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Rua experience within the New ZealandJustice System
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1PART ONE......................................................................................................................................1Describing the mental health issues and the substance abuse problem that Rua experiencingover the situation.........................................................................................................................1Key legislation, systems and processes that would have applied to Rua and discuss the impactthese may have had.....................................................................................................................2Evaluating the role of court report recommendation in the sentence she was given and theimplications.................................................................................................................................4PART TWO.....................................................................................................................................4Describing what assessment methods were used in Rua's case and propose alternativesapproaches...................................................................................................................................4Explore the ethical issues and discussing the role the significance involved, played in thetreatment of Rua..........................................................................................................................6CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
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INTRODUCTIONJudiciary of New Zealand is a system of courts that interprets and applied the laws ofNew Zealand. The Judiciary has four levels the six member supreme court is the highest courtthe ten member court of Appeal hears from the high court on points of law. Present study will bebase on Legal justice system which is based on the case study of Rua's. She is suffering frommental trauma and already spend 15 months in jail due to drug habits. So therefore, To outlinethe case study in detailed manner report will be describing that what mental issues and thesubstance abuse problems that she was experienced. Also, it will explains the mental and legalsystems and processes that would have applied to Rua and discuss the impact these may havehad. Overall, the whole study will outline the brief summary of Rua's life and justified the casewith the help of using justice law system in New Zealand. PART ONEDescribing the mental health issues and the substance abuse problem that Rua experiencing overthe situation.Case Summary The present case based on 35 years old lady Rua she suffering from mental trauma due tomany reasons (Bayley, 2017). One of the main reason is drugs and alcohol and depression. Shecame out from the jail after spending around 15 months also In jail she harmed herself indifferent ways. To get rid out of her situation she participated in an AOD course. She committedthat she used to taking A drugs in the past and now she avoiding but at times she using cannabis.After a period of time she also starting drinking cheap wines as well. Apart from this, She hadbad memories and big issues with her family and with their children who separated from her andlive with her ex husband wife. The reason behind taking drugs and alcohol because all suchthings help her to forget that she was sexually abused by a friend of her birth father. Along withthis it will helpful for making the good impact on the overall performance. These were her fortsdriving offences but is very scared that this could result in her losing contact with her children ifshe agrees to go to an inpatient treatment centre. After the case of of her brother who was alsodied due to drunken and drive case six weeks ago (Barretto, Miers and Lambie, 2018). Sobasically, from the court she is been awaiting for her date relates to driving without a licence anddriving under the influence of alcohol. Whilst in prison she also attended AA but soon as shewas back in society she resume smoking and drinking alcohol in the belief that she could drink1
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UN-problematically. Being suffering from the mental health assessment whilst. It also veryunusual to take effective decision making process to be more effective and authenticated duringthe better services as goals. While, she also works at local dairy thirty hours a week and alsohaving part time job in local cinema (Andrae, McIntosh and Coster, 2017). So it has beenanalysed that Rua's suffering from multiple disorders due to which clinicians could not give herhigh dose. This process will help to define the best practices and goals to be more effectivelyengaged and makes better goals and services. Along with that, it better helps to ensure theeffective out goals and prefer to have some new effective outcomes for her to recover in veryfrequent manner. So basically, its justice system is very ineffective for her to get the better andbest outcomes and results. Gwen knows of a family who have a flat for rent if Rua can stopdrinking and smoking so it has been encouraging for her to recover in more energetic way. Key legislation, systems and processes that would have applied to Rua and discuss the impactthese may have had.Extraordinary advances have been made in the treatment of mental illness. As a resultmany health disorder can now be treated nearly as successfully as physical disorders. As Ruaalso suffering with the same issue of mental disorder which make her low and feel discardedfrom the society. Also the case discussed that how much attention should required the case bythe patient. As according to the treatment of Rua Strength based approach is best for her to gethis all issues out of her life.System Based ApproachSystem based approach is a social work practice theory that emphasizes people selfdetermination and strengths. It is philosophy and a way of viewing clients as resourceful andresilient in the face of adversity (Flynn, Naylor and Fernandez Arias, 2016). The purpose of thismodel is to ensure and get the patient strength to make her more attentive and challenging. In thisapproach the main focus of the care taker is to more towards the strength of the people that ismore helpful and effective. This approach is give more value and support to knowledge,connections, capacity and skills do an individual have. Such as practitioner working in thismanner to work in a collaborate manner where it provides help to other people to do things forthemselves without any tension and past baggage. The strengths approach to practice has broadapplicability across a number of practices setting and a large range of populations. Also itrequires to have an systematic approach to more focus on the task which needs to be more2
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