Mental Health and Distress

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MENTAL HEALTH AND DISTRESS
NAME OF STUDENT
NAME OF UNIVERSITY
TUTOR
DATE

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INTRODUCTION
Mental health; refers to the mental, behavioral and emotional wellbeing of an individual.
Mental distress is also known as psychological distress refers to the exhibition of symptoms
defined in psychiatry such as anxiety, confused emotions, hallucinations and depression without
being ill in medical condition. As a person goes through life, the environment changes and it
impacts brain functions. The genes interact with the environment and it impacts mental health,
biological health, and brain function.
Biopsychosocial health analyzes the individual interaction of genetics, mind and social
environment and how these contribute to their mental health and illness.
Legal and ethical consideration of mental health care for patients in the United Kingdom. The
doctors should ensure the following to patients suffering from mental health.
Quality care is a wide range of cover and health and wellbeing support for all the clients.
Mental health act refers to a formalized legislation applied while treating the mentally ill
patients. It covers assessment, treatment and the rights of the patients with mental health.
Patients with mental health as stipulated by the act need urgent treatment and care because they
are at risk of harming themselves as well as others.
Mental disorder refers to the disability in the mind to functions appropriately.
The police have an important role to play as stipulated by the mental health act. Section 136 of
the mental health Act warrant the police that someone is found in streets or public places and
appears to have mental health disorder, this is an implication that the client needs immediate care
or control. The police should take the patients to places of safety. These can be hospitals or
sometimes the police station. The patient can then be assessed by approved doctors or mental
health professionals.

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The police have to keep the client until the assessment is over, this can be up to 24 hours.
The assessment of Paul Jones must be carried by an approved mental health professional; the
inquiry would be made about his situation. The findings than would prompt the professional that
Paul would be sectioned, to mean he would be detained under a particular section of the Act.
According to the case of Paul Jones; Section 2 of the Act should be applied. This states that a
patient should be detained for 28 days. During these periods a doctor will assess whether is safe
for John to be discharged and device appropriate further care.
I proposed the above section because of the following reasons. Paul Jones is a student
who is currently perusing a level at a local school, this means that he should be at school most of
the time. The sectioning should not go for a long time to enable to go back and learn.
He is found in public places in odd hours and claims to be hearing voices. The doctor needs to
get the approved story about Paul. And because his condition is doubted, the parents should be
contacted and should also approve the mental care their son would be subjected to.
Paul has never been to any mental health care facility despite his situation. He should be given
very vigilant attention; this would include proper treatment and even referral where necessary.
Some of the treatment that Paul would be given include Lab test which involves the use of
machines to diagnose the mental health condition of a client (Park and Kim, 2019). The doctors
should try to determine the actual condition of Paul and try to device the cause; this would be
whether biological, mental or socially related.
Medication is provided to help offer recovery of the normal state of the mind. Which
include antidepressants, anti-anxiety medications, and anti-psychotic medications? Guidance
and counseling of the client. Once the client has recovered, thorough guidance and counseling
should be administered to him. This would include what he should do and what he should not do.