Essays on Mental Condition

Clinical psychology is a branch of psychology, which main objectives is to address issues (both practical and theoretical) related to the prevention, diagnosis of diseases and pathological conditions, as well as psych correction forms of influence on the process of recovery, rehabilitation, addressing various issues and experimental study of the impact of various psychological factors on the shape and course of various diseases. (Trull & Prinstein, 2013) A common task of the clinical psychologist in the medical institution is its involvement in the differential diagnosis of various diseases, treatment and social and labor adaptation of patients. First, it is to ...

Problem Statement

Mental disorder has become an emerging problem in the Juvenile justice system. It has been identified that there are already juvenile delinquents who have mental conditions but they are often placed and treated similarly to those not suffering from mental disorders. It is a problem that if not addressed can result into harmful consequences for the entire society. Therefore, it is imperative to embark on a study that will help in identifying such delinquent youths, as well as solutions that can be applied to eventually contain the situation.

Justification of the Problem

The juvenile justice system is increasingly facing challenges of youth with ...

b) A memoir from the point of view of a person who must care for a person who has autism. Every little girl from her childhood dreams about an unclouded happiness and a fascinating prince that will come one day and take her to the Fairyland. Though that girl is growing up and each new year is transforming into an experienced mature woman, there is still hope in in the depth of her heart that a better future and a happy family life is going to knock in her ajar door. In some cases, however, God has slightly different ...

Introduction

One of the most common strategies of criminal defense attorneys when representing a defendant who has an unusual condition such as a mental abnormality, is to argue either that regardless of their actions, they are nevertheless not responsible for the crime or that they never had the capacity to commit a crime. The reason that criminal defense attorneys can make these arguments is that criminal law recognizes a number of unique situations where otherwise criminal conduct should not be subjected to a determination of guilt and the offender should be exempted from the crime (LaFave, 2000). These arguments, which ...

A Bibliometric study published in 2003 found that medical researches on Bipolar disorder is lower than medical researches conducted for schizophrenia. In the Medline data base, bipolar disorder lags behind schizophrenia in all major topics and subheadings. The researchers however explained that their research method alone is not enough to conclude that there is a medical neglect (especially on research) for the bipolar disorder. They expounded that textword search may have missed some researches on the said ‘under-researched’ human illness. Clement, Singh, & Burns (2003) also discussed some factors that may have affected the bipolar disorder to be under-researched. Some ...

Aggression is viewed as a violent reaction or an aggressive action against another person. There are various influential factors that trigger to the development of this behavior. In this discussion we present the reasons of aggression prior and after reading the Chapter 12 of the book. Initially, I believed that the aggression was caused by a mere mental health issue or just a brain damage that influences a person to become an aggressive one. This belief changed after reading the book chapter. My previous belief tells me that aggression is an outcome of a mental condition of a person. ...

In this July 2013 trial, George Zimmerman stood accused of the second-degree murder of teenager Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman had shot Martin in February 2012 after a confrontation between the two in Sanford, Florida. From the beginning, Zimmerman defense team did not deny that he had shot Martin but rather that he shot Martin in self-defense (Linder, 2014). Claiming self-defense is one of the fundamental principles of exculpation in criminal law. The theory underlying exculpation holds that in some situations although a person has otherwise acted criminally, their actions are justified and therefore should not be subject to punishment. In ...

Mental disorders take a toll on a person’s life, affecting not only their emotional and psychological health but also by imposing negative effects on their physical health and well-being. This is the reason why it is very important to treat mental disorders very keenly and to take extra care in the kind of treatment which is being given to people with mental illnesses. Doctors and specialists compose a very balanced proportion of medication for the patients so they can heal properly and their drugs can have positive, curative effects on their mental health. Along with medication and various ...

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Abstract The aim of this essay is to work on a case of the mentally ill person, Mr. Fryer who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and was living on the streets. Mr. Fryer committed a violent murder while being mentally unstable. In this essay I will highlight the consequences of the case and work on it as the defense for the Mr. Fryer. I will choose my way of actions and explain the logic behind them as well as providing clarification of aggravating and mitigating circumstances of the crime, addressing the issue as a forensic psychology professional and explaining ...

