Reflection: Spindletop Crisis Stabilization Unit

Social work is a profession that dedicates its efforts to ensure the well-being of individuals and the well-being of the society as a whole. The primary mission of social workers is to meet the fundamental needs of every person, especially the ones with special needs such as those who are oppressed, vulnerable and the people living in poverty. As a social worker, I intend to use these core values such as service, integrity, and dignity as guidelines to my work to make a difference in the lives of as many needy people as I can. My main goal will be to offer services to needy people to help them solve and overcome social problems that they encounter each day in their lives.

Carey Counseling Center is a not for profit organization, making the nature of their business service billed. The Bureau of Tenncare is one of the most directly affected organizations as it relates to CCC’s billing services. Tenncare is a Medicaid sponsored, state run department that receives contract bids from united health care and Blue Cross Blue Shield. These contracts, once awarded give the recipient the opportunity to decide which of the insurance companies the clients want to utilize. Once they decide on a company, the rate of exchange that is accepted in a contract agreement between CCC and insurance companies.

Chapter 32 Assessment and Interviewing Heather J. Walter and David R. DeMaso It is estimated that 20% of children living in the United States experience a mental illness in a given year, at a cost of nearly $14 billion. In children, mental illness is more prevalent than leukemia, diabetes, and AIDS combined; far more money is spent on mental disorders than on any other childhood illness, including asthma, trauma, upper respiratory infections, and infectious diseases. Although nearly 1 in 5 youths suffers from a psychiatric disorder, 75-85% do not receive specialty mental health services.

Sarah Wilkes: Prompt 1 There are many negative stigmas in regards to seeking treatment for mental illness. Is it possible that people around the world choose to not seek treatment due to these stigmas? Or does one’s cultural beliefs keep them from seeking treatment as well? Negative attitudes and beliefs toward people who have a mental health condition is common in America and countries around the globe.

The Chief of Police William Blair of the Toronto Police Service, gave Lacobucci the authority to undertake the report. The report reviews the use of lethal force by the Toronto Police Services (TPS), with focus on encounters between police and people in crisis. The mandate was given by Chief Blair to conduct a review on the policies, practices, procedures and the services provided by the TPS. With encounters with people who are or may be emotionally, mentally disturbed or cognitively impaired. When Lacobucci refers to a person in crisis he is talking about a member of the public whose behaviour has brought them into contact with police.

In accordance to the National Comorbidity Study negative risk factors that aide towards mental illness are low income, little education, and no occupation. Given these risks an individual is almost three times more likely to have a psychiatric disorder. Socioeconomic status regarding race, gender all play a prominent role. There are disparities that exist for released mental health inmates especially for minorities, they experience a great disadvantage of finding employment due to a criminal record and mental health status. To add mental health former inmates strive to survive however, given two weeks of medication, faced with poverty, and no other available resources as a consequence re-enter the prison system.

Recovery can look different, depending on who is being asked. As stated in class discussion, "Mental health recovery is a journey of healing and transformation. " Recovery can allow a person to reach self-determination and live a meaningful life based on their choice. Recovery is a collaboration between the client, family members, primary care doctors, and mental health professionals. The recovery model can assist in removing boundaries from recovery that traditional methods, such as the medical model, can otherwise create.

Reflection The experience of interning for the Blue Zones Project has been amazing and inspiring. At first I was nervous and shy not knowing what I was in for, but as I continued with my internship I grew more confident and gained more knowledge. The Blue Zones Project is a company helping to transform different communities into a healthier lifestyle to allow people to live longer.

Mental Illness Shouldn't Be Disregarded   "The only shameful thing about mental illness is the stigma attached to it". Only 25% of people with mental health issues feel that people are caring and sympathetic towards their struggles, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).   There are a wide variety of "mental illnesses" which can all affect a person in different ways, some issues can compound things and lead to feelings that the only option is to lash out at the world and make them feel the pain they feel inside, i.e. school shootings and homicides. While others feel the need to lash out on themselves instead. Instead of disregarding these issues, we must bring mental health issues out into the sunlight, deal with it, treat people, and have centers where people can get the necessary help they may need.

Introduction Culture is defined as a ‘dynamic systems of rules, explicit and implicit, established by groups in order to ensure their survival, involving attitudes, values, beliefs, norms and behaviours shared by a group but harboured differently by each specific unit within the group, communicated across generations, relatively stable but with the potential to change across time’ (Matsumoto and Juang 2003). This definition focuses on the fact that culture represents an average overall behaviour of a particular group or community but does not refer to individual discrepancies. Thus, though every individual interprets the rules and norms of culture differently, it is the collective common set of rules or norms that go on to form a part of culture.

Although mental illness has not always been a subject of social importance, it has always been an issue in America. In the early years of this country, mentally disabled people were considered morally unclean and were social outcasts. At this time in history there were not places for these people to go to any sort of treatment so they were cared for by their families. Since it was socially unacceptable to have a mental illness at the time, there were some cases where people lived in poorhouses or were sent to jail (Ozarin). The necessity to treat the mentally ill increased as America continued to grow and advance.

Mental illness and suicide is a critical issue, which has a havoc impacts on a person and their family. High rates of suicides and mental illness commonly trait to a compound set of component like social, emotional , cultural and historical (Raphael and Swan 2015).Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicide and mental illness have increased dramatically which were very low in the 1980s that are peaking heights in comparison to the non-indigenous population(Hunter and Milroy 2006). To understand the mental health of aboriginal people social, historical and cultural frameworks should be taken into consideration. There are many social and cultural factors like low economic status ,education, violence ,racism etc that are impacting on Aboriginal