Psychiatry

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You could start here: I think Psychology Today would be a reliable source of info, and if you don't want to pay for an answer you might find your question has already been asked and you can go from question to question from the "see what others have been asking " link. http://aot.psychologytoday.com/cms/intro.html Public Mental Health Services If you don't have insurance, you may be eligible to receive mental health services through a government agency. Depending on where you live, your state, county or city government may provide mental health care on a sliding-scale schedule. Fees are determined based on an assessment of your family size and income. No income: no fees. For more information, check with your state or county Department of Health and Human Services in the phone book. I've used one of these before. You could also check with the psychiatry department at your nearest big university, as many of them have programs where their post-graduates hold sessions that are monitored (usually from behind a two-way mirror) by professionally-qualified staff. Medicare or Medicaid Although most programs are fairly standardized and coverage is based on a system of reimbursement to providers, coverage varies in each state. EAP. I don't remember what it stands for, but most employers offer EAP, which is help for special circumstances not normally covered like broken bones are covered. You may not have EAP where you work, but your partner or covered family member might. My final piece of advice, for what it's worth, is do NOT answer any online questionaires or Kwik Kwiz things like "Are you depressed" or "Would counseling work for You." Questionnaires like this are usually sponsored by drug companies, and obviously they are tailored to make you say "Yes, I am depressed" so you will consume their product. THey are NOT written to really reveal anything about why you are feeling like you are, or what to do about it, other than rush to a doctor and demand Drug X.

Well, lets say you acted bizzarely in public and the police came and detained you. Based on their experience, they concluded you are mentally ill and are a danger to other people. They fill a legal paper out (explaining they believe you are mentally ill based on this reason) and then they escort you to an emergency hospital where psychiatrist are available. Depending on the state, the hospital where the crises team is based will hold you for a period of up to 72 hours. Along with the police form, the doctor will have to complete several forms of his own while during this time. Your assigned psychiatrist will observe you and evaluate you. There are a few legal papers that the doctor will have to complete in order for him to discharge or commitment you, but in either case, the doctor will fill these legal documents announcing his decision, including a screening certificate, clinical certificate, and/or an affidavit. If he decides to commit you, it is known as involuntary commitment and the certificates he filled out will be presented to a a state judge, usually county or district courts.

The judge can decide the evidence is clear and commit you in what is known as "commencement of action" or he can deem the statements as lack of evidence and you will be discharged. After transportation to the new involuntary commitment facility, the patient will begin his new term of 20 days as "commencement of action" allows in the unit mulling over things and going to group. At the 20 day mark lies a very important date which can mean sentencing of a person for up to a year in the hospital. This date is your hearing. By this point. the involuntary commitment facility doctor will have evaluated you and completed a legal document called"temporary order for commitment", or in some states a "court order for commitment", which is a court order that declared you are a danger to yourself/others, that you are mentally ill, and that you should be contained in a hospital for a given time. Essentially, it makes it into a civil legal proceeding. The papers are brought to a judge whereby, a jury, a judge, and an attorney assigned to you or hired by you, will go to trial to state the evidence. The doctor will present his papers and you can bring witnesses and evidence that sides with your case against the decision.

The judge finds that you are mentally ill and dangerous to other people. He orders a "temporary court order of commitment"involuntarily hospitalizing you for one year. You can appeal this decision by speaking to your attorney and filing the right papers at the courthouse. So you are in the hospital against your will for twelve months. You are still legally allowed to refuse treatment. The court order issued allows for periodic reviews of the your involuntary commitment three months, nine months, twelve months, and annually thereafter to prove to the court you have improved, no longer are a threat to yourself/others, and are ready for discharge. At these marks, the additional hearing will take place and the doctor will present his evidence for discharge or continued hospitalization.

Don't forget, your diagnosis, doctors notes, and doctors statements are all on your medical record kept at the specific hospital where you stayed. Additionally, the legal papers (court orders, clinical certificates, which states you are mentally ill, are at the Office of the County Adjusters. You will be able to receive copies of these records without hassle.

If a doctor mistreated you in any way, or you feel you were inappropriately diagnosed, handled, or taken advantage of, you can complain to the State Medical Board about the doctor and have his license suspended. Also, you can complain to the health department and other state agencies, and also the supervisor of any hospital, about medical malpractice seen at the hospital or about hospital conditions that are hazardous.

