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Clinical mental health counseling. Clinical mental health counseling is a healthcare profession addressing issues such as substance abuse, addiction, relational problems, stress management, as well as more serious conditions such as suicidal ideation and acute behavioral disorders.
Mental accounting (or psychological accounting) is a model of consumer behaviour developed by Richard Thaler that attempts to describe the process whereby people code, categorize and evaluate economic outcomes. [ 2] Mental accounting incorporates the economic concepts of prospect theory and transactional utility theory to evaluate how people ...
The execution of mentally retarded defendants violates the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. 8th. 2005. Roper v. Simmons. In a ruling that followed Wainwright (in assessing the nature of cruel and unusual punishments), children may not be given the death penalty. 1st. 2010. Graham v.
Mental disorders. Mental health, as defined by the Public Health Agency of Canada, [ 7] is an individual's capacity to feel, think, and act in ways to achieve a better quality of life while respecting personal, social, and cultural boundaries. [ 8] Impairment of any of these are risk factor for mental disorders, or mental illnesses, [ 9] which ...
The World Health Organization ( WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health. [ 2] It is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, and has six regional offices [ 3] and 150 field offices worldwide. [ 4] The WHO was established on April 7, 1948, and formally began its work on September 1, 1948. [ 5]
The American Psychological Association (APA) Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct (for short, the Ethics Code, as referred to by the APA) includes an introduction, preamble, a list of five aspirational principles and a list of ten enforceable standards that psychologists use to guide ethical decisions in practice, research ...
Impression management. Impression management is a conscious or subconscious process in which people attempt to influence the perceptions of other people about a person, object or event by regulating and controlling information in social interaction. [ 1] It was first conceptualized by Erving Goffman in 1959 in The Presentation of Self in ...
Medical ethics is an applied branch of ethics which analyzes the practice of clinical medicine and related scientific research. [ 1] Medical ethics is based on a set of values that professionals can refer to in the case of any confusion or conflict. These values include the respect for autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence, and justice. [ 2]