Essays Tagged: "relapse"
Post Acute Withdrawal (P.A.W)
rawal or P.A.W. is a sobriety-based symptom that makesabstinence difficult and often contributes to relapse. The presence of braindysfunction and change in alcoholics has been documented in 75-95% of ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
What is Schizophrenia?
emotions, interact with others, and think clearly. It generally occurs in periods of remission and relapse. Symptoms will often disappear, only to return later. Often, a schizophrenic has trouble det ... relearn problem solving techniques, basic living skills, and strategies to reduce the chances of a relapse.Paranoid SchizophreniaPeople who suffer from paranoid schizophrenia endure constant feelings ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health
Juvenile laws a collective of 4 essays in one.
want help and those that do don't receive a long enough treatment time to recover, causing them to relapse.So a plan of action must be taken to slow down the problem. The use of drugs cause problems ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
The causes, treatment and future prevention of schizophrenia
such little knowledge of this disorder, some cases go untreated and most schizophrenics experience relapse within two years of their being released from a treatment facility. (Davison, 288) Society m ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
Addiction
rwhelming involvement...with the use of a drug and securing of the supply, as well as a tendency to relapse after completion of withdrawal. The authors state that the difference between use and addict ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
A bookrevie of Charles Dickens'A Tale Of Two Cities
her father, since he has been released. After Doctor Manette returns home, he sometimes goes into a relapse and thinks he is still in prison. After several years he starts to get better and begins to ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Charles Dickens
An outline of the various drug treatments for bipolar disorder and their potential side effects and limitations.
atients who continue to take Lithium between episodes are significantly less likely to experience a relapse.Potential Side effects:Nausea, memory problems, weight gain, and impaired coordination.Limit ... ond positively to them. Like Lithium, they can be helpful in treating the severity and frequency of relapses and anticonvulsants can also be used to treat acute manic episodes. Valproic Acid may be mo ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders
Job Analysis of Behavioral Health Case Manager
ic services designed to provide rehabilitation and intensive support to prevent hospitalization and relapse and to assist in development of community living and pre vocational skills. Other objectives ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
This is sample treatment plan and assessment based on a fictional case study.
patient's present and previous usage history, emotional and behavioral stability, and potential for relapse, environment, pertinent medical conditions, and willingness or desire for treatment. An inte ... hange nicotine consumption. Risk level is a 1, as client shows a willingness to change.DIMENSION 5: RELAPSE POTENTIALClient has no know history of previous treatments. Client desires treatment due to ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Poem: My life equals a Heartagram.
neath you.Feel my breathe underneath your shoe.You are the one that causes me to collapseYou are my relapse.We have been through the curves one million times beforeI feel no taller than the floor.Desc ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories
Does Punishment Deter Crime?
gross violation of law" (2006 Merriam-Webster, Incorporated) and finally recidivism "a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior; especially: relapse into criminal behavior" ( ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Tale Of Two Cities
tte being held captive as a helpless shoemaker, being found by his long lost daughter, and having a relapse of his old ways when a bad time arose. These actions involving Dr. Manette are similar to my ... . Manette, I was held captive and helpless, I was found by a long lost friend, and I also had a bad relapse of my old ways.Many years before Lucie realized her father was alive, Dr. Manette had been w ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
The Three Great Crimes of Macbeth
, it is a fitting impetus for his increasingly deteriorating character; the very first stage of his relapse into evil. The fact that Macbeth is murdering such a benevolent man; one who has always held ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Macbeth
The Saboteur
om acute hepatitis usually have a swollen liver, feel exhausted and are "afraid [they] might have a relapse." (Jin 185). While Mr. Chiu was in prison, he began to sweat, shiver and develop a fever bec ... Mr. Chiu was in prison, he began to sweat, shiver and develop a fever because he was experiencing a relapse of acute hepatitis (188). By having a relapse of hepatitis, he was becoming infectious again ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Ethics
victims and their families. They should not be eligible for parole because they may be capable of a relapse when back into society. I also do not agree with that government in this case. In mos ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty
Preventing Smoking Relapse
Preventing Smoking Relapse In Postpartum Women Purpose: Since the 1960s, there has been minimal reduction in the propor ... approximately 70% of these women resume smoking shortly after giving birth. Although these rates of relapse are comparable with the rates among quitters in the general population. These women may be u ... m will be significantly higher in the treatment group than in the control group.The precipitants of relapse in the postpartum period include demographic and contextual variables such as contact with o ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Decompression Treatment
l of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. Research was done on the criminal recidivism, or relapse of criminal activity, and juvenile delinquent treatment programs effectiveness. "The concept ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters
Schizophrenia-Jims Case
ase, Jim's parents were more aware of the symptoms and things they themselves could do to prevent a relapse from occurring. The parents?first responsibility in helping Jim with his new medication was ... guilty of having a high level of expressed emotion in the house, a possible cause of schizophrenic relapse occurrence. The parents underwent therapy as well as Jim and took communication skills train ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Issues in Recovery
ecific drug upon which the patient has become dependent through habitual use. In order to prevent a relapse, the patient must be kept within the confines of a supportive environment in order to reduce ... iction, a failure to adjust the patient's attitude towards the addiction will result in an eventual relapse when the opportunity presents itself once again.Psychological recovery can be the most impor ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Schizophrenia and Psychosis
emotions, interact with others, and think clearly. It generally occurs in periods of remission and relapse. Symptoms will often disappear, only to return later. Often, a schizophrenic has trouble det ... ddlers, and rarely found in adolescents. If an infant experiences the disorder, it is possible that relapses of it can occur later in life. Many children undergo a certain amount of anxiety when separ ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders