Mental Health: Theories, Policies, and Impact on Service Users

The introduction of the Mental Health Act and other policies have ensured that individuals with mental health issues receive the necessary care and treatment. The shift towards community care has also allowed for greater access to mental health services. The use of various theories such as cognitive, behavioural, social and humanistic have helped in understanding and treating mental health issues. However, lack of information and research budgets remain a challenge. The commitment towards parity of esteem in health services aims to achieve equal response towards physical and mental health. Overall, the developments in mental health practices have positively impacted mental health service users.

Mental Health

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Theories of mental health.......................................................................................................4
Legislations, policies and recent development in the field of mental health..........................4
Impact of practice developments on the mental health service user......................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
The concept of mental health generally refers to the cognitive, behavioural as well as an
emotional well-being. It is all about how an individual can think, behave as well as feel. It is
generally a state of being well in which people can realize their own capabilities as well as can
cope with their normal strains of the life as well as can work productively which can be able to
make a contribution towards their community. The world health organization stress that the
mental well-being is about more than the absence of the mental disorders or the disabilities. A
peak mental well-being is not only about the avoidance of the active situations but it can also
links with the observing after an ongoing happiness as well as the wellness. An organization also
make focus on that the preserving as well as restoring the mental health is quite important on the
basis of an individual and also throughout the various different societies across the world. The
community mental health services are the communities which generally encourages the people
who are having the disabilities in psychiatric so that people can manage their self care, can
enhance their social as well as the relationship skills and can able to achieve a wide range of the
quality of life. These all can be achieved through the physical health, the social connectedness,
an education and many more. In this report, it will cover the various possible interventions so as
to meet the needs of the case study. It will also cover the broad range prevention methods as well
as the theories which will help to overcome the cause of mental disorder (Copstick, Ramos,
Griffiths and Wallace, 2021).
MAIN BODY
The concept here includes the emotional, social, psychological well-being of an
individual. The mental health can generally impact over people as they think, feel and so on.
This can usually aid to analyse about how an individual can handle or cope with the very most
stressful situations as well as involves the making of choices. It is quite crucial in every stage of
the life from the childhood and adolescence throughout the adulthood. The factors which
generally contributes towards the mental health issues such as the biological factors like brain
chemistry, genes. It can also includes the life experiences like an abuse and trauma, the history of
the family involving the mental issues is also an issue. In context with the community mental
health team, it is generally established to encourage or can treat the people who are having the
mental illness or difficulties in a domiciliary settings rather than the psychiatric healthcare

organization. The community services which are included such as the supported housing having
a full supervision, the psychiatric wards as well as the local care medical services (Cenat,
McIntee, Mukunzi and Noorishad, 2021).
Theories of mental health.
In this, having the theory of mind generally can enables people to attribute the thoughts,
the desires as well as the intentions towards the others so as to predict and illustrates their
actions. It generally allows people to understand about the state of mental which can be a cause
of and can be used to justify as well as predict the behaviours of the others. It can involve the
various theories which can illustrates the mental well-being and are as detailed below:
Analytical/developmental theory: In this theory, it is generally a theory of mind which
usually emphasis on the necessity of the wholeness for every people. This theory suggests that
the prior experiences are quite essential in the process of personality development. In contrast
with the case study, there is a need for Charles to improve the personality so that he can
effectively overcome his abrupt modifications in the behaviour. Through this theory, the social
care worker can easily look at the section of the development about what Charles is going
through.
Behavioural theory: In this theory, the person's behaviour is generally a result of its
learning which has occurred in response to its stimulus. The concept of behavioural theory
generally doesn't involves the construct of insensible in illustrating the mental illness. The
therapy generally seeks to determine as well as aid the modifications potentially self-destructive
or the unhealthy behaviours. It usually functions on the thought that all the behaviours are
basically learned as well as about the unhealthy behaviours which can be modified. In contrast
with case study, it is determined that Charles was separated from his family members and started
taking his meals in his bedroom. As a social worker, this theory generally enables Charles to
alter as well as modify his behaviour via a process of the reinforcement, by negative as well as
the positive so as to produce a possibility of a wanted an occurring behaviour (Neck and Corbett,
2018).
Cognitive theory: It is generally identified by the concentration on the thoughts that how
as well as what an individual can think will leads to the arousal of the emotions. These such
certain thoughts as well as the beliefs will ultimately leads to the disturb the emotions and their
behaviour as well and the others can leads to the healthy emotions and an adaptive behaviour as

