Mental Health Guide : For students, teachers, school psychologists, nurses, social workers, counselors and parents.

 

 

Mental Health Guide

 

 

For students, teachers, school psychologists, nurses, social workers, counselors and parents.

 

 

 

 

 

 

By. Haitham Al Fiqi

All rights reserved@Haitham Al Fiqi

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This eBook is a guide and serves as an initial guide. , it is advisable to additionally seek professional advice or to consult a doctor / psychologist.

 

This e-book is a guide and serves as a primer. Please also seek professional advice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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• Police and other members of the criminal justice system such as criminal lawyers have become the front-line responders to the growing mental health crisis. This is especially true for low-income communities.

• About 44% of people in prisons and 37% of inmates in state or federal prisons have been diagnosed with a mental illness, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), compared with about 20% of the general population.

• Nearly 25% of police shootings involve an encounter with someone with a mental illness, according to data compiled by The Washington Post.

• Suicide remains the leading cause of death in prisons and occurs at much higher rates in prisons than in the general population.

• The rate of mental illness among criminal defendants has risen along with the significant rise in the incarceration rate in the United States. Between 1972 and 2009, the US prison population increased by 700%.

• Since untreated mental illness is more common among people of low socioeconomic status, they are also more likely to be accused of committing violent acts, whether the crime is related to their mental illness or not.

• The first option for most courts when a criminal case involves a defendant with a serious mental illness is to refer the person to a residential psychiatric care where he or she can undergo treatment with the goal of regaining his or her competency. However, placement in these facilities may not be possible, especially in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which has reduced the space available for use by prisoners and inmates in need of mental health care.

• Inmates ordered by courts to be admitted to regain competency may have to wait weeks or months to receive treatment.

• The longer treatment is delayed, the worse the symptoms become and the longer the prognosis. Open living arrangements in most long-term psychiatric care facilities have been limited due to contact restrictions implemented to deter the spread of corona virus. This has reduced the availability of much-needed mental health care to populations in desperate need of professional help.

• From this standpoint, the author, a criminal lawyer, wanted to discuss mental health problems in general because they serve society to reduce criminal crimes. He wrote this book through criminal scientific research on this important topic for justice institutions and penal institutions in general.

 

 

 

 

CONTENTS

 

Addiction and Personality Disorder

Adult Attention Deficit Disorder

Agoraphobia

Alternative Methods in Mental Health Care

Alternative Therapies-Part 2

Aspergers Syndrome

Bipolar Depression Versus Clinical Depression

Bipolar II Disorder

Choosing a Therapist Step-By-Step

Combined-Type ADHD

Conduct Disorder

Creativity and Bipolar Disorder

Culturally Based Healing Arts

 

Do I Need Mental Health Help?

Dual Diagnosis

Dying to Be Thin

Dysthymic Depression

Early Sign of Autism

Expressive Therapies in Mental Health

Herbs That Help With Anxiety

Histrionic Personality Disorder

Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder

Loving Someone With OCD

Men and Depression

No Need to Hide

Panic Attacks

Post -Traumatic Stress Disorder

Rapid Cycling in Bipolar Disorder

Remembering the Terror

Schizophrenia

Seasonal Affective Disorder or "SAD"

Seroquel

Sleep and Mood

Symptoms of Post-traumatic stress disorder

Taking Control of Mental Illness

The Most Common Obsessive-Compulsive Behaviors

The Psychopathic Personality

The Types of Depression

Two Herbs that Help with mental distress

Types of Self-Injury

What is a Mood Disorder?

What is Social Anxiety Disorder?

What is Social Anxiety

What is Trichotillomania?

When Anxiety Becomes a Personality Disorder

When Fear Paralyzes

When the Cure Harms

Zoloft

An Overview of the Mental Health Assessment

Alternative Mental Health Care Solutions

Overview of Mental Health Counseling

Mental Health Courts: Separate Justice System

Causes of Mental Health Disorders

The Budding Disorders: Mental Health of Children

Mental Health Nursing: The Roles of Psychiatric Nurses

Perspectives on Mental Health Recovery

Mental Health Statistics: How Common Mental Disorders Are

Benefits of Mental Health Support Groups

Mental Health Tests as Important Assessment Tools

What Effects Does Nutrition Have On Mental Health

3 Major Focuses of Recovery for Optimized Mental Health

Understanding Single Parent Psychology and Mental Health

Tips on Taking Care of Mental Health

Tips on Online Researching for Mental Health Articles

Addiction and Personality Disorder

Substance abuse and dependence (alcoholism, drug addiction) is only one form of recurrent and self-defeating pattern of misconduct. People are addicted to all kinds of things: gambling, shopping, the Internet, reckless and life-endangering pursuits. Adrenaline junkies abound.

