•What populations or groups were most adversely affected by deinstitutionalization? What are the benefits of deinstitutionalization? •Are health care professionals who provide mental health care integrated with other systems of care? What are the consequences of separating mental health from physical health care? What other services (social and health) might be needed by the mentally ill?
Life Twice Given: An Unlikely Sacrifice At 16 weeks, Logan Hampson fell mysteriously ill. Four years later, his baby sister, Alyson, developed the same symptoms. Discover the true story of what a mother and father sacrificed for their children. By Nicholas Hune-Brown [pic] Photography: Frances Juriansz When Lynn and Jason Hampson first saw the hint of yellow in their four-month-old son’s eyes in the winter of 2008, they didn’t think too much of it. The young parents assumed it was jaundice, a common illness that would pass with a little time under the hospital lamps. Instead, the colour spread.
I came to find out my family has a long history of diabetes. Both aunts got diagnosed with this disease at early adolescence. Aunt M. and Aunt E. are both still living, only a few of my family members have died from diabetes due to lack of treatment. Meanwhile majority of my family that has the disease are still alive and struggle with this battle every day. Diabetes in My Family Tree When I interviewed both aunts I learned their types of diabetes.
She is on sliding scale insulin and required thickened fluids and a diabetic diet due to dysphagia. Her past medical history states that she was diagnosed with type two diabetes 25 years ago, Peripheral Vascular disease and Congestive Cardiac Failure. Mrs. Robinson has a right below knee amputation (in the year 2001) and right-sided Hemiplegia due to a left sided CVA. Mrs. Robinson also has dysphasia and dysphagia. Mrs. Robinson will require ongoing Insulin to manage her diabetes when she is discharged.
By the time he was admitted to the hospital on September 14, his muscles were weak and his ribs were showing. Baby Pierre had only gained half a pound in the six months since his birth. The doctors kept him alive by feeding him through a tube threaded through his nose and into his stomach. He gained weight and strength for a while, then suddenly took a turn for the worse. On November 30, baby Pierre vomited blood and died.
Ethical Issues in Counseling: A Case Study Michael Cronin Capella University COUN5217 – Ethical and Legal Issues in Professional Counseling Professors Kornegay and Young September 9, 2012 Abstract In this paper, the author will examine a case study through the lens of ethical decision-making in counseling. The case study involves a 41 year old Native American male who is in counseling for alcohol and substance abuse issues. The client is also HIV-infected. The study presents at least two potential client-related ethical issues that the counselor must navigate by utilizing an ethical decision-making heuristic. Several ethical decision-making paradigms are examined, including Corey, Corey, & Callanan’s Rational Model; Kitchener’s Principle-Ethics Model; Cottone’s Social Constructivist Model; Davis’s Collaborative Model; Tarvydas’s Integrative Model; and Garcia, Cartwright, Winston, and Borzuchowska’s Transcultural Integrative Model.
1009). This indicates the complexity in managing bipolar disorder. Studies also show that psychotherapy is necessary to supplement and optimize the effects of medication (Steinkuller and Rheineck 338). Cognitive behavioral therapy helps patients manage the disorder by replacing negative behaviors with positive ones. Education is important with this form of treatment so clients can recognize how different factors affect the course of the disease and what they can do to manage these factors (Steinkuller and Rheineck 342).
Therefore, understanding the impact of a person’s mental health developmental problem and its medical features becomes a paramount issue when it comes to diagnosis and medical intervention (Kenrick, 2009). In mental health, being normal or abnormal depends on different conditions or circumstances. Similarly, the term ‘abnormal’ has different explanations biologically and psychologically. In order to analyze practical and theoretical challenges in defining the term ‘abnormal’, three approaches are used. The first approach is the statistical abnormality.
Substance Abuse Among African Americans According to the Healthy People 2010 report, substance abuse was identify among other health related issues as a major public health problem that need immediate interventions. To succeed in new intervention that address negative behaviors and substance abuse dependence, socio-cultural environment of the ethnic minorities like the African Americans need to be tackle (Health People 2010). Socio-cultural factors and access to health care have been considered as major barriers in terms of health disparities among substance abusers that seek behavioral health care services. Substance abusers among the African Americans have been classified as one of the minority populations that are at disadvantage and continue
Although there has been a general trend toward placing a higher priority on providing treatment and services for people with the most severe and potentially disabling conditions, there has always been a counter pressure favoring a broader concern for people at all levels of impairment. Increasingly, people with a wide range of disorders are seeking a mental health service, which put pressure on resources and necessitates policies to allocate them. This paper explores the role of definitions of mental health conditions in framing mental health policy, using examples from the history of policy making over the past half-century. Our main focus is the role of illness severity and the limitations of diagnosis for assessing need and shaping policy. Our secondary focus is on the tension between policies of inclusion of mental health concerns in mainstream health and social welfare programs and policies of exclusion, special financing, or exceptions for mental health disorders and mental health