Running head:MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEM Mental Health Problem: Mildura Name of the Student Name of the University Author Note
1MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEM Mental illness of parents poses a serious challenge to the quality of life (QoL) of parents and their children. Improving QoL is an important political and public health concern (Bee et al., 2014). The following essay aims to highlight the mental health complications among the adults’ population of Mildura, the possible interventions for steady recovery and the role of anoccupational therapist in mental health recovery. Mental Health: Parents in Mildura According to the Victoria’s Mental Health Services Annual Report (2016-2017), 11 % of the Victorian population suffers from mental health complications and the majority of them are adults. Among this 11% of population, half of them are women and 33% of them reside in rural areas like Mildura. According to Van Loon et al., (2014), children of parents sufferingfrommentalhealthproblemsarehighlysusceptibletowardsdeveloping psychological problems. This is because the child interaction with parents with mental health is not healthy moreover, the family environments with parents with mental illness is negative, which cast an adverse impact on the child. Thus parental monitoring must get a detailed focus in present mental health interventions in Vitoria in order to safe guard adolescents with mentally ill parents from developing similar problems (Van Loon,Van de Ven, Van Doesum, Witteman&Hosman2014). Health promotion strategies Lifestyle Medicine:Mental health and stress are closely associated with unhealthy lifestyles. Thus, healthy behaviour interventions contribute to physical and mental health along with the management of stress (Min, Lee & Lee, 2013). With expand in occurrence of the lifestyle disease, therapeutic changes in lifestyle have now become the prime focus for physicalandmentalhealthpromotion.Thuslifechangeaimedtowardssmoking,
2MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEM consumption of alcohol, physical activity, healthy diet, stress management, obesity and stress management (Min, Lee & Lee, 2013). Stress management and skills training: Management of stress of daily life and adding towards recovery through adverse health effects are important factors in mental health promotion.Interplay of mind, brain and body in involved in generation of stress and thus interventions designed over mind-body medicine is recommended as an important medium for managing stress (Min, Lee & Lee, 2013). Communityintervention:Communityinterventionsdealwithexpandinpublic awareness about mental health which will help to expand the acceptance of the mental health care for prevention and promotion of the mental health illness (Min, Lee & Lee, 2013). Victoria State Government is also in favour of the community interventions toward the improvement of the mental health of the adult populations (Victoria State Government, 2017). Other strategies that can be implemented for mental health recovery or prevention includepreventive consultationandpositive psychotherapy(Min, Lee & Lee, 2013).Kalraet al.(2012), have vouched in favour ofimprovement of coping strategiesin order to reduce stress induced by mental illness.Person centred careortargeted interventionsat individuals may also derive positive results (Kalraet al., 2012).Hagenet al. (2012) has opined that evidence-basedonlinementalhealthpromotionanhelpfulstrategyformentalhealth prevention and treatment. Analysis offive selectedhealth promotion strategies Lifestyle medicineis one of the important mental health strategies because, according to Department of Health Australia (2017), majority of the population in Vitoria abides
3MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEM unhealthy lifestyle life smoking, consumption of alcohol and this are main factors behind the mental health complication among the adult population. Moreover, according to National Mental Health Consumer and Carer Forum Australia (2014), people with complications in mental health are commonly smoke tobacco in comparison to the general population and this tendency is likely to aggravate the mental health complications further. Taylor et al. (2014), has opined that prevention of smoking or prevention against consumption of alcohol will help the people suffering from mental illness to recover faster. Smoking of cigarette is a crucial preventable risk for mental illnesses. Severity, assessment of patient’s dependence and willingness to quit smoking, behavioural intervention along with proper knowledge, motivational interviewing and accurate pharmacotherapy will be useful evidence-based approaches. Moreover, counselling and education for low-risk alcohol consumption could to be procured in lifestyle medicine interventions(Min, Lee & Lee, 2013). According toTaylor et al. (2014), cessation of smoking is related with reduced anxiety, stress and depression. this in turn helps in promotion of positive mindset and quality of life. Stress management and skills training Stress is the major stigma behind the generation of depressive symptoms and these gradually aggravates into complex mental illness like anxiety (Heim & Binder, 2012). Moreover parent stress either arising out of mental illness or responsible for mental illness cast immense impact upon their children. According to Heim and Binder (2012), stress in early stages of life like childhood abuse or parental neglect is a well-established and major risk behind generating depressive disorders in the later stages of life. Hence coping up with
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