The connection between chronic anxiety, pathological narcissism, depression, obsessive-compulsive traits and alcoholism and drug abuse is well established and common in clinical practice. But not all narcissists, compulsives, depressives, and anxious people turn to the bottle or the needle.

Frequent claims of finding a gene complex responsible for alcoholism have been consistently cast in doubt. In 1993, Berman and Noble suggested that addictive and reckless behaviors are mere emergent phenomena and may be linked to other, more fundamental traits, such as novelty seeking or risk taking. Psychopaths (patients with Antisocial Personality Disorder) have both qualities in ample quantities. We would expect them, therefore, to heavily abuse alcohol and drugs. Indeed, as Lewis and Bucholz convincingly demonstrated in 1991, they do. Still, only a negligible minority of alcoholics and drug addicts are psychopaths.

What has been determined is that most addicts are narcisstic in personality. Addictions serve his purpose. They place him above the laws and pressures of the mundane and away from the humiliating and sobering demands of reality. They render him the center of attention - but also place him in "splendid isolation" from the maddening and inferior crowd.

Such compulsory and wild pursuits provide a psychological exoskeleton. They are a substitute to quotidian existence. They afford the narcissist with an agenda, with timetables, goals, and faux achievements. The narcissist - the adrenaline junkie - feels that he is in control, alert, excited, and vital. He does not regard his condition as dependence. The narcissist firmly believes that he is in charge of his addiction that he can quit at will and on short notice.

Adult Attention Deficit Disorder

 

 

Adult attention deficit disorder, or adult ADD, can be a very frustrating condition to have. Almost all of the initial research and focus for the attention deficit disorders was focused on children and adolescents, but adults are just as likely to have the condition as youths. The disorder normally makes itself apparent during childhood, with difficulties at school being one of the most common hallmarks of the condition, which helps to explain why so much focus has been on children with the disease. But children with attention deficit disorder grow up to be adults with attention deficit disorder.

If you are an adult and you are having trouble focusing at work, difficulty listening to people in everyday conversations, find yourself interrupting people a lot, losing things frequently, are easily distracted from tasks, are easily frustrated or find yourself feeling over stimulated often, you may have adult attention deficit disorder.

Treatment for the disorder mirrors the treatments used for children with the condition. The first step you need to take if you suspect you may have an adult attention deficit condition is to see a doctor. There are other disorders that can mimic an adult attention deficit condition, such as anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, or bipolar disorder, and it is important that these be ruled out before trying treatments.

Most health professionals will agree that there are also a number of non-medication based steps you can take to alleviate some of your symptoms. Getting regular vigorous exercise has been shown to help a lot of people with ADD. Also a diet high in lean protein is recommended. Keeping lists, writing notes, breaking large tasks down into smaller parts and taking other similar steps to counter your disorder will certainly help as well. Medication is also another option. Talk with your doctor and decide together what method is best for you.

Agoraphobia

 

 

The fear of traveling is the common definition of agoraphobia. This can be a serious condition in which a person isn't able to leave the home at all or it can be a mild disorder in which a person can't travel more than a few hours away from home. When a person attempts to go beyond what is considered their "safe" boundaries then they go into an agoraphobia panic attack.

 

Starting by taking baby steps is the best way a person can slow their agoraphobia panic attacks. In order to finally master their fears the individual must set specific goals to overcome their panic attacks. Family and friends are the best people to help a person through this process.

 

To the sufferers themselves an agoraphobia panic attack is very frustrating. This is because an agoraphobic attack is often less rational than the typical panic attacks.

A fear of public places, especially those where there is a large gathering of people such as a grocery store can develop from a social anxiety. An individual who suffers from general panic disorders can become embarrassed of their disorder, which can then cause a fear of traveling and suffering a panic attack in public.

 

The only way for a person to overcome these attacks is to push their limits, which makes treatment of agoraphobia panic attack difficult. Before getting better many agoraphobics tend to get worse for this reason. Since all an individual has to do is stay within their "safe" zone they tend to ignore their agoraphobic problem. However, while the problem can be easy to ignore it is a stifling symptom that comes from a chronic panic disorder.

 

Little by little, agoraphobia can be overcome. It takes time and a lot of patience. This is one time the person with this disorder must learn to turn to someone trusted to help them through.

Alternative Methods in Mental Health Care

What are alternative approaches to mental health care? An alternative approach to mental health care is one that emphasizes the interrelationship between mind, body, and spirit. Although some alternative approaches have a long history, many remain controversial. The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health was created in 1992 to help evaluate alternative methods of treatment and to integrate those that are effective into mainstream health care practice. It is crucial, however, to consult with your health care providers about the approaches you are using to achieve mental wellness.

