Contemporary Challenges in Health and Social Care for People Leaving Prison

This report discusses the contemporary challenges faced by people leaving prison in health and social care, including resettlement issues, mental health problems, and social exclusion. It evaluates psychological theories and provides recommendations to reduce these challenges.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
CASE STUDY.................................................................................................................................3
How a person adhere in society after been in prison..................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Contemporary issues ..................................................................................................................3
Reason of importance..................................................................................................................4
Focus of case study.....................................................................................................................5
Aim to achieve through case study.............................................................................................6
Describing the health issues........................................................................................................7
Evaluation of theory....................................................................................................................8
RECOMMENDATION...................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
There are many people who leave the prison and came back to live their normal life but
due to some contemporary issue it is very difficult to leave their life peacefully with quality of
life. In this report, there is discussion about the case study which can provide some information
about some issues which people need to face after leaving the prison. In this report there is
discussion about the various contemporary issues or challenges which can impact person health.
There is also discussion about why they are important along with describing health issues. This
report also consist of recommendation to reduce the challenges (McDougall, 2017)
CASE STUDY
How a person adhere in society after been in prison
Person need collaborative care intervention who is leaving prison. There are various
difficulties and problem needs to face by the individual which is generally related with
resettlement and getting any job, complex health problems, social exclusion and many more.
There are many people with severe mental illness, substance use disorder are generally in touch
with the specialists to watch their activity and provide better counselling to get over through the
disorders. There are various health related problems are related with person who leave the prison
like anxiety, post-traumatic stress, depression etc. There are many other contemporary problem
need to be faced by the person like getting better healthcare treatment, getting place in society,
building trust to live openly and many more. There are large population who faced such type of
difficulties in their life after leaving prison and to live in the society.
MAIN BODY
Contemporary issues
There are various contemporary issues in the question which are very necessary to be
resolved and make easy to live with. In context to this, these issues includes resettlement issues
which is highly contemporary to the person who is leaving the prison. There is also health
related issues which is due to having different mental health related issues that can create
difficulty in thinking effectively. Due to prison environment people get various type of mental
difficulties which leads to create the mental illness. Challenge in resettlement lead to increases
the chances of getting anxiety and depression which enhances the high risk of mental disorder,

social exclusion can also be observed easily which is higher in getting mental stress and disorder
which can lead to create the difficulties and lead to create the impact of getting chances of
mental illness (Bagaric and et. al., 2018). Due to social exclusion, it can be observed that such
type of people are not allowed to get job in the normal or reputed organisation which is one of
the major hurdle for such type of people for living standard life with better quality of job. Social
exclusion also forces society to keep distance from such type of people due to having psychology
that they are having criminal history and can again make crime when such condition is repeated
unfortunately. Such type of fear make them to avoid to hire people with criminal history. This
makes difficult to find any type of reputed job for them even after talent and experience. This
lead to created anxiety and depression towards their life which is due to not getting better job
opportunity and able to resettle after the finish their imprisonment. Such type of situation make
people depressed and leads to create anxiety which impact their mental health and creates health
related issues (Koehler, 2020). In case study there is question on the society that when any
person after completing imprisonment and want to live their life with quality then society either
intentionally or unintentionally creates difficulty to live in the society peacefully and with
respect. There are many challenges which needs to face by the people to live their standard life
effectively. Those issue which creates problem in living standard life and impact the mental
health of those people with criminal history. There are various type of contemporary issues needs
to face by such type of people to spend their life after imprisonment.
Reason of importance
There is high need to get over through the mental health related problem which is
necessary to live effectively without any risk to life of self or others. Resettlement, overcome
through mental illness and other health related issues faced after leaving the prison creates high
difficulty to live in the society in easy manner. It has been observed globally that there are many
of the cases arises with similar issues that is related with resettlement and getting job. These are
the some of the main issue which are faced by the people after completing imprisonment. Every
people have the right to live their standard life with better quality. There is need to provide
another opportunity to live their live effectively (Wutich, 2020). For this, there is need to attempt
such type of issues which are there able to create challenges in ensure healthy development for
the youth offenders in rehabilitation. This is the one which should be improved and tackle
effectively for providing another chance that can help to increase the chances of getting better

