Personal Impact of COVID-19 on Australians with a Mental Illness

Personal impact of COVID-19 on
Australians with a mental illness

Table of Contents
Introduction .....................................................................................................................................3
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................3
1. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental illness from a client centred perspective..3
2. Principles of Recovery Consumer Participation and how this might assist consumers and
their families carers post the COVID-19 epidemic................................................................4
3. Three online services that are available in Australia to support consumers and their families
with a mental illness ..............................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

Introduction
Impact of pandemic COVID-19 on mental health of Australians has been severe because,
culture of this country signifies outgoing, friendly and extrovert people who live life to fullest.
Heightened number of people dealing depression, domestic violence, loneliness along with the
child abuse was being found in Australia (Kar and et. al., 2020). This report will be discussing
the effect of COVID-19 on mental health conditions of Australians using client centred
perspective based approach. It has been analysed that, when government of Australia took the
decision of locking down the whole country due to Pandemic COVID-19, it's citizens has gone
through different range of difficulties like they experienced depression, high worry and anxiety
as well. Therefore, report will also be covering different aspects like 3 different online services
which are available for Australians to reduce pressure from individuals dealing with different
range of difficulties.
Main Body
1. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental illness from a client centred perspective
Considering the client centred perspective where citizens of Australia when faced
lockdown due to outbreak of Corona Virus (COVID-19), mental health was specifically being
affected the most. Different impacts that came in front of COVID-19 was initiation of social
distancing, self-isolation, rise in risk within depressive disorder related cases. In present context,
client centred perspective can be defined as a non-directive type of therapy which is utilised by a
psychiatrists in order to develop an effective therapeutic relationship that may help them in
leading towards lasting changes and insights within an individual dealing with a problem like
outbreak of Corona Virus. (Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Adult Mental Health, 2020)
The impact of COVID-19 on mental illness while focusing on a client centred perspective can be
understood with a good example of divergence of experiences faced by different Australians
where considering a case of Cynthia Boddington (71 year old) and Andrew (Son of Cynthia
Boddington). In present context, adapting the life of lockdown was pretty much easy for Cynthia
Boddington but in the case of Andrew, he faced ample number of difficulties like anxiety, severe
depression and so on. The reason that came in front was the extrovert and outgoing nature of
Andrew. Therefore, it can be said that some of the individuals have considered this lockdown
phase as positive and some of them are going through different range of difficulties. Including