Mental Health Recovery: Sandy Jeff's Discussion and National Framework

This report discusses mental health recovery through Sandy Jeff's discussion and the national framework. Sandy Jeff promotes recovery through her stories and poetry, emphasizing the importance of personal recovery. The national framework provides guidelines for practitioners and focuses on growth experiences. Examples from Sandy Jeff's work showcase the importance of hope and family support in recovery.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Sandy Jeff’s Discussion..............................................................................................................2
National framework for recovery...............................................................................................2
Lived experience via stories and poetries...............................................................................2
Some recovery principals.......................................................................................................2
Examples from the work of Sandy Jeff’s..............................................................................2
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................3
References..................................................................................................................................4

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Introduction
For alignment of mind and body mental health is a core component. In this report mental
health is a priority and novice ideas are formulated for recovery. Sandy Jeff, one of the
eccentric community educators alleviates the people suffering from mental illness. She
promotes several steps for specific individuals to overcome from stress, depression,
inequalities or discrimination in the society. In this report emphasis is done on National
health framework that showcases the basic principles required to avoid mental illness. Sandy
deliberately shares the live experiences and ensures how recovery can be achieved through
her stories and poetry. Main ideas are described from the National framework for recovery-
oriented mental health service and the guidelines are suggested for the practitioners. Thus this
report deals with the issues of mental health, its recovery methodology and how sandy has
contributed to mental illness in empowering the society.
Sandy Jeff’s Discussion
Sandy’s video typically stated the necessity of supporting amass group of people and
individuals in the society who are prone to mental illness to not only to eradicate the stigma
but also to alleviate the suffering from the root level. As a society it is the duty to provide
people with right opportunity, as they suffer from mental illness due to variety of reasons like
lack of employment, stress or depression. A mental disorder can be due to depression,
anxiety or fear. In the video Sandy Jeff’s focused on the reflection of live experience and
policy for recovery. Sandy depicted many live experiences outlining Sally’s story that is not
able to live a normal life as she is not very much socialized in her job as well as have family
stress (Health.gov, 2018). Due to such reasons she suffered from depression and from mental
illness. Sandy used to discover the recovery frameworks to outline the mental health services.
Recovery from mental illness is possible but it requires a support from family, peers as well
as professionals. It requires new and innovative ideas for recovery. There are various stages
of mental illness, initially the normal activities start differing and there are no social
connections. Mental illness makes the people unstable and Sandy Jeff’s mentioned that goal

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is to maintain stability (Scholarwork, 2017). The important factor which helps in recovery is
right environment, satisfying work, and good relationship. Sandy stated that there exists a
link between recovery phases as well social inclusion to help people to regain their place in
the community. Sandy suggested that for recovery the patient should be involved in
educational, training as well as volunteering opportunities so that it supports an individual. It
increases the sense to control the mental illness, as there are four dimensions to recovery like
health, home, purpose and community. Sandy’s focuses on life recovery by making everyone
informed about the healthy lifestyle by supporting physical and social well-being
(Thisismyreality, 2018). She stated that engaging an individual in daily activities help in
reducing the mental stress.
National framework for recovery
It is an important policy that is developed to improve the delivery of mental health
services. It collaborate all the services related to mental health recovery approach. This
framework helps in guiding the patient to resolve their mental illness. It describes that there
are various networks to support mental illness. Network starts from home, community to
work places. They design recovery oriented services which helps in facilitating the
connections to gain maximum benefits (Isaacs, Sutton, Dalziel & Maybery, 2017). It has
designed various recovery plans to remove the uncertainty, loss and stress. This framework
focuses on principals that provide them with growth experience. One is uniqueness of an
individual that make sure that every individual is been recognized. This helps an individual in
gaining health focus by empowering the personal care. This framework allows an individual
to make correct choices, to ensure that balance is maintained between the support and duty of
care so that risks are avoided. It describes the rights and attitudes of an individual by
properly listening to the issues and taking actions accordingly (Jacob, Munro, Taylor &
Griffiths, 2017). It protects the individual from all human right by promoting the support
provided by social and vocational activities. The national framework of recovery ensures that