well. While the behavioural learning theory emphasizes the role of the surrounding environment,
the cognitive theory generally emphasizes the key role of the mind's cognition in determining the
behaviour. The cognition usually includes a person's thoughts, feelings, its beliefs and the
perceptions as well. In addition to this, the psychology of the cognitive is generally a scientific
study which is associated to the mind in the form of information processor. The cognitive
psychologists generally try to grow up the models of cognitive of the data processing which goes
on inside the mind of an individual, consisting their perceptions, their attentions, memory, their
thinking process and the consciousness as well. In contrast with the case study, Charles most of
the time used in spending alone, his behaviour is getting annoyed day by day (Myers and
Emmott, 2021).
Social theory: In this theory, the perspectives of the social theory generally assumes that
different people who are usually in the similar situations will generally have the same levels of
the illness as well as the mental well-being. In this, it generally analyse about how bad or the
good people will generally feels that it does not relay on their personalities as well as the brains
but it also on the sorts of the social situations which they generally face. The social theory
generally studies the fundamental interaction, the social events as well as the patterns and they
usually develops a theory in an attempt to illustrates why things generally works as they do. A
theory of social generally seeks to illustrates the social phenomena. These such theories are used
to create a testable propositions generally referred as hypothesis about the community. In
contrast with the case study, Charles is generally distracted from his interests as he used to live
alone in his bedroom and spending most of his time in reading the materials on the internet about
the news and thinks that all the news were only related to him, making him feeling down. His
distraction from the social environment generally make him angry and making impact on his
mental health. He believes that the community healthcare providers, his friends, parents and
everyone around him are plotting something against him. These such theories generally aid to
determine how to handle the stress as well as making the healthy choices about own self. As
mental well-being is quite important at every stage of the life such as from childhood and
adolescence throughout the adulthood. The social theory generally promotes the interactions or
communications between people or group of people and this is quite needed in the case of
Charles (Miller and Polson, 2019).

Humanistic theory: The Humanistic theory is generally a mental well-being approach
which involves concentration on the importance of being an individual a true self so as to lead
the most fulfilling life. This theory is generally based on the principles which usually everyone
has their unique way of looking across the world. These such views can generally impact the
choices as well as actions of an individual. The Humanistic approach mainly concentrates on the
potential of each people and emphasis on the necessity of the self-actualization as well as
growth. The fundamental belief of such psychology is that individual's are good and their social
as well as mental issues can results from the variation from such natural leaning (Gardiner,
Miller and Lach, 2020).
The above discussed mental health theories generally strives to illustrate the development
of humans behaviourally, socially as well as psychologically. These such approaches are
basically concentrated on what was the issues with people as well as how to fix such problems.
There is particularly no assumptions about the people that they could strengthen their health care.
Legislations, policies and recent development in the field of mental health.
In context with the mental health, the code of practice generally supplies a practical guide
so as to process about the service user can use to determine as well as can able to manage the
psychological harms or injuries at workplace. The policies which comes under the mental well-
being generally is an official statement by the higher authorities or the health authorities which
can give the overall directions for the mental well-being by defining a vision, their values, the
principle and its objective and by establishing a broad model for the actions so as to accomplish
particular visions. In addition to this, the code of practice for the social care providers is
generally a list of various statements which illustrates the standards of the professional practice
as well as the conducts which are needed of the social care providers as they usually go about
their daily work. In order to make the codes of practice broadly available, the council will
promote these such standards. It includes a code of practice such as Mental Health Act 2015. it
generally can aid the local services so as to encourage the empowerment as well as the
involvement of the ill people as well as the carers. There are generally the two particular pieces
of the policies or legislations which usually how the public who are having the mental health
illness can receive the care as well as the treatments. It usually includes the Mental well-being
Act (1983) which is generally updated by the Act such as 2007, the Protection of human rights
Act (1993), the Person with Disability Act (1995). It also involves The national Trust Act (1999),

The Mental Capacity Act 2005 consisting the Deprivation of the Liberty safeguards
(Hassankhani and et. al., 2018).
The policies which are considered under the mental well-being is generally an official
statement by the government authorities which generally gives the overall path for the mental
well-being by defining a vision, its principles, values as well as its objectives and by founding a
wide model just for the actions so as to accomplish the visions. In addition to this, The Mental
Health Act is generally a main piece of the legislations or the policies which usually covers the
treatment, assessments as well as the rights of an individual having the mental well-being
disorders. An individual who is generally detained under the mental act usually requires an
urgent treatment for the mental well-being illness. These are generally at a risk of injury to
themselves or other peoples (Amanvermez and et. al., 2021).
The mental health is generally been transformed over the last several years, there has
been many modifications are there such as the closure of the old mental asylums, moving the
care into the community, enhances the use of therapies such as CBT and so on. These such
modifications can make a positive impact over the health of the patients. Another major
modifications which has been shifted in the attitudes of the community is that people are
generally become more acceptable towards the mental health illness issues and can become more
encouraged towards the mental health issues. In addition to this, they are usually more aware of
the mental health issues like anxiety, depression as well as they are more willing to have
conversations with their health care professionals and can seek treatments by them. In this, the
biggest technological issues which the service provider generally face in context with the mental
health is lack of information as mental illness is generally not blessed with the large research
budgets. Still, if the service providers can power up the studies by just looking at ever bigger
comparative information sets then, they can hopefully can jump forwards in the understanding of
the mental health issues. The power of all such informations will usually rise the understanding
of the cause of mental well-being issues, whether the treatments will works or whether people
are just investing the money in the very right places for the higher advantages (Brackett, Bailey,
Hoffmann and Simmons, 2019).
In this, the social and healthcare Act 2012 generally introduced the first explicit
recognition of the secretory of the state for welfare's duty to the both mental and physical health.
This generally led to a commitment in the constitution of health services that it is basically

