Essays on Mental Health

Introduction There are many reported cases of clients with histories of trauma seeking for treatment thus behavioral counselors should have comprehensive knowledge on how to help victims of trauma. Counselors should also have knowledge on trauma-informed prevention, care and objectives of treatment along with practical counseling techniques. Trauma can be defined...

Joshua has become a drug addict. When he joined Wings he was a normal young man who only displayed challenging teen behaviour. His peers at the centre influenced him into drugs. Joshua lacks positive social support. Every young person deserves to grow up surrounded by people who understand them and are...

Alcoholism: Health, Social, and Financial Burden Alcohol has been used as a sedative as it is expected to activate the pleasurable components of the brain to produce a sense of relaxation and euphoria. For instance when people become stressed, or need to forget about sad moments, they tend to engage in...

Disability and people with disability is a concern to society. Disability can either be physical or mental. This essay shows some of the studies done on children living with disability and the methods used to collect information and study their challenges.  The articles review differ in that they use methodologies...

Autism which is sometimes referred to as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a disorder that is associated with a developmental defect that affects the communication and behavior of an individual. The reason as to why the condition is commonly known as a developmental disorder is mainly due to the fact...

Melatonin is one of the legal drugs in the United States, and it is available as a supplement which is either synthetic or natural. Natural melatonin comes from the animal’s gland known as pineal. It is not recommended to use the natural melatonin from animal’s pineal gland since it contains...

It appears as if the day evolves into a night the same way individual’s transform and evolves as well.  Diane is a forty-two years old woman who her life has been full miseries all through. In the first place, her mother passed away of cancer illness last year, while his...

Alcohol abuse and dependence is one of the most common problems handled by psychiatrists across the globe. While several factors are attributed to the development of addiction, sexual orientation may compound the problem. Researchers have found that compared with the general population, LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) people have...

Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) is defined as a group of neurodevelopment conditions based on three areas of impairment; social interaction, communication and a stereotyped. In communication both verbal and non-verbal aspects are impaired (Zander and Sven, 1). The symptom of the disorders usually are obvious before one reaches the age...

I am the director of the Wollongong Mental Health Association, an organization which deals with improving and maintaining the psychological health of the members of the community. I am writing to inform you that we are commissioning a research on the impacts of music on the psychological health of students...

In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story The Yellow Wall-Paper, the narrator is presented as a mentally ill woman. Despite being sick, the narrator is the one who lets the reader understand the author's main ideas including the subordinate position of women in the nineteenth-century male-dominated society as well...

In recent years, neurobiologists have come up with three types of attention deficit disorders. Predominant hyperactive, impulsive disorder, predominantly inattentive with no hyperactivity and ADHD which is the combined deficit disorder which is a combination of both hyperactivity and inattention among schooling children. Children diagnosed with ADHD have a propensity...