Abuse in Psychiatric Hospitals Abuse in psychiatric hospitals is very common across the world. Patients are subject to cruelty, neglect, and abuse. The staff is responsible for the majority of abuse. The government is trying to cut down on the abuse by inspecting the hospitals and replacing the staff. Psychiatric hospitals should be a safe haven for the patients but in this case, they are far from it. There are many types of abuse in psychiatric hospitals such as mental, sexual, drug, and physical
The safety for both staff and patients in treatment environment that considered most widely debatable issue in our hospital, so the using of restrain, is an important issue because of it concern on fundamental moral and ethical question for using this procedure. So there was a variety different arguments have been puts according this issue. This essay will considered arguments for many points to some problem with this view. According to the case, a 79 female client with dementia has a chronic indwelling
a psychological disorder that is characterized by major disturbances in thought, perception, emotion, and behavior. When Elyn experienced schizophrenia, she was immediately taken to a hospital and put in restraints. Furthermore, Elyn gives a startling statistic that 1 to 3 people die in restraints. Elyn had been taken to the hospital because of her abnormal behavior and how she spoke in gibberish to others. Prodromal symptoms are the early stages of schizophrenia which include unusual thought content
much safer compared to Metrazol shock: patients did not vomit, and they did not experience as much psychological trauma. But Smith also explores the problems with ECT in the 1940s such as the “effects of muscular convulsions...Thrashing around on the treatment table, many patients bit their tongues and cheeks...Many suffered broken bones or serious spinal injuries...memory loss...ECT was also drastically overused.” In addition, he references famous patients of ECT that condemned the therapy like
Eating Disorders and Mortality Jones 1 Introduction We live in a world that is conscious of our body images and that urges us (especially women) to try to improve our appearance for the approval of society. Eating disorders are defined by the cognitive and behavioral characteristics (Vervaet el al. 2003). There are three main types of eating disorders, they are anorexia nervosa, bulimic-type anorexia nervosa, and bulimia nervosa. Anorexia nervosa is characterized or diagnosed, by
Eating Disorders and Mortality Jones 1 Introduction We live in a world that is conscious of our body images and that urges us (especially women) to try to improve our appearance for the approval of society. Eating disorders are defined by the cognitive and behavioral characteristics (Vervaet el al. 2003). There are three main types of eating disorders, they are anorexia nervosa, bulimic-type anorexia nervosa, and bulimia nervosa. Anorexia nervosa is characterized or diagnosed, by
Sylvia Plath changed American literature with her only novel, the semi-autobiographical book, The Bell Jar; she worked her way into the hearts of both Europeans and Americans, without having the opportunity to celebrate her publicity after committing suicide in 1963, the same year of the book’s release in America. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath was a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age novel about Plath’s life and the struggles that she faced. The novel is regarded as one of Plath’s best works, as