... Psychological disorders at work place …. (Mental Illness) Mental well-being at work is an idea that still lacks a proper and clear definition. Many documents reflect the complexity of this concept, which usually views stress and the risk of occupational burnout as the typical results of poor mental working conditions. Some professions are more vulnerable than others. It is true, as the research in many countries shows, that professionals such as lawyers, social workers, teachers or secretaries have a higher risk of depression, and workers in health services and farmers have a higher risk of suicide. One tends to focus on the “dark side of the moon”, sometimes forgetting that work could and should be a source of personal growth and satisfaction. Experts working on the psychological disorder at work place for Mental Health and Well-being, state that the workplace can provide a healthy culture and environment that is psychologically supportive to the workforce. It also helps to promote the social inclusion of people with mental health problems, providing an income allowing them to more fully participate in society On the other hand, mental health influences the quality of work performance. Poor mental health, especially depression, results in higher absenteeism rates, lower productivity and problems with making decisions. In some extreme cases, a mental condition could be dangerous for co-workers and/or clients...
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...Didion University of Phoenix The burden of mental illness in the United States is among the highest of all diseases, and mental disorders are among the most common causes of disability. The first goal of this paper is the examination of the vulnerable population of the mentally ill. Second, this paper will review the goals and agenda of Healthy People 2020 as it applies to mental illness. Third, this paper will review my work place assessment for barriers for the care and treatment of mentally ill patients. Finally, this paper will review a short presentation I gave to co-workers in an effort to aid in better treatment for the mentally ill. Recent figures suggest that in 2004, approximately 1 in 4 adults in the United States had had a mental health disorder in the past year, most commonly anxiety or depression ("Healthy People 2020 ", n.d.).. It is estimated that only about 17% of U.S. adults are considered to be in a state of optimal mental health ("Healthy People 2020 ", n.d.). An estimated 26% of Americans age 18 and older are living with a mental health disorder in any given year, and 46% will have a mental health disorder over the course of their lifetime ("Healthy People 2020 ", n.d.). Mental health disorders often have a serious impact on physical health and are associated with the prevalence, progression, and outcome of some of today’s most pressing chronic diseases including diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. Mental health disorders can have harmful and long-lasting...
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... February 16, 2009 In today’s world there are places that still uses force as a means of treatment or punishment for the mentally ill. The patients are chained down, sexually assaulted and beaten. Whatever society thinks of mental illness this type of treatment has to stop. Once we have educated ourselves on mental illness, we can begin to have a better understanding of those people who suffer from these types of diseases. If we look to the past we can see where we went wrong and correct those mistakes. Mental illness is something that can be traced throughout history. By looking back over the past of mental illness we see that there were infinite numbers of mistakes made a long way. We cannot allow those same mistakes to take place again. By breaking the cycle and avoid those same mistakes we can build a better future for the mentally ill. This is why I believe it is important to study the past of mental illness. Evidence indicates that Mental illness can be traced as far back as the early Egyptians. What we know today about mental illness is far different then what early Egyptians believed. The early Egyptians believed that all diseases had some type of physical affect on the body as well as the mind. The Egyptians did not differentiate between mental and physical illness. They did believe that the heart was the cause of mental illness. During the time of early Egypt, many believed that the cause of mental illness was from some type of loss usually money or status...
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...Unit 11 Task 2 In this essay I will be outlining key legislations and regulations which govern safeguarding adults work. Legislation is a law or set of laws suggested by a government. Regulations are rules that then have to be following that coincide with the regulations that are set. I will also be outlining working strategies and procedures used in health and social care to reduce the risk of abuse. Care Act 2014 Before the care act came into place people had different rights for different types of care. So the care act 2014 made it simpler. It ensures that service user’s personal budget was recognised by law to give more rights and prevent abuse. It helps reduce risk of service users suffer from financial abuse and from discriminatory abuse. They should protect adults at risk of all types of abuse. Equality Act 2010 The Equality Act 2010 legally protects people from discrimination in the workplace and in wider society. It replaced previous anti-discrimination laws with a single Act, making the law easier to understand and strengthening protection in some situations. It sets out the different ways in which it’s unlawful to treat someone. The equality act protects you from harassment which is when you are subjected to unwanted behaviour that makes you feel intimidated, humiliated, or degraded, or that creates a hostile environment, because of your age or another protected characteristic. For example, if a nurse repeatedly made jokes about your age, which were offensive...
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...University of Phoenix Material Human Services Professional Worksheet Select three agency types from the following list: |A drug and alcohol treatment program |A hospital rehabilitation center (A physical rehabilitation center) | |A homeless shelter |A crisis intervention center | |A day treatment drop-in center for teenagers |An outpatient mental health center | Complete the table for the chosen agencies by providing a 60- to 85-word response in each column. An example has been completed as a guide. |The agency |Description of the agency |Who they serve |The professionals involved with the |The professional’s role | | | | |agency | | |A domestic violence program|A domestic violence program provides |As mentioned, this program may |In many residential programs, |The role of the professional working in a| | |protection and resources to |provide protection for individuals,|counselors...