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Dorthea Dix was the driving force behind the creation of hospitals for the mentally ill. In these mental institutions they patients were given treatment and care that they were not afforded before.

Okay, first thing you should do is talk to your parents or guardians about this. They are the people who love and care for you the most and will help you along the way with whatever you choose to do.

As with every girl that goes through this, you always have a few options. First of all, you could choose to keep the child. If you decide to do this, there are a lot of thing you will need to consider, such as the fathers' involvement with the child, how you will support yourself financially, if you'll be able to cope with it emotionally, and if your body is physically able to support a child. These are always big questions, and ones that need deep consideration before you decide to keep a child. Please talk to your parents and people close to you before you make any decision, including this one.

You will also have the option to carry the baby to term, and then give it up for adoption to someone in your family, or an adoption agency, who will find a family for it in the wider community. This is again a hard one, as you will have your child, and then lose it for a large majority of your time, but may be the best option for you depending on your position and your religious views.

You can also choose to abort your baby, depending on the laws of where you live. This may be the best option for you, though it again is not without it's risks.

Please talk to your GP and, if possible, a midwife before you make any of these decisions, as they all influence your health in a major way. It would also be best to talk to a counsellor at your school, as they will be able to give you support and guidance as you make these decisions.

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The sensations experienced in dreams, such as visual images, smells, sounds and tastes, come directly from the unconscious mind which draws on remembered experiences of those sensations. Sometimes a factor in the sleeper's environment might trigger a sensation in a dream; for example, food being cooked in a nearby kitchen can cause a sleeper to dream about breakfast. But such triggers are not necessary. The sleeping mind is fully capable of creating dreams filled with convincing sensations.

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people generally fall in love with their psychologist because they believe that person is there to listen to whatever they say. The psychologist understands them and they feel free to talk to him/her about their problems without the fear of being judged. because of this freedom to be yourself people at times start having feelings for their doctors

Rational-emotive therapy, founded by Dr. Albert Ellis, is the branch of behavior modification therapy that focuses on changing the thoughts that affect a person's emotions and actions. It is predicated on the theory that we cannot change events that occur, but that our reaction to those events is largely based on what we tell ourselves about them.

The appropriate suffix for psychiatry is -iatry, which comes from the Greek word "iatros" meaning healer or physician. This suffix is commonly used in medical fields to indicate the study or practice of a specific branch of medicine.

The Biopsychosocial Approach

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what are the stengths and limitations of psychiatric classification systems

Theoretical assumption is the first step of the scientific method of proof, cause and effect. Your observations allow you to make assumptions and collecting empirical data can give you the proof. Thereby changing your theorem to accepted fact, practical data.

Psychological conditioning is the process by which a person or animal is exposed repetitively to a stimulus that will usually have an undesirable response in order to remove this response.

A perfect example concerning animals is loud noises and horses. Horses are easily scared by loud noises, especially the kind that regularly occur in battle or on film sets. The normal reaction of such a scared horse is to shake, screech, bolt, and move in a way that is difficult to ride (and impossible to control). This is not desirable. As a result, horses are put through numerous conditions where they are exposed to the types of noises that will induce this response repetitively with a trainer who can calm the horse. The trainer's calming presence leads to the horse's mind "rewriting" the appropriate response to this stimulus.

A perfect example concerning humans is on the issue of violence. It is a normal human instinct to run away from violence or avoid harming other people and throughout history, most soldiers have actually never killed an enemy adversary. Studies have shown that soldiers in World War I, for example, often aimed around their enemies when forced to fire their weapons to avoid killing the enemy. Of course, in a war situation, you want your soldiers to kill the enemy without moral qualms. As a result, a soldier-in-training today is put through numerous conditions in order to "rewrite" this aversion to causing harm to another person in order to make this person a more-likely killer.

Associative looseness means one thought isn't connected to the next. When you tell your patient you've brought his medication, he might reply, "Blue lights and gold. I go round and round. The grass is green."

Yes, psychiatric administrations have the right to be fully informed about what constitutes psychiatric fraud and malpractice.

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