Interventions to Promote Mental Health and Well Being

This report discusses interventions used to promote mental health and well being, including strategies to cope with stress, the impact of social media, the importance of supervision, and the influence of friends, colleagues, and family on public service workers. It also explores the limitations and benefits of social media, and provides a personal mental health and well being plan for public service employees.

2nd ESSAY

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
Intervention used to promote health methods to overcome with stress.......................................3
Strategies and policy to build resilience in person.......................................................................4
Limitations and Benefits of social media.....................................................................................6
Importance of supervision............................................................................................................6
Impact of friends, colleagues and family on public service workers...........................................7
Personal mental health and well being plan.................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Mental health involved social well being, emotional as well as psychological health of
person. It affect how people think, act or feel in their lives and also determine how they handle
stress (Taylor-Rodgers and Batterham, 2014). The present report is based on mental health and
well being of people, it explains interventions used to promote health techniques to cope with
stress, strategies used to build resilience in person and national or local strategy impact to
promote mental health and well being in emergency services. It justifies, limitations and benefits
of one type of social media to promote health, role of supervision and impact of friends,
colleagues and family on public service workers. Furthermore, it define personal plan to enhance
well being and mental health awareness as public service employee.
Intervention used to promote health methods to overcome with stress
Nursing interventions is used to cope with stress, it include techniques such as
meditation, mindfulness training, cognitive behavioural therapy, relaxation, exercise programs
and other methods such as interpersonal skill development and education. Desensitization and
guided imagery is one of the best intervention used for helping patients to cope up with stress
because it impact on their mental and physical health (Zeanah, 2018). Stress is the important
issues of people life's as it affects thinking ability of person, it is defined as situation where
organism's homoeostasis is threatened. Cognitive, psychological and behavioural are stress
coping methods used by public services providers to deal with stress. There are some action used
to support health techniques to cope with stress:
Types of intervention Reason Benefits
Progressive muscle
relaxation
This procedure is used by
public health services workers,
to improve the well being of
person deal with stress and to
relaxing their muscles.
It provide long term benefits
such as reduction of salivary,
decreased blood pressure as
well as headaches.
Cognitive behavioural
therapies
This therapy is given by expert
and qualified therapists, in
order to improve health of
person suffering from stress
It helps to overcome trauma
and cope up with stress as well
as manage anger.

for longer. It is taken to
identify causes of stress and
misconceptions about nature.
Exercise programs This action is used to reduce
stress, control blood pressure
and keep mind fresh (West and
et.al., 2014). It produce
endorphins-chemicals in brain
that work as natural painkillers
and improve the capability to
sleep which in result reduces
stress.
It is quite beneficial for
patients to cope with stress,
five minute of aerobic exercise
get down to stimulate stress
effects.
Biofeedback The reason for choosing this
intervention is to improve
health of individual with
stress. It is the procedure that
helps people to learn how to
change their physiological
actions for betterment of
health. This training is
complete in presence of
professional and highly
qualified biofeedback
therapists.
The benefits of this process is
that it helps to control the high
blood pressure and cardiac
disease which supports to
reduce stress.
Strategies and policy to build resilience in person
Communication- resilience is the ability of capacity to recover speedily from stress and
other disease. Communication is one of the best nursing strategy used by public service
employees in health care sector to increase the ability of person to reduce stress and overcome
with it quickly. It is the best way to interact with patients, good communication is very important

to emotional resilience because it line positive emotions instead of negative ones. Through
communicating to individual health care service provider can understand reason behind stress
that affects healthy living standards of person. It helps to resolve issues, that enhance the ability
of patients to recover speedily.
Meditation- painful thoughts about past and future are the causes of stress that
negatively impact on mental well being of person. Meditation is the second most effective
strategy used to increased the capacity in individual to recover health quickly and it also help to
cope with stress effectively. Meditation helps to reduce stress, enhance self awareness and
provide peas of mind. It supports to deal with negative emotions, and increased the ability to
think positively. In simple words, it reduce high heart rate that is one of the main reason of
stress, keep mind calm and stress free.
National or local strategy-
Patient empowerment project is one of the local strategy used as co production
approach in partnership with clinical as well as patient leaders from NHS Leeds west clinical
commissioning groups, CCG member practices and local voluntary groups. It is stand-alone
particular work associated to well being and health strategy for individual (Owczarek and et.al.,
2016). It play crucial role in emerging services, according to this project, public services
employees provide better health care services, it also reduce health inequalities. It refer
individual with emotional, social and practical needs to variety of local community services via
community based patients empowerment project employees.
Mind Blue light programmes is one of the national strategy, support for emergency
services. Mind organization is non government as well as non profitable charity company
working to achieve great standards of mental health care for patients with stress (Blue Light
Programme, 2018). According to this program, they provide mental health support for
emergency services employees and volunteers from ambulance, police, fire and rescue facilities
across Wales and England.
Impact of policies that promote mental health and well being-
PEP policy made positive impact to promote well being in emergency services and
physical health of person. Accordant to this project, people get the best treatments without
differences based on age and gender, it helps to improve their health. In any emergency situation,
Patients employment project workers cater their services without wasting time. In addition to

