Essays on Mental Health

John (not real name) is a 45-year-old, unemployed, single man who was diagnosed with Schizophrenia, unspecified and has been on antipsychotic medications. According to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Fifth Edition (DSM-5) Schizophrenia is a severe and chronic psychotic mental condition which is characterised by disruption in thoughts, cognition, perception, communication and behaviour, it causes a...

Executive Summary Purpose: The main purpose of this report is to make a business report to solve the business problem. This main business problem of the Amazon Australia is job stress among employees. This report will identify the way to reduce the job stress business problem of this organisation by implementing Job demand Resources theory....

Mass surveillance has been a topic of discussion since the creation of the internet. Questions regarding morals of ethics and privacy have been raised, due to the public uncovering details about its prevalence in our everyday lives. Mass Surveillance is the monitoring of the internet and phone communications of large numbers of people, sometimes even...

1.0 Introduction 1.1 Background The target population are 1st year students in Aimst university. 1st years are confronted with the change from their high school to college or university. As they make this transition to a different and less ventured environment, this can result in stress and have an effect on performance of academics [1]....

Introduction World Health Organization defines substance abuse as hazardous/illegal/harmful use of psychoactive substances. Psychoactive, also known as psychotropic substances refer to chemicals that change an individual’s mental state, by altering the way the nervous system and brain work. This often leads to intoxication, which is the main reason people abuse drugs. Psychoactive substances are usually...

Schizophrenia (which comes from the two Greek words meaning split and mind) is a mental illness which comes from a group of psychotic disorders, in which there are many types i.e. paranoid and hebephrenic schizophrenia, which effects the way people think and how to cope with day to day life. For in every one hundred...

Discuss the use of an interactionist approach in explaining and treating schizophrenia. The interactionist approach considers the interaction between the different factors including, biological, psychological, and social, on the development of schizophrenia. The most renowned interactionist approach is the diathesis-stress model which was proposed by Meehl, who suggested that schizophrenia was caused by both a...

The impact of schizophrenia on individual is not just limited to the person alone, but also extend to family member, friends and community at large. Being the main carer of a person with schizophrenia can have a toll of an employment, a person income, social life as well as psychological well-being. However, children who have...

Abstract This case review will describe the elder abuse case of Luis Gomez. Gomez was a former certified nursing assistant that was sentenced to at least 23 years in prison after being found guilty of raping elderly women at North Carolina nursing homes on October 19, 2017. This document discusses the following: the case details,...

Vulnerability can be defined as the quality or state of being exposed to the possibility of being either attacked or harm both physically and emotionally. Vulnerability is something that many individuals try to avoid due to the fear of getting judge or hurt. One population that is vulnerable is the elderly as known as older...