Insight into Mental Health Patients: Recovery-Oriented Practice, NSW Mental Health Act, Least Restrictive Practice, and Nursing Interventions

Running head: MENTAL HEALTH
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Executive Summary:
The purpose of the assignment provides a deep insight into the mental health patients. The first part has
discussed recovery-oriented practice in mental health. The second part has discussed NSW Mental Health
Act (2007). The third part has discussed Least Restrictive Practice and fourth part has discussed nursing
interventions that could be used to promote a person’s personal recovery in the inpatient or community
mental health setting. Lastly it provided a concise conclusion to the readers.

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Table of Contents
Introduction (max 250 words).........................................................................................................................3
Recovery-Oriented Practice in Mental Health (max 500 words)...................................................................3
NSW Mental Health Act (2007) (max 500 words)........................................................................................5
Least Restrictive Practice (max 500 words)...................................................................................................7
Recommendations (max 500 words)..............................................................................................................9
Conclusion (max 250 words)..........................................................................................................................11
References.......................................................................................................................................................11

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Assessment 1 Written Report template (suggested structure)
Introduction (max 250 words)
Internally nurses are subjected to the various experiences in the different clinical areas of practices which
received maximum attention in the recent era; mental health domain is one such the setting (Chester et al.,
2015). Caring for patients with severe mental illness is one of the most crucial responsibilities confronted
by the nurses in their clinical setting (Kidd, Kenny & McKinstry, 2015). Despite the mountain of research
present in the literature, very little evidence has been documented about the lived experiences of nurses
who are dealing with a mentally ill patient in their daily practice. National Survey of Mental Health and
Wellbeing of adults by Australian institute of health and welfare suggested that in Australia, the 12months
or lifetime prevalence of the mental disorders have been experienced by the population aged in between
16 to 85 years (Fletcher et al., 2019). Approximately 45 to 50% of the population of Australia are
experiencing mental health disorders and others will experience mental health illness at some point in
their experience. Meurk et al. (2015), reported that 1 in 5 of the population has experienced common
mental illness such as depression, anxiety or traumatic disorders in the previous 12 months, where phobias
and anxiety disorders are most prevalent. Hence, in order to reduce this high abundance of mental illness,
The Australian Government designed different mental health policies and announced a number of mental
health-related measures in the 2019 Federal budget. This paper will provide Recovery-Oriented Practice
in Mental Health, NSW Mental Health Act (2007) and least restrictive practice in the following
paragraphs.
Recovery-Oriented Practice in Mental Health (max 500 words)
What is the difference between ‘clinical recovery’ and ‘personal recovery’ for people with lived
experience of mental illness?