Promoting Mental Health and Wellbeing: Chung’s Case Study

Running Head: CHUNG’S CASE STUDY 1
Promoting Mental Health and Wellbeing
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CHUNG’S CASE STUDY 2
Table of Contents
Chung’s Mental Health Status.....................................................................................................3
Mental State Examination............................................................................................................3
Mood and Affect.....................................................................................................................3
Thought Process, Content and Form....................................................................................3
DSM V.........................................................................................................................................3
Anxiety Disorders...................................................................................................................4
Eating and Feeding Disorders...............................................................................................4
Factors Contributing to Chung’s Mental Health Status............................................................4
The Workplace Nature and Conditions........................................................................................5
Lack of Time with Family...........................................................................................................5
Aspects of Mental Health Recovery.............................................................................................6
Respect.........................................................................................................................................6
Hope.............................................................................................................................................7
Empowerment..............................................................................................................................7
References.......................................................................................................................................9

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Chung’s Mental Health Status
Mental State Examination
Mood and Affect
The mental health of Chung is characterized with a low mood following many negative
factors at home, school and work place. It could be described as sad hopeless, helpless, lonely
and worthless. Signs of mental illness like restrictiveness, and sadness are portrayed by Chung.
Chung is tearful and has a flat mood. This means that he is psychologically struggling with
something. His affect is a strong evidence towards the same because his posture is that one of
being slumped in a chair with rounded shoulders, confusion (staring at the floor aimlessly for
long), and poor eye contact (Pollard, 2018).
Thought Process, Content and Form
Mental illness is confirmed when a person shows hesitation in thinking and speaking
(Taylor, 2013). The thinking process could be vague or totally blocked. Speech is an expression
of thinking and all thinking processes are mental processes. Chung expresses a slow speech
pattern to imply that his thinking coherence is impaired. He stares at the floor for long and the
nurse has to repeat a question for him to give a reasonable answer is another proof. A mentally ill
person experiences a flight of ideas (Taylor, 2013). The content of Chung’s thought is a
misinterpretation of reality like in other mental illness cases. He feels worthless and has suicidal
thoughts, plans and intentions, because he feel like a failure to his wife and daughter
DSM V

CHUNG’S CASE STUDY 4
Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety disorders are characteristic aspects that one is mentally unhealthy (American
Psychiatric Association, 2013). Fear is one aspect of anxiety (Ressler, Pine & Rothbaum, 2015).
Chung expresses anxiety disorders because of working in the ever busy emergency department,
long working hours. For him having suicidal thoughts confirms anxiety (Kanwar et al., 2013).
Chung is has internal fears concerning his wife and child and that contributes to his increased
anxiety. Chung still have classes to attend to makes it even worse considering that he sometimes
work at night and maybe during the day, attends some lessons. Mental illness comes with lack of
sleep problems, an aspect of anxiety like Chung (American Psychiatric Association, 2013).
Eating and Feeding Disorders
This disorder is characterized by poor eating related traits that leads to ingestion and
absorption of food leading to physical health impairment (American Psychiatric Association,
2013). This confirms why Chung has lost 5 kilograms. Low self-esteem is one of the factors
leading to poor eating disorders. All these aspects confirm mental incapacitation. Chung is
reported to dislike food. His mentally ill condition does has affected his appetite and he has been
missing meals. Poor eating disorders confirms depression too. Depressed people eat less or don’t
eat all (Stice, Marti & Rohde, 2013). It affects eating a habits by creating an apathetic in the
brain about food. Eating disorders are also interrelated with anxiety, and it is confirmed that
Chung is anxious (Walsh, Attia, Glasofer & Sysko, 2015).
Factors Contributing to Chung’s Mental Health Status
Stress Vulnerability Model
He is distressed because he has no meaningful input towards the growth of his child and
staying for quite a long time without seeing his parents and siblings. Chung lacking of time for