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...A person with a mental disability can act uncontrollably at times, causing them to commit a crime. In the United States, people with mental illnesses have been confined in jails and prisons between 1770 and 1820. Incarcerating such people was considered inhumane, so mentally ill people were placed into hospitals instead of jails up until 1970. Ever since the 1970s, people with mental disorders are being imprisoned for their crimes(Torrey). America once considered incarcerating the mentally ill to be inhumane, but then they suddenly changed their mind and have considered it to be legal. Ever since the 1970s, numbers of imprisoned people with mental illnesses has exponentially increased, “In 2012, there were estimated to be 356,268 inmates with severe mental illness in prisons and jails. There were also approximately 35,000 patients with severe mental illness in state psychiatric hospitals”(Torrey). There is approximately ten...
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...business administrators or managers? If yes justify your answer and if no justify your answer. Yes, psychology is of relevance to business administrators or managers. Psychology was coined in the 16th century from 2 Greek words. Psukhe/psyche which means “breath” or “soul” and logos which means “word” or “reason” and its initial meaning was “study of the soul”. Later the definition changed to “science of mental life” when it became a science in 1879. Also in the 1920s it was commonly defined as “the scientific study of behavior”. From the 1960s till date it has taken a broader definition “the science of behavior and mental processes. Psychology also refers to the application or usage of understanding knowledge and skills to a number of areas of human activity, involving issues concerning with daily activities such as education, events, people and their task, employment, association, relationship as well as the treatment of mental-health problems. Importance of psychology Psychology is important as it is concerned with the study of behavior and mental processes and at the same time, it is also applied to many different areas of human life. Everything we do is very much related to psychology. Psychology primarily studies who and what we are, why we are like that, why we act and think like that and finally how we can improve ourselves. Psychology is important in many different ways. For example, there have been a large number of studies conducted on...
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...Getting mental health services to patients effectively, promptly, and adequately has always been a concern of mental health service providers. Effective marketing of mental health services includes more than just getting different types of services to the patients, it also includes helping the general community(existing patients, potential patients’, their relatives or friends), become more aware of the availability of services as well as how to use them more intelligent, and to their satisfaction. There has been a little systematic marketing of mental health services. One reason is that mental health services can be stigmatizing to the consumer. Being in need of mental health care is not exactly like in need of a common easy to find service like a mechanic, even though both needs are fulfilled by the service industry sector. There still a significant number of people in society who are embarrassed about mental health services and mental patients. The purpose of these marketing initiatives is to change the stigma around mental illness and the obstacles it creates in the work environment, at home, within the community and even within the healthcare system. Increase the understanding that people with mental illness can, do recuperate, and can live satisfying, prolific, and productive lives. Marketing research is a process in which there is a systematic gathering of data from customers to identify their needs. “The heart of marketing strategy is the development of a response...
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...ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION IN THE WORK PLACE PART I – SECTION I - REFERENCE LIST Search Strategy To facilitate my search criteria, I sought the use of various search engines such as Google scholars, Bing, ProQuest and Academic OneFile. In order to identify what I was meant to research and comprehend, I used certain keywords and certain phrases which are relevant to the topic I picked. The following are the keywords that I picked for search purpose • Causes of anxiety in workplace • Workplace depression • Effect of Alcohol and drug dependence on workplace • Anxiety and work environment • Boredom in job • Stress in workplace • organizational commitment & employee discontent • Physical fitness and work related issues • Dealing with Anxiety and Depression • Coping with Anxiety and Depression • Impact of anxiety and depression on organization and economy I had analyzed the various key words which are related to the topic and compared sourced information from other related sites for the topic. To find how organizations deal with anxiety and depression and how this affects other employees I initiated discussions with the human resource dept and the different chiefs of the company that I work, namely Gulf Cement Co. The Preliminary research question that I will be addressing in the literature review What are the effects of anxiety and depression in the work place and how organizations deal with it? A list of 6 – 8 Keywords and their definitions...
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...My major in college is social work. After graduating from the Bachelors program I intend on continuing to work as an LPN and going on to get my Masters in social work. After I obtain my Masters I plan on working as a mental health social worker. 2. The documents that I might produce in mental health social work are: • Assessments of the patient • A plan of care for the patient • Letter of referral to doctor if serious mental disorder • Letters to employers to assist the patient in keeping employment • If the patient is unable to continue to work, assist with paperwork requesting government assistance. 3. Scenario #1 Audience: Supervisor and human resources at Volvo Purpose: To inform the supervisor and human resources that employee is mentally capable to continue work in a factory setting. *James is currently employed at Volvo working on the production line. After finding out his wife of 3 years is having an affair at her place of employment, James gets intoxicated and decides to overdose. James is taken to the hospital and upon evaluation is transferred to a mental health facility where he stays as an inpatient for four days. Upon release James is called in to his...
