Essays on Mental Health Professionals

Why treated prevalence of mental disorders is lower among children and adolescents in comparison with adults in 42 LAMICs?

Apart from the fact that most mental health resources are concentrated in urban as well as affluent areas, treated prevalence of mental disorders is lower among children and adolescents in comparison with adults in 42 LAMICs because in the rural area access to services are limited. Besides even if formalized care for mental disorder is present it will only be provided in psychiatric hospitals which are found in the urban areas rather than a preferred general hospital or outpatient facility.

Why children have limited access to mental health care in LAMICs?

Children in LAMICs have limited access to mental health care due to several reasons. First, financial costs of mental ...

For decades courts have relied on the judgments of mental health professionals when deciding whether or not an individual is a danger to themselves or others but while there are those who claim this is a successful method, there are others who argue mental health professionals should not be allowed to decide the defendant in question’s fate. The main argument behind the latter is that the mental health professionals base their decision on symptoms one might find in a text book instead of by examining the individual in question. After all, not everyone thinks or behaves the same ...

Law and Practice

Law and Practice Civil commitment is the involuntary commitment of an individual into an inpatient treatment facility for the safety of him/herself or others (Greenley, n.d.; Testa & West, 2010). This process can force an individual to submit to psychiatric care because of the inherent risk the pose to them. In a civil commitment situation, a person is deemed to be unable to make a reasoned and well-informed decision about their own welfare. This is not unlike insanity pleas which some states allow in criminal defense. Similar to those cases, and despite what a person says about themselves and their ...

The risks involve in hostage crisis leads to the development of negotiation strategies that will be used based on a given hostage situation. There is a need to understand the motives of the hostage taker as a means to develop an effective and appropriate negotiation approach, in addition to the consideration of the factors that can help diffuse the tense emotional state. However, one among the most important consideration is the establishment of the negotiator and hostage-taker relationship, which often takes considerable time to develop. In this instance, the mental health professional can provide helpful assistance to negotiators in ...

ABSTRACT

Forensic psychology has grown in popularity and the assessments these professionals conduct can be incredibly beneficial in determining a criminal defendant or offender’s mental stability, ability to stand trial and the level of threat they may represent. That being said in order for forensic psychologists to provide these assessments it is required that a number of the Ethical Standards Code, which is the core structure of modern psychological practice, be augmented or adapted to allow the psychologist to be beholden to the law enforcement who hires them and not directly to the subject; they must be able to ...

Attitudes and Beliefs of Hypnosis amongst Mental Health Professionals and the Impact on the Availability of Hypnosis Training in Counseling Training Programs

Abstract

Nine out of ten general practitioners are approached by their patients for information regarding alternative and complementary therapies, including hypnotherapy, and three out of four GPs provide referalls for hypnotherapy (Hall & Giles-Corti, 2000). A minority of healthcare providers, however, has ever received formal education and training in hypnosis, and a majority relies on lay information from the media and other non-authoritative sources to form its opinions about the merits or demerits of hypnotherapy. Mental healthcare standards dictate ...

Exploring High Self-Esteem and Narcissism as Contributors of Aggressive Tendencies: an Argument against the Low Self-Esteem Hypothesis

Literature Review Introduction There are relevant themes in the current literature that relate to the argument presented in this position paper. Many of these themes have focused on supporting the high self-esteem hypothesis, which holds that highly favorable self-appraisals cause aggression and make people more prone to acts of aggression. The results and findings of several research studies conducted with the purpose of supporting the so called high self-esteem hypothesis have actually been successful in providing evidence in favor of the view that it is actually high levels of self-esteem that increase an individual’s proneness to aggressive tendencies ( ...

There are reasons why mental health professionals are exposed to higher risk for liability and complaints. Firstly, the litigious people of United States has included the whole profession in their claims. Secondly, increased government regulations implemented when licensing the practitioners whereas the professions have no say when establishing the care standards. Thirdly, patients are becoming more distrustful of the mental health professionals making most of them not to adhere to treatment guidelines given. Therefore, if they do not recover, they turn the blame to mental health practitioners. Fourthly, the managed care has come up with new restrictions on the ...

Anti-social personality disorder is a chronic mental condition that affects the way the patient thinks, perceive situations, and relate with other people around. People ailing from this disorder have no feelings with regards to what is considered right and wrong. They often disregard the rights, feelings, and expectations of the people they interact with. It makes the patients malicious in that they tend to treat other people harshly without caring about the outcome of such unfair treatment. They are in conflicts with others since they try to manipulate and treat people with arrogance. The current paper seeks to describe ...