three mental health professionals outlined in this course and their effectiveness. Community Psychiatric Nurse (CPN) Community psychiatric nurses have a vast amount of responsibilities and roles within the mental health sector. They are a registered nurse that have undergone specialised training in mental health who work within the community. Some can be attached to general doctor surgeries‚ within the prison system‚ mental health units‚ homes and even the homeless and/or community mental health
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The Mental Health Act The mental health act is an act design to protect people with mental illness. It was originally written in 1983 and reformed in 2007. It sets out clear guidance for a health professional when a person may need to be taken into compulsorily detained in a hospital. This is known as sectioning. This helps carers who are unable to cope without help. People can be sectioned if the health care profession thinks they are a danger to themselves‚ they are a danger to another person
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G-SET In collaboration with TISS Community Mental Health African Countries What is Mental Health? Mental health is the inclusion of emotional‚ social and psychological wellbeing‚ it is a realization of full potential of self‚ absence of any kind of stress and healthy bonding with relationship with friends and family members. Mental health constitutes our action‚ thought process and give cognition to react accordingly with the situation. Thus WHO defines mental health as “a state of wellbeing in which
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Community mental health is a vast concept with various initiatives and programmes under its umbrella. The area chosen for the purpose of the assignment is to address community mental health initiative addressing psychosocial needs of the people who have experienced massive forced displacement and/or identify as refugees. People migrate due to economic crisis‚ natural disasters‚ construction of dams and various others reasons that lead them into search for other opportunities‚ away from conflict and
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Essay: Community Mental Health Center Submitted by Audrey M. Cofield‚ M. A. Counseling Psychology Marriage & Family Therapist‚ Graduate Student May 11‚ 2013 Title: Psychotherapy and Education in Counseling Psychotherapy helps at risk individuals by allowing them time to talk confidentially to someone about problems‚ and work-through them in confidentially. Clients may have emotional issues because of experiencing violence or incest‚ rape‚ human-trafficking‚ neglect‚ abuse‚ bullying
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impact the community in which we serve. By being aware of these policies a social worker can prepare to provide services to the population for which one serves. A social worker must advocate for the good of the community and the people within that community. As the Mayor of Biloxi you are also in a position where you must advocate for or against policy initiatives for the good of the people for which you serve. Therefore‚ it is important that you join me in supporting S. 195 or the “Mental Health in Schools
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approach to community work been overall? The healing hands health rights campaign is an initiative by ANTaR which was launched in February 2004. The campaign itself is an effective way of promoting health as a fundamental human right issue‚ raising awareness of political will and promoting the need for a change in policy so that resources are allocated on the basis of indigenous health. The development of the campaign and the various tactics employed have enabled the issues of indigenous health rights
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HLT51607 Diploma of Nursing Study Guide HLTEN510B Implement and monitor nursing care for consumers with mental health conditions HLTEN510B Implement and monitor nursing care for consumers with mental health conditions Copyright ( State of Queensland (Department of Education Training and the Arts) 2007 This resource was developed by: Tropical North Institute of TAFE School of Nursing Department Cairns Campus Acknowledgement: Author/s: TNQIT Cairns Campus
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As mental health nurses‚ we are granted a seemingly disproportionate power and latitude to practise when compared to our colleagues in general nursing. This is due to a number of factors; firstly‚ that mental illness is difficult to define‚ in the eyes of the public it constitutes an intangible wrongness about an individual that cannot be measured or even seen clearly. Due to misrepresentation and scaremongering by the media‚ mental health services are often viewed as taking the role of protecting
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MENTAL HEALTH PACK 1. Evaluate two different views on the nature of mental well-being and mental health: The term well-being can be used in different ways The New Economic Foundation describes well-being as how people experience their own lives. It is more than the absence of problems and illness‚ personal and social factors‚ and it is not just about happiness but enabling individuals and communities to do well in life and flourish. In 2011‚ the Government defined mental health as “The art
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