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...Questions: Mental Health Supervisor Dennis Thomas Informational Interview Questions: Mental Health Supervisor Human Lifespan Development Psych 3210 Capella University November 2013 Informational Interview Questions: Mental Health Supervisor In my informational interview, I chose to conduct my interview with a Residential Coordinator for Good Shepherd Services, a residential treatment center located in Baltimore, Maryland that services at risk teenager’s within the age range of 12-21. I reached out to this person through a friend who also works in the mental health field and found that the interviewee posses over 20 years of supervisory experience in the mental health field as a supervisor. As a Residential Coordinator, the interviewee offers support to staff in assisting at risk teen’s process through many challenging mental health issues and concerns with the hope of discharging them back into society. I chose this topic because of my desire to work with at risk children in some capacity in the mental health field. Below is my series of questions I asked the interviewee during the interview: 1) How long have you worked in the mental health field? ...
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...Briefly Discuss DSM IV and ICD 10 and list the main categories of clinical disorders. The paper will discuss the main dangers of classification identified as labelling and Stigma which have lifelong implications for those diagnosed with a mental illness. The main advantages of classification such as most appropriate treatment and community education Definition of the Classification system used to Diagnosis Mental illness. As Social workers it important to try and grasp the concepts of how classification of mental illness is arrived at and to have a basic knowledge of the types of mental disorders people can be classified as having so we can understand the basis of a diagnosis. According Mendelson (2001) “Classification refers to ordering of objects into groups on the basis of their relationship. The result is a classificatory system. Nomenclature related to agreed names that have been assigned to disease or syndromes. Taxonomy covers principles and methods underlying the practice of classification. Finally, nosology denotes the conceptual system that supports the strategy of classifying.” ( Mendelson 2001 p. 63) Golightley (2004) text states that classification is an important step towards the diagnosis of a mental disorder. Mental disorder is broken down into various classifications that represent groups or syndromes of symptoms. Thus if a series of symptoms fits into a recognised pattern of behaviour they can be classified as for example, schizophrenia and a diagnosis...
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...faced many challenges that make it difficult for a social worker to provide services to a needy person in the community. Oppression by society and other social classes of society has caused the poor to belittle upon in society and thus becoming hard to get the best social services. In most of the cases that have happen the mental health and homeless individuals has seen a vast range of problems socially in the rural areas. Individuals suffering from mental health issues and homelessness have hence become the part of the population facing many social problems. (Teasley, Archuleta & Miller, 2014). The data collected during the assessment concluded that 15 homeless individuals could not find a shelter and 11 with mental illness. The issue of a bad economic state has been an obstacle to the providence of proper social services to the community. When inflation hits a country, it makes it hard and difficult for the rural community to survive with the raising prices of commodities. Lack of support from the authorities has caused a lot of poor service development for the needy in the rural areas. Therefore, many cases have seen that the policies put in place do not actually favor the rural communities. For instance, the policies to do with medical services, high cost services hit the poor in the society and hence lives were lost every now and then. For a good providence of social services to the rural community, resources have to be there. Lack of resources renders the social workers...
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...NAME: KANWAR SHAHRUKH ALI ROLL #: 014 CLASS: CV-2D ASSIGNMENT OF: PSYCHOLOGY SUBMITTED TO: MISS BATOOL MENTAL ILLNESSS (PROBLEMS) &WORK When discussing mental problems and work, "work" can mean a number of things. It can mean the workplace, as in where we go to do our jobs. It can also mean the act of working, what we do at our jobs, as a volunteer in the community, or what we like to do in the garden, kitchen or workshop to relax. The relationship between mental illness and work can be looked at in a number of different ways, including: • the stresses and strains today's workplace places on us; • the incredible pressure placed upon people to continue to perform at work when an illness strikes, and the extra strain this places on their families and friends; • the difficult barriers those persons diagnosed with a mental illness face in the working world; • the strain encountered by people who work while they care for someone with a mental illness at home; • the therapeutic role the act of work plays in helping to reduce stress and improve mental health; and, • the benefits work can bring in guiding people diagnosed with a mental illness toward recovery, rebuilding their self-esteem and hopefully returning to the jobs they left when the illness struck. What is Mental Illness? The first step toward discussing mental illness and helping eliminate myths, misconceptions and stereotypes is to understand what a psychiatric illness is. In general...
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