Impact of Mental Health Stigma on Help-Seeking

This assignment involves a comprehensive analysis of the effects of mental health stigma on individuals' willingness to seek help. It requires a thorough examination of existing research, including both quantitative and qualitative studies, to understand the social determinants influencing mental health outcomes. The goal is to identify key factors contributing to stigma and its impact on help-seeking behavior, with implications for promoting mental health and well-being.

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Mental Health and Resilience

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Table of Contents
Abstract................................................................................................................. 2
Introduction........................................................................................................... 2
Determinants of mental health.............................................................................. 3
Health Promotion................................................................................................... 4
Resilience.............................................................................................................. 6
Significance of resilience....................................................................................8
Conclusion............................................................................................................. 8
References........................................................................................................... 10

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Abstract
Mental health is the positive dimension that needs to be considered for maintaining
the health. Health is characterised by complete mental, physical and social well-being of an
individual. It focuses on changing targets among people and making health a priority in the
society by creating innovative opportunities. The report explores the determinants of mental
health and various promotion strategies used. Health promotion is a process to improve the
health by improving economic, political, spiritually or organizational initiative. Therefore, it
requires a close co-operation with health- care sector reflecting the diversity. Government has
a unique responsibility of ensuring that environment beyond one’s control becomes
conductive to health. Apart from that resilience is a mechanism which help people to improve
their mental health by adopting good treatment option. Improving mental health is the major
goal that enables people to cope with the adversity and remove the inequalities.
Introduction
For wellbeing heath is important part but good mental health is a major concern.
Nowadays individuals are suffering from many mental disorders due to social and economic
factor in the society. Mental disorder in the society arises due to social inequalities. This can
be reduced by taking proper actions to improve the mental conditions and behaviour of the
society. It is necessary that actions are taken to enhance every day’s lifestyle in order to
enhance mental health (Segal, Qualls and Smyer, 2018). The root of mental disorders is
poverty, discrimination in the society or lack of social support. Various facilities and
institutions could improve the mental health condition by providing education, social care
services or empowerment. These arrangements somewhere impact in improving the mental
health to some extent (Travis, 2014). Risk of mental disorders are at various levels it may
affect only an individual, entire family or at the population level. Various policies are

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designed by government to reduce determinates of mental health and improve the outcomes.
Social determinants can be improved by providing empowerment in the community and
removing the discrimination (Allen, et. al , 2014). Mental disorders can arise in any age
group in early childhood, adults or at working stage. It improves the mental health by
reducing the risk of mental disorders that are due to inequalities in the society. Mental
disorders somewhere affect the physical conditions of an individual (Compton and Shim,
2015).
Determinants of mental health
Mental health is defined by World Health Organisation as a state of individual in
which they build their own potential to cope up with the life stress and provide a healthy
contribution to the society. There are various determinants of mental health in the society
which focuses on inequalities. Thus strategies are developed to improve the conditions of an
individual by removing the discrimination on the basis of caste, creed or colour. It is
researched that mental health arises due poverty, stress or inequality (Meyer, Castro and
Aguilar, 2014). These people practice less favourable social, economic and environmental
conditions in their life and have access to less support. These disadvantages may start before
their birth and tend to accrue throughout the entire life. Protection of human from this state of
mind minimizes the disabilities and helps in promoting rapid recovery from illness. The
initiatives implemented provide various plans that remove social injustice and inequality
barriers from the society. It promotes models to improve the social determinants of mental
health and helps in building sustainable plans by linking the society and government to
improve health conditions. Mental determinates can be improved by improving the health
behaviour and enhancing the social behaviour.

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Consequences of mental disorder arise due low education attainment, isolation from the
society, social status or unemployment (Eldredge, et. al, 2016). These consequences lead to
stress in an individual’s life, thus it could be overcome by conducting various programs to
improve the self-awareness, reduce depression and increase the social relations. Compressive
strategies focuses on enlightening the health conditions by improving the conditions of the
area in which people grow, work or live. The pattern of living has been changed due to the
global acceptance of these strategies. It has altered the pattern of living by addressing health
issues by empowering communities to take appropriate actions for public health. Numerous
Health Promotion strategies were undertaken to control access of smoking and addiction to
drugs so that mental disorder is no caused in individuals.
Health Promotion
Mental health problems are mostly seen in people of younger age that lasts for long
period of time, which adversely affects people living near them (Fisher, Acton and Rowe,
2018). Thus it is important to promote good health condition to enhance the educational
performance, and employment in the society. Health Promotion focuses on health and
economic determinates which helps in filling the gap between the health issues and disease
patterns. It helps in promoting the nature of health to improve the health of everyone in the
society (Phull, Wills and Dickinson, 2015). Just focusing or promoting health issues among
the one who is suffering from mental disorder is not enough. To reduce the health inequalities
from the society it is necessary to solely take actions on the large level. Thus to attain a good
mental health in the society actions need to be taken at multiple levels so that every
population level is covered. Social arrangements are undertaken to empower people by
providing them with quality education (Clement, et. al, 2015).