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evaluation of recovery strategies continues and quality services are provided for improvement
(Naslund, et. al, 2017).
Lived experience via stories and poetries
Sandy described some lived experience by depicting poetries and stories as lived
experience of people suffering from mental illness and the issues faced by family members
are the key concern of this framework. It focuses on the people suffering from this experience
rather than focusing on organizational priority for delivering better services (Sandy , 2018).
Concerning the lived experience helps in offering them with new opportunity that enhances
them in transforming the framework for better delivery of services (Newman, O'Reilly, Lee
& Kennedy, 2017). It looks to the challenges and offer the transformation by expertise.
Recovery in the experience of mental health
The sole purpose of this framework is to range the health professional by setting
hospitals, care centres as well as public service centres (Loos, et. al, 2017). The recovery in
the experience of mental illness includes empowering everyone in the society by being sure
that they are getting proper care as well as assuring that every individual as unique recovery
plans. It supports every individual by making by taking their personal decisions without any
inferences from the society. It promotes all the legal right of citizenship among individual
that will support every individual in terms of social, occupational as well as recreational
activities (Hancock, Scanlan, Gillespie, Smith-Merry, & Yen, 2017). This part of principal
deal with the fact that every individual gets dignity and respect from the community. This can
be done by removing the discrimination from the sort and treating everyone with the same
perspective (Hancock, Scanlan, Gillespie, Smith-Merry, & Yen, 2017). It acknowledges
that every individual is unique and it practices all the positive ways to helps an individual to
know their own potential and goal (Hancock, Scanlan, Gillespie, Smith-Merry, & Yen,
2017).

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Examples from the work of Sandy Jeff’s
Sandy Jeff implement recovery orientated practice by its poetries and stories as it
directly showcase the real life experiences of people suffering from mental illness by
providing them with hope and motivation to support better mental health. She provides
guidelines for self-recovery to cope up with mental illness (Frost, et. al, 2017).
One of the live experiences described by Sandy was about old women who were all alone as
her parents died when she was very small. She managed her daily expenses by working in a
grocery store but it was very difficult as she suffered from many hardships and suffered from
mental illness and no proper treatment was provided to her. Sandy suggested in her poetries
that first step should be focusing on the actions to be undertaken. She explained that recovery
is personal and should be acknowledged during the journey (Denneson, Cromer, Williams,
Pisciotta & Dobscha, 2017). Thus she described in her stories about various people and their
challenges. She analysed to overcome from mental illness the brain should adapt to positive
hope and is essential to recover. It was researched that hope plays a nominal role in recovery
of mental illness. Sandy suggested that everyone surrounding the patient that is the family
members and other supporting people should keep hope for betterment. She always provided
the motivation in her poems to endure the strength required to confront the challenges faced
by mental health problems and illnesses (Acu, 2018). The recovery journey of mental health
is not difficult it just understands the necessities of their lives. There are various issues in the
community, family or culture. By using an appropriate recovery approach it support people in
learning how to make their own path by involving family members and society (Australian
government, 2010). This helps in identifying the illness and focuses on strengthening the
social network. Sandy in her stories states that families play a crucial role in betterment of
mental illness by providing emotional, social as well a material support (Sandy Jeff’s, 2018).
They can support by expressing them with ways of hope and building them with strength to

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sustain in the community. Sandy discussed about various government policies that produce
innovative ideas for protective security among women as well children’s for healthy
development. Government has launched various plans to ensure that welfare systems works
according to the promotion strategies and opportunities are engaged regarding the policies
(Parker, Dark, Newman, Korman, Rasmussen & Meurk, 2017).

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Conclusion
Thus it can be concluded that mental illness is a common issue in the society now a
days and to avoid that Sandy Jeff promotes and shares her ideas in schools and at community
level. She discussed the basic root cause and other relevant factors which lead to
development of mental illness through her poems and stories. She emphasizes the core
concern which relates to madness, domestic violence, inequality as well as discrimination in
the society. It can also be concluded from this report that national framework has played a
vital role in recovery and improvement of mental health services. This report defines
experiences of an individual and their mental health issues, emotional distress and the drastic
impact and upcoming consequences of mental health issue. Various measures and necessary
steps are defined by Sandy and major focus is laid on personal recovery to entirely resolve
the mental health issue.

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