Mental health articles
OF mental health care and mentally ill
January, 2013
Mental health report
Evidence of an association between the presence of a mental health report and confinement at the disposition hearing stage was found in all three studies that investigated the mental health aspect, even after controlling for the legal factors, type of offence and prior record. Moreover, the presence of a mental health report increased the likelihood […]
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Mental disorder of the juvenile offender
Evidence of an association between a mental disorder in the juvenile offender and a sentence of residential placement was found in three studies, which controlled for both the legal factors, type of offence and prior record.. All three studies found fairly strong associations where the presence of a mental disorder increases the probability of […]
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Self-help techniques of depression
There are a number of simple suggestions for self-help for depression. Remember that self-help is the first essential step of any treatment plan for depression, so you might just want to try out some of these to see if they help. However, it is the hardest thing in the world to change your life around […]
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Standard treatment of depression
The NICE Guidelines on depression recommend self-help first (Step 1), with counselling as the next intervention (Step 2), with possibly some anti-depressant medication as well (Step 3) in slightly more severe cases These first three steps cover most people with depression. The usual treatment for depression (once it has been identified) is therefore often a […]
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Mental Symptoms of Depression
The symptoms of depression tend to fall into four main groupings: emotions or feelings; physical symptoms; thought patterns; and behavioural symptoms. Emotions: feeling like crying a lot; feeling alone (even in company); feeling sad, depressed upset, hopeless, despairing, or just numb; feeling anxious, irritable, or unreasonably angry; feeling lethargic; having no interest or enjoyment in […]
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Sources of depression
There are very many different ways in which someone can become depressed, and there are several different views on depression that are presented later. Often a series of overwhelming life events coming soon, one after the other, will result in a depressive reaction; or it can come (most frequently) from a build-up of general life […]
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How to eliminate Jealousy?
How to eliminate jealousy: jealousy is a very harmful psychological. The envious person is more painful than any unfortunate, because the happiness of others makes him great pain; When compared with the others, will find themselves more unfortunate, unfortunate unbearable. Jealousy is not only hinder the interaction between the students and to the jealous bring […]
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There are many reasons with inattention. Inattention will affect learning, and even affect the physical and mental health. So, what to do with inattention? We introduce the measures of debugging inattention:? First, you should have the correct study manner.? The correct study manner is able to overcome all kinds of problems in the study. The […]
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Definitions of anxiety and related concepts
Marks (1987: 5) suggests that fear can be seen as a ‘usually unpleasant response to realistic danger’, whereas anxiety is ‘similar to fear but without objective source of danger’. A phobia is fear of a situation, which is out of proportion to the actual danger and cannot be explained or reasoned away. Panic is a […]
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Case study: first onset of bipolar disorder
Case study: Mark – a 24-year-old with first onset of bipolar disorder. Mark was a final-year medical student when he experienced his first and, to date, only episode of mania. He was 24 years of age and was studying for his f inal examinations. As Mark approached his finals, he began working longer and longer […]
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