Introduction

Consumer- centered health care nursing can be explained as an approach to support and assist consumers and their families through modern care models and decision-making. The objective of consumer-centered health care is to build an intense relationship of therapeutic between the healthcare professional and the patient to provide effective health care services . The Institute of Medicines (IOM) has stated that the patient-centered health care is the foundation with the primary goal to ensure consumers treatment under respectful and valuable environment accompanied with their physical and mental comfort. It is also analyzed that several institutions of consumer-centered health care help ...

Bipolar is a severe mental condition under the category of depressive disorders with the major symptom being the presence of maniac episodes, during which a patient experiences unusual mood changes. The mania portrays extremely happy feelings and energy while depression manifests through sadness and depression. This mental condition affects children, teenagers, and adults at different levels with maniac episodes taking longer as a person grows older. Management of this condition is possible with early diagnosis and use of medication as well as therapeutic measures. Art therapy has proved effective in managing the mood changes of patients since it allows ...

ABSTRACT

Brenda Spencer, at age 16, killed two people, injured a police officer as well as several school children when she opened fire on an elementary school across the street from her home while students were arriving for class. Brenda made startling proclamations about the school shooting. She claimed the shooting made her day better, and that the shootings were fun. After being sentenced to twenty-five years to life, she has been denied parole since the incident and remains incarcerated today. There is no comprehensive explanation for the crime of Brenda Spencer. Yet, her mental condition and the positivist theory ...

Abstract

The paper briefly describes the UN goals for sustainable development and focuses on its third goal related to health issues which are presented as being associated with psychological condition of an individual. The key point of the latter statement consists in that mental condition and physical health of people are interdependent and decline of physical state will definitely cause degradation of mental health of an individual. The paper also briefly reviews the main organizations which work on health issues together with the UN describing some of their projects. In conclusion, the author suggests some ideas for new projects which ...

Juvenile delinquency consists of criminal behavior by individuals under the age of eighteen. A risk factor is any influence or characteristic that increases the probability of criminal behavior. Risk factors can be used to forecast future behavior. Several risk factors increase the risk of children to engage in delinquency and possessing certain factors may increase chance of becoming delinquent. Risk factors may increase the probability that a juvenile will engage in delinquent behavior but it does not make delinquency a certainty. The greater number of risk factors existing in a juvenile’s life, the greater the amount of crime ...

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The Homeless and Indigent in the Houston, Texas Area

Homelessness is a very significant problem that exists in any city. Houston, Texas has such a large population that it comes as no wonder that there is an increasing number of homeless people around (Dixon & Osher, 1995). Almost 150,000 people in this city are living without the basic necessities. Even though Texas experiences mild temperatures during most of the year, winter can still be very harsh. Living without a home or the right nutritious food can be very tough, especially for those who have no other choice. Even though this is seen as a rampant social problem, ...

Psychology is simply the study behaviours and the way peoples mind function. Psychology tries to understand the relationship that exists between mental activities, an individual’s behaviour and what motivates a person’s action to behave in a certain way (Westen, Kowalski and Burton 2006). There are several perspectives or rather; approaches to understanding psychology and in this essay two of them will be emphasized as they will try to explain reasons for people to have road rage. Road rage is a behaviour that is very common among people especially drivers and includes behaviour such as people making threats to other drivers ...

The narrator of the story, The Black Cat is an insane man. There is a horde of evidence throughout the story to prove this assertion. The actions, the hallucinations and the uncontrollable fits of rage all prove that the narrator is insane.

The narrator has a divided self or consciousness. There are several issues he does not see about himself. First he does not realize that he is explaining more about his unstable mind and uncontrollable fits of anger and less about the influence of alcohol in his life. The narrator wants to “place before the world, succinctly, plainly a series ...

