Principles of Case Management in Mental Health

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Principles of Case Managment
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Case management in mental health
Various issues associated with mental health have been raised by quite a number of
individuals and organizations who are located in specific locations across the universe.
Moreover, case management in mental health is known to constitute of quite a number of issues
that adequately describe different conditions that are normally involved when dealing with cases
associated with mental health across certain groups of individuals (Enthoven, 2016). Adequate
and reliable case management in mental health is likely to help different persoonalties to improve
their mental health conditions thus making them to be able to make appropriate decisions that
have the potential of contributing towards the emergence of different types of positive results in
their daily actions. In this modern society, different techniques have been developed with an
intention of helping different professionals to solve quite a number of case management issues
that are attached to mental health. These techniques have been able to act as a game changer by
making work easier thereby eradicating any complicated conditions that are likely to come out
during various operations (Fetters, Curry & Creswell, 2013).
Different steps that needs to be followed when handling case management in mental
health
The following are some of the major steps that need to be undertaken in order to ensure that case
management in mental health becomes a success;
 Showing high levels of professionalism and personal development- This is one of the
major contexts when it comes to the implementation of case management practice where
supervision will be carried out in relation to various conditions involving mental health
thus ensuring that the case management is handled according to the required rules and

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regulations. In this step, there are also various issues that involve ethical conduct. When
handling case management within the boundaries of mental health, it will be necessary to
ensure that each and every activity is in line with various types of ethical code practice
together with ethical standards thus preventing the emergence of any loophole that is
likely to occur.
 Working with clients and stakeholders- Working with different types off clients and
stakeholders is critical situation that fully depends on how you are able to view the clients
together with the stakeholders. To ensure that this works out perfectly in terms of
addressing mental health, there is the need to come up with appropriate and reliable
communication that will ensure that adequate information is provided to relevant
stakeholders regarding the progress that is taking place in the management of mental
health. On the other hand, there is also the need to carry out one of the most important
assessment programs across various clients thus this will provide a perfect opportunity to
gather some of the relevant information pertaining their mental health conditions thereby
coming up with an appropriate decision from that point. At this point, there is also the
goal setting in relation to the case management in mental health. Different goals will be
set to ensure that mental health cases are appropriately solved thereby making it much
easier to measure some of the outcomes (Yohannes, Willgoss, Baldwin & Connolly,
2010) Additionally, planning and prioritizing at this level are likely to contribute to the
emergence of some of the best interventions in relation to case management in mental
health. This will therefore enable the case manager to evaluate different forms of
information and also be capable of producing some of the most valuable plans that are
capable of providing a proper guidance towards the direction that should be taken as far