Mental versus physical illness

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• Boundaries - Child

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• Mental Illness

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• Mental Illness: Why mental health may have a stigma

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• Relationship between mental illness and dangerousness

  In fact the only factors that may lead an individual with mental illness to become violent or dangerous is a history of physical, sexual or verbal abuse from a parent or guardian, drug abuse, a history of violent behavior or recent stressors such as loss

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• Production of 'mental disorder' status

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• Addressing Counseling Versus Psychotherapy

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