Essay on Mental Health & Intellectual Disability
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Mental Health &Intellectual Disability
INTRODUCTIONThe state of complete physical, social, emotional, psychological and mental well being isconsidered to be the good mental health (Paniagua and Yamada, 2013). The key importance ofgood mental health is: mental health is the integral part of the overall body health, good mentalhealth is more than the absence of any kind of disease and at last mental health of a human isdirectly connected to its physical health, psychological health and behaviour. Thus, there aremany services that are provided by the government of the UK to promote the well being ofpeople suffering from mental health issues and disabilities. The main aim of this essay is toaddress various available services in UK that can be helpful in promoting the well being ofpeople dealing with mental health problems. The services which are provided to people having metal disorder is categorized into manyforms such as : first is the medical services, this includes the prescription of medicines and drugsalong with basic counselling and therapy for the effective treatment of the common mentaldisorders. These services are generally provided on inpatient and outpatient basis. The treatmentprocess usually consists of provision of psychiatric drugs to the patients. Second type of serviceis individual therapy services, which includes the provision of integrative psychotherapy orcognitive behavioural therapy for the effective treatment of mental disorder and distress(Duijvenbode and et.al., 2015). Next in the series is the social care services which generallyincludes the community services in which support worker provide mental health care by comingat home of the patients. Various other similar services can be ex-patient services, in this theorganisations tends to provide effective mental health services to the patients who are labelled ashaving mental disorder. These organisations are generally the self-led or mutually supportedgroups that run through charities. There are many traditional healing centres present in wide region of UK that provideaccessible services to the people of UK and deal with the treatment of mental disorder. Finally,comes the legal services that regulate the involuntary commitment of those people having mentaldisorders. These legal organisation tends to provide advanced services to the people who arediagnosed with mental disorders (de Kuijper and et.al., 2013). Along with this there are manymental health courts that are present in some regions to provide the community treatment to thecriminals suffering from mental illness.
There are various mental health services that are provided to the people living in UK.Few major services that are provided to people are: Substance Abuse and Mental Health ServicesAdministration (SAMHSA), Mental Health and criminal justice system, Transport for people inpeople health services and Principle for the Protection of Person with Mental Illness. Theavailable services help in providing effective healthcare to the people suffering from mentaldisorders. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration tends to providegeneral information and effective treatment to the people dealing with mental disorders. Thisorganisation has Behavioural health treatment locator service that helps in locating the treatmentfacilities available for mental illness. This service can be accessible by the user on the onlinebasis. The supportive services that are provided through SAMHSA at various locations includes:individual and group counselling, medications, supportive services and evidence based treatment(Hermans, Beekman and Evenhuis, 2013). Individual and group counselling includes variety oftreatment procedures on the basis of effective counselling of people suffering from mentaldisorders. Counselling along with psychotherapies are used to analyse the change in behaviour,emotions and thoughts. Medications services provided by SAMHSA is generally not used for thetreatment of mental disorders rather helpful in managing the variety of symptoms that arisesduring this illness. The effectiveness of the medications provided by professionals tends tochange with change in time. Therefore, according to service provided by SAMHSA, medication along with effectivecounselling and psychotherapy helps in lowering the risk related to mental health disorders.SAMHSA also provide people with wide range of support services that includes education,housing, employment as people suffering from mental disorders have more physical healthproblems. Thus, to manage this, they are provided with employment services that not onlysupport the independence but provide them with path for the social interaction with many peoplein order to come from symptoms like depression and stress.Another important support service provided by SAMHSA is recovery support, throughthis the people who are suffering from mental illness are supported to effectively recover fromthe symptoms of mental illness. Another service that is provided by the behavioural healthtreatment locator is the evidence based treatment. These programmes have shown positiveoutcome in the treatment provided to patients suffering from mental disorders (Bergström andet.al, 2013). These treatment procedures are based on high quality research that is done on the
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