Mental Health Recovery: Importance, Treatment, and Management

This presentation explores the importance of mental health recovery, including its impact on individuals' lives and their ability to achieve wellness. It discusses different treatment approaches, such as medication and psychotherapy, and highlights the role of healthcare professionals in supporting individuals on their recovery journey. The presentation also covers specific mental health disorders, including anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder, and psychosis, providing insights into their management and treatment options. Overall, it emphasizes the significance of early intervention, evidence-based treatments, and person-centered care in promoting mental health recovery.

MENTAL HEALTH RECOVERY
ASSIGNMENT

Introduction
 Mental well-being is a crucial component of the WHO definition of health. Stable
mental health enables individuals to realize their ability, manage normal life stresses,
work productively, and contribute positively to their communities.
 Working in partnership with consumers, new practice techniques are being designed
and delivered that can allow individuals to prosper within society and move towards a
fulfilling life beyond their diagnosis (Tondora, J., Miller, R., Slade, M., Davidson,
2014).
 Nurses are in a unique position to help service users in evaluating their health
condition and making choices about their care plans

Etiology
 Mental health disorders can b e caused by a combination of physiological,
environmental, and biological factors.
 Certain infections, heredity, substance abuse, and poor nutrition can cause mental
illness.
 Different mental disorders have different risk factors.
 Mental illness is associated with disability, social isolation, suffering, family conflicts,
pain, poverty, heart diseases, freedom loss, and death.

Intervention
 Early signs of a patient with a mental disorder include: Bizarre behavior, disorientation,
suicidal attempts, hallucinations (patients can see, taste, feel, and hear things which are
actually not there), and delusions.
 Early intervention in mental well-being is important in prevention of complications and
damage.
 Early intervention can lead to proper diagnosis and management, more timely referrals
to specialists, increased confidence and participation of primary care providers.
 People who suffer from severe and chronic mental disorders require rehabilitation.
 Psychiatric rehabilitation promotes social, emotional, and intellectual skills which are
necessary in life.

evidence for treatment
 The prevalence of mental disorders is high and appears to be increasing. Yet the
majority of individuals who meet diagnostic criteria for a mental disorder are not able
to access an adequate treatment.
 Evidence-based psychological treatments are effective treatments for mental disorders.
 There is also evidence that access to evidence based treatments is diminishing.
 The use of appropriate tools, inspirational interviewing techniques, and recovery
planning can assist consumers’ make correct choices about their health, try out different
behaviors, and restore healthy living behaviors into a recovery plan.
 Recovery focuses on hope, person-centered care, and consideration of the consumers’
opinions on the experience of care. Hope is critical to recovery.
 Person-centered care motivates health practitioners to consider consumers’ needs and
to give them more confidence to make informed choices concerning their treatment and
care.

Treatment
 Attributes essential for health professionals to support service users on their recovery
journey include: Being believed in, being actively listened to and understood, others
maintaining a positive attitude, getting informed explanations for problems, issues and
experiences, and have an opportunity to resign responsibility during the period of crisis
temporarily (Townsend, M. C., Morgan, K. I.2017).

Importance of recovery
 Mental health recovery raises the person’s influence over their mental health disorders, assist
them to keep up wellness, to better their life quality, and assist individuals in fulfilling their
goals and dreams (Doroud, N., Fossey, E., & Fortune, T. 2015).
 Patients can make decisions and participate in their treatment.
 assists patients to understand their rights.
 Patients can enjoy good mental health and to create a balance between life activities
and endeavor to achieve psychological stability.
 mental health recovery helps individuals to understand their wishes, and opportunities.
 Promotes decision making led by individuals with mental disorders, in accordance
with each individual's values.
 The patient may be able to get a second chance in the community.
 The patient can capably challenge stigmatizing attitudes in the broader community and within
the service.

Anxiety disorder
 Anxiety problems can alter an individual’s ability to carryout daily activities, study, and
engage in other duties and little effort is applied in recovery with the right medication (Stein,
M. B., & Sareen, J. 2015)
 Anxiety problem can be impairing and debilitating. Anxiety can contribute to loss of
employment and educational chances and hard times with social and family relationships.
 There are different types of anxiety: Acute anxiety, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder
post-traumatic stress disorder, and specific phobias among others.
 Treatment usually comprise of psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy.
 The drugs of choice in the medical care of anxiety disorder are antidepressants.
 Change in behavior has demonstrated efficacy.
 Deciding on the type of medication or treatment combinations to prescribe rely on an attentive
interview and assessment of patient’s aspiration and degree of pathology.

