Education is important with this form of treatment so clients can recognize how different factors affect the course of the disease and what they can do to manage these factors (Steinkuller and Rheineck 342). Family therapy is also a means of treatment where family members as well as the client see a mental health provider to find solutions and ways to deal with the disorder. Family involvement provides structure and could increase adherence to treatment leading to delays or reductions in relapses (Steinkuller and Rheineck 342). Interpersonal and social rhythm therapy involves stabilizing social and circadian rhythms based on the hypotheses that unstable daily routines result in increased bipolar episodes in individuals prone to them (Steinkuller and Rheineck 349). Social rhythm therapy recognizes the need for regular sleep/wake cycles, regulation of meals, exercise, sleep and plans for keeping rhythms stable when disruptions occur.
It was introduced in April 1991 and quickly became one of the main features in the involvement, intervention and treatment of people with a mental disorder. Mental health providers were required to work with social services to coordinate care programmes for individuals in psychiatric hospitals who were about to be discharge under section 117 of the Mental health Act 1983 and also for people who were accepted by specialist psychiatric services. The review of the CPA was also designed to integrate it with care management in mental health. The multi – agencies structure was conceived to circumvent case such as Christopher Clunis, where dissimilar professionals’ assessments lead to mis – interpretations and mis – diagnosis. The CPA develop four key points such as assessment, care plan, a key worker and a review based upon four different levels, the minimum intervention, more complex intervention, fully multi – disciplinary and the supervision review.
In light of current policy developments, this essay examines how a community specialist practitioner can contribute in the evolving National Health Service (NHS). Due to its relevance to my practice, the essay will focus on district nursing and how distict nurses can contribute to adult services within primary care. District Nurses are at the heart of community care and play a leading role in the drive for quality, process of change and innovation. Using effective leadership and team approaches, district nurses have embraced the opportunities to flag up their role and the impact they have in providing health care for the population (Lawton, et al, 2006). District nursing teams provide services to patients who are housebound and unable to visit their GP or local health centre.
Organization values and structure ORGANIZATION VALUES AND STRUCTURE This paper will cover the organization and structure of Turning Point Community program. TPCP located in Sacramento County, including five other counties in northern California. TPCP services the population that suffers from mental illness and homeliness, such as [families, men, women, and children with more than 10 programs though in northern California to meet the need of this vulnerable population. It will cover a brief background history of the organization, organizational culture of the agency ,the administrative staff and their function, how the structure and power relationships influences the decision-making within the organization, the physical, behavioral, and verbal manifestation that affect the culture of the organization and how the organization collect, manage, and use information to implement their program. Background History Turning Point Community Programs (TPCP) is a community-based organization nonprofit company rapidly evolved throughout the years.
The crucial role of case management, social services, case workers, counselors and medical healthcare workers all play a crucial role in helping an individual with a psychiatric disability. In the YouTube video provided, (http://youtu.be/DFIDmuevXQQ), it explains how the Mental Health Court was originally constructed in 1999 and the purpose in providing services for the mentally ill clients. By conducting a separate court system for people suffering with mental illnesses, the judicial system is able to help mentally ill people seek the mental health treatment they need. These therapeutic methods include creating a treatment plan, providing resources to help these clients, as well as providing medication and therapy so that they are better able to be combined back into normal society and provide a safer community. In helping these clients in the mental health court system we are able to conserve government funding by reducing the process of unnecessary incarceration.
The treatment center in San Marcos, for example, has a staff consisting of child and adolescent psychiatrists, psychologists and neuro-psychologists, family nurse practitioners, physician’s assistant, nurses, and master’s-prepared and licensed clinical therapists, along with volunteers and college students that work there to provide some extra help, support or companionship (SMTC). The mental wellbeing of their patients is the primary concern for San Marcos, along with any treatment facility, but just as any agency there are other factors that are involved that could cause issues such as that of oppression. There is a way of viewing “organizations as multiple oppressions” which indicates that social constructions exclude and discriminate against categories of people (Hutchison Textbook Pg 427-428). As an organization, mental health facilities are prone to multiple oppressions among staff and patients. Just as any type of illness or disease, mental illness does not discriminate.
Community Mental Health Centers Acts (1963) A national mental health program to assist in the inauguration of a wholly new emphasis and approach to care for the mentally ill Focus on comprehensive community care We need a new type of health care facility; one which will return mental health care to the mainstream of American medicine, and at the same time upgrade mental health services I recommend, therefore, that the Congress: Authorize grants to the states for the construction of comprehensive community mental health centers Authorize short term project grants for the initial staffing costs (Cutler, Bevilacqua, & McFarland, 2003). The Economic Opportunity Act (1964) The Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 served as the initial step in the war on poverty aspect of President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society program. The objective was to help the
In section 5 of the Mental Health Act is used by a doctor or nurse, who believe that a patient has a mental health need, they can prevent someone leaving hospital who is an inpatient receiving hospital treatment. A final provision is called the supervised community treatment. This allows someone who has been detained under certain sections of the Mental Health Act 1983 to be discharged from hospital under a Community Treatment
Clinical Psychology, Organizational Psychology and Ethics Katelyn Martin The University of Newcastle Abstract To practice as a registered psychologist there are several education and training requirements in Australia. The 4 + 2 pathway is the most popular and is accredited by the Australian Psychological Society and The Australian Accreditation Council. Although there are many branches of Psychology the two that this essay will focus on are Clinical Psychology and Organizational Psychology, both of which are represented by APS Colleges. The ethical Vignette toward the end is an example of what you could be faced with as a Clinical Psychologist while in the supervision section of becoming registered or even as a fully qualified and experienced psychologist. Clinical Psychologists are involved in research, teaching and supervision, program development and evaluation, consultation, public policy, professional practice, and other activities that promote psychological health in individuals, families, groups, and organizations.
As the name suggests, the commission had a broad mandate, and panel members had strong differences of opinion on basic matters, including the appropriate scope of its activities. Some commissioners favored a focus on individuals with disabling mental disorders; others wanted to focus on mental health problems and their prevention. The commission’s agenda was elastic enough to cover the disagreements, and it set out to study mental illness and health and the various “medical, psychological, social, cultural and other factors that relate to etiology.” The commission began with a concern for serious mental illness but over time shifted its emphasis to include mental health problems. Its final report, Action for Mental Health, published in 1961, favored a community-based system of integrated hospital and ambulatory services. But it also stipulated that no mental hospital be built with more than 1,000 beds and recommended that hospitals with more than that number of beds be transformed into long-term care institutions for chronic diseases, including mental