Schizophrenia is a very serious mental illness that is characterized by serious disturbance in the sufferer’s thoughts, perception, behavior and even imagination and perception. When looking at it critically, schizophrenia happens to be an umbrella diagnosis that covers several mental disorders. But what contribute most to this condition are the depressive and anxiety disorders which people experience in everyday life (Jones & Buckley 2006). Some of the common symptoms include hearing of internal voices, believing that other people might harm the sufferer and this will always leave the patient fearful and very much withdrawn. According to the Substance Abuse and ...

Introduction

Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder that makes a patient fail to establish between real and unreal things in the surrounding. Schizophrenic patients experience hallucination that makes them hear sounds and voices that other people cannot hear. In most cases, schizophrenic patients are aggressive because they think that people close to them influence their way of thinking. Various scholars have written much about this mental condition; however, most of these elite learners dealt with various aspect of the mental condition. This paper seeks to conduct an analysis of schizophrenia, which include the theoretical perspectives, research methods used to analyze the mental ...

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a condition that results in changes in the brain and affects the memory of individual as well as other mental abilities. The disease has many effects on the brain of an individual and as it progresses so does its effect on the individual’s life and those around him or her. The historical evaluations of the disease provide a basis for understanding the disease better and the approaches that may help in combating it. This when coupled with current research provides relevant information that can help understand how it affects the brain (Perry, 2013). Alzheimer’ ...

Steven Lopez book titled The Soloist gives a detailed story of the lives of Steve Lopez, a newspaper columnist and Nathaniel Ayers who is a homeless musical genius. The homeless musician attends Julliard’s but then drops out after some time because of his mental condition and as it turns out he suffers from schizophrenia. Upon meeting him, Lopez seems unsure of the eventual relationship between him and Ayers considering his career and the deplorable condition of Ayers now that he considers featuring him in his column. Perhaps it is because of his work ethics but then, their friendship turns out great ...

Decision-making is a vital process to any patient. Typically, there are competent and incompetent patients who make and take ready-made medical decisions respectively. However, is it necessary to make decisions for the incompetent, and if so, why? What are the rights given to competent patients in making medical decisions and why is it important for patients to make decisions for themselves? The complexity of the problem of decision making for incompetent patients is best evident, for example in patients who are under age and their parents need to make an informed decision concerning their health.. Certainly, it is pertinent to ...

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Abstract

Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder that has affected lives of 1 percent population of the world. It affects the people adversely irrespective of their race, sex and ethnicity. Patients of schizophrenia become helpless and unable to hold a job and rely on others for help. Delusions and hallucinations are common in schizophrenia. It can be genetically transmitted, or a person’s surroundings can be a cause. Psychological factors also contribute in the development of the disease. ...

Literature

What is the underlying meaning of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”? I feel a strong desire to know more of what Gilman’s message was. I don’t see the strong connection between Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” and post-partum. It is only because I was informed of the post-partum underlying information that I was able to make the connection. I find this story fascinating because this story comes into my life when I find myself being 6 months pregnant with my first child. When we read this class, I was taking birthing and parenting classes in which we ...

A Beautiful Mind (2001) Directed by Ron Howard The chosen movie for this review is the movie A Beautiful Mind (2001), directed by Ron Howard. This movie follows the life of a famous mathematician, John Nash, and his endless struggle with schizophrenia. From his college, John Nash had been under the influence of this mental condition which followed him throughout his life, and even when he got the Nobel Prize his imaginary companions were with him. Schizophrenia disconnected him from the reality and the immediate surroundings. As the movie covers the period from the 1947 until the 1994, viewers ...

Human behaviour is a complex topic because it is determined by various biological, social, and psychological factors. Depending on the factors influencing behaviour, a human being may act in a certain way without knowing why they had acted in such a manner. In Brain on Trial, David Eagleman explains the relationship that exists between neuroscience and criminal acts, and how this information can be used to build a better society with a justice system that is not ignorant of the facts of advances in brain science (121-123). This information can better equip those in the justice system to understand better why crimes occur and may ...

