Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Mental Health Care?

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Table of Contents
Introduction............................................................................................................................................ 2
Body...................................................................................................................................................... 2
Symptoms of psychosis, depression, and mania...............................................................................2
Principles of recovery apply to consumers seeking help...................................................................3
Primary, secondary, and tertiary mental health care providers..........................................................4
Restrictive practices.......................................................................................................................... 5
Careers recognition act..................................................................................................................... 6
Mental Health Act 2009..................................................................................................................... 8
Conclusion............................................................................................................................................. 9
References.......................................................................................................................................... 10

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Introduction
Psychosis is a mental condition where anindividualexperiences things that do not exist or
have no connection with reality. Psychosis is not considered as a particular disease. It is an
amalgamation of several mental disorders such as depression, bipolar disorder and many more which
is presented with accurate definitions. A psychotic event is defined by hallucination or delusion, which
has a high impact on the senses of the patient (Frye 2011). Initially, the signs and symptoms of
psychosis are difficult to determine.So, this assignment will shed light on detailed information onsigns
and symptoms of psychosis, depression, and bipolar disorder, which can also be considered as
maniac disorder and the risk factors associated with these. This consideration will help the mental
health care providers to assess the situation and provide the relevant psychotherapy.
The principles of recovery used in history to treat patients with mental disorders will be
highlighted. A small part addresses the approach used to build a therapeutic alliance A better
understanding of how modern therapeutic alliance can be aligned with principles of recovery will be
provided.
The Australian health care system is well organized with three levels of mental health care services.
The clear mention of the role of primary, secondary and tertiary care providers along with the strategy
to support people in the recovery process has been done for better understanding.
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Symptoms of psychosis, depression, and mania
The umbrella term for all the mental health illnesses is Psychosis and it is itself not any
disease. The loss of contact with the real world is known as psychosis. The psychotic episode
includesasensoryexperience that has no connection with the real world (Guerrero-Pedraza et al.
2012). A psychotic episode may include delusion or hallucination; that is they hear and see things that
donot exist. These are the potential symptoms of psychosis. The experience leads to a dreadful
situation like hurting or killing themselves or others. A psychotic episode is connected with
schizophrenia spectrum disorders, dementia, Alzheimer’s disease (Lake 2008).
Psychosis is gained gradually whileundergoing repetitive sleep problems, obsessive thinking,
distorted perception, general anxiety, feeling of suspicion and depression (Ganjekar, Desai and
Chandra 2013). When such symptoms hit an individual, he or she seems to have a great tendency to
be affected by serious mental illness shortly. The impact of hallucination can be in any of the senses
such as sound, taste, smell, sight, and touch, while the maximum percentage is affected by auditory
hallucination. The individual experiencing paranoid delusions suspects a person randomly believing
them to cause harm to them (Chan 2017). Individuals possessing delusions of grandeur consider
themselves to be superior, holding the special power. Psychosis generally comprises of three phases-
 Prodrome
 Acute Phase
 Recovery
Prodrome is considered as the first phase which occurs out of the blue. In this phase, changes in
feelings include feeling disconnected, difficulty in screening out distracting information, feeling

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overloaded, depressed mood, sleep disturbance. The acute phase is considered as the second phase
where delusions, hallucinations, disorganized behaviorare observed in the patient. Next comes the
Recovery phase which starts after the treatment and the symptoms gradually disappear.
A combination of psychological, biological and social distress that involves body, mind and
thoughts, leading to loss of interest in any activity, is characterized by depression. It is considered as
a great contributor to the psychotic event (Jauhar et al. 2019).Depression doesnot comprise of any
physiological signs. Symptoms might comprise of eating disorders, sleep disorder,alterationin body
weight, fatigue. On an emotional level, depression includes despair, sadness, minimized energy,
mood swings, self-hatred, decreased memory, sense of emptiness (Mata et al. 2015). Periods of
euphoria or extremely excitable mood contribute to maniac behavior (Jahangard et al. 2014).
However, it is associated with bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder has two distinct mood swings that
include emotional highs that are mania or hypomania and emotional lows that is depression
(Mondimore 2014). The symptoms include Bipolar I disorder, cyclothymic disorder, bipolar II disorder
and other types (Vieta et al. 2018). Bipolar I disorder includesamanic episode that is followed or
preceded by hypomanic or depressive episodes, whereas Bipolar II contains one depressive episode
and a hypomanic event with no maniac event (Beiwinkel et al. 2016). Consumption of drugs or alcohol
leads to a Cushing disease that hasagreattendency to get affected by bipolar disorder (Di Florio,
Craddock, and Van den Bree 2014). The major maniac and hypomanic symptoms are increased
energy, increased activity, an abnormal upbeat, exaggerated sense of euphoria and well-being,
distractibility, insomnia, and poor decision making (Young and Eberhard 2015). Early impaired social
interaction appears to represent a potential risk for psychosis. Other than this, three usually psychotic-
associated prodromal syndromes: brief frank insanity, attenuated psychotic symptoms and genetic-
risk functional regression. Depression can turn into a period of unhealthiness.The symptoms related
to depression can lead to diabetes and other serious illness. It can create suicidal tendency, addiction,
homicide self injury and reckless behaviour. Mania carries with it specific dangers of disinhibition, bad
judgement, risk-taking and violence at times.
Mental health clinicians play a huge role in achieving high-quality outcomes for patients with a mental
disorder. Meeting the patients and listening to their model of illness and make them understand in
their language is the basic role of the clinicians (Thistlethwaite, 2016). They are responsible for
instilling the client’s trust, including them in all decisions, establishing concrete goals, and recognizing
the barriers and help in problem-solving (Farrelly and Lester 2014).Apart from this psychotherapy is
the most recommended combining with or without medication for treating mental disorders. The
psychotherapy helps the clinicians to understand the ideas, behaviors and the mental status of the
clients and act accordingly to solve it. This therapy also helps to retrievea sense of control and
pleasure in life. The therapy becomes effective if clinicians are capable enough to draw the attention
of the client while proceeding with some approaches of psychotherapy is psychodynamic therapy,
cognitive-behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy and interpersonal therapy through
psychotherapy was considered as the gold standard for treatment the advent of neuroleptic
medication dominated markedly over psychotherapy (Fox 2017).