Mental health professionals practice active listening and encourage the client to express their feelings. Mental health counselors develop and implement treatment plans based on the client’s physical or mental condition. Client information is collected through interviews, observations or tests which guide counselors in the development of therapeutic information strategies that will help clients deal with their problems by targeting at-risk behaviors which promotes optimum mental and emotional well-being of the client (Erford, 2010). Over the past decade organizations have come to the realization that mental health professionals need to become competent in cross cultural interactions. Competent multicultural mental health professionals play a key role in success of mental health counseling interventions (Connerley & Pederson, 2005).
What are the strengths and limitations of the concept of evidence-based practice? Illustrate with reference to one psychological condition, problem or area. Evidence-based practice has been firmly placed on the agenda as a key factor in improving standards of mental health care through the introduction of government initiatives such as clinical governance (Department of Health, 1998) and guidelines such as the Department of Health’s ‘Treatment Choice in Psychological Therapies and Counselling: Evidence-based Clinical Practice Guidelines’ (Department of Health, 2001). The Practice Guidelines were developed by the British Psychological Society’s Centre for Outcomes Research and Effectiveness. The Practice Guideline was written following a comprehensive review of the literature from 1990 to 1998 (Barkham and Mellor-Clark, 2003) and commissioned by the Department of Health to attempt to ensure that referral decisions were rooted in research evidence (Parry et al., 2003), rather than impromptu or random allocations leading to inappropriate psychological therapy.
Understand the legislation and policies that support the human rights and inclusion of individuals with learning disabilities. Identify legislation and policies that are designed to promote the human rights, inclusion, equal life chances and citizenship of individuals with learning disabilities. I can identify the polices and legislation designed to promote inclusion, human rights of individuals with learning disabilities and of their citizenship and equal life chances i.e. National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990; Disability Discrimination Act 2005; Equality Act 2010; Disability Equality Duty 2006. Procedures and Polices of the organisational kind are; Department of Health 2001a (A new strategy for Learning Disability for the 21st Century i.e.
Running head: Alarm Fatigue Improving Patient Outcomes: What is the best practice to combat alarm fatigue? TCC NUR273 Abstract With the advent of new technologies, comes a time to take a look at and revamp our current practices. Are we doing these interventions and protocols because that is the way that it has always been done since the beginning of time? Are our practices backed up by legitimate evidence? By using nursing research, best practices can be implemented in order to improve patient outcomes.
Amanda Suda Mrs. Schmidt Honors English 10 6 March 2013 EMDR and Brainspotting Developed to help patients overcome the symptoms associated with traumatic memories, EMDR and Brainspotting use specific types of focusing and reprocessing to alter the mind. Francine Shapiro, Ph.D., is credited with discovering Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, in 1989. She found that particular eye movements would reduce the intensity of disturbing thoughts in some of her clients. Since Dr. Shapiro’s discovery, EMDR has been changed and further developed into a highly effective treatment for diseases such as Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and Panic Disorders. In 2003, David Grand, Ph.D., discovered
This stands for the Functional Analysis of Care Environments. This assessment tool is the result of over 17 years of developmental work between different health and social care disciplines. It identifies risk history and looks at existing warning signs, for example if Emma was to pose any risk of harm to her or others. The department of health (2003) found that risk assessment in mental health care is in effect a culture, which has been put into practice by the government in an attempt to decrease the amount of suicides. The FACE risk profile is an ongoing assessment, which contributes to care planning and risk management for the client.
The competences required to deliver effective cognitive and behavioural therapy for people with depression and with anxiety disorders DH INFORMATION READER BOX Policy HR/Workforce Management Planning Clinical Document purpose Gateway reference Title Estates Commissioning IM & T Finance Social care/partnership working Best practice guidance 8666 The competences required to deliver effective cognitive and behavioural therapy for people with depression and with anxiety disorders Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Programme September 2007 PCT CEs, NHS Trust CEs, SHA CEs, Care Trust CEs, Foundation Trust CEs, Medical Directors, Directors of Nursing, Special HA CEs, Allied Health Professionals N/A This document identifies the
In March 2000 the government issued a guidance document “no secrets” which gave social services departments a co-ordinating role in developing locale policies and procedures for protecting venerable adult from abuse. This was required of all agencies, i.e. police, probation services, social services and health services, to work collaboratively to protect vulnerable adults. Social services departments were required to develop and implement these codes of practise by October 2001. The “no secrets” guidance document was update in 2015 and added in was compassionate care in the NHS, health and social care integration and dementia care.
Scientific and consumer models of recovery in schizophrenia: Concordance, contrasts, and implications. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 32, 432–442. Birchwood, M., Smith, J., Cochrane, R., & Wetton, S. (1990). The social functioning scale: The development and validation of a new scale of social adjustment for use in family intervention programmes with schizophrenic patients. British Journal of Psychiatry, 157, 853–859.
The Nursing Process was utilized in delivering care to Farai, using the Care Program Approach framework (CPA) which is a Framework for the delivery of secondary mental health care services described as demanding effective provision of integrated health and Social care services to adult service users Kirby et al (2004 p.159) Fortinash and Holoday -Worret (1999) describe the nursing process as a multidimensional, Cyclic approach in which data is collected, Critically analyzed and Incorporated into the clients` treatment plan taking into consideration the Client` fluctuating health and