Mental Health And Wellbeing Assesment Report

MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING: A WHOLE PERSON
APPROACH
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Chapter 1: Mental Health Awareness.........................................................................................3
Chapter 2: Dealing with Mental Wellbeing by the help of Early Intervention..........................5
Chapter 3: Train the reader-Promote Mental Wellbeing............................................................7
Chapter 4: First Aid of Mental Health.......................................................................................9
Conclusion................................................................................................................................11
Reference list............................................................................................................................12
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Introduction
Mental illness can also termed as mental health disorders, which refers to different kinds of
mental health conditions. This includes anxiety, depression, eating disorders or
schizophrenia. This community-based organization helps people who cannot achieve
education or employment due to any sort of mental illness. This organization has mainly two
major priorities that include reducing the incidence of mental illness. Moreover, this
organization is trying to increase the percentage of members of the community who remain in
education or employment for at least a year. Diet and exercise are the main focus area of this
organization for health promotion and prevention of mental illness. In this educational
handbook, different aspects of mental illness have been discussed that can help health
workers to promote health and prevent mental illness. They can gain knowledge regarding the
ways of promoting mental wellbeing and providing first aid to mental health patients
properly.
Chapter 1: Mental Health Awareness
a) Assessment of the need of positive mental health and evaluation of the influence of
psychological as well as social factors on the wellbeing and mental health of the
individuals
Positive mental health is a state of health that allows people to work productively, realize
their capabilities and contribute to the community. According to the definition of positive
mental health by WHO, it helps people to deal with daily stressors of life. As opined by
Hodes and Gau (2016), positive mental health is beneficial for leading a good social life.
People make the right decisions in every situation of their lives when they are in positive
mental health conditions. Everyone faces emotional challenges in their lives and a good
mental health condition helps them to deal with every emotion gracefully. Positive mental
health does not have any disadvantages and people need to take initiatives to ensure this
mental condition. It can help to understand the viewpoints of others and cooperate with them
in terms of working together. For fostering good mental wellbeing an individual needs to
invest time to develop social connections. As suggested by Trompetter et al.(2017), one
needs to understand and look after their basic physical needs to ensure good mental health
conditions. Exercise and physical activities allow people to sustain a good mood and a good
physical condition.
Both psychological and social factors have a great impact on the wellbeing and mental health
condition of individuals. Social factors including community, unemployment, relationship,
social class, and others have the potential to affect the mental health of individuals. Social
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isolation, unemployment, and community problems create stress in human beings and this
aspect can reduce their capabilities. As stated by Lamers et al. (2015), relationship problems
and lack of interaction between people make them face distress and they fail to concentrate
on their work. It can be said that a good relationship with family members, friends, and other
people help to sustain a positive mental health condition. Certain psychological factors are
there that have a direct effect on wellbeing as well as the mental health of individuals. These
include lack of motivation, stressors of daily life and trauma. According to Orpana et al.
(2016), people need the motivation to work and lack of motivation may decrease their ability
to perform well. On the other hand, dealing with daily life stressors reduces the concentration
power of a person. Trauma may change the perspective towards life for people and they may
lose enthusiasm to provide their best effort in studies, work, and other functions.
b) Evaluation of the relation of the features of positive mental condition and the factors
affecting wellbeing and mental health of individuals and comparison of definitions of
health
The characteristics of positive mental condition and the effect of factors affecting mental
health are interrelated. As per the opinion of Schönfeld et al. (2016), disability and physical
illness make a person feel weak from inside. They feel that they are unable to do many of
their daily tasks and they need the help of others. Most people dislike being dependent on
others and disability weakens their mental strength. The behavior of people of the social
impacts on mental health and individuals change their behavior accordingly. They try to
shape the environment through their behavior and activities. Problems in relationships impact
on the ability to work and social interaction. Psychological factors including depression,
stress and trauma can prevent a person from ensuring the wellbeing and positive mental
health. Many times, people face discrimination from different levels of society. As mentioned
by Slade and Longden (2015), it lowers their confidence in self and they fail to lead a life
with pleasure. Due to this reason, everyone must communicate and cooperate with each other
to protect positive mental health. People need to manage the impacts of different factors on
their physical and mental health for fostering a positive mental health condition.
According to the WHO, health can be defined as the social, mental and physical well being of
a person while being free from all kinds of illness and injury (Close et al. 2016). As
mentioned by Hodes and Gau (2016), physical health refers to the overall well being of a
person and it includes all states from the absence of illness to the level of fitness. Physical
health is directly linked with mental health as this can affect the state of mind of a person.
Illness and physical disability may cause stress. The behavior of people changes when they
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