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).
Cognitive disorders: Are a category of mental health disorders that primary affect learning,memory, perception, and problem solving and include; amnesia, dementia and delirium. 1.2. Explain the key strengths and limitations of the psychiatric classification system. Strengths of Psychiatric Classification and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders include that it provides a well designed standard, and comprehensive diagnostic tool for clinicians and it allows physicians to look at the complete psychological make-up of a person. 1.3.
Monitoring progress is when you work on the procedures needed for reorganization and observation of the changed behavior. Following up provides the information needed to know if the behavior change results from the intervention continued to create endurance even in other settings and times. The two phases I choose are screening and monitoring evaluation . During the screening process the behavior analyst is to assess the client and to determine if further services are necessary to address behavioral problems (Cooper, Heron & Heward, 2007). It is included in behavior assessment to identify if there was a problem behavior, what variables cause and effect this behavior and if so what needs to be done for said behavior to be better.
Learners will examine the principal psychological perspectives and then apply them to the health and social care sectors to gain understanding of the potential value of psychology in these sectors. On completion of this unit learners will have considered the psychological approach to studying health and social care. The unit encourages reflection, and will be valuable to those learners intending to work with people in a caring capacity. It will also be useful to learners who intend to progress to study at a higher level. The psychological approach is embedded in several other units in the programme and is extended, in particular, in Unit 29: Applied Psychological Perspectives for Health and Social Care, and Unit 30: Health Psychology.
P2: Explain the different psychological approaches to healthcare practice P3: Explain the different psychological perspectives to social care practice. In this assignment I shall be focusing on the different psychological perspectives which are the behaviourist perspective, the social learning theory, the psychodynamic approach, the humanist perspective and the biological perspective. I will then go onto explaining how each of these approaches relates to healthcare and social care practices. Health practice: The first perspective I will be looking at is the behaviourist perspective. In this perspective it clearly states that behaviour is learnt through experiences.
* Blurts out answers before questions have been completed. * Has difficulty waiting or taking turns. * Interrupts or intrudes upon others. Nursing Diagnosis *Potential for impaired education, social, workplace, and coping skills related to ADHD *Potential for medication management of ADHD *Potential for change in health status Goal *Patient will increase optimal participation in social, workplace, and educational programs *Patient will cooperate with medical treatment plan to manage work and social participation *Patient will participate in collaboration with medical plan of care to facilitate emotional well being necessary Intervention Patient will be given information and health counseling related to ADD/ADHD at the patients level of understanding. Patients health condition will be discussed as needed to assure maintenance level of knowledge.
Care Plan and history- identify the particular illness or disability of the person and establish the support is needed to communicate Ask colleagues or key people-this people have experience in communicating and found ways to improve it. Aiv Describe three factors to consider when promoting effective communication. -Active listening -Voice tone -Body movement and posture Av Describe three verbal and three non-verbal communication methods and styles that a social care worker may use in an adult care setting. -Verbal: tone of voice, language, changes in voices -Non-verbal: body language,
A Mental Health Social Worker is required to understand ideas and information spoken including expression and communication of ideas to others. Mental Health Social Workers work with a variety of population and need to be able to clearly and effectively convey ideas as well as interpret and understand a person’s ideas and information communicated through words. A Mental Health Social Worker also must be able to use deductive and inductive reasoning to apply general rules and combine pieces of information to form conclusions and produce logical answers. Occupation requirements are the work activities, and context of the position within the organization. For example, Mental Health Social Workers work with the public caring and assisting others.
The Beck Depression Inventory, the Mini-Mental State Exam and the Perceived Stress Scale are not the only three tools that are used to help determine a patient’s state of mind and his or her ability to learn. There are many more that are helpful in developing a Care Plan for a patient. Nurse should be required to use these tools throughout the admission, to help the assessment phase to determine the ongoing treatments and needs of his or her
CHF, STEMI and NSTEMI, ECG, Biomarkers, vital signs and pharmacotherapy. The effects and side effects of the medication used in the scenario will be explained, also the recording of the entire process. The importance of discharge planning and lifestyle changes will be addressed. Assessment is the foundation of nursing process and accurate data collection identifies the client's health status and how it helps nursing diagnosis. The patient's family, carers and their social circumstances also need to be regarded.