Schizophrenia is an example of a psychotic disorder. Eating disorders: Eating disorders involve extreme emotions, attitudes, and behaviors involving weight and food. Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder are the most common eating disorders. Impulse control and addiction disorders: People with impulse control disorders are unable to resist urges, or impulses, to perform acts that could be harmful to themselves or others. Pyromania (starting fires), kleptomania (stealing), and compulsive
* Substance-related disorders: when an individual consumes a substance (drugs, alcohol) in amounts which are harmful to themselves or others. * Eating disorders: abnormal eating habits that may involve either insufficient or excessive food intake to the detriment of an individual's physical and mental health * Cognitive disorders: primarily affects learning, memory, perception, and problem solving, for example, amnesia and dementia. 2.2 - explain the key strengths and limitations of the psychiatric classification system * Strengths: · It allows for consistent diagnoses and treatments · Disorders are arranged, organised and described in a particular manner and order. It provides a common language for therapists, doctors, and health care workers worldwide. This aids diagnosis, selection
Advocates and Mediators in Eating Disorders Amanda Miller 5/18/2014 BSHS/441 Joseph Compton Eating disorders is a form of mental illness. There are different eating disorders and as a mediator or advocate it is important to know the difference between the two. People who are looking into working with those who suffer from eating disorders should know the following: Anorexia Nervosa is self-starving or extreme weight loss. Bulimia is having episodes were a person’s consumes food and then self-induces vomiting. Binge eating shares the same characteristics as bulimia except for the person eats rather large amounts of food and then induces vomiting.
Dieting involves trying to eat less than usual. It involves placing a cognitive limit on food intake and attempting to eat up to a limit that is less than usual. Research has shown that up to 70% of women diet at some point in the lives, which shows that dieting happens often which can either be successful or unsuccessful. Studies by Herman and Mack (1975) and Wardle and Beales (1988) show success and failure of dieting and the causes and consequences. Also Failure to Dieting has been linked to overeating which will be discussed as they play a major role of Dieting.
* This suggests that while the deprivation model may be applicable to prison environments, it may not be relevant to violence within psychiatric institutions. * Massacres are often a form of institutional aggression often committed during wartime, such as the massacres of Jews during World War II. * Milgram argues that this happens due to the situational pressures of war, which causes soldiers to obey their leaders. * This can be demonstrated by the fact that in the Holocaust, many soldiers claimed that they were simply following their superiors' orders. * Goldhagen argues that the Holocaust was not due to obedience, but due to the anti-Semitism which was prevalent at that
In Obedience to Authority, Milgram introduces an intriguing idea about obedience and its limitation through an experiment. His skepticism of the devastating incidents like the Holocaust, triggered the experiment to measure the willingness of people to obey the authority. Throughout the experiment, Milgram could conclude that although people do not favor obeying the authority, they still obey. The historical figures, such as Martin Luther King and Plato, have distinct idea about authority and obedience. So this result influences the different set of social relations introduced by both King and Plato: Milgram’s result support Plato’s ideas of ideal society while it King’s idea opposes Milgram’s Result.
Signs and symptoms include amenorrhea, bradycardia, decreased blood pressure, osteoporosis, muscle loss and weakness, hair loss, and presence of lanugo (National Eating Disorders Association [NEDA], 2002). Most anorexics are perfectionists who believe that controlling their food intake will help them control at least one aspect of their lives. The two subtypes of anorexia nervosa include restrictive and binge-eating/purging (Halmi,
The Treatment of Inmates Samantha McAnally Abstract This paper will be discussing how the prison system, the guard and each other treat inmates. Through a practical view, the argument could be made that these prisoners are being treated to good and not good enough. The society can consider a comprehensible, hypothetical groundwork towards an ethical decision-making concerning the inmates. People should come to a concrete conclusion upon a course of action before making a decision on how to punish them. The Treatment of Inmates When there are millions of people incarcerated throughout the United States, the ethical treatments of prisoner’s human rights require examination.
The Health Information Management professionals were more concerned with the legal aspects: What if patients found something that was incorrect? How could sensitive notes, such as those about mental health, HIV testing, etc., be filtered out? How could patients provide adequate, binding legal consent to allow their records to be uploaded into an Internet program, and what was the security provided on the site? All issues had to be seriously considered and policies drafted before the project could move forward. Once some of the initial kinks were debugged at Tampa and Bay Pines, the program was opened to VA hospitals in New York, Portland, and Washington, D.C.
The American Prison System The fear of going to prison strikes fear in some and in others, it is an opportunity for rehabilitation and a chance to reflect. The magnitude of punishment is currently dependent on the location of the crime and trial as well as the prison where the offender is sent for their punishment. The privatization of the prison system and the lack of efficient and effective punishments through out the United State’s prison systems have left our prisons overpopulated, under funded and mismanaged. Creating standard guidelines throughout both public and private prisons, as well as making uniform punishments that fit their crimes, will make a transfer to a private prison no different than a stay in a publicly funded prison.