Mental Health Illness

Running head: MENTAL HEALTH ILLNESS
Mental health illness
Name of the student
Name of the university
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1. What are the psychological issues for the person in the case study?
With reference to the first case study that is about John who at the age of 18 years had a
breakup with his girlfriend for which there are lot of changes in his behaviour and mood. As
the case study shows that due to his breakup he is not able to concentrate on his career neither
on his sports .in addition to this, he doesn’t want to feel like talking to anyone. Therefore
such kind of behaviour is called adjustment disorders that are one kind of stress traumatic
disorder (Bolm-Audorff, Petereit-Haack and Seidler 2019). Adjustment disorder is a kind of
psychological issue that happens when there is an end of a relationship or some kind of
disappointment due to lack of adjustment. He had breakup because there is a lack of
understanding, adjustment and maturity. Thus due to breakup john is suffering from stress as
not able to be normal thus behaving in different way.
It includes depressed kind of mood, anxiety, worry, isolation, no hope and anger. Adjustment
disorder takes place due to changes in one’s relationship or due to some loss and
disappointments (Curry et al. 2019). Other examples like divorce, loss of lob, breakup, and
end of a relationship. It creates hopelessness and a feeling of depression due to stress and the
issue. Due to this issue, John being a bright student started deteriorating in his studies as well
as in his sports. Seeing such unchanged behaviour and negative responses made stressful
situation for her mother. John is at his teen so the age becomes a major factor in such cases
because one cannot go for harsh steps or rude behaviour towards this kind of behaviour. At
this age they are neither matured enough to know what is right and what is wrong, neither
they have any kind of experience. People at this age needs caring, understanding and trust so
that they can share their problems and can get the best solutions.
2. What informal supports are available to the person?
Seeing such kind of changed behaviour of John, her mom tried talking to him but that didn’t
work instead he got irritated. Informal support that are available to John can be of various
types like love, caring, trust, understanding, concern, empathy, encouragement, being
friendly shown by her mother. Being a mother she can handle the situation in the best way
through informal support. John is at his teens therefore during that age parents should always
handle their child’s problem by making them comfortable in such a way so that they can
freely talk and share about any of their problems and issues (Holder et al. 2019). With the
help of utmost caring and affection informal support will definitely work. When a person is
stressed out completely and depressed then the person always looks for moral support,

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encouragement, love and understanding. When these are available John tends to feel superior
and better, thus slowly he will overcome the stress. With the help of informal support one
recovers quickly. Social support is the kind of support where one is cared and nurtured and it
can be from any supportive group like companionship, to give advices and motivation spirit,
it can be in terms of financial assistance, or else emotional support may be from family or
close relative. Normally there are only four common types of social support and those are
emotional support, informational support, tangible support and companionship (Lewis et al.
2019). Emotional support provides emotional attachment and caring, informational support
focuses on giving information or advices on how to overcome such things and how to lead a
normal life, tangible support is nothing but some sort of financial help if one requires and
lastly the companionship includes social belongingness. With the help of these types of
informal or social support, one can help a person in releasing from such psychological mental
illness.
3. What professional and/ or agencies are involved or likely to be involved with the
person?
There are professionals, sessions and centres that are involved with the person in solving such
illness. Behavioural psychiatrist helps the people to deal with behavioural and mental
disorder by understanding the client’s issues in detail. Then they try to identify whether the
problem is related to personal or social and is it causing any problem to brain or not.
Counsellors’ sometime goes to patient’s house to identify the problem and to discuss with the
family members if required. One more method that the psychiatrists or behavioural
counsellor uses is attention deficit hyperactivity disorder that includes individual way of
behaviour and actions, ability to focus on work, emotional disorders like whether the
individual is in depression or stress .
With the help of counselling sessions one can greatly helps in improving the behavioural
disorder of the person suffering from any mental illness. Apart from that, therapy sessions
and treatment programmes being done to make them well (Wildschut et al. 2019). If any of
these doesn’t work well then they can also use pharmaceutical drugs to solve the illness.
Counsellors sometimes discuss the plan with the parents or any close relative if required.
Behavioural counsellor while counselling identifies the person’s behaviour using various
ways including the help of the family members by talking to them in order to make them cure
and well. Another plan is to give instructions and inform the family members about the