designed to diagnose, treat as well as enhance the both mental as well as physical mental well-
being state. The higher authorities has set the goals for parity of esteem in the successive health
services mandates such as the health services 2018-2019 generally states that there must be
determinable progress towards the parity of the esteem for mental welfare which is being
enshrined in the constitution of the national health services, specifically for those people who are
in vulnerable conditions. In addition to this, over the next five years, the health services must
drive to an equal response towards the physical as well as the mental welfare. It generally
encompasses the three wide areas such as the recommendations for the health service generally
aims to accomplish the parity of esteem among the physical and the mental welfare for the young
adults and the older adults. In this, the recommendations to tackle the disparities such as
containing the greater incidences of the mental well-being issues in between the people who are
generally living in the poverty. In addition to this, issues also occurs among the people who are
particularly unemployed as well as the people who faces the issues regarding discrimination
(Szmukler, 2017).
Impact of practice developments on the mental health service user.
The legislations regarding the mental health generally can play an important role in the
integration of the society among people having the mental disorders. It can also involves the
integrating the mental well-being at the primary care health, the provision of care of the
increased quality as well as the enhancement of the care which are generally accessed at a
society level. It is quite important or necessary for a country to have the mental health laws for
public. It generally involves the major modifications which is been shifted towards the attitudes
of the community as the people are generally becoming more acceptable towards the mental
health illness or issues as well as encourage the people who are having such problems. The
people are usually more aware of the very common mental well-being issues like anxiety,
depression and such peoples are generally more willing to have conversation with the health care
professionals and can able to seek the treatments (Syrmis, Frederiksen and Reilly, 2019).
The mental health laws are generally needed to ensure a regulatory framework fro such
mental well-being services as well as the other providers of the care as well as the treatments. It
is also important to ensure about the public as well as the people who are having the issues of
mental illness are generally provide the protection from the often destructive the consequences of
the mental disorders. In most of the countries who don't have the mental health legislations

generally do not access to the basic or prime mental well-being care as well as treatment which
people generally needed. In addition to this, the absence of the society based mental well-being
care usually means that there is only care which is available is in the psychiatric institutions that
is linked with the gross human rights violations consisting the inhuman as well as debasing the
treatment and can living with its situations or conditions. In context with the outside well-being
care, these are generally excluded from the society life as well as can denied the basic rights like
food, clothing, shelter and these are generally discriminated against in the field of education,
employment as well as housing just because of their mental disability. In this, most of the people
who are generally having mental illness are living in the extreme impoverishment conditions
which in results can impact over people's capability to gain the access to an appropriate care,
segregate into a community as well as retrieve from their diseases. In context with the case study,
these such legislations can generally help Charles to enhance his well-being and can connect him
with the social activities which is being lack somewhere. The improvements in the legislation
can provoke him to get involve with other people and also make interaction with their family,
friends and his surrounding people. By having such policies and the legislations in a community
can make Charles to protect him against from any injury or harms. These such legislations can
also make him to access the mental health services which are generally provided by the
community health services (van Weeghel and et. al., 2019).
The general presence of the mental health legislations can aid the public who are having
the mental illnesses so as to get the possible appropriate treatment as well as care to the people
who needed it the most. In contrast with the basic key standards of mental well-being illness, an
individual with mental health illness must be given the treatment which is based in the society
except certain conditions that is if there is a risk of any injury or harm towards the other people
or if the treatment can only be given to an institutional settings.
The services of the community mental well-being is a treatment philosophy which is
based on the social models of the psychiatric care that usually advocates that a comprehensive
range of the mental well-being services can be readily accessible to every members of the
society. An integration of the community based rehabilitation, specific community mental health
programs, and the integration of primary well-being care services are generally the most
common models of the Community based Mental Health Services (Wu, Feldman, Koo and
Marangell, 2018).

CONCLUSION
In United Kingdom, the mixed anxiety and the depression is the very common issues
related to the mental illness which usually occurs having measure such as 7.8% of the public
meeting the criteria for diagnosis. About 4-10% of the people are experiencing the depression in
their lifetime. In UK, for these such common issues of mental health, the general practitioners
can provides a proper diagnosis so that people are able to overcome their illness. The mental
well-being issues involves such as an individual's emotional, social as well as psychological
well-being. Such illness can generally affect the thought process, feelings as well as actions of an
individual. In the above report, there is a discussion about the various legislations or the policies
which usually falls under the Mental Health Act and can provide the assistance towards the
people who are having the mental illness. In the above report, there is also a discussion about the
case study in which a person needs these such legislations so that a person can effective cope
with their mental illness. It is also concluded from the above report that the legislations or the
policies services which are provided by the community mental health team can generally aid the
people so that they can effectively overcome or can deal with their situations.

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