Examples of mental illness in the following topics:
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- The labeling approach to health and illness claims that mental illness is manifested solely as a result of societal influence.
- Hard labeling refers to those who argue that mental illness does not exist; it is merely deviance from the norms of society that cause people to believe in mental illness.
- Mental illnesses are socially constructed illnesses and psychotic disorders do not exist.
- Scheff published Being Mentally Ill.
- Scheff challenged common perceptions of mental illness by claiming that mental illness is manifested solely as a result of societal influence.
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- People who believe in hard labeling believe that mental illness does not exist.
- It is merely deviance from the norms of society that people attribute to mental illness.
- Thus, mental illnesses are socially constructed illnesses and psychotic disorders do not exist.
- People who believe in soft labeling believe that mental illnesses do, in fact, exist.
- Unlike the supporters of hard labeling, soft labeling supporters believe that mental illnesses are not socially constructed but are objective problems.
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- Mental illness contains a diverse factors that contribute to the health of the mind.
- The recognition and understanding of mental health conditions have changed over time and across cultures.
- Mental illness is a broad category of illnesses that may include affective or emotional instability, behavioral dysregulation, and/or cognitive dysfunction or impairment.
- Specific illnesses known as mental illnesses include major depression, generalized anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, to name a few.
- Statistics show that more and more people are being diagnosed with mental disorders.
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- It has also been argued that institutionalized individuals become psychologically more prone to mental health problems.
- Juvenile wards are sections of psychiatric hospitals or psychiatric wards set aside for children and/or adolescents with mental illness.
- However, there are a number of institutions specializing only in the treatment of juveniles, particularly when dealing with drug abuse, self-harm, eating disorders, anxiety, depression or other mental illness.
- Deinstitutionalization is the process of replacing long-stay psychiatric hospitals with less isolated community mental health service for those diagnosed with a mental disorder or developmental disability.
- Many state hospitals have mental health branches, such as the Northern Michigan Asylum.
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- Social deprivation, or prevention from culturally normal interaction with society, affects mental health and impairs child development.
- For example, social deprivation often occurs along with a broad network of correlated factors that all contribute to social exclusion; these factors include mental illness, poverty, poor education, and low socioeconomic status.
- By observing and interviewing victims of social deprivation, research has provided an understanding of how social deprivation is linked to human development and mental illness.
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- Those at a higher risk of becoming homeless include veterans, people suffering from substance abuse or mental disorders, and the unemployed.
- Individuals with substance abuse problems and mental disorders represent a large number of the homeless.
- In the United States, 22 percent of the homeless have serious mental illnesses or are physically disabled, and 30 percent have substance abuse problems.
- Homeless people who suffer from substance abuse or mental illness often lack access to effective treatment options, a condition exacerbated by deinstitutionalization in the 1960s and 1970s.
- Prior to the 1960s, individuals with mental illness were frequently committed to long-term institutions, but deinstitutionalization closed these institutions in favor of community-based treatment.
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- Goffman identified three main types of stigma: (1) stigma associated with mental illness; (2) stigma associated with physical deformation; and (3) stigma attached to identification with a particular race, ethnicity, religion, ideology, etc.
- Be Aware is an awareness campaign that aims to end the stigma against mental illness.
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- The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health as "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and does not consist only of the absence of disease or infirmity" (source) Though this is a useful definition, some would consider it idealistic and non-realistic because using the WHO definition classifies 70-95% of people as unhealthy.
- Health care (or healthcare) is an industry associated with the prevention, treatment, and management of illness along with the promotion of mental and physical well-being through the services offered by the medical and allied health professions.
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- Mental health describes a level of psychological well-being or the presence/absence of a mental disorder.
- Members of different social classes often hold different views on mental health.
- Similarly, different social classes have different levels of access to mental health interventions and to information about mental health.
- Thus, the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders varies widely by social class.
- Define mental health and explain why it is regarded as a socially constructed concept
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- The patient is most often ill or injured and in need of treatment by a physician, advanced practice registered nurse, or other health care provider.
- A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments.
- Nurses care for individuals of all ages and cultural backgrounds, who are healthy and ill, in a holistic manner based on the individual's physical, emotional, psychological, intellectual, social, and spiritual needs.
- The patient is most often ill or injured and in need of treatment by a physician, advanced practice registered nurse, or other health care provider.