MDMA should be reviewed and rescheduled due to the fact that the initial scheduling reports were flawed, there are vast medical uses for MDMA in treating patients who have shown no improvements with other psychological treatments, and there is a very low possibility of death amongst users of unadulterated MDMA. Why must we withhold a drug that can be so very useful for the treatment of extreme mental conditions and possibly cure thousands of Americans of their
D) Nancy has a negative Babinski's reflex bilaterally. Due to her deteriorating condition, Nancy is immediately referred to the neurologist. The ED nurse realizes that Nancy has probably suffered a left-sided brain attack. 3. Which clinical manifestation further supports this assessment?
Also, incarcerated persons might not want treatment because they don’t recognize that they have an illness or they have lost touch with reality all together. When and if the offender experiences a psychotic break, they are taken to a facility so that a doctor can prescribe medication, they can also be forced to take the medication by court order. One expert contends that “we have created a revolving door in which mentally ill cycle from clinics, to homelessness, to jail”. The offenders in California, Texas, Arizona, Maryland, and Oregon, all go through a screening process. They do questionnaire, and or observation through an interview that is done by jail employees or a nurse.
To put it simply pain was pain – you medicated to relieve the pain. There was not a qualifier by the patient as to their perception of the intensity. Follow up was subjective as you asked the patient if they felt better – we didn’t ask them to quantify the relief they perceived from the medication given. As nurses, we now have data that validates our actions in our plan of care for our patients through evidence based practice. We are not doing something “because that is the way it has always been done”.
Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment and Stanley Milgram’s Behavioral Study of Obedience have provoked controversy amongst individuals interested in the study of human psychology. Critics have claimed that both studies were unethical and caused serious harm to the participants. Although both trials were later reviewed by the American Psychological Association and approved, many debates and additional research ensued. The strengths, weaknesses and underlying ethics of both studies still provide ample reason for further examination. Only three months after the start of trials for Adolf Eichmann (a Nazi war criminal), Milgram formulated an experiment to question this dispositional view.
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). Family therapy is also a means of treatment where family members as well as the client see a mental health provider to find solutions and ways to deal with the disorder. Family involvement provides structure and could increase adherence to treatment leading to delays or reductions in relapses (Steinkuller and Rheineck 342). Interpersonal and social rhythm therapy involves stabilizing social and circadian rhythms based on the hypotheses that unstable daily routines result in increased bipolar episodes in individuals prone to them (Steinkuller and Rheineck 349). Social rhythm therapy recognizes the need for regular sleep/wake cycles, regulation of meals, exercise, sleep and plans for keeping rhythms stable when disruptions occur.
Law enforcement needs to learn how to recognize the symptoms and be taught proper restraining techniques to help prevent death. EMS must learn how to recognize and treat Excited Delirium patients so there can hopefully be more positive outcomes. All documentation refers to Law enforcement, EMS, and Doctors but I think the awareness needs to go further. There are other professions that could possible encounter this type of problem such as teachers. Education and training are the keys to preventing these
Working with dually diagnosed clients can be very difficult without the proper knowledge on how to assist these clients in treatment. When working with dually diagnosed clients, one must know how to approach the client, provide the necessary information needed to assist the client, know that working with this type of client can go on for years, and be able to make their self available to the client as needed. In this essay I will illustrate how to work with a dually diagnosed client. I will be using a client in which I had the opportunity of interviewing. I will be using the integrated dual diagnosis treatment model (IDDT) as my tool to assist my client.
Examination of Clinical Psychology PSY/480 May 21, 2012 Examination of Clinical Psychology The abundant history of clinical psychology extends from primitive Greek theorists to Sigmund Freud, to present-day psychology at which point exists prosperous knowledge extracted from philosophy, science, and additional fields. Scientific analysis maintains to revolutionize and advance clinical intercession as the empirically derived data reinforces the standards whereby clinical psychologists’ deliberate human encounters. Even though an assortment of differences remain among clinical psychologists and additional psychological fields each bear hardships to stimulate an improved life essence for and from
The Body in US Culture WS 2012/13 The Body in US Culture WS 2012/13 Essay To Susan Sontag’s „Illness as Metaphor” “Illness as Metaphor” is a nonfiction work written by Susan Sontag and was first published in 1978. Sontag argues against the use of illness as metaphor. She states her main point on the first page of this long essay: "The most truthful way of regarding illness--and the healthiest way of being ill--is one most purified of, most resistant to, metaphoric thinking." (1) Throughout her essay Susan Sontag argues that the myths and metaphors surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, are “preposterous” (74) and condemning to patients suffering from these types of illnesses. Sontag establishes her main point within the preface of the essay: “My point is that illness is not a metaphor, and that the most truthful way of regarding illness- and the healthiest way of being ill-is one most purified of, most resistant to metaphoric thinking” (3).