If there is one at-risk population that goes underserved it is the veteran population suffering from PTSD. As the most recent VA study shows, every day up to 20 veterans commit suicide because they are not finding the help they need to deal with their trauma-related issues (Military Times, 2016). Helping veterans to receive treatment is not easy, however, as there are a number of obstacles that get in the way—from the stigma of being seen as one suffering from a mental or emotional disorder to the problem of isolation, or PTSD being masked by other symptoms such as alcoholism or drug abuse and thus going untreated. This paper will discuss how care providers can more effectively treat veterans with PTSD by becoming aware of the challenges to effective treatment and identifying ways forward.
One of the main reasons that it is so difficult to treat veterans for PTSD is that…...
Psychology
In order to develop effective treatment programs for drug addicts, it is essential to maintain a basic knowledge of the physiological basis of their cravings. Given social and political mandates calling for a cessation of drug abuse or at the very least for the implementation of harm reduction, it is just as important to administer to those exposed to addictive substances as it is to develop methods of preventing exposure. In addition, an ability to explain the neuro-scientific effects of drug use allows those that are responsible for prevention to provide potential users with deterrents that are less dogmatic and more circumspect. To these ends, neuroscience has developed a new understanding of the reasons for addiction.
Behavioral neuroscience has taught us that humans, like other animals, crave certain pharmaceutical agents. Studies have enabled scientists to better understand the neuro-chemistry of pleasure and of cravings. A side effect of these studies is…...
Rejected Children
Up to 15% of children can be classified as being rejected or rejected-aggressive based on their difficult peer relationships (464). Rejected children exhibit a number of behaviors and characteristics ranging from anxiety and conceit to withdrawal and aggression. Excessive dependence on adults, bitterness or sarcasm toward others, and social indifference are also features of rejected children's behaviors (464). Rejected children are often underachievers who do poorly in school and might develop learning disabilities. In particular, when rejected children show signs of aggression, they tend to experience severe adjustment problems in school or with peers. Rejected-aggressive children exhibit a tendency to be argumentative and disruptive in school and demonstrate a lack of control over their aggressive reactions. In fact, the rejected child may expect or even perceive positive feedback from their behavior and therefore overestimate their social competence. Rejected-aggressive children perceive their actions as being appropriate to the situation. Moreover,…...
When one looks at the occurrence of recidivism in offenders who have partaken in treatment programs varying from organic programs to those geared to more social and emotional support programs, it becomes clear that recidivism of sexual re-offense is relatively low, compared to those who undergo no treatment program. However, there is still an issue with non-sexual re-offense. In addition, there is evidence that the contributing factors for adult and juvenile offenders are different.
As such, it is suggested that not all offenders should receive the same treatment. Correctional literature indicates that high-risk offender require the greatest use of resource, while lower risk offenders require the lowest level of resources (Andrews & Bonta, 2003).
As such, blanket policies that deem all offenders as 'high risk' are neither effective nor efficient. In addition, it may take away resources from those who truly need it, such as juvenile offenders who require longterm treatment.
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Abracen, J., Looman, J., DiFazio, R., Kelly, T., & Stirpe, T. (Mar 2006). Patterns of attachment and alcohol abuse in sexual and violent non-sexual offenders. Journal of Sexual Aggression, 12(1). Retrieved December 17, 2007, from Academic Search Premier database.
Andrews, D. & Bonta, J. (2003). The psychology of criminal conduct. Cincinnati, OH: Anderson Publishing.
Bates, a., Saunders, R., & Wilson, C. (Spring 2007). Doing something about it: A follow-up study of sex offenders participating in Thames Valley Circles of Support and Accountability. British Journal of Community Justice, 5(1). Retrieved December 17, 2007, from SocINDEX database.
Calley, N. (Spring 2007). Integrating theory and research: The development of a research-based treatment program for juvenile male sex offenders. Counseling & Development, 85(2). Retrieved December 17, 2007, from Academic Search Premier database.
Essay Topic Examples
1. The Role of ersonalized Medicine in Creating Effective Treatment lans:
Explore how the integration of personalized medicine, including genetic profiling, can lead to more targeted and effective treatment plans for individuals with specific health conditions. Discuss the potential for improved outcomes and the ethical considerations that may arise from this highly tailored approach to medical care.
