Mental Health Care Plan .

Running head: MENTAL HEALTH CARE PLAN
Mental health care plan
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Table of Contents
Background......................................................................................................................................2
Formulation:....................................................................................................................................3
Care plan:.........................................................................................................................................6
Letter:...............................................................................................................................................7
References........................................................................................................................................9

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Background:
This paper attempts to discuss in detail the mental health care planning and
implementation for a patient with emphasis on two very important phases of the process of
mental health care, psychosocial formulation and care plan based on the formulation. However,
the first step of the exercise is an in- depth and detailed account of the background information
on the patient. In this case, the case description will be based on the story of Talaihla, a 16 year
old girl suffering from a variety of mental health conditions. Frist and foremost, discussing her
demographic details, Talaihla is a 16 year old girl who had been living with her mother and
autistic brother, while being separated from her father. As discussed by Segal, Williams and
Teasdale (2018), adolescence and teenage can be characterized as a very delicate and fragile time
period of life, especially psychologically as their impressionable minds are highly vulnerable to
be detrimentally impacted by any social stressor. In this case, her parents had been separated and
even though she had a strong bond with her father, she did not share regular communication with
him and only spent the holidays with him. The separation from father can become a huge stressor
for a child, especially in teenage the separation can lead to development of a chronic need for
attention. The impact of the parental separation had been attributed to cause attention seeking
syndrome leading to histrionic personality disorders, which in turn propels the victims to act out
to seek attention and develop depression (Gilbert, 2016).
Elaborating further, Talaihla had been depressed and had been suffering with eating
disorders as well. Social anxiety and withdrawal associated with her body image and appearance
also is a significant issue in here. She shared that she thought she was fat and ugly, which in turn
affected her self-perception and self-worth. The impact of the lack of self-worth often leads to
deteriorated psychosocial health and teenagers can be observed to succumb to outrageous

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activities, including violence, directed on others or themselves (Haberler, 2017). Delving deeper
into her story as per the case study, she had been invited to a school party by a boy in her class
that she liked and it had been a joyous moment for her. However, her mother declined her
request to go out with him when eventually led to the boy getting close to some other girl, about
which Talaihla came to know from the social media posts of the boy. Now as discussed by
Chukhraev et al. (2017), social media undoubtedly plays a fundamental role in the lives of the
young adults and adolescents. The need for validation that social media provides the teenagers
has been proven to be extremely impactful which in turn can also lead to teenagers feeling
distraught and unworthy of they do not receive the validation social media and internet has to
provide. In the case for Talaihla as well, the lack of validation and not being able to connect with
her peers or like her peers, further deteriorated her depression and mood disorders and could
have been a contributing factor to her suicidal attempts at well (Karp, 2016). There is a lot of
information that has been provided, although there is critical information about her that will be
crucial to perform a proper formulation and develop a care plan for Talaihla. The additional
information includes her past medical history, her academic performance before and after being
separated from her father, her behavioural history, any genetic predisposition to psychotic
symptoms as exhibited in both her paternal and maternal family and lastly a mental state
examination to successfully understand her exact issues, symptoms and arrive at a possible
verdict regarding her diagnosis.
Formulation:
The next step of the entire treatment planning procedure is the psychosocial formulation
development. It has to be mentioned in this context that the psycho social formulation serves as a
map for the mental health care professional, guiding them to address the unique and