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To promote good health and remove the vulnerability of mental health the mediating
variable is promoted among the children to improve the economic, social as well as
behavioural health condition. Various mental health communities are developed to reach to
these people and reduce the burden from their life. The problem is there are various
communities developed for improvement of mental health but people are not aware of such
communities. To reduce the mental illness government has launched various treatment
facilities for an individual. There is a wide gap between mental health problems and
resources available to overcome these problems. Health promotion is used to remove the gap
in the real world by using resources for treatment and rehabilitation people from the illness.
Health promotion helps in improving the mental health and lowers the cost of mental illness
through public health approach. It is an action taken to attain new public health criteria. It is
necessary for the society to overlap the mental illness by covering full range of society and
using proper prevention techniques. Thus health promotion practise includes a collective
study of society problems, thus prioritizing the resources and making an agreement plan
which helps in monitoring the individual behaviour. So that successful steps can be taken to
remove the consequences of mental disorders. Mental health is an invisible measure but
contributes to the meaning of health of the society as it affects the overall productivity.
Promotion of important of mental health is conveyed to everyone at everyplace like at homes,
schools, workplaces or while leisure activities (Edelman, Mandle and Kudzma, 2017).
Mental health promotion contributes to positivity in the society by improving the social,
human, and economic capital of the society. It is an individual action to endure the relation
and build strong connections.
Health promotion outlines actions to remove the health inequities. An action focuses
on social determinants of metal disorders and involves everyone in the society (Svane, et. al,
2015). Apart from that various government policy and practises are taken in the system to

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promote health activities among the people. Mental health promotion focuses on
strengthening the community activities by launching the programmes to reduce social
inequality. It facilitates mental health by focusing on promoting the benefits of health
lifestyle (Gloria and Steinhardt, 2016). These programs prevent the society from insecurity,
violence and aggression, and helps in promoting the empowerment stress and measures to
cope up with stress. Promoting how to overcome from stress at school level spreads
awareness among children’s and develops positivity among youth. There are certain
programs that focus on the shortcomings of depression and reduce unemployment,
discrimination, socio issues from the society.
Resilience
Resilience is a process that helps to bring an individual back to the normal state. It is
the ability to bounce back from the difficult situation to positive health. Resilience can be
defined as the function that helps to overcome from negative events and improve physical as
well as psychological health. Improving optimism or self-esteem in an individual helps in
reducing the chances of mental illness. According to the research it can be concluded that
heath can be improved by informal or any formal system, for example to remove inequalities
from the society positive environment need to be created (Siriwardhana, Roberts and Stewart,
2014). The factors associated with resilience are making plans to build a positive strength
among an individual.
Resilience is the skill that helps in bouncing back to normal condition by reducing the
stress, trauma or adversity. Nurses use this method to help patient recover from mental
disorder as it helps in reaching out to others for support (Kessler, et. al, 2017). It supports an
individual from mental health conditions like depression or anxiety. Resilient helps to cope

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up from stress and traumas. As there are various situations in life which leads to depression in
one’s life, resilience helps to stay stable and helps in overcoming all the shortcomings.
Registered Nurse could promote consumer’s resilience by identifying social wellbeing of
patient and knowing about an individual social connection so that ways could be defined to
cope up with the mental disorders (Sexton, et. al, 2015). Nurse helps patients to develop all
three:
Wellbeing- Knowing about the mental wellbeing or about the mental state helps in finding the
ways to cope up with health issues. Some may be going through social inequality or any other
stress (Sexton, et. al, 2015).
Social connections- Due to lack of social interaction among people they feel isolated or left
out which leads to development of depression. Nurses take measures to tackle loneliness and
launches programs to removing isolation in people by bringing them together and building
social relations (Sexton, et. al, 2015).
Coping Methods- Various psychological treatments like therapies are used to prevent an
individual from the suffering of mental disorders (Sexton, et. al, 2015).
Resilience is a defensive feature that focuses on solving the problem by enduring sources to
reduce the stress level. Resilience helps in staying with people in their hard time by providing
better opportunities of living a healthy life (Wulff, Donato and Lurie, 2015).

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Significance of resilience
Nurse profession has to deal with stress in terms of work, dealing with aggression issues and
lack of self-time and struggling whole day long with patients leads to mental and physical
problems. Resilience is used to overcome from these issues, as it is a defensive agent for
mental well-being. Nurses also exposed that resilience is an significant defensive factor
against emotional fatigue (Wulff, Donato and Lurie, 2015). Other than that resilience helps
in building a stress free environment to build strong mental health conditions.
Conclusion
Mental health is significant for every individual as it help to prevent an individual
from diseases to avoid mental disorders. It can be concluded that resilience is the defensive
tool to deal with metal disorders. It focuses on spreading awareness by health issues but it is
not a laid-back task as it has numerous obstacles like cost for setting public programs. Health

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promotion is an integral part for prevention of disease and recovery from rehabilitation. It
deals with common lifestyle of people and tries to improve their lifestyle. By influencing
people and making them aware about the bad health effects. Health promotion means
building health educational works in society to teach people why it is necessary to be healthy.
It helps in altering the lifestyle of people by educating public about health conditions and
decreasing the probabilities of having chronic disease and reducing the chances of mental
disorders.

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