Institutional Abuse: you would normally associate this with care or nursing homes although this can happen in someone’s own home, it is when the standard of care is not met, neglect and poor practice which results in adequate care. Signs and Symptoms: not being treated with dignity or respect, not having a choice, denial of visitors or contact from family or friends, freedom to go out, inadequate staffing levels. Self neglect: isolation, personal hygiene, drug or alcohol abuse, eating disorder. Signs and Symptoms: depression, poor person hygiene, smelling, greasy hair, losing/gaining weight, suicidal thoughts. Neglect by others: Ignoring warning signs, not given medication, prevention of accessing external services, not feeding or given client drink if client can not do this themselves.
In health and social care settings someone could start using health and social services and they already have low self-esteem or those using the services could make them have low self-esteem. An example of this is an emotional teenager being targeted and bullied which would result in them having low self-worth or best known as low self-esteem. (1) Self-identity is how you view yourself away from cultural groups or society as a whole. In health and social care services you have to recognise and respect everyone own individual identities. You could be a what society calls it a Goth and you could be in a sexual hospital and the nurse seeing you has to accept how you present yourself and respect your individuality.
Social isolation, poor housing, unemployment and poverty are all linked to mental ill health. So stigma and discrimination can trap people in a cycle of illness. The situation is exacerbated by the media. Media reports often link mental illness with violence, or portray people with mental health problems as dangerous, criminal, evil, or very disabled and unable to live normal, fulfilled lives. 2.2 How mental illness can have an impact on the individual: Psychologically: - person may become paranoid and therefore exclude him or her self -person may become paranoid and therefore hurt others who she/he fears will try to hurt him/her -person may become isolated and therefore out of touch with other people and reality in general -person may feel unloved even if it is not true -person may feel like he/she is a threat to society and therefore attempt suicide emotionally: -person may feel isolated, unloved, paranoid, panicked and non-human (read Francis Kafka's The Metamorphosis)
One definition of abnormality is Failure to function adequately. People with psychological disorders often experience considerable suffering and distress and a general inability to cope with their everyday activities, such as being unable to go to work or take part in social activities. So common is this failure to function among those with mental disorders, doctors are required to take this into account when diagnosing an individual with psychological problems. Common examples would be severe depression which leads to empathy and inertia, meaning that a depressed person may fail even to get up in the morning, let alone hold down a job. However, failure to function adequately is a general sign of a disorder and not itself specific to any condition.
Chris Gibson 12/5/2010 Fall 2010/ Psych 220-1603 Chp. 15 Psychological Disorders Psychological Disorders are a way of life, but what is normal and abnormal. Normal is what is set by our society. So abnormal is not acting up on the standards that are set. So people with disorders or phobias are abnormal because they act in way that are contrast to what is normal.
The problem that comes with preventive treatment and therapy for individuals suffering from schizophrenia usually falls to the individual accepting that they are suffering from a mental disorder and the financial aspect of the keeping up with the treatment and therapy. Borderline personalities usually do not seek mental health care to have their characters transformed; they want help for depression, anxiety, and problems in their work and family lives. But a psychiatrist, psychologist, or counselor can help make these patients more aware of how their patterns of behavior and thinking aggravate those symptoms and complicate those problems. (“The Harvard mental health letter,” 2006). The penitent usually makes therapists feel uncomfortable or guilty, demand special treatment, become uncooperative and ungrateful, and provoke crises with self-destructive actions, which lead to inappropriate or unnecessary therapy or treatment.
• Patterns of challenge behaviour. • Restricted access to toilet or bathroom. • Failure to ensure appropriate privacy or personal dignity. Self Neglect is a behavioural condition in which an individual neglects to attend to basic needs such as personal hygiene, appropriate clothing, feeding or tending to appropriately to any medical condition they have. It also refers to situations in which there is no perpetrator and neglect is the result of the individual refusing care.
With this being the case, antipsychotic medications often have side effects that need to be monitored regularly by the health professionals (Young et al, 2011). Compliance is often a challenge with patients either because of the unmanageable side effects they experience or through limited insight. It is a role of the health professionals involved in the care to closely monitor this behaviour, as the effectiveness of the treatment may be affected (Young et al, 2011). Keller, Drexler &Lichtenberg (2009) discuss the benefits of treating paranoid schizophrenia with atypical antipsychotic medication clozapine and Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT). However both forms of treatment are linked with harsh side effects.
Discriminatory practice can have a very negative effect on people because it could hurt their feelings or even some types of discrimination can physically hurt them. All different types of discrimination can lead to someone not using health and social care services and this could lead to poorer health. The impact that discrimination has on everybody involved is very big and can affect people in many different ways. Service users who are discriminated against by their service provider may feel disempowered, feel less powerful or loss of confidence meaning the individual’s sadness will occur because of the feeling of neglect, anxiety and they will finally disengage and withdraw from others. The individual who is being discriminated against may feel depressed because they have lost the fight against
Psychologists believe that the most common socially acceptable behaviors follow a normal curve. The majority of individuals who can be measured at the highest point of the curve would be considered average, or exhibiting “normal” behavior (Cherry, 2012). In contrast, abnormal psychology would be the psychopathological study of any behaviors that fall on either extreme end of the curve. It is important to understand that the term “abnormal” does not necessarily mean “bad”, it just implies that a subject’s behavior does not fall within the socially acceptable average on the curve. For the purposes of this paper, the term abnormal psychology can be defined as any type of behavior that causes some level of discomfort to the subject or those around him or her.