this, Blue light program also supports in emergency and improve mental health of individual,
they cater thousands of workers across city have actively provide mental health services and
made positive changes in well being of human.
Limitations and Benefits of Facebook
Advantages-
Social media is set of applications and websites that enables people to share and create
content in social networking (Pedersen and et.al., 2015). Facebook is one of the best social media
network used to promote well being and mental health activities. It is popular free social
networking websites that permit people to create their profiles, upload pictures, video and make
friends. It is quite beneficial for people suffering from stress, it helps to reduce depression. It
allow individual to connect with many people's, it cater opportunity to develop social connection
on line without stress. By using Facebook people can expresses feeling and emotions effectively
that affects on their mood and make them able to feel relax. When they express emotions in front
of family, friends through this social media network it change individual mood, they feel relax
and happy. It provide chance to make good connections with others, and give enough anonymity
to people with mental illness to show themselves without revealing their real identity. It can be
used as motivational tool to promote healthy lifestyles, Facebook adversely affects patients
mental health and well being. Through this networking sites, individual can build strong
connection with others, they can make friends how are able to listen and give support to cope
with stress through effective communication.
Limitation-
But on the other side, there are some limitations of Facebook to promote well being &
mental health. Individual do not spend much time on this network because it increase depression
when people connect with others relationship issues were arise that increase stress and
depression and directly affects mental health and people well being negatively.
Importance of supervision
It is the act of supervising and directing something or someone in workplace for
betterment. Supervision play vital role in supporting well being of public service staff and my
own mental health. Head nurse give direction to its staff members for providing their services
and delivery good quality treatments to patients. Public service employees supervised by highly
engaged person are 59% more likely to be engaged. With the help of expert supervision, workers

can be able to perform effectively and cater the best services to patients. Supervision in nursing
activities in which senior oversees actions and accountabilities of workers they manages.
Supervisor in workplace with the help of their supervision create positive and creative work
environment around working area that helps to motivate all the workers effectively. Head of staff
is accountable for the well being of public services staff, they motivate people and provide
facilities of health and social care. They provide training to workers, cater appropriate guidelines
in achieving common goals that is health recover of patients. Supervision is essential in health
care organizations where people are working for well being of their patient and provide the
appropriate treatments to them equally for better recovery.
Along with this, supervision also helps in my mental health and well being, when senior
in hospitals give directions to staff they can work better than before. Take good care of people
health, provide medicines time to time without delay. When workers get expert supervision they
can be able to promote well being to individual suffer from stress.
Impact of friends, colleagues and family on public service workers
Colleagues is someone who work with person at same place, they impact on my well
being and mental health effectively (Syred and et.al., 2014). I am working with my colleagues in
heath care centre, they had different perspective and thought which is quite different from my
perspectives. They like to work individually, which affects on my performance when I got
opportunity to work with them. My colleagues do not make any contribution in completing given
task that increase level of pressure by seniors for finishing work on time effectively. Friends also
impact on my well being and mental health. The always support good mental health, helps to
find out possible solutions and reduce workplace stress that effects negatively upon well being of
person. Good friends try to solve problems, they listen and understand various circumstance in
life faced my me due to workload in company. Family and friends support linked to better
physical health results, like lower rates of heart diseases, reduce depression.
In addition to this, friends, family as well as colleagues also impact on public service
employees mental and physical health. When co-workers perform efficiently and contribute in
each and every task equally it reduce pressure upon one worker and make them stress free.
Friends in workplace or out side also helps to reduce anxiety or stress, they guide how to express
feeling and understood it easily. Family support is very essential in mental health or well being

of public service worker, being include in loved one's treatment system is essential for their
wellness and results, but it also supports to improves mental health of staffs.
Personal mental health and well being plan
This plan helps to enhance the performance of public service employees and also helps to
enhance own mental health awareness.
Basis Requirement Benefits
Communication Communication is one of the
best way to interact with
patients and solve their issues
through effective
communication. I had good
communication as well as
interaction skill that helps to
build good relation to people.
It is beneficial while working as public
service workers, it helps to
immediately understand patients
conditions, mental health and needs.
Meditation I need to take meditation
because it helps to free from
stress and enhance my
performance better than
before.
It control my blood pressure, keep my
mind fresh and provide positive energy.
Reading books and
Journals
I read books and journals
related to my job role because
it helps to collect more
information about health care
treatments.
It helps to gain essential knowledge,
enhance my current work practices
skills that makes me able to provide
proper treatments ethically.
CONCLUSION
From above it has been concluded that nursing intervention play effective role to promote
health of person to cope with stress. Facebook connect one person to another and make them
able to share feeling which make them trouble and increase stress in their lives. Supervision role
is quite beneficial as they help to enhance productivity working as public service worker. Blue

light programmes staff provide its services in emergency, they had all the resources required to
cater primary treatments patients. Furthermore, personal development plan helps to enhance
metal health awareness and provide benefits as public service staff.

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