health when they get their resettlement and job. This can help them highly in getting better
mental health and can avoid the mental disorder chances. This is highly important to make them
allow to live in the society with respect because whatever they have made offences they have
completed their punishment (White, 2019). They have the right to get job and live life with
quality but due to perception and psychology society don't accept such type of people to stay in
their society or to make any type of relation which leads to create anxiety and depression of not
getting their life back after completing their punishment after offence. So it is highly important to
finish such type of cases for allow everyone to live with quality life. It is also important to
provide everyone second chance to live peacefully with other people in society. When people are
not able to get such type of live then they get depressed and feel anxiety that impact their mental
health. It takes time to build the trust within society people about the better behaviour of
individual. There are about 10% of people who left prison live in better condition whereas, about
30% of people live with average standard life and there are many of the people live bad quality
of life after leaving the prison who get issues in resettlement. Data has been evaluated that there
are many of the people who left the prison who live in bad condition and needed for long term
mental health support which is highly necessary to live in effective way. Case study have the
focus on the person who left prison to live their life (Roeyen and et. al., 2017).
Focus of case study
This case study focus on the large population which is there able to provide the
information of related with people who left the prison face various issues related with health and
society. In this case study there is focus on the various contemporary issues which are generally
faced by the person which is due to getting abundant form the society which is due to getting
various difficulties in living normal life after leaving the prison. Due to having the criminal
charges and alligation or due to having criminal history there are many of the contemporary
issues which is faced by the person like resettlement, mental stress due to not getting place to
live or getting any job to survive (Akkermans and et. al., 2018). There are many of the other
health related concern which are like mental stress, depression due to not getting job or getting
resettle, anxiety due to unfriendly behaviour of society people which is regarding exclusion form
society and many more common issues which are generally faced by the people who left prison.
This case study focus on the issues or challenges that cause due to having criminal history. This
case study provides the information that there are various challenges which are generally faced

by the people who have completed their imprisonment and wants to start their new life. In this
step there are many of the challenges occurs which create difficulty in resettlement and getting
job that causes impact on their mental health by causing anxiety, depression or many others
health related issues (Kim, 2018).
Aim to achieve through case study
This case study is trying to achieve the understanding and information which is regarding
contemporary challenges which are generally faced by the individual or person who left the
prison about health and social care. There is various impact of social, global, politics, economic
shape which impact the contemporary challenges in health and social care to the people who left
prison. There are various contemporary challenges which are generally been faced by the
individual after leaving the prison which lead to creates various health related issues for which
there is need to get in touch with the physician or psychiatric counsellor. This case study helps to
provide the information about the various people who left the prison and face different
contemporary challenges while living life in normal way. There are various health related
problem occurs due to facing contemporary challenges which includes anxiety, depression and
stress and many more (Mahmud and et. al., 2021). There are one of the major problem with the
people who left the prison is related with getting relocated and getting job for the survival and
making life normal. Such type of criminal history people get very less chance of job which need
to make long trust or better relationship with previous known people who can trust them. In such
type of condition there is need to make better relationship and make effective trust that can lead
to create opportunity for the job. This case study helps to provide the information and
understanding about the difficulty and challenges which are generally faced by the people who
left prison get various type of challenges and difficulties to live their life normally. There is
mental stress due to not getting place to live and job which creates stress within people who left
prison. There are also mental stress which is mainly due to not getting accepted by the society
and get social exclusion which make them feel low and lead to depression which is continue
getting rejected by the society and people. This creates the situation of depression and lead to
impact the mental health which involves mental illness and creates the problem of health related
issues. Such type of issues should be encountered by the making some policy and regulation
which can help people who leave prison to help them for getting settle and help to getting job for
their survival and to spent quality of life. Such type of policy and regulation can help people to

get reallocated and settle in life for their better and standard life. This creates high chances of
getting better lifestyle and help to encounter the problem effectively (Pillai and 2017).
Describing the health issues
Anxiety and depression are the health issues which need to be tackle effectively for
getting better development of individual for getting better quality of life. There are various
reason which lead to create anxiety and depression within people who left the prison which
includes getting avoid by the society people, social exclusion, less number of job opportunity,
difficulty in resettlement and many more which is highly necessary for the individual to get
better life after leaving prison. It has been observed globally that there is highly difficulty to get
previous quality of lifestyle after leaving the prison which is due to getting some perception that
such type of criminal can be harmful for their customer or society which create a huge impact on
delivering of opportunity to live again their life effectively. There is also perception that people
with criminal history can again attempt crime which is highly effective while helping them for
resettlement and living better quality of live by providing them the job. Such type of issue
creates anxiety and depression which is highly effective and lead to create issue in maintain
better health (Brand and Ekkekakis, 2018).
Psychological theory is the one which can help to understand the human thoughts,
behaviour and emotions. This theory is highly applicable in providing the information about
prediction related with future behaviour of individual. Society have the psychology that they
thought when any person commit crime then there is chances that they may also commit crime
again without hesitation. With the help of this theory it is essential to understand the behaviour
of individual that can help to understand their attitude and predict about the future behaviour of
the individual. This theory also help to understand the mind and behaviour of the individual
which can help in development. There is behavioural theory which provide the information about
the learning processes of behaviour which is observable and measurable behaviour (Køster,
2017).
Social learning theory is one of the theory which is regarding social behaviour of people
which can be proposed some new behaviour which is generally acquired by observation and can
be impact by attitude, behaviour or any reinforcement. This theory implies that there are various
changes in the attitude which is highly associated with the changing the behaviour of individual
that can lead to create the impact on the life of people with criminals history. Many people get

