Alcohol and Mental Health: Interventions for Provision of Care and Support

Running head: ALCOHOL AND MENTAL HEALTH
Topic: ALCOHOL AND MENTAL HEALTH
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The motive of the essay is to carry out an assessment on 22 year old girl called Jayne who
has been undergoing various traumatic experiences as a result of drug and alcohol overuse
clubbed with mental instability like loneliness depression and hallucinations. Jayne has
problem socialising with people around her and thus depends on drug and alcohol overdose
for getting rid of her unpleasant experiences. She also have exhibited thoughts about suicidal
attempts and has psychotic symptoms of hearing low voices which also exhibits her lack of
dependency. Thus, the following paragraphs would encompass the interventions for provision
of care and support for Jayne regarding her urinary tract infections, assessment of her mental
state and moods, assessment regarding drug and alcohol use, and discussion about
psychosocial interventions and medications. This essay would also involve the assessments
tools needed to carry out for the effective treatment of Jayne. Among various assessment
tools, I would focus on the assessment. Nursing assessments involve the gathering of various
information which is based on the sociological, psychological and spiritual status by a
licensed Nurse (Castro et al.2017).
Urinary tract infections
Urine analysis tests are effective for the treatment of urinary tract infections. Such tests
aim at finding the presence of anti sst receptors like GAOPS202 .Such tests include
procedures like biochemistry, haematology, urinalysis followed by electro diagram analysis.
Safety as well as tolerability studies detect the risks associated with such disorders (Nicholas
et al. 2018). It is evident form the case study that Jayne has been suffering from urinary tract
infections as she had to discuss about it with her GP. Such tests would also help in revealing
the presence of other related disorders like kidney and gastrointestinal tract problems.
Moreover a practice nurse should also be employed which would include assessments for

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Jayne’s physical health inclusive of measurements of respiration rate, temperature, blood
pressure for identification of possible diseases as well as recovery. The involvement of
Jayne’s family is another important factor to be considered here.
Assessment of mood and mental state
Dual diagnosis is a medical condition were a patient suffering from mental disorder has a
persistent problem of co-existence through the use of psychoactive substance for an instance
alcohol. Such patients often have difficulty in finding their solution through a single
treatment. The connection between alcohol dependence alongside another mental disorder is
prevalent among patients (Keres-Salmonski and Wonjar 2015). In this case study Jayne is
suffering from a combination of disorders pertaining to mental health problems as well as
substance misuse. So a possible pragmatic solution would be an assessment connecting her
mental, social and psychological issues and solves the increasing dependence on drug and
alcohol as a means of remission. The assessments taken in this case would justify the reasons
for Jayne’s substance use which would highlight her background, religious and healing
reasons. A urine drug analysis would be effective for the identification of the type of
substance used by Jayne (Archer et al.2015).
Use of an effective bio psychosocial assessment in a primary care centre has revealed that
patients usually cooperate in this assessment as it highlights the needs of further assessment
pertaining to mental health where their psychosocial concerns are not addressed properly.
Implementation of this intervention has been effective as well as affordable and cost-effective
and has the potential of increasing the health outcomes of patients (Woods, Priest and Denton
2015). Moreover, a psychiatric assessment scale would be effective in assessing the reason
behind the voices. Moreover, it would involve measurement of the symptoms and their
significance in her daily life. Jayne is in need of such treatment as it would simultaneously