1.Imagine you work for a large Mental Health organization. You have been working with a person who identifies they have been struggling with severe depression for several years. They often contemplate ending their life. Today, they meet with you and share that they have made their decision, and they no longer want to live. After conducting a risk assessment you believe they have intention to follow through on their plan to end their own life. You try to create a safety plan with them but they refuse to make one with you. Please identify two options for next steps you could take to help this client.
2.Please identify three of the different social and/or political motivations to close mental asylums in the 20th century.
3.What are the two key questions to consider when identifying someones need for acute (emergency) Psychiatric care?
4.What are some of the concerns about the DSM-5?
5.In Dyck (2018) Bitter Pills: The impact of medicare on mental health, the concluding sentence is: we have yet to convince Canadians that income security is a healthy choice. (p.277). What do you think they mean?
