Commitments

Making the commitment as an adult to return to school can be a difficult task. Furthering education as an adult with the responsibilities of a family and a job, finding the time necessary for school can be daunting. This paper will outline steps potential or current students can take in order to ensure the family is taken care of and work responsibilities are not taking a back burner in this process. Students can improve the balance of time by creating a time schedule, use any free time wisely

Significant commitment to citizenship through public service, school activities, community involvement, leadership and/or family. I can see myself supporting the multicultural environment within University of Georgia fully throughout my years there. I see myself as an open-minded student that welcomes and seeks cultural diversity everywhere and in almost anything I participate in. In fact, part of my criteria for choosing colleges was if the college of interest had a good level of diversity in terms

The Mental Health Act R.S.O. (1990) is a comprehensive piece of provincial legislation which regulates mental health care in Ontario. Although it can be assumed that the legislation applies to all mental health services and supports (Schizophrenic Society of Ontario, 2013), the laws described in the Mental Health Act (“MHA”) apply only to psychiatric units in hospitals, and specialized psychiatric facilities within the province (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health [CAMH], 2012), and to the patients

The crippling grips of depression often leaves a person feeling constricted, isolated and on occasion too ashamed to speak openly about their issues lest they be marginalized. Never once believing it could happen to him, teen Craig Gilner spirals into a cycle of grief and anxiety over the uncertainty of his future. Unrequited love, pothead friends and the fear of being left behind by the rest of society overwhelm Craig to the point of suicide. His denial in there being anything wrong with him only

Vehicular Ad-hoc networks are used in order to improve the Traffic Efficiency and road side safety. Security Requirements of the VANETS: Confidentiality: The conversion between the sender and the receiver should be very confidential that means the messages need not to be shared by other users. Authentication: The messages that are sent from the sender to receiver are secured by authenticating the messages so that they are understood by the authenticated people. Availability: They must be able to

What is a mental illness? Mental illnesses are disturbed thoughts, feelings, and moods that affect people’s daily functioning. Being hospitalized for having a mental illness is categorized as voluntary or involuntary where voluntary hospitalization is agreeing to be admitted to the hospital for treatment; while involuntary hospitalization is against a person’s will when he or she is harmful to him or her-self or others (NAMI). The issue with involuntary hospitalization is that is it permissible to

The introduction of Community Treatment Orders (CTO) has raised much debate around the issue of whether this is an ethical practice or not. This debate calls for a number of questions to be answered. For starters, can unethical practice be justified if it is for the greater good? More specifically, should the elimination of individuals’ rights be accepted if success is to be achieved from these programs. In order to gain insight into answering these questions, Community Treatment Orders need to be

Psychological fiction and drama, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, written by Ken Kesey, utilizes dynamic, round characters, a distinct setting, and mature themes to create a compelling, complex story that takes readers through a psychological exploration of an asylum system. With a Lexile measure of 1040, this work of fiction begins its tale with the arrival of a swaggering, boisterous and rebellious character named Randle McMurphy at a mental ward. A walking, influential symbol of freedom in a

The Client’s Right To Die A client that has expressed he has been suffering from severe bipolar disorder and his quality of life is so compromised by his illness that he logically and rationally chooses suicide, should be involuntary admitted to a mental health facility. As a counselor for the client it is ethically necessary to try to minimize harm where it is foreseeable and unavoidable (3.04, American Psychological Association, 2002). Subsequently, petitioning to have the client admitted to

ARGUMENT At stake is Mr. Whitman’s 4th Amendment liberty, which Sell was implemented to protect. In order to safeguard the liberty interests of sick defendants in Sell, the Supreme Court implemented four factors that the government must establish before it may forcibly medicate sick defendant to render the defendant competent to stand trial (citation needed). First, it must prove that an “important government interests are at stake.” Second, it must establish with clear and convincing evidence that