Mental Health Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (295) essays
Mental Health essays:
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: The Vital Choice
... alcohol. Alcohol (wine, beer, or liquor) is the most common preventable cause of birth defects. Women drink alcohol during pregnancy, they risks giving birth to a child who will pay the price in mental and physical deficiencies for the rest of his life. Yet many pregnant women do drink alcohol, and ...
Avoidant personality disorder
... American Psychiatric Association (1994), Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition ( DSM-IV ). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric AssociationOldham JM. Borderline personality disorder and suicidality. The American Journal of ...
A Discussion on a Clinical Encounter Using the Principles of Therapeutic Engagement and Reflective Models
... Psychiatric Association (2000) DSM-IV-TR: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. American Psychiatric Publishing IncBarker, P. (2003) Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing. The Craft of ...
ADHD – Child Abuse By Professionals?
... and causes of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder held by parents and professionals in the psychological, educational, medical and allied health fields. Australian Journal of Psychology, 58(2). 79-92. Kean, B. A. (2006). The globalization of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and ...
Schizophrenia, a basic definition and description of the illness
... of thought is that there is a deficit of dopamine in the brain. The final thought is that the dopamine is somehow being turned into a poison (Torrey, 1983). A chemical imbalance of dopamine could very well be the cause of ...
Societal attitudes to mental illness: The need for change.
... mental illness is associated with reduced subjective quality of life and lower self esteem. These negatively influence any effort to become a productive member of the society. The public will persistently use the label of "mentally ill" even when the designated person is engaged in many of ...
Malleable Memory. References are included in APA format.
... function of reconstructive memory. When relying on this bias, people form causal links between the outcome and the antecedents that did not actually occur but are stereotypically associated with the outcome (Carli, 1999). These imagined sequences can be very convincing and ...
Bipolar Disorder
... effective treatments for bipolar disorder that are used in cases where the patients cannot tolerate lithium or can become unresponsive to it in the past. The American Psychiatric Association's guidelines suggest the next line of to be anticonvulsant such as valproate and ...
Models and perspectives of care /biopsychosocial
... Abnormal psychology (7th ed.). New York, NY: John Wiley &Sons, Inc. 2. Department of Health. National Service Framework, Mental Health. The Stationary Office1999 3. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders , Fourth edition.Copyright 2000 American Psychiatric Association ...
Current Treatment Strategies for Parkinson's Disease; Are the costs to the community of developing new treatment strategies justified?
... patients do not need as much medication, and undergo less of the side effects. Intrabrain transfer of substantia nigra tissue, genetically engineered adult nigral cells, or fetal pig dopamine producing cells all of which have facilitated some regression of the symptoms How can the patient ...