I. Background Combat stress or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), among military veterans and service personnel, is an anxiety disorder associated with severe traumatic conditions. It is characterized by such symptoms as survivor guilt and numbness, recurrent thoughts and images, re-living the trauma in dreams, and lack of involvement with reality. Current or previous combatants who were exposed to severe combat-related traumas show characteristic symptoms such as markedly dissociative behaviors and unreasonable complaint participating in events they previously enjoyed doing. They also show decreased interest, emotional estrangement and detachment, as well as, diminished affection, tenderness, intimacy, and sexuality. Because ...

Post traumatic disorder is a mental condition that can have been classified as one of the emotional illnesses. In addition to that it is said to be an anxiety disorder which is caused by terrible frightening. It is also on record to have been as a result of occasions in life that are threatening as well as other place where the life of a person was highly unsafe. It is said to be a condition that is potentially deliberating that is common with people who have witnessed serious situation for instance serious accidents, natural disasters, terrorist incidences as well as sudden death of a ...

Euthanasia is defined as the procedure when “someone other than the 'patient'—a doctor, nurse or someone else—performs an action, such as a lethal injection, which brings about death” (Glover). Assisted-suicide occurs when an individual, usually a doctor, enlists the aid to end one’s own life, without participating in the killing directly (Glover). However, pulling out the plug of a life sustaining machine or refuse treatment is not considered physician-assisted suicide and it is legal in most states, since it is perceived as allowing nature to take its course (Oregon Right to Life). Euthanasia and whether one has the right to ...

The short story ‘The Black Cat’ by Edgar Allan Poe can be categorized under the sub-genre Psychological Horror as it is based on events and incidents that take place mainly due to the mental illness that the narrator, who refers himself throughout the story as ‘I’, is going through and has no control over. The story revolves around the idea of how a human mind has the unbelievable capabilities of doing dark and perverse acts that are beyond the imagination. The narrator at the beginning comes out as being a normal person who loves animals and is spending a simple life ...

Introduction

The physiological and lifestyle aging of older athletes can be caused by several factors. However, due to their exemplary physical and mental condition, these older athletes have been role models for successful stories on optimal aging (Sipe, “Training Masters Athletes”). In fact, the author stated that most of the trainers believe that working with master athletes is a rewarding experience because it serves as an eye-opener for younger athletes. Based on the changes observed in the group of older-adult athletes, the have advanced their physiological age as a result of the natural aging, but not on their lifestyle aging. The primary ...

Introduction

The insanity defense is an amendment to the strict rules of common law that allows an accused to be acquitted, completely or substantially, of the charges leveled against him, whether he is guilty or not. For this plea to hold water in a court of law, defendants must provide sufficient notification to the court. The court will then use health experts to examine the accused and determine their state of the psychology. The defense may also bring witnesses, who personally know the accused, to the stand to testify on his or her mental capacity. However, the nature of the ...

Psychiatry in the Film Industry

Introduction Cinema is a medium used to entertain people. It portrays many issues about the society, science and various myths. It depicts different psychiatric disorders such as suicide and drug abuse to schizophrenia and personality disorders. Gone are the days when films were used to negatively portray psychiatric conditions. Nowadays films are used for educational purposes as well as to change the negative attitude towards people with psychiatric conditions. Film portrays that even psychiatric people are geniuses and that they can solve complex problems. Mental conditions are portrayed in different ways in the film industry. Film is used to ...

Introduction

The patient is a 24 year old male who was found laying on the floor of his apartment at 7.30 am by his friend who had come to pick him up to go to work. I was called in and directed to the living room where I found the patient on the floor with his arms tight and curled towards his chest, his head back, back arched, and his eyes rolled back with a fixed gaze. His mouth is open and his facial muscles appear to be pulled back tight. My first impression and thus diagnosis is that the patient is ...

The movie is based on the historic Bellevue hospital. The hospital is located in New York and it generally associated by psychiatric illnesses. The movie is completely based on this hospital including the diseases used as referral themes in the film. The film revolves around diseases, Medicare, relationships and characters of the cast in the movie (Harris, 2008). The movie is also based on the historic depth of the Bellevue hospital which is known for its prowess in medication and offering medical services to thousands of people in its environment. The movie highlights the tribulations of Angela: a patient ...

