Issues: Legal and Ethical Considerations 1. Define and describe psychiatric and mental health nursing: Psychiatric nursing focuses on care and rehab of people with identifiable mental illness or disorder Mental Health nursing focuses on well and at risk population to prevent mental illness or provide immediate treatment for those with early signs of a disorder. Psychiatric mental health nursing is described by Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing: Scope and Standard of Practice as committed
immense increase in the popularity of psychiatric medication. Dr. Rex Cowdry a psychiatrist and director of National Institute of Mental Health admits, “We do not know the causes [of any mental illness]. We don’t have the methods of ‘curing’ these illnesses yet." If psychiatrists expect to cure a mental disease, how will they if they don't even know the source of a disease? Psychiatric medications are currently being over prescribed, and cause much more harm than good. Doctors need to start thinking
certain drugs, the side effects and how one can access treatment so that they do not succumb to the drug menace. Chapter Four Website 2: http://www.antipsychiatry.org/ The second website chosen for review under chapter four is titled “The Antipsychiatry Coalition”. The latter is actually a movement whose members created this website to help them deal with the stigma and stereotyping that is faced by people who have received psychiatric treatment (Antipsychiatry, 2015). The “Antipsychiatry Coalition”
of 4.3% in general psychiatric patients. The highest incidences of self-mutilation have been reported in prisoners, institutionalized teenagers with antisocial traits, and among those diagnosed with autism, schizophrenia, intellectual disabilities, and traumatic brain injuries [1]. Major self- mutilation is a rare, severe manifestation of deliberate self harm that results in perpetual loss of function or capacity of an organ and constitutes a medical/surgical and psychiatric emergency[2]. Notably
believe being crazy is normal yet we all struggle with our brain chemistry being a bit off. For those who are not so fortunate, I would like to discuss the conditions of asylums. George Georgiou visually touched bas of the conditions for three psychiatric institutions in Kosova and Serbia during 1999 and 2002. The project was done after the Nato attack on Serbia on March 24,1999. The Between the Lines project was to display some of the effects of the war such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
the hypothesis that they use drugs to cope with unpleasant states such as depression, anxiety, boredom and loneliness. An initial assessment includes a comprehensive history and physical examination by a physician, psychiatrist, psychiatric nurse practitioner or psychiatric physician assistant. Although no biological laboratory tests exist which confirm schizoaffective disorder, biological tests should be performed to exclude psychosis associated with or caused by substance use, medications, toxins
fruit fly experimentations. David Anderson explains how fruit fly research is the missing link that will help lead into a new generation of improved psychiatric treatments. The theory that the brain is like a "bag of chemical soup" (Anderson) is elementary and needs improvement seeing as how this theory has led to creating many ill-favored psychiatric medications. Anderson claims that disorders within the cognitive realm are not solely due to chemical imbalances, rather these disorders result from
drugs to handle unpleasant states such as depression, anxiety, boredom and loneliness (Schizoaffective Disorder, 2015d). An initial assessment includes a comprehensive history and physical examination by a physician, psychiatrist, psychiatric nurse practitioner or psychiatric physician assistant (Schizoaffective Disorder, 2015c). Biological tests should be performed to eliminate psychosis connected with or caused by substance use, medications, toxins or poisons, surgical complications, or other medical
complications on the actual treatment for mental illness. It is very important for the addiction counselor to properly understand both the differences between acute primary psychiatric disorders and any underlying psychiatric symptoms, caused by alcohol and other drugs. Sometimes the addiction needs to be treated first in order for the mental illness to be properly identified and successfully treated. Also addiction counselors need to understand mental health disorder treatments. Clients with co-occurring
which in turn can harm a child. Medical professionals, mental health or social services working with adult patients should ask about children and adolescents, especially about their mental health and emotional development. If you are seriously concerned or have questions about the child, it can be very convenient to refer them to a mental health professional licensed for evaluation. Individual or family psychiatric treatment can help the child develop normally despite the psychiatric illness of their