HNN301 - Mental Health Promotion
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Student name: Shang-Chi LinStudent number: 215314262Assignment Tittle: HNN301 Assignment Task 2Word counts: words
Risk and protective factors for alcohol use in adolescentsIntroductionRecently there has been increased recognition of the significance of social and emotional health for the wellbeing of the development of the youths (Eldredge et al, 2016). The government of Australia has been on the frontline in providing support for mental health policy and programs. The Australian government has established a program that identifies the promotion and prevention and early intervention’ for positive mental health (Rowland et al, 2016). Mental health disorders associated with alcohol include stress, suicidal attempts, depression and anxiety (Jones, Fitzpatrick & Rogers, 2017). There are varied costs involved withmental disorders like; educational personal, economic, social and occupational. Problematic alcohol use is influenced by several factors: culture, which contains the attitudes and values of a people, societal commitment, placing the wellbeing and health of children first, resources that a country uses to prevent and create awareness of alcohol use (Murphy et al, 2016). It is medically proven that alcohol is a depressant that acts an inhibitor, it reduces anxiety in small does but maylead to death in large doses, and it is a large cause of hospitalization and drug related deaths in Australia (Schmitt et al, 2014). Alcohol use leads to dependence and also causes problems like depression, anxiety and cognitive problems (Murphy et al. 2016)Adolescents and alcohol useIt is noted that in Australia adolescence stage is the time when most people indulge in alcohol use (Waller, 2013). Early intervention for children has a great potential is preventing alcohol abuse when they grow older. Intervention of children’s development in the early stages isparamount in ensuring that children do not end up being drunkards when they grow up 1
(Littlefield et al, 2017). Schools provide a learning environment for students and also ways that influence their social wellbeing. Ideally, children at their tender age are exposed to the environment that has many people taking alcohol such as their family members, neighbors, and friend. The basis of all this is the emotional needs that a child undergoes at the adolescent stage and thereby may be easily influenced by the particular group that takes alcohol (Rowland et al, 2016). Although the school environment promotes healthy behaviors for students it is also at some point a breeding ground for negative behaviors as students may influence each other from what they learn back at home or what they see their parents do. There have been many campaigns to create self-awareness, social awareness, self-management, relationship skills and responsible decision making youths that have alcoholic problems have been noted to be stressed, this can be from social setting, relationship issues or academic issues, this in many cases leads to suicide attempts (Littlefield et al, 2017). Low self-esteem among the youths leads to alcoholic problems, it has been discovered that youths express a feeling of high self-esteem when they are intoxicated, therefore a dependence on alcohol happens since it helps them face the society, peersand life (Hildebrand et al, 2013). Various research have found that most parents introduce children to alcohol in early stage so as to teach them safe drinking habits, this in most cases end up making the youths addicts to alcohol (Scholes-Balog et al, 2014).Risks associated with alcohol.There is increased diversification of alcohol products that are mostly supported by the marketing and advertisements programs with appealing ads that compel the youths to drink alcohol (Jones, Fitzpatrick & Rogers, 2017). Practically, adolescents’ stage is the stage that is characterized by physical and emotional changes, the tolerance in parenting which is evident among the Australian has played a very great role in the drinking habit of the youths below 18 2
years (Littlefield et al, 2017). It is ideal for both the state and the concerned parties to initiate programs that are primarily aimed at educating the youths on the dangers of taking alcohol at the tender age. This program would be very instrumental in shaping the character of the young people into a better adult (Lam & Riba, 2016). Prolonged taking of alcohol among the adolescents may pose a very significant threat to their lives since it affects major organs of their bodies. Similarly, discrimination, race, culture, and poverty may also create a path for this kind of behaviors to take place in Australia. This too goes in contributing to anxiety disorder which is majorly attributed to the personality pattern of an individual youth (Thomas & Morris, 2016). The consumption rate of alcohol is at eighty percent in Australia, and this situation contributes tothe youths finding themselves in alcoholism as the situation is dominant in the country (Bradshaw & Mairs, 2017). There is also the belief among parents that alcohol is not bad therefore most parents take alcohol in front of their children influencing them negatively. There is also laxity on the part of Australian Alcohol Beverages Advertising Code (ABAC) to regulate the usage of drug and alcohol. They have not come up with the clear framework to protect these vulnerable group from taking of liquor and thus allowing them the chance to further continue with the habit (Bartel, Gradisar, & Williamson, 2015). The results from the analysis proof that the kind of neighborhood the youths live in and the culture surrounding them have tremendously affected how most of them use alcohol (Taliaferro & Muehlenkamp, 2014). Morbidity and mortality rateIn Australia, alcohol has been used so much and therefore it is seen as the second cause of death and other health and mental complications (Bartel, Gradisar, & Williamson, 2015). Excessive use of alcohol has led to numerous cases of loss of lives, injuries and acute effects, 3
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