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Interviewing People with Mental Illness
A standard form of interview can be used for people who, as a result of the screening process, you suspect have a mental illness. There are three types of information you will need to understand the problem. This information should also suggest ways in which the person can be helped. • Basic information on age, […]
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Key features of mental retardation
The term ‘mental retardation’ is being dropped by many health workers.This is because it is often used in a discriminatory way. Instead, theterm ‘learning disability’ is preferred. In this manual, we will use‘mental retardation’ because it is the most widely used and understoodterm to describe the condition of delayed mental development.Mental retardation is not a […]
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Defendants with intellectual disabilities and mentalhealth diagnoses: faring in a mental health
Compared with defendants without disabilities,defendants with intellectual disabilities (IDs) aremore likely to have low-socioeconomic backgroundsand limited educations, as well as to be unemployed,male and young (Hayes 1996). Furthermore,compared with defendants without IDs,persons with IDs also seem to be incarcerated atgreater rates (Hodgins 1992; Holland et al. 2002).These defendants with IDs may also have cooccurring mental […]
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Operating procedures of the Davidson County Mental Health Court
Upon their referral to the mental health court, thecourt’s social workers completed an initial interviewwith each defendant to determine eligibility for thecourt. Information received during this interviewwas entered into an intake form. Upon determininga defendant’s eligibility, the social worker requestedrecords of the defendant from the public school,day and residential treatment facilities, hospitals and the criminal […]
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Mental health essay:mental health strategy for preventing future mental health problems
This is a mental health essay about a mental health strategy for preventing future mental health problems among adolescents orphaned by AIDS By Thupayagale-Tshweneagae, et al. Introduction Adolescence is a unique phase of development occurringbetween the ages of 14 and 18. This is a crucial transitionalperiod from childhood to adulthood (Stuart & Laria2001). According to […]
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The types of mental illness and categories of mental illness
To detect and diagnose a mental illness, you have to depend almost entirely on what people tell you.The main tool in diagnosis is an interview with the person. Mental illness produces symptoms that sufferers or those close to them notice. There are five major types of symptoms: • Physical – ‘somatic’ symptoms. These affect the […]
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Why should you be concerned about mental illness?
There are many reasons why you need to be concerned about mental illnesses. • Because they affect us all. It is estimated that one in five of all adults will experience a mental health problem in their lifetime. This shows how common mental health problems are. Anyone can suffer a mental health problem. • Because […]
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What is the difference between mental health and mental illness?
There is more to good health than just a physically healthy body: a healthy person should also have a healthy mind. A person with a healthy mind should be able to think clearly, should be able to solve the various problems faced in life, should enjoy good relations with friends, colleagues at work and family, […]
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Measuring mental health
The final part of this chapter considers what can or should be done to measure mental health. Clearly, from the arguments already made, those who think mental health is the absence of mental illness will make a different measurement from those who take a salutogenic view. Those who see it in individualistic terms will measure […]
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Theories of mental health
Resilience theories There are a number of references to resilience in mental health promotion writing. For example, Joubert and Raeburn place considerable emphasis on ‘resilience’ which they see as ‘a dynamic and human concept’ (p.16) and central to their model of mental health. In the UK the then Health Education Authority’s (HEA) treatment of mental […]
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