Mental Health Assignment: Impact of Life Events on Justin's Health and Well-being

MENTAL HEALTH ASSIGNMENT 1
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MENTAL HEALTH ASSIGNMENT 2
Describe how Justin’s health and well-being might be impacted by his recent life events.
Justin is an Australian who is twenty years old. However, the demise of his Uncle by the
name Reggie who was like his father and teacher too made him depressed in a manner that he
stopped caring for his life. Uncle Reggie taught him the stories of his people, creation stories,
spiritual and cultural responsibilities. Since his uncle died, he hardly comes out of his room and
rarely does he go out to see friends. He stopped seeking for employment and has quitted his
casual job. The situation of him not being able to provide for his parents also affects him since
they have diabetes too (Bai, Lou, Jiang and Guo, 2017). Speculations are believed to be valid
with social and some religious impacts. As shown by the solace hypothesis, the client is okay
with the condition of satisfaction and not eager to do anything the entire day.
The bullying at school might also affect his health and well-being since he describes
himself as not being smart. The other event that can impact his well-being is leaving school in
year 11 because of lack concentrations due to his father’s admission in the hospital (Hunter,
Weber, Shattell and Harris, 2015).
How might Justin’s cultural interpretation of mental illness be different from your own?
According to my opinion, the mental illness is an illness which results to insignificant or
extreme personality unsettling influence, influencing the patient's considerations and practices
that can cause changing the patient's demand (Bai et al., 2017). Anxiety disorder, bipolar
disorder, depression are some of particular mental illness. In that case, if we look at the past of
Justin, who was active in most of the activity in school, but suddenly with the diabetics and
passing of his uncle, his mental illness is more like depression, with the thought of suicidal. The
symptoms after such views could be personality changes, staying away from social activities or
could be moodiness (Pettit, Buitron and Green, 2018).

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On the other hand, Justin might think that his illness is due to stress or a confused series
of awkward occasions. However, he feels in the Aboriginal way that maybe he might have done
something wrong and now he is being punished (Hunter et al., 2015).
Identify how your attitudes and values relating to mental illness may influence any
communication with Justin?
Giving respect to the family values, culture and tradition of the patient who are from a
diverse background assists in communicating with the patient effectively. In what manner can
organizations with Justin and his quick as well as a more distant family be produced and kept up all
through his excursion of care to improve recuperation (Bouvard, Fournet, Denis, Sixdenier and
Clark, 2017). Every one of the general populations has the privilege to choose their way of life
and be regarded by everybody and have ensured protection. One of the ways to help the patient
with illness is showing the positive attitude to have their illness recovered. When we talk about
the positive attitude, it means understanding what the patient's belief, their feelings and the
value they have (Hargreaves, 2017).
Considering the fact that Justin is an indigenous Australian who have close ties with
family, his culture being more traditional needs someone who can understand these and deal
with Justin’s illness. It was due to his respect to the tradition that was making him to
communicate about his condition which was helping the medical team to diagnose and treat
accordingly with the right medication (Tappen, 2015).
How can partnerships with Justin and his immediate and extended family be developed and
maintained throughout his journey of care to enhance recovery