The idea of re-institutionalization for mental health patients has risen to avoid problems such as suicide, school failure, or homelessness. But given the past attempt, this isn’t the solution for all people. In some cases where an individual creates a hazard to themselves or others, institutionalism may be considered necessary. On the other hand, the vast majority of people in need of mental health services can be cared for under the California Mental Health Services Act (CMHSA). The essay discusses the system for the “mentally ill”.
Vulnerable Populations in Current Events Introduction The article titled “An in-home geriatric programme for vulnerable community-dwelling older people improves the detection of dementia in primary care,” was chosen because it deals with a very sensitive vulnerable population: older people suffering from dementia. The most common issue with dementia is that it grows undetected at the beginning, and people and relatives believe that forgetting things is just a sign of aging; however, not all older people suffer from that devastating disease, which to date, has not found any real solution. In the article chosen there is a concern of detecting early signs of dementia at a primary health care level. Early detection of dementia enables the use of the related services at an early stage. It also allows the patient and caregiver the possibility to organize their lives better in face of the progressive mental decline.
Many mentally ill—particularly the poor—are now without access to help. Over the same time, politically-generated “tough on crime” attitudes throughout the country have given rise to criminal codes under which more people are being incarcerated
Nursing Home Neglect and Abuse Nursing Home Neglect and Abuse Even though many of us may have to struggle with putting a loved one into a skilled nursing facility, there comes a time when elders can no longer take care of themselves due to physical, emotional or mental problems. Skilled nursing facilities can provide a wide range of personal care and health services so when you’re deciding on a health care facility for them, don’t settle for anything but the best. One bad judgment call and your loved ones could end up being victims of abuse. Many families lose their loved ones every year as a result of nursing home abuse and according to the best available estimates, between one and two million Americans age sixty five or older have been injured, exploited or otherwise mistreated by someone on whom they depended for care or protection (National center on elder abuse, 2011). Nursing home abuse and negligence is any physical, sexual, verbal, psychological, or financial abuse perpetrated against residents of a residential care facility.
According to the authors family violence has been going on for centuries, but it wasn’t until C. Henry Kempe and his colleagues wrote about the "clinical condition in young children who receive serious physical abuse, generally from parents or foster parents," that the problem of child abuse received serious professional and public attention. From this, researchers set out to identify the personality and character disorders that were associated with abusers. Gelles and Maynard (2001) found that the initial concern of those who researched family violence was to answer three questions: 1. How extensive is violence in the family? 2.
Cultural Diversity in Child Bearing Practices around the World Nursing 8/1/2013 Abstract Much is written on best practices of evidence based birthing statistics and outcomes. They are very important public health issues, due to the still high mortality rates for both mother and child in different parts of the world. Never the less, the efficacy of different childbearing practices will not be compared in this short paper. The goal is to look at the very real belief systems of very real people who are giving birth and cross our paths as nurses every day. How does a nurse’s understanding of a patients culture help positive outcomes?
The role of the Nurse in Child Passenger Safety 10/1/2014 Josceline Rodriguez NUR 101 Improper use of child passenger safety restraints in motor vehicles is the #1 killer of infants and toddlers in our country. When the restraint “does not fit or is used incorrectly, there is an increased risk of abdominal, spinal cord, and head injuries” (O’Neil MD, Joseph, et al. 2012 p. 246). The article I chose from the Journal of Trauma Nursing focuses on the misuse of booster seats, which are ideally recommended for children who have outgrown their forward facing restraints but have still not reached the adequate height for a proper seat belt fit. When a child hasn’t reached the recommended height limits and is allowed to travel in the vehicle without a booster, many inadequate situations may occur that can endanger his/her life; these include slouching or moving the shoulder strap behind their back or under their arm for comfort (O’Neil MD, Joseph, et al.
The researchers found children who were spanked as 1-year-olds tended to behave more aggressively at age 2, and didn’t perform as well as other children on a test measuring thinking skills at age 3. Children’s Hospital Boston’s Jayne Singer, PhD, clinical director of the Child and Parent Program and a clinical psychologist for the Brazelton Touchpoints Center says, “The results of the study make sense. Spanking a child does show the child that the parent is bigger and stronger and can take control of the child. But, it doesn’t show the child how to learn to develop control of themselves. Spanking may stop the child then and there, but there’s a cost emotionally and cognitively to a child, and over the long run, it doesn’t usually lead to the child learning not to repeat the behavior that resulted in the spanking in the first place.
Different areas of a young carers life have been considered including their family (and parenting capacity), health, education and safeguarding concerns. Attachments between the parent and child can suffer when there is mental illness and separation away from their parents, due to hospital admissions, is a worrying time, however as separation is natural in child development this can create resilience in the child. I chose this subject as I have experience from my practice and I can link the theory and research to my direct work. I found that adults with mental illness are one of the most excluded groups in society and there are close links between poverty, mental ill health, discrimination and social exclusion. Parental mental illness can have a negative effect on the parent / child relationship and child development, especially where there is little external support.
Mental illness is major contributor in deciding how a persons’ whole life is going to play out, from the way they act down to the way they think. Mental illness does not discriminate between race, gender, or age and is the cause for many serious disorders (Mental illnesses). Mental illness is very common so it is very possible that everyone has experienced a mild version of this illness once in their life; and according to U.S. Surgeon General, ten percent of children in the United States suffer the serious cases. Based on NIMH’S information on the types and signs of mental illness, Holden Caulfield, in Catcher in the Rye by J.D.