the perception that people with criminal history can be the risk for their customer when there is
any type of situation which might be not tolerated by the individual that can lead to create impact
on those people and make some offence against their customer which will not good for their
customers and their business. This type of learning form attitude make difficulty to get job
opportunity at any place for the people with criminal history. There is high impact of family,
peers, friends and social people which can create the impact in the behaviour of individual which
is related with making change in attitude and behaviour of the individual which can lead to create
change in the pattern of thinking and to react according to the situation. This is the one which
can lead to increase the chances of getting negative behaviour and lead to attempt any type of
crime and to get react to any situation or for any specific category of people which is here people
with criminal offences (Gond, 2017).
Evaluation of theory
Psychological theory is able to provide the information and prediction about the
behaviour of the individual by learning and studying their behaviour which can help to predict
the future behaviour of the individual and can help to get ready for such type of condition. This
theory can highly helpful to allow everyone to get settle opportunity and getting job that can help
to reduce the chances of getting mental disorder or depression. This theory also allow to
understand the individual and can help other to understand the behaviour of people and predict
future behaviour. This can help and allow to help and allow people to offer job who have
completed their punishment and wants to start new life. This theory also helps individual to
understand others behaviour. This can help to reduce the anxiety and depression by allowing
them to live in society.
When employer is able to use the psychological theory then it may allow people with
required talent to work on their organisation even with their criminal history. Due to applying
this theory allows them to get job and making them trust by monitor the behaviour of that
individual. This can help to reduce the anxiety and chances of depression within them and help
in getting better mental health (Kornadt and et. al., 2020).
Social learning theory also allows to understand the human behaviour which can help to
provide better understanding for people behaviour. This is associated with the understanding
behaviour which can be learn by the family, peers or friends. In this their people learn new
behaviour which is related with learning new attitude towards any things. This can impact

learning behaviour which can impact the change in behaviour and can help the society to change
the attitude towards the people who have completed their punishment of their offence. This
theory can chance of success because this theory have no more impact on the changing of
behaviour of person towards people with criminal history. Psychological theory is highly
applicable to make effort towards the behaviour of the people which is related with changing
attitude and behaviour towards the people and allow them to live normal life to the people with
criminal history. Psychological theory is highly impactful for understanding human behaviour
for future prediction which allows them to hire and provide job and give opportunity to live
better and quality lifestyle (Bakari and et. al., 2017).
RECOMMENDATION
There are some of the achievable, specific and measurable actions which are
recommended for addressing health issues. Government should implement some of the policy
which can help to reduce the chances of getting problem in resettlement and job which can help
to reduce the anxiety and depression within people and help to reduce the chances of getting
social exclusion form the society and motivate and influence society to allow them live their
normal life again or provide them second chance. Policy can help to resettle people with criminal
history to spend their life again effectively. This can help to cope with society and avoid any
mental disorder that can allows to reduce the chances of getting any health related issues.
CONCLUSION
From above discussion, it can concluded that there are various challenges that are faced
by the people who leave the prison and want back their normal life. In this process they face
some challenges which are highly important like resettlement problem, not getting quality job
which lead to create anxiety, depression or other mental disorder within people. This case study
addresses the assignment brief which is regarding healthy development for youth offenders in
rehabilitation. There is discussion about different theory which can provide the understanding
and support the development along with extent of problems which helps to support the
explanations. There is also evaluation of theory along with solution to the health related issues
with evidence based failure or success. There is also some recommendation which can allow to
achieve, measure specific action for addressing health issues. This assignment met the aim of

case study by providing the understanding and information which is related with various
contemporary challenges faced by the people who leave the prison.

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