Abolishing the Concept of Voidable Marriage

Introduction The institution of marriage is protected not only as a societal norm but also as an institution of the law. Family law essentially captures the legal connotations that marriage implies on persons and institutions. The concept of voidable marriages sits comfortably under the purview of marriages and is guided by a body of statutes with the overriding objective usually being the provision of fairness to both parties. The law suffices for man and its ideal purpose is to provide justice and fairness to all without fear or favour. Statutes in relation to marriages inherently showcase the same spirit of ...

Pedophilia as a Mental Disorder: Why Pedophiles are not Criminals

A pedophile can be described as an adult person who gets sexually attracted to young people. Pedophiles exhibit behaviors which deviate from what the society expects-especially on sexual behavior. According to medical diagnosis, pedophilia is a psychiatric disorder in which people who are 16 years of age (and above) have exclusive or primary sexual interest in prepubescent young ones; mostly children of 13 years of age and below. For the attraction to be diagnosed as pedophilia, the prepubescent child must be younger than the adolescent by at least five years (Blaney & Millon, 2009). Although many people view pedophiles as ...

Accepting Female Nature

The history of human civilisation can teach a lot of lessons, which can be applicable in everyday life. Even ancient beliefs and orders can be useful for contemporary challenges, not to speak about times of not so long past, which teach us who we and where are we going. Often people tend to take for granted what they have and consider that life was the way it is at this specific moment of time. The best example proving that such statement is disillusion is the case of women's emancipation and position in society. Only a century ago, women were considered to ...

Fight Club is an 1999 film based on the novel of the same title by Chuck Palahniuk published in 1996. The movie appears to be a story about an underground fighting club that the narrator and Tyler Durden have created. Apparently, there is more in the movie than what an average viewer could decipher. Fight Club is a depiction of a mental disorder known as Dissociative Personality/Identity Disorder or DID, at least in a psychological point of view. Evidently, the mental imbalance suffered by the character in the film is obvious in the plot. At the beginning of the movie the narrator can ...

“The yellow Wallpaper” is a cut throat short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and it tries to reconstruct the nature of American women lives and their roles in the nineteenth century society .During the era, women were treated as mere objects and men tried as much as possible to use their skills, power and ability to dominate and limit women.

The protagonist of the story Charlotte Perkins Gilman is the narrator and she describes her life as a woman, mother, and wife. Immediately after the birth of her son, she is presented to suffer from a mental disorder described as 'post-partum depression, ...

Presentence Investigation

Presentence investigation is a report that shows the criminal history of an individual. This document is useful in many ways. One of the ways is that it is used by the judge to help them decide on the appropriate sentence that should be given to the criminal. The crime history of an individual determines whether he should be given a harsh sentence or a lenient one. The document is therefore used to determine the correct sentence (Green, 1983). The document also helps to determine the supervision that should be accorded to the criminals. Usually there is high, medium and low level ...

Abstract

Schizophrenia is a mental condition that affects about 1% of the world’s population. It's often associated with attempted suicides with 50% of those affected by the condition attempting suicide at some point of which 9-13% are fatal . The symptoms of schizophrenia are grouped into three: positive symptoms, negative symptoms and cognitive deficits. Cognitive symptoms have been known to be an indicator of both the disease outcome (prognosis) and the response to the treatment. They include the inability to pay attention, language difficulties, memory dysfunction, poor interpretation of social cues and cognitive inflexibility. Patients with schizophrenia have difficulties in assimilating ...

Nursing is a very important field and plays the role of defining the treatment which is to be given to a patient. Many hospitals in the world are faced with dilemma of dealing and providing total patient care and team nursing. This paper seeks to address the above issues and it comes up with a proposal of analyzing whether total patient care and team nursing is effective or non effective. The objective of the research will be to examine the concepts total patient care and the factors associated with its use in the team nursing.

Introduction

When it comes to maintenance of health, ...