and FiO2 of 60%. Upon auscultation bilateral rhonchi was heard throughout all anterior lobes; bilateral chest tubes are in place. HEENT showed bloody secretions coming from the mouth. Lower extremities showed increased pitting edema with no signs of deep vein thrombosis in the

Chapter 1 opens with a case report about a Freshman college student named Rebecca with symptoms of depressed mood, insomnia, and difficulty concentrating on schoolwork. Psychotherapy is prescribed to help improve her mood and allow her to talk about the changes that have contributed to her depressed mood. There is a fine line when determining abnormal and normal behavior. Most people think that bad things only happen to other people. People develop negative notions about friends, releatives and acquantances that have psychological disorders whereas medical diagnoses are more socially acceptable. Social attitudes associated with psychological disorders affects how the patient perceives himself. It's very difficult to make the distinction between normal and abnormal, so the mental health community uses 5 criteria to identify abnormality. The 5 criteria is clinical significance;