He claimed he was only asked to complete a few questionnaires with no further evaluation. When he was given his treatment plan, R.G. felt it did not address his needs and goals. When he started EMDR, he did not feel comfortable with the individual providing this service and requested to see either Dr. Earle or another clinician. The individual administering the EMDR refused and stated he had goals that needed to be met and there were no alternatives. R.G. was very upset by this and later went to the emergency room (ER) in crisis.
CAM therapies were put into these groups psychological, physical and paranormal, the healers can be from thoroughly trained however some have received no training at all. There many theories and concepts around CAM which shows that there are a lot of miscommunications within this community. In a research conducted people in different countries were asked what they thought was the reason why people would choose to use CAM therapies (Ernst,Willoughby, and Weihmeyr, 1999). In their findings they concluded that people thought it was an extra option to try however not that traditional biomedical was
The School of Shock by Jennifer Gonnerman is an article that was posted on a political blog, Mother Jones, on August 20, 2007. The article outlines the disturbing details of a behavior modification facility for severe special needs children and adults in Canton, Massachusetts. The facility, known as the Judge Rotenberg Center, uses shock-devices or “applications” from a “Graduated Electronic Decelerator” (GED) as “aversion therapy” for unfavorable behavior. The Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) was founded by Dr. Matt Israel, Ph.D. to serve patients with extreme behavioral disorders without the use of medications or psychiatric therapy. Dr. Israel’s concept is that after repeated shocks, students will cease their bad behaviors, however, JRC is the only facility in the United States of America to uphold these practices.
After watching the video “The Lobotomist,” in my own personal opinion, lobotomy is an absolutely unethical procedure that completely disregards moral values. I highly disapprove of the procedure involving deliberately severing neural connections. Also, the fact that informed consent was practically nonexistent during that time (16:07) is quite bewildering to me. However, I understand that before the 1950s (before the drug Thorazine came about), there was no other effective treatment – there were interventions such as shock therapy and intentional insulin overdose that proved to be unsuccessful (10:16). Moreover, those with mental illness seemed to be desperate for a solution.
Psychologist William Richards has been carrying research into the potential for psychedelic drugs to be used therapeutically, and his findings have promising results when treating anxiety, PTSD, and addiction. His speciality is the psychology of mysticism and religion, and the application of therapy involves preparing patients for a high dose of psilocybin, guiding them as they have a “really transformative experience,” and then helping them integrate that into their lives. Richards and his colleagues have repeated their results so reliably that they can induce specific experiences with certain doses and stimuli, and they claim to have empirically proven Jung’s theory of the collective unconscious. Because psychedelics are classified as schedule I
Given the unethical and medically inappropriate role, such treatment casts mental health
Coercive treatment involves the treatment of an individual whom does not want to seek treatment or does not think that they require treatment. I believe that coercive treatment is a defensible practice as the practitioners working against the will of their patients, are doing so in hopes of helping the individual suffering from a mental disorder. There are many reasons as to why individuals may not believe that they require any sort of treatment. These reasons range from not realizing the consequences of their actions, fear of judgement, misinterpretation of symptoms, etc. There are a few recounts from Voices from the Inside, which display the correct use and need for coercive treatment, deeming it to be defensible.
As you may already know, the verdict for the trial of the century was not guilty to the charge of double homicide. The verdict was released on October 3rd, 1995 at the Los Angeles County Superior Court. This essay is about the modern day events of the O.J trial. Orenthal James Simpson was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in 1969. He was drafted in the first round as the first pick.
Hypnotism is used to try and replace bad habits, thoughts, and emotions with good ones in response to specific events or memories (UMMC). In the BNW, hypnopedia is a repetition of sentences spoken to the children while they are sleeping to give them various dispositions of themselves and other types of people (Huxley). Shock therapy is another form of conditioning used on 100,000 people each year to try and solve mental illnesses, and strange behaviors (MHA). In the BNW, shock therapy is used to strike terror in children to steer them away from books and nature. This is just the same as the “Little Albert Experiment” carried out by Watson to instill a fear of furry animals into the mind of a small child through a bad stimulus when the child does something associated with the
According to the Belmont Report, “Two general rules have been formulated … (1) do not harm and (2) maximize possible benefits and minimize possible harms… an agreement to participate in research constitutes a valid consent only if voluntarily given. This element of informed consent requires conditions free of coercion and undue influence” (“The Belmont Report”). In relation to Eleven, Dr. Brenner maximized harm and there were no benefits. Instead, they caused her psychological trauma and torture by submerging her into the sensory deprivation tanks and forcing her to make contact with a creature that she was terrified of. Also, they tried to force her to kill an animal and tried to lock her in a cell.
Though there is debate over the effects of electroconvulsive therapy and whether or not it is helpful to those who suffer from severe depression that has remained untreatable with other methods of intervention, I do not consider electroconvulsive therapy unethical; however, I do believe, and I am of the opinion that most medical professionals also agree, that ECT should be implemented only when all other methods of intervention have proved to be unsuccessful. There are patients and professionals who espouse that ECT is in fact helpful, and there are those on the opposite end of the spectrum who believe that it is ineffective and causes irreversible damage to the patient. With any subject, there are people who possess separate views; however, with the limited knowledge I have about ECT, I do not think it is unethical. It would be unethical if a person was forced to undergo the treatment, but having ECT is a choice made together by the patient and doctor who
Implications and Recommendations for Clinical Practice After reviewing the extant literature, it is apparent that there are potent treatments, which have been logically derived from supported theoretical models, available to treat OCD, a disorder that was initially believed to be intractable. Of these treatments, exposure-based treatments, such as ERP, have the most empirical support for their efficacy in reducing OCD symptoms, although there is promising evidence that cognitive-based treatments are also quite effective—perhaps just as effective, especially if they incorporate behavioral components such as exposure. As did the APA (2007) and NICE (2006), it is recommended that the CBT variant ERP be used as the first-line psychological treatment
Introduction It was a hard decision for me what to choose for my senior project. I had a couple of good ideas but I wasn’t sure which one to choose because both of the ideas that I had were really one of the ideas was including the way to be an electrician and the other one was the differences between all the different types of police forces. At first, my initial idea was to research the study of electricians. This was one of the best ideas I had because I would like to be an electrician when I grow up .The
1. Introduction Absence Seizures have been a medical concern for a long time, and were first described in medical literature back in 1705 by Poupart (Temkin, 1971). According to The World Health Organization (WHO) at least 40 forms of epilepsy have been identified, and they are characterized by an abrupt and transitory synchronization of neuron activities, whose causes are not always well known. 2.
This is a direct violation of Section 3.04 b of the American Psychology Association's (APA) code of ethics.. “Psychologists do not participate in, facilitate, assist, or otherwise engage in torture, defined as any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person, or in any other cruel, inhuman, or degrading behavior that violates