2. The Impact of Multidisciplinary Teams in Developing Comprehensive Treatment lans:
Examine the importance of a multidisciplinary approach to treatment planning, where specialists from different areas collaborate to ensure that all aspects of a patient's health are addressed. Highlight case studies or examples where this approach has led to better patient outcomes.
3. Technological Innovations in Treatment lanning:
Analyze how advances in technology, such as artificial intelligence, telemedicine, and electronic health records, have transformed the way healthcare providers develop and implement treatment plans. Discuss the benefits and challenges associated with these technological tools.
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World Health Organization. \"Integrating the management of tuberculosis and HIV: TB/HIV policy framework.\" WHO/HTM/TB/2004.330, World Health Organization, 2004.American Psychological Association. \"Guidelines for the Practice of Telepsychology.\" American Psychologist, vol. 68, no. 9, 2013, pp. 791-800.Gawande, Atul. \"The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right.\" The New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 362, 2010, pp. 106-109.Brown, Thomas E. \"Executive Functions and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Implications of two conflicting views.\" International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, vol. 53, no. 1, 2006, pp. 35-46.
Essay Topic Examples
1. The Role of atient-Centered Care in Developing Treatment lans:
This essay topic invites exploration of how patient-centered care philosophies influence the creation of treatment plans, emphasizing the importance of tailoring medical interventions to the specific needs, preferences, and values of individual patients. The essay can delve into practical strategies for involving patients in their care, the outcomes of such approaches, and challenges that might arise in implementing patient-centered treatment plans.
2. Evaluating the Efficacy of Multidisciplinary Treatment lans:
An analysis of multidisciplinary treatment plans could be the focus of this essay, discussing how collaboration among various healthcare specialists can improve patient outcomes for complex medical conditions. The discussion could include case studies demonstrating the benefits and potential drawbacks of a team-based approach to healthcare, as well as best practices for successful implementation.
3. Ethical Considerations in the Development of Treatment lans:
This topic encourages an examination of the ethical dilemmas…...
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Treatment and Management of Cancer
Cancer Diagnosis
Obligations of community health nurse in providing healthcare
Cancer Diagnosis
The high demand for healthcare services, especially to those managing dreadful illnesses such as cancer, there is a dire need to understand the health promotion strategies and also ensure quality lives. Here, is a discussion assisting to analyze how best to improve health and better management of dreaded conditions like diseases such as cancer. Those affected will learn to adopt the right measures that will help to improve functional abilities, and what to practice in case self-care is not an option. The mandate of community health nurses will be scrutinized, to help acquire general knowledge on efficient management of diseases.
Cancer is a disease, which has characteristics of growths that cannot be controlled, and also the abnormality of how rapidly the cells are spread to other organs. Cancers vary in their areas of diagnosis such as breast, throat,…...
S. Census Bureau) It is clear after having reviewed this information that this area is quite needy in provision of alcoholism treatment and intervention.
VI. Treatment Program Community Marketing Process
In the initiative of reaching the community both through media and public relations as tools to raise awareness the organization will be enabled to alert members of the community about the services available. Promotions, marketing, public relations and media advocacy are all critical specifically as these are all integrated with the business sector and as well adapted by nonprofit organizations. In the attempt to market or advertise to the community the available services all venues of the media should be sought and the mass media in the form of newspaper and magazines and other printed material as well as media through television and radio broadcast communications and finally through the Internet's provision of electronic media. Communication with the media should take the…...
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Ervin, N.E. (2002). Advanced community health nursing practice: Population-focused care. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall. ISBN# 0-8053-7364-0.
Bensley, R.J., & Brookins-Fisher, J. (EDs). (2003). Community health education method: a practitioners guide. (2nd ed.). Boston, MA: Jones and Bartlett. ISBN# 0-7637-1801-7
Andreasen, A.R. (1995). Marketing social change: Changing behavior to promote health, social development, and the environment. San Francisco CA: Jossey-Bass. ISBN# 0-7879-0137-7
Medicaid EPSDT and AOD Treatment Services Policy Brief entitled Resources for Recovery: State Practices that Expand Treatment Opportunities" Medicaid EPSDT and AOD Treatment Services" (O'Brien, et al., 2005) National Program Office, Technical Assistance Collaborative, Inc. Online located at: www.resourcesforrecovery.org
Treatment History Of Cystic Fibrosis
The field of pediatric nursing is a particularly large one in which its members may find themselves having to counsel both young patients and their families suffering from a myriad of diseases. Cystic fibrosis (CF), in particular, is a debilitating disease that strikes many young people. In the first years following its discovery, many children could not expect to make it to their teen years. Today, with advances in the management and care of this disease, patients are living into their 40s. It is even possible that there will one day be a cure.
