Explain how mental ill health may have an impact on those in the individual’s familial, social or work network including: a) psychological and emotional b) practical and financial c) the impact of using services d) social exclusion e) positive impacts. 2.4. Explain the benefits of early intervention in promoting an individual’s mental health and well-being. 2. Know the impact of mental ill health on individuals and others in their social network.
Abstract This paper will investigate the aftermath of deinstitutionalization and its impact on the severely mentally ill population. How the role of mental health policy and incentives has shaped the outcome of the deinstitutionalization movement, community-oriented care and the recovery movement. The issues limiting the participation of severely mentally ill individual to precede a community life will be identified. The social role of stigmatization of mental illness over shadowing the progress of community inclusion will be examined. In addition, through the consideration of various factors influencing the deinstitutionalization process, a balance in the current mental health system that is more relevant to the lives of individuals with
Sigmund Freud was the first to challenge the view that mental disorders were caused by physical illness and proposed that psychological factors were responsible for the illness. The psychodynamic approach highlights the importance of the unconscious mind and early childhood experiences. Psychodynamic psychologist’s attempt to deal with the mental health issues of their patients by incorporating these ideas and creating therapies using these ideas. The basic concept behind psychoanalysis is that a patient that suffers from mental health problems such as depression can address any regressed feelings thus, the patient gains insight of and can learn to work through their emotional baggage. It is a generalised concept that if the cause of the symptoms were tackled it would only be logical that the symptoms would then cease.
Describe primary, secondary, and tertiary methods of health prevention for this topic. Research community and state resources and describe at least two of these for your chosen topic. What nursing interventions could you use to assist an adolescent you suspect is depressed beyond referring the adolescent to a state or community resource? Teen depression is a serious medical
There are new rules and regulations on Hospital Readmissions that will now push Hospitals and Nursing facilities to work side by side to avoid penalties and loss of profit from CMS’ (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Service) One out of every five Medicare beneficiaries discharged from the hospital is readmitted within 30 days, which costs Medicare more than $17 billion a year, CMS is about to put a stop (Readmissions Reduction Program) to this. Readmissions are an issue between nursing facilities and Hospitals. If a Medicare patient discharged from a hospital, the odds are about 1 in 5 that they will end up back in the hospital within 30 days. CMS is stepping in because Healthcare costs are rising and CMS is going to start by holding hospitals and nursing facilities accountable for readmissions. The Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (Affordable Care Act) From Oct 2011- Oct 2012, CMS is tracking each hospital’s readmission rate.
Memory loss about recent events may obscure the presence of intact long-term memory, personality and values that can inform decision making. Health care professionals need to be mindful of their legal, moral and ethical responsibilities towards the person with dementia, and To work collaboratively towards maintaining dignity and quality of life through effective clinical decision making. Negative Positioning … Similar to malignant social psychology (Kitwood 1998; Kitwood & Bredin 1992). Actions such as depersonalising, ignoring, treating them as infants and labelling are examples of malignant social psychology. Such positions result in the person with dementia having a reduced sense of personal worth and can compound his or her feelings of loss, cause embarrassment and humiliation.
Dementia: drugs used to relieve depression and behavioural symptoms People with dementia may develop mood disorders such as depression, behavioural problems with symptoms such as restlessness or aggression, or psychiatric symptoms such as psychosis (delusions and hallucinations). This factsheet describes the different types of drugs that may be prescribed to treat these symptoms. It is important to try to understand and address the underlying causes that may have triggered a person's symptoms. However, when behavioural or psychiatric symptoms are severe, extremely distressing, or causing risk to the person or others, and if psychological treatments have not worked, it may be necessary to prescribe medication. The treatment of depression is slightly different, as depression has a major impact on people's functioning and quality of life.
It is also invaluable in providing an idea of whether or not the youth has a comorbidity. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, comorbidity is defined as, “When two disorders or illnesses occur in the same person, simultaneously or sequentially, they are described as comorbid. Comorbidity also implies interactions between the illnesses that affect the course and prognosis of both (NIDA, Comorbidity, 2010).” Their article goes on to characterize three different scenarios as to why drug use disorders occur with mental health disorders. They propose that it can be because the drugs themselves cause the person to experience more profound symptoms of their mental illness, that the mental illness itself led to the drug abuse, or because overlapping factors (brain deficits, genetic vulnerabilities, or early exposure to stress and trauma) cause both drug use and mental health
Outline and evaluate the Biological model The Biological model of abnormality suggests that mental illnesses resembles physical illness and can be treated in similar ways using drugs and other forms of medication. Doctors then attempt to treat a mental illness as they would treat a physical one by treating the symptoms. The main problem with this technique would be the fact they are only treating the symptoms and not the cause of the illness which will mean the illness will not improve. This model relates to five areas which may cause mental illnesses: infection, genes, neurochemicals and neuroanatomy. Infection may be the cause of some mental illnesses e.g.
Katona and Robertson (2000). Mental Health and recognition of mental illness. In: Nick Wycraft An Introduction to Mental Health Nursing. Berkshire: Open University Press. Page 43.