Therapeutic Interventions for Major Depression

Running head: MENTAL HEALTH ASSIGNMENT
MENTAL HEALTH ASSIGNMENT
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author note

1MENTAL HEALTH ASSIGNMENT
Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Discussion........................................................................................................................................2
Therapeutic interventions for the major depression....................................................................3
The enablers and the barriers of the treatment.............................................................................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
References........................................................................................................................................8

2MENTAL HEALTH ASSIGNMENT
Introduction
Nowadays people are suffering from different mental problems than from other physical
diseases. Not only in the country Australia but also people from most countries are suffering
from mental health diseases. There are different causes of mental health diseases and different
types of diseases are there, among them the most prevalent is the major depression. People from
all over the world are suffering from depression caused by several reasons. Mostly the school or
the college going students suffer from severe depression (Knapen et al., 2015). The reasons of
their depression are mainly related with their careers. The other reasons of their depression are
peer pressure and also different kind of pressures from the families (Evans et al., 2018). This
assignment is going to deal with different therapeutic interventions, the different barriers in
providing the treatments to the patients and also different methods to overcome those barriers of
a person suffering from major depression.
Discussion
The patient who is suffering from the depression is a girl of age 17, studying in class 12.
The girl is very good in studies and always use to be in acute tensed condition regarding the
career. She was suffering from depression because of excess thinking about the career. The
student was suffering from mood swings which was affecting the social and academic activities.
The feelings of irritability and sadness increased to a severe level. She was showing the feeling
of hopelessness as if she is not going to prosper in life. The primary health care in Australia is
the starting level of health system (Patel et al., 2015). It includes several level of activities like
starting from the promotion of health promotion activities to the treatment of the patients
suffering from acute and chronic problems. The Australian Government and Non-Governmental