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Community mental health services

   

Added on  2021-02-20

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COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE MENTAL HEALTHSERVICE

TABLE OF CONTENTSQuestion 1- Ethical and legal considerations for mental health work and applied in individualpractice and organisations................................................................................................................1Code of practice...........................................................................................................................1Discrimination..............................................................................................................................1Dignity of risk..............................................................................................................................1Practice standards.........................................................................................................................2Privacy, confidentiality and disclosure........................................................................................2Policy frameworks.......................................................................................................................2Records management...................................................................................................................2Rights and responsibilities of workers, individuals accessing the service and employers .........2Specific mental health legislation and its impact on individual workers.....................................3Work role boundaries— limitations and responsibilities.............................................................3Work health and safety................................................................................................................3Question 2- Values and principles of the mental health sector-1000..............................................3Recovery......................................................................................................................................3Recovery oriented practice..........................................................................................................3Health promotion and prevention................................................................................................4Holistic approach.........................................................................................................................4Empowerment/ dis-empowerment...............................................................................................4Access and equity........................................................................................................................5Early intervention.........................................................................................................................5Rights...........................................................................................................................................5Social justice and inclusion..........................................................................................................5Citizenship...................................................................................................................................5Question 3- Evidence base for recovery.........................................................................................6Research.......................................................................................................................................6Personal recovery.........................................................................................................................6Question 4- Types of mental illnesses.............................................................................................6Question 5- Local and international best-practice frameworks.......................................................7Planning.......................................................................................................................................7

Assessment...................................................................................................................................7Implementing plan.......................................................................................................................7Review.........................................................................................................................................7Question 6- Strategies......................................................................................................................7Support a person in distress or crises...........................................................................................7De-escalate incidents of risk........................................................................................................8Question 7- Comparison between historical model of mental illness and national framework forrecovery-oriented mental health services.........................................................................................8Question 8- Techniques for communication and motivational interviewing/ counselling..............9Active listening............................................................................................................................9Attending skills, use of body language, non-verbal communication...........................................9Paraphrasing...............................................................................................................................10Reflecting feelings.....................................................................................................................10Open and closed questioning or probing...................................................................................10Summarising..............................................................................................................................10Re-framing.................................................................................................................................10Exploring options.......................................................................................................................11Question 9- Normalising statements?............................................................................................11Question 10- Reflective practice and its role in underpinning ongoing learning, growth and goodpractice...........................................................................................................................................11REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

Question 1Community mental health care services refers to the program of care in which patientscommunity, not a particular facility such as hospital is primary provider of care for individualwith the mental illness. The purpose of these facilities often includes more than simply offeringout patient psychiatric and other heath related treatment.Code of practiceMental health service provider and workers must follow the ethical norm and have ethicalobligation to assure that patients should understand supports and services to be provided. DiscriminationPrejudicial or unjust treatment of various categories of people, usually on the grounds ofage, race or sex is discrimination. Health care’s professional within organisation do not identifyor treat people based on their gender or religious they must provide equal health care treatments.They should behave ethically and cannot make any differences between peoples based on theirage or sex. Dignity of riskHealth care Professional always consider the amount of risk while they operating orproviding treatment to people with mental disability or dementia (Le Boutillier and et.al., 2015).It is the concept that outlines how professional must have freedom to make decision, they mustknow the amount of risk as failure which is essential before treating any patients. Duty of careThe duty of health care professionals it to focuses on people safety and health and alwaysact in the appropriate interest of patients. They cannot act or fail to act in the way that outcomesin harm, professional must focuses on people safety and consistently show their care towardsmental disable person. Human rightsPatients in health care organisations have the rights to know about what type ofhealthcare treatment they get. As they have the rights to take decision and take part in decisionmaking procedure in context of their health care treatments. The most essential right of patientsis to get the copy of their medical records and rights to take the best medical treatments in healthcare institutes. Ethical code of professionals states that people have the rights to know truth aboutits medical status.

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