Effective Care and Communication in Mental Health

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Health and Social Care UNIT HSC01 Effective Care and Communication

The care sector I have decided to choose is Health, and the care setting I am focusing on is CAMHS (Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service).The reason why I have decided to choose these in my portfolio is because as a future career I would really hope to achieve to be in the Mental Health Service, being involved in either art therapy or a counsellor/psychologist. I have travelled a very long, hard road to my present place of healing. I am still often amazed that I have survived the abuse I gave to myself, but I am now in a position to give back. My mission is to let those struggling with abuse/mental health issues know that you can climb out of the deepest, darkest corners of hell, and that there is still a life worth living inside you.

Health organisation
“The health sector is made up of the people, institutions and resources, arranged together in accordance with established policies, whose primary purpose is to promote, restore and maintain health.” [1] The health organisation consists publicly and privately, these include: dental practices, general medical and specialist medical practices, hospitals, nursing homes, and other health activities such as psychotherapy and physiotherapy.
“Since its launch in 1948, the NHS has grown to become the world’s largest publicly funded health service. It is also one of the most efficient, most egalitarian and most comprehensive.” [2] The largest organisation in the health sector is the NHS (National Health Service), which employs more than 1.7 million people in the UK. The NHS deals with a range of different conditions such as depression, cancer, heart disease, vaccinations and asthma. The NHS was set up in 1948 to provide every person in the UK with healthcare based on their specific needs for care, and it is free of charge. Increasingly,

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