This paper will look at CF from a historical perspective. The timeline of its discovery and research will be briefly presented, as will a few of the significant "milestones" in the history of the treatment of CF and what these mean for people battling this disease.
References to cystic fibrosis were made as early…...
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Hopkin, Karen. (1998). Understanding Cystic Fibrosis. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi.
Orenstein, David M. (1997). Cystic Fibrosis: A Guide for Patient and Family. 2nd ed., Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott-Raven.
Alcohol and drug abuse is not limited to any socioeconomic category, race, religion, or gender. Finding the right drug, the right type of support group, and the right type of intervention can be a long and difficult process. For example, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) offers special resources for recently-deployed combat officers, teens, and even obese individuals, all of which are tailored to meet the different challenges that life circumstances, age of life, or biology can pose that predispose an individual to addictive behaviors or affect an addict's treatment plan.
However, improving opportunities for jobs and treating communities as well as individuals seems essential to aiding those who are disproportionately affected by addiction. All addicts feel the effects of tolerance and physiological and psychological dependency to some degree, depending on the nature of the drug and their biology (Oakley & Ksir, 2003, pp45-46). But while social…...
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Adrian, Manuella. (2001). Do treatments and other interventions work? Some critical issues.
CAEFS takes the position that women with mental health problems do not belong in prisons and that the treatment, support and assistance they need should be provided to them in the community, rather than in prison.
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The above statement clearly outlines central problem areas that should be the focus of investigation. As this study and others emphasize, women who enter prison with mental issues and problems require intensive support. However, this is at present not the case and many women prisoners who suffer from mental problems are not afforded the necessary support and adequate intensive therapy. Some critics also suggest that alternatives be investigated for women with mental issues. "... The public need for the appearance of retribution may deter government from considering alternatives to sentencing persons with mental disabilities to imprisonment." www.elizabethfry.ca/submissn/dawn/17.htm" (ibid)
Another factor which relates to mental and psychological issues is that women experience stress by being…...
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Bilchik, Shay, Cyntha Seymour, and Kristen Kreisher. "Parents in Prison." Corrections Today Dec. 2001: 108+. Questia. 17 Feb. 2005 http://www.questia.com/ .
Bjorhus, Jennifer. "Getting into Prison." Columbia Journalism Review July-Aug. 1994: 14+. Questia. 17 Feb. 2005
The other principal difference between the sources reviewed is that the first included narratives authored by different clinicians and experts and incorporated their anecdotal professional experiences as well as their description of the manner in which their treatment approaches relies on empirical research in each of their different areas of clinical expertise. As a result, that work is an appropriate reference for the available treatment options for PTSD and for the optimal combination of different approaches in specific types of cases.
By contrast, the second source consists only of a literature review of previous research without any narrative contribution from experts apart from the conclusions in each of the studies reviewed. More importantly, this source does not address or consider any non-pharmacological PTSD interventions, much less any combinations of multiple modalities concurrently. In fact, the authors expressly reference the apparent absence in the available literature of any studies specifically investigating…...
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Treatments include "a wide range of skill development including academics, language, social skills, self-help skills, behavioral issues, and leisure skills" (Editors), and most professionals agree that communication between the educator and the parents is essential to developing the most effective treatment for each autistic child. However, while there are many common treatments, in general, most treatment really boils down to education and teaching in the special education environment.
Including an autistic child in the classroom can be challenging. Studies show that inclusion rates for autistic children in the general education classroom are quite low ("fewer than one-third of autistic children spend their time in the general education classroom") (Turnbull et al. 292). Therefore, it seems the most effective learning environment may be the special education classroom. Including these children in the classroom and helping them develop relationships and assimilate with their peers is not impossible. Some effective ways of including…...