Treatment (anxiety)
Fast-acting anxiolytic agent is encouraged in individuals with severe anxiety disorder.
Generalized anxiety disorder
 Effective treatment approaches include psychotherapy with medication. Nevertheless,
cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is effective in placebo influenced trials. Cognitive
behavioral therapy includes problem solving as well as self-reward and can be effective
as medications, particularly for children with moderate generalized anxiety problem.
Combining medications with CBT is extremely contributing in resistance cases.
Panic disorders
 medication, behavioral and cognitive psychotherapy, and other psychological treatment
strategies are used in the treatment of panic disorder.
Indication for hospitalization:
 extreme functional impairment.
 Suicidal attempts.
 Deficit in Social skills.

outcomes
The treatment outcome is ascertained by a wide set of factors, including the following:
 A particular type of anxiety.
 intensity of anxiety.
 Degree of function before initiation of symptoms.
 The extent of willingness for the treatment.
 Degree of support (e.g., relatives, school, work, friends)
 Capacity to embrace psychotherapy or pharmacotherapy regimen.
Acute anxiety
 People with notable distress following anxiety greatly benefit from anxiolytic
emergency treatment, primarily with a benzodiazepine. Psychiatric consultation is
recommended for patients in a state of acute anxiety of such seriousness that they
constitute a harm to themselves or to other people.

Bipolar disorder
The management for bipolar disorder, or manic-depressive illness (MDI), is directly
associated to the part of a sequence of the episode (i.e., mania or depression ) and the
seriousness of the phase.
 For instance, an individual who is severely depressed and show suicidal acts can
benefit from hospitalization.
 Management may involve a combination of psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy.
 Fortunately, most people recover from the first manic episode, but their course beyond
that is variable.

Examination approaches
Examination of people who have been suspected with bipolar disorder involves evaluation
by mental status examination and assessment of the following:
 Mood and semblance
 Thought content
 Patient’s perception
 Suicide/self-destruction
 Judgment/insight
 Physical health
 Violence
 Cognition

Management for bipolar
pharmacotherapy used to treat individuals with bipolar disorder include:
 Benzodiazepines are recommended for patients with acute agitation.
 Antipsychotic agents like lithium
 Anticonvulsants (carbamazepine, valproate sodium, lamotrigine)
 First-generation antipsychotics
 Second-generation antipsychotics (risperidone, asenapine, quetiapine, fluoxetine)
 Phenothiazine (chlopromazine)
 Dopamine agonists (e.g., pramipexole)
Nonpharmacotherapthy
 Psychological treatment techniques can help to raise functioning, improve life
quality, and raise function or more useful symptom enhancement.
 Electroconvulsive treatment can be of great importance in chosen people with bipolar
problems.

psychosis
 Psychosis is a manifestation, and not a disease.
 A mental disorder or physical sickness, severe stress or trauma, and substance abuse
can result to psychosis.
 Schizophrenia is a mental problem that that affects peoples’ thinking, feeling, and
perception.
 Psychotic disorders like schizophrenia, usually occurs for the first time during the late
teenage years or early adulthood.
 Patients may experience depression, anxiety, hallucinations (auditory and visual), have
trouble expressing ideas and sleep problems.
 Early detection of psychosis promotes long-term outcomes.
 Medications diminish the positive symptoms of psychosis and prevent relapse.

Management for psychosis
 Antipsychotic drug of choice for schizophrenia is unclear.
 Clozapine promotes desirable treatment outcomes but is not endorsed as first-line
medication.
 Psychosocial management is important. The effective psychosocial treatments are
cognitive behavioral therapy, social cognition training social skills training, and
cognitive remediation.
The objectives of treatment for an individual with psychosis include;
 To stabilize or reduce symptoms.
 Avoid hospital admissions.
 To be either in school or working for at least half-time.
 To manage his/her funds and medications.

Conclusion
 In conclusion, mental wellbeing is a crucial component of health. Proper assessment of
an individual with a mental health problem is essential since it helps in identifying the
appropriate treatment for the service user.
 It is, therefore, necessary to promote recovery in mental health.

Questions
 What is mental health recovery?
 Do patients recover fully from a mental illness?
 How is recovery, from schizophrenia, possible?
 What is the role of medication in recovery?
 What kind of things get in the way of recovery?

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