The Suicide Prevention Plan

Running head: FIFTH NATIONAL PLAN AND PREVENTION OF SUICIDE IN
AUSTRALIA
Fifth National Plan and Prevention of Suicide in Australia
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Health Council initiated the Suicide Prevention Plan and Fifth National Mental Health
in the year 2017 in August (Apo.org.au 2019). The governments take the pledge to work
together in order to gain the combined planning along with service to spread the awareness
about mental ill health and anti-suicide policy. State, commonwealth and territorial
government corroborate this notion of spreading the awareness about prevention of suicide
and show extreme care towards the patients. There are eight priority grounds, which has been
highlighted in the Fifth plan such as reduction of discrimination and stigma, ensuring
security and emphasize on the quality of treatment to mentally ill patients, attaining
combined planning and service. Developing Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal suicide
and mental health prevention, efficient suicide prevention, supervising that enablers of
system development and performance are working properly. Developing the health
conditions of the patient dealing with mental ill health, providing corroboration to the
people dealing with mental illness. The Commission has been assigned with the liability to
submit the annual list to the ministers of health for the progress of the Fifth Plan (Abs.gov.au,
2019). The purpose of the study is to support the ideology of spreading awareness about
mental ill health and prevention against suicide and the precautions that the nurses can adopt
to stabilize the patients. The nurses should also upgrade their treatment services in order to
provide the appropriate hospitality to the patients. The study will help in understanding
various reasons, impacts and psychological disorders that triggers the urge of suicide in a
patient. The content will also incorporate the remedial measures that the nurses can inculcate
in their treatments to provide proper and best services to the patients. The priority is to
decrease the suicidal rates in Australia and understanding the better methods that the nurses
can adopt to serve their patients.
The initiative undertaken by the governments and the implantation of the Fifth Plan is
very crucial for people suffering from serious mental ill health and are prone to the tendency

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of committing suicide. The Fifth Plan mainly deals with the understanding or the reasons that
triggers the urge amongst the patients to end their life or at times hurt the people around them
(Abs.gov.au, 2019). Australia has been one of the countries that has maximum number of
suicide cases and the patients are more prone to hurt themselves or people around them.
Mental ill health mainly occurs among people who are homosexual, transgender or intersex
(LGBTI) as they have faced serious and maximum number of discrimination and the society
tends to segregate them, which drives a feeling of disappointment and they are isolated by
their loved ones which triggers psychological disorder and depressive encounters which
increase the probability of suicides. The rate of suicide is ever increasing amongst the
population of Australia. 75 percent of psychologists and 88% of psychiatrists in the cities
and 30 psychologist and 3 psychiatrist in 100,000 population in the remote areas
(Abs.gov.au, 2019). hence the deduction of stigma and proper implementation of services that
can cure mental health must be practiced for LGBTI patients. The disorders in eating habits is
also a sign of mental disorders that leads to impairment of the body structure and hindrance to
mental growth and this leads to high mortality rate (Apo.org.au, 2019). This leads to
disorders in anxiety and depression along with probability of few serious diseases such as
Cardiovascular and symptoms of neurological. The treatment to eating disorder also helps in
the primary pathologies and combined responses related to physical and mental health
comorbidities. There is also an issue as there are lack of expertise that can provide accurate
treatment to the people suffering from which is more evident in the remote areas Trauma
being a huge reason behind mental suffering and suicide tendency. Hence, it is vital for
proper measurement towards this problem and understand the reason of trauma of the
patients. In recent times, it is also seen that pregnant women belonging to the aboriginal tribe
are also being indulged in practicing suicide because of the immense pressure of giving birth
to girl child, even acquisitions for giving birth to abnormal babies make the mother feel

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suffocated and hence they commit suicide (Schumacher, 2019). Depression is again one of
the most important reason behind suicide or mental unsteadiness. This mainly occurs from
frustration, which is extremely common in people residing in Australia, as frustration is the
outcome from failures. Constant downfall in career or in any desired field leads to frustration
and the patient develops a vindictive behavior and start believing in suicide being the best
remedy to get over problems. The age group also plays a crucial role in mental illness and
suicide; patients of various age groups are prone in adopting these types of unfair practices.
Age indeed is a factor that is significant and determines the mental stability of the patients
belonging to various age groups the mental illness of the children and adolescents differs than
that of the patients a little aged. The children undergoing the phase of adolescent both mid
and late experience different type of mental illness, and people little aged experience different
mental illness (Www1.health.gov.au, 2019). One out of the seven children residing in
Australia suffer from mental instability. The experience in trauma is during childhood that
almost leaves the child in shock this mainly occurs during the cases of child abuse, child
molestation, and many times in cases of rape of the child, this highly casts a negative impact
on the child and they undergo a pathetic phase and their mental stability is highly shaken
(Abs.gov.au, 2019).. There are certain commissions that are actively working against child
abuse, they are providing extreme care, and appropriate treatment to the children suffering
from mental instability (Beccaria et al 2013). Senior citizens residing in Australia experience
different type of mental illness and physical illness as well. From, 10-15% of senior citizens
experience depression as they are not treated well or valued by their sons and daughter-in-
laws. The suicides rates are higher in male aged above 85 (World Health Organization,
2019). The patients going through both late and mid adolescence experience different mental
instability as they are highly impacted by peer pressure and acceptance
(Www1.health.gov.au, 2019). They tend to make themselves accommodate in the peer group,