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).
For example a doctor may take blood pressure and the heart rate of a patient and use it to find a treatment. Another reason why research is useful to Health and Social Care is highlighting gaps in provision. The Health and Social care needs of the community can rise and fall. Government and local authorities then use research to gather data on a local and national scale. They use this research to monitor that the services provided are acceptable.
The society’s fight for a better world for people will all types of dementia takes a wide range of forms. The charity through their network of local services, they touch the lives of over 30,000 people every week, providing practical services and support for people with dementia and their careers. Alzheimer’s society staff and volunteers provide both local information and over 2,000 services across England, Wales and Northern Ireland to people who affected by dementia in their communities. The local services include day care and home care for people with dementia, as well as support and befriending services to help their partners and families to cope with the demands of caring. The society provides reliable and up to date information to help you with every aspect of living with dementia.
Social isolation, poor housing, unemployment and poverty are all linked to mental ill health. So stigma and discrimination can trap people in a cycle of illness. The situation is exacerbated by the media. Media reports often link mental illness with violence, or portray people with mental health problems as dangerous, criminal, evil, or very disabled and unable to live normal, fulfilled lives. 2.2 How mental illness can have an impact on the individual: Psychologically: - person may become paranoid and therefore exclude him or her self -person may become paranoid and therefore hurt others who she/he fears will try to hurt him/her -person may become isolated and therefore out of touch with other people and reality in general -person may feel unloved even if it is not true -person may feel like he/she is a threat to society and therefore attempt suicide emotionally: -person may feel isolated, unloved, paranoid, panicked and non-human (read Francis Kafka's The Metamorphosis)
This means that different psychological approaches support health practice in relation to health behaviour, observation on individuals. In addition, also social care practices provide support to people with special needs and people at risk. Hospitals, care homes, GPs use different psychological approaches to help provide best care and support for their patients and service users. The behaviourists approach is used in many health and social care practices such as hospitals, nursing and residential homes and mental health settings. In addition, they provide support for people with challenging behaviour and people with depression.
CT279: Understanding Sensory Loss. 1, 1, There are a number of factors that can impact individuals with sensory loss, communication and awareness plays a big role in this, they may also find it difficult to feed themselves, dressing, mobility, hobbies and interests can have a major negative impact on their lives. They could also feel scared and alone. There can also be positive factors that could impact on individuals lives, increased help, aids for support and a good support team could give them a better outlook on life. 1, 2, Societal attitudes and beliefs can impact individuals with sensory loss in quite a negative way because people in society can be very judgmental towards people with disabilities, and put them in a group of people with below average intelligence and assume they can’t do or think the same way as other people without disabilities can.
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.
Borderline Personality Disorder Borderline personality disorder is a disorder that affects mental health and causes major emotional instability. It can lead to other mental as well as behavioral problems. A person with borderline personality disorder usually has a very distorted self-image and often feels worthless. He/she often experiences frequent mood swings, anger, and impulsiveness, which may push people away, even if he wants to have meaningful relationships. Don’t despair if you have this type of personality disorder.
Discriminatory practice can have a very negative effect on people because it could hurt their feelings or even some types of discrimination can physically hurt them. All different types of discrimination can lead to someone not using health and social care services and this could lead to poorer health. The impact that discrimination has on everybody involved is very big and can affect people in many different ways. Service users who are discriminated against by their service provider may feel disempowered, feel less powerful or loss of confidence meaning the individual’s sadness will occur because of the feeling of neglect, anxiety and they will finally disengage and withdraw from others. The individual who is being discriminated against may feel depressed because they have lost the fight against
“The use of arts can deliver profound benefits for social care workforce, in particular challenging preconceptions on the abilities and talents of people with a range of conditions or needs” The recovery approach is increasingly recognised in mental health in the last few years .The notion of “recovery” has being embraced by my chosen placement Threshold Training Network (TTN)which supports people with mental health difficulties integrate back into society by incorporating a philosophy of education ,hope ,self-advocacy ,personal responsibility and support .Here TTN staff are aware and some have personal experience of the feelings of despair and hopelessness that accompanies mental health difficulties .This hopelessness is often exacerbated by the low expectations and therapeutic pessimism of services as well as by the stigma and discrimination frequently associated with mental health difficulties . (Dunn 1999) In TTN hope is viewed as a “lifesaving force”(Russinova 1999) and recovery can be viewed as a reawakening of hope after despair (Ridgeway 2001) The importance of having a sense of hope for the future has seen to evoke a sense of personal responsibility(Copeland 1989) ,development of self-advocacy(Ridgeway 2001,Onken et al 2002) rebuilding support networks(Repper&Perkins 2003) ,a purpose and meaning(Turner-Crowson&Wallcraft 2002) in life’s well as a sense of “the possible”. TTN is very interested in creative arts such as art, drama and storytelling to build on the natural strengths of each individual. Here the aim of creative arts is to boost self-confidence and self-esteem and concentration, to help people gain self-awareness and communicate better with others whilst reducing feelings of isolation and exclusion . (National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health ,2010)The very process of creation involves self-exploration and can be both empowering and