Vitamin a for Autism Spectrum Disorder
The Theory of Using Vitamin a as Treatment for Autism Spectrum Disorders
There is widespread linkage of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and Oxytoxin. There are reports that any decrease in the pathway of Oxytocin, is a possible causative factor to the development of autistic situation (Munese-et-al., 2008). Decrease in Oxytocin comes about because of mutations in its receptors, which lead to a reduction on the amount of Oxytocin released to the body posing possible chances for the development of autistic conditions (Lerer et-al., 2008). There is partial dependency of Oxytocin secretion to a protein found, in the cellular membranes of certain red blood cells. The scientific reference of these proteins is CD38, and whenever they mutate there develops a risk of Autism. Mice engineered without the oxytocin receptor gene have been shown to display socially anomalous behavior such as a deficiency of maternal behavior in…...
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Campbell et-al. (2010). Association of oxytocin receptor (OXTR) gene variants with multiple phenotype domains of autism spectrum disorder J. Neurodevelop Disord 101-112
Higashida H., Kikuchi M., Yokoyama S., Munesue T. (2012). CD38 and its role in Oxytocin secretion and social behavior Hormones and behavior journal homepage 351-358
edland Wastewater Treatment Plant
edland Water is the department of the edland City council that oversees the collection, treatment, and disposal of waste water in edland City. esidential households and commercial premises such as shopping centers, cafes, commercial laundries, butchers, car-washing centers, and restaurants are the main sources of waste water in edland City. Once collected, waste water is stored temporarily in abattoirs, before being released for treatment in one of the seven treatment plants located in Point Lookout, Dunwich, Mount Cotton, Victoria Point, Thorneside, Cleveland, and Capalaba (edland City Council, 2012). The author paid the Capalaba Treatment Plant a visit, and found that the plant had just upgraded to a new waste water treatment technique referred to as the Vetiver Grass System, herein referred to as the VS. The Vetiver system, "a green and environmentally-friendly waste water technology as well as natural recycling method," had just been approved by the…...
Ash, R. And Truong, P., n.d.The Use of Vetiver Grass Wetlands for Sewerage Treatment in Australia. Dokuz Eylul University Library [online] Available at http://web.deu.edu.tr/atiksu/ana58/new80.pdf
Piemonte, V., De Falco, M. And Basile, A. Eds., 2013. Sustainable Development in Chemical Engineering: Innovative Technologies. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons
With so many states legalizing marijuana, whether recreational marijuana, medical marijuana, or both, the idea that medical marijuana is still being withheld from many patients, including nursing home residents, who are experiencing pain and could get relief from the treatment is ridiculous. Marijuana remains illegal on a federal level, however, and this complicates it usage for pain in nursing homes. That is because many people in nursing homes are dependent upon both state and federal aid for their medical care and there could be issues with funding if they were treated with....
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) can be an effective treatment for trauma by helping individuals address and change their negative thoughts and emotions related to the traumatic event. CBT can help individuals process and make sense of their traumatic experiences in a safe and supportive environment.
Some ways in which CBT can help with trauma include:
1. Challenging negative beliefs: CBT helps individuals identify and challenge their negative beliefs about themselves, others, and the world that may have developed as a result of the trauma.
2. Learning coping skills: CBT teaches individuals coping skills to manage their symptoms of trauma, such as anxiety and....
Title: The Opioid Epidemic: A Multifaceted Crisis with Profound Social, Economic, and Public Health Implications
Introduction: The opioid epidemic has become a significant public health crisis in the United States, causing widespread devastation and claiming countless lives. This essay aims to explore the multifaceted nature of the opioid epidemic, delving into its social, economic, and public health implications. By analyzing the causes, consequences, and strategies for addressing this crisis, we can gain a deeper understanding of its impact on individuals, communities, and the nation as a whole.
1. Historical and Cultural Context: The opioid epidemic has deep-rooted historical and cultural origins. Understanding the evolution....
The Neurobiology of ADHD: Exploring the Genetic and Environmental Influences
Introduction
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a complex neurodevelopmental condition that affects an individual's attention, behavior, and emotional regulation. Biological factors, including genetic and environmental influences, play significant roles in the development and manifestation of ADHD. This essay will delve into the neurobiology of ADHD, examining its genetic basis, environmental risk factors, and the interplay between these factors.
Genetic Basis of ADHD
Twin and family studies have consistently demonstrated a strong genetic component in ADHD. Research has identified several susceptibility genes located on different chromosomes that have been linked to the disorder. These genes are....
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