Diet and Nutrition - Adjusting both diet and nutrition may help some people with mental illnesses manage their symptoms and promote recovery. For example, research suggests that eliminating milk and wheat products can reduce the severity of symptoms for some people who have schizophrenia and some children with autism. Similarly, some holistic/natural physicians use herbal treatments, B-complex vitamins, riboflavin, magnesium, and thiamine to treat anxiety, autism, depression, drug-induced psychoses, and hyperactivity.

Pastoral Counseling - Some people prefer to seek help for mental health problems from their pastor, rabbi, or priest, rather than from therapists who are not affiliated with a religious community. Counselors working within traditional faith communities increasingly are recognizing the need to incorporate psychotherapy and/or medication, along with prayer and spirituality, to effectively help some people with mental disorders.

Animal Assisted Therapies - Working with an animal (or animals) under the guidance of a health care professional may benefit some people with mental illness by facilitating positive changes, such as increased empathy and enhanced socialization skills. Animals can be used as part of group therapy programs to encourage communication and increase the ability to focus. Developing self-esteem and reducing loneliness and anxiety are just some potential benefits of individual-animal therapy (Delta Society, 2002).

Alternative Therapies-Part 2

Biofeedback: Learning to control muscle tension and "involuntary" body functioning, such as heart rate and skin temperature, can be a path to mastering one's fears. It is used in combination with, or as an alternative to, medication to treat disorders such as anxiety, panic, and phobias. For example, a person can learn to "retrain" his or her breathing habits in stressful situations to induce relaxation and decrease hyperventilation. Some preliminary research indicates it may offer an additional tool for treating schizophrenia and depression.

Guided Imagery or Visualization: This process involves going into a state of deep relaxation and creating a mental image of recovery and wellness. Physicians, nurses, and mental health providers occasionally use this approach to treat alcohol and drug addictions, depression, panic disorders, phobias, and stress.

Massage therapy: The underlying principle of this approach is that rubbing, kneading, brushing, and tapping a person's muscles can help release tension and pent emotions. It has been used to treat trauma-related depression and stress. A highly unregulated industry, certification for massage therapy varies widely from State to State. Some States have strict guidelines, while others have none.

Telemedicine: Plugging into video and computer technology is a relatively new innovation in health care. It allows both consumers and providers in remote or rural areas to gain access to mental health or specialty expertise. Telemedicine can enable consulting providers to speak to and observe patients directly. It also can be used in education and training programs for generalist clinicians. Telephone counseling: Active listening skills are a hallmark of telephone counselors.

Electronic communications: Technologies such as the Internet, bulletin boards, and electronic mail lists provide access directly to consumers and the public on a wide range of information. On-line consumer groups can exchange information, experiences, and views on mental health, treatment systems, alternative medicine, and other related topics.

Aspergers Syndrome

 

Aspergers Syndrome is a milder form of autistic disorder. Both conditions are part of a larger group of neurological disorders known in the US as Pervasive Developmental Disorders, or PDD for short. The 2 most common symptoms are eccentric behavior and self-imposed social isolation. Sometimes speech is affected as well as gait and motor skills. Your child may also be exclusively focused on a particular area of interest, such as cars or astronomy. The social isolation comes from the child wanting to know everything about his or her area of interest and little else. Conversations are usually focused only on that area as well.

Experts believe that Aspergers and autism have underlying biological causes, but are not clear yet on what those causes are. They do know that there are certain brain structure abnormalities, but do not know why they occur.

There is no definitive test for Aspergers, but there are certain patterns, including:

* Significant impairment in social interaction, as demonstrated by: - impaired nonverbal communication - failure to develop age-appropriate peer relationships - lack of shared enjoyment of activities/surroundings with others - unable to reciprocate socially and/or emotionally

* Repeated patterns of behavior or interest, such as: -

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Verlag: BookRix GmbH & Co. KG

Tag der Veröffentlichung: 12.11.2023
ISBN: 978-3-7554-6083-1

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Widmung:
• Most people think that mental health only applies to those people who have diagnosable mental disorders. The truth is ALL of us should be concerned about our mental health. It is our basis of being healthy. It is the holistic approach to health. In fact, many people adhere to the belief that mental health is the core of healthiness. Health starts and ends with mental health. It encompasses everything and it is everybody's business. • For virtually all people, mental health is often neglected until something apparently becomes wrong. Until then, we will have to wait for signs that it is vital to our existence, to our well being, to our relationships with other people, to our perceptions, to our fulfillment and even to our own happiness.