Mental Health and Wellbeing: Investigating the Relation between Physical and Mental Well-being among Emergency Services Workers

This report investigates the relation between physical and mental well-being among emergency services workers, with a focus on police officers facing post-traumatic stress disorder due to the Manchester bombing. It explores the importance of early experiences in childhood for mental health, primal warning signs of mental stress, and interventions to promote healthy methods to overcome stress.

Mental health

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................1
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................1
P1 Investigate relation among physical and mental well-being.............................................1
P2 Evaluate range of psychological and social factors which make influence on mental well-
being of an emergency services workers................................................................................2
M1 Review features of positive mental well-being among people........................................3
D1 Measure influence of positive mental well-being on potency of emergency response....3
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................3
P3 Revaluate importance of early experiences in childhood for mental health.....................3
P4 Explore the primal warning signs of mental stress among people and assist structure given
by public services organisations.............................................................................................4
M2 Study potential profit of early intervention over peoples’ mental well-being and health
with remark to one emergency work......................................................................................5
LO 3.................................................................................................................................................5
P5 Determine interventions which are used to promote healthy methods to overcome stress.5
P6 Revaluate strategies used to build resilience among people............................................6
M3 Measure potential goodness and limitations of use of social media to encourage mental
well-being...............................................................................................................................6
D2 Evaluate a local or national strategy to encourage the resilience and mental well-being of a
limited group among public services sector...........................................................................7
LO 4.................................................................................................................................................7
P7 Account role of supervision in encouraging well-being of public services individuals.. .7
P8 Make personal plan to better own mental health consciousness and well-being as a public
services individuals................................................................................................................7
M4 Analyze impact of family, friends and colleagues on public services individual’ own
mental well-being and health..................................................................................................7
D3 Examine impact of policies which may encourage mental well-being and health in a public
services context......................................................................................................................8

CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Mental well-being is an essential aspect which is follow by every individual to make
themselves well. In addition, mental well-being is referring as the behavioural, cognitive and
emotional well-being of the population. In this, it states about the variable function of the
population which provide their own aspect which is followed and share the thought, feeling and
behaviour that is related with the mental health. The several of people use the term of mental
health in the excessive way which indicate that they are indicating the definition with the absence
of stress, anxiety and many more. Therefore, they have enormous of way and causes which play
role in the development mental health issue (Barkham and et. al., 2019). The mental health
usually affects the daily living which is associated with the daily living, relationship and many
more. In this, they also include physical health and other term which is rationalise the
productivity in the decreased way. It is also help to identify the ways which help to handle the
stress and related with the others. (Torales and et. al., 2019). In this report, the discussion is
based on the police officer who is facing the issue of mental health due to the long working hours
that might affect the mental health. It renders REM cycle as well as Non-REM cycle of the
police officer. The discussion focus on the Greater Manchester police who were force to access
the mental health service due to the PTSD that is occur in 2017 as Manchester Arena bombing
that diagnosed with the PTSD in advance level.
MAIN BODY
LO 1
P1 Investigate relation among physical and mental well-being.
Physical and Mental health are fundamentally linked. In addition, there are number of
multiple associations which is related between the mental health and the chronic physical
situation that they are significantly impact the people quality of life, they are usually show the
aspect of demand on the healthcare and the other publicly funded service and used to generate
consequence to the society and community. In this, the officer is facing the severity PTSD due to
the Manchester bombing which may affect the mental health of police officer. It show the
relationship between the mental and the physical health show the more evident than the area of
the chronic situation (Kadariya, Gautam, and Aro, 2019). Therefore, the association between the
physical health and mental health show the aspect which included as:
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 The poor mental health is referring as the risk factor for the chronic physical condition
and the situation which is related with memory of Bombing area of Manchester.
 People are usually dealing with the chronic mental health issue which have higher risk of
experiencing the physical situation.
 People with the chronic physical condition which is at risk for the formulation of reduced
mental well-being.
In addition, the social determinant of the health is usually impacted the both chronic situation
and the mental health of the police officer who is facing the issue of post-traumatic stress
disease. The key consideration of the prevention which basically include the physicals activity,
access to the nutritious food, ensuring the adequate income and fostering the different aspect that
have inclusion and social support. It helps to develop proper opportunities in order to enhance
protective aspect and also have important impact that minimise the risk factor of mental and the
physical health (Manning and Clayton, 2018).
P2 Evaluate range of psychological and social factors which make influence on mental well-
being of an emergency services workers.
There are wide range of psychological and social factor which may be related with the
police officer that influence on the mental well-being. They mainly include various social factor
which may influence the mental health that include class, race, religion, gender, family and
remembrance which is related with the loss of life due to the Manchester bombing. The stage and
age are also a main cause, and the social role which show the time in the life which show the
proper contribution towards this. Whereas, the effect of traumatic event on the human
functioning is also subject which is based on the study for the number of years. There is a wide
range of abundance of the examined traumatic events from the individual events that include
motor vehicle crashes and sexual assault towards any community. It is also understanding by the
approach of wide events such as natural disaster such as commercial plain incident and
community violence. In this, the exposure of the traumatic events is independent and specific to
the context of individual. Both in terms of psychological and physiological responses they can
vary accordingly. The biological, social context, and the genetic make-up, past experience and
fixture experience and the expectation which is related with the interaction with the characteristic
of the traumatic events. In general, the exposure of the traumatic events which help to show the
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enhanced rate of the acute stress, disorder and major depression, post-traumatic stress disorder
and many more (Rosenfeld and et. al., 2018).
M1 Review features of positive mental well-being among people.
The good mental well-being is very essential aspect for the individual to grow effectively.
In this, the good mental health refers as the absence of diagnosable mental health issues.
Moreover, the good mental health is usually useful in order to protect against the development of
main issues which can create hindrance in the development of well-being and resilience. In
addition, the police officer who is facing the issue of post-traumatic stress disease forumlate the
positive mental well-being is usually defined by the ability of an police officer in order to fulfil
the several key function and activities that include the ability of learning by the individual that
provide an aspect of information to formulate well-being. Moreover, the ability to express, feel
and manage the range of negative and positive emotions towards the individual that derived a
conceptual factor for the good mental health. The ability to form and maintain good relationship
within the society or community is also essential aspect of appropriate mental health. Therefore,
the ability in order to cope with and manage the changes that happens day to day life with an
individual is very essential to ignore the stress and frustration and manage the well-being among
themselves (Mak, Bu, and Fancourt, 2021).
D1 Measure influence of positive mental well-being on potency of emergency response.
There is a number of people who usually understand the consequences of post-traumatic
stress disorder that is relatively and useful after the scope of emergencies. In addition to this, the
people are usually formulating and it disorder and depression that more likely to formulate the
issues with misuse of alcohol. Then, they are followed the complications of post-traumatic stress
disorder the mental health in emergencies with the World health organisation various aspect that
measure impact of positive mental well-being on the potency of emergency responses. It
indicates some common disease which formulate within the person as per their day-to-day
activities. In addition, the ignorance, neglect and isolation are the such behaviour that provide a
symbolism that the person are usually facing the issues that related with the mental issues. The
positive mental health creates a scenario which is useful to develop effective thought, feeling,
and many more towards the emergency responses (Jin and et. al., 2020).
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LO 2
P3 Revaluate importance of early experiences in childhood for mental health.
Early experiences usually provide architecture to shape the developing brain that they have
core aspect of foundation towards the mental health. In addition, the destruction of development
processes usually the child abilities towards the acquisition and associating to other people with
the long learning with implications. By enhancing the children's environment of relationship
when the experience is play a vital role within the society and community for the development of
well-being and resilience. The significance shows that they usually code many costly shows
consisting failure to complete high school and homelessness. Moreover, the important mental
well-being issues are also organised in the young children which shows the characteristics of
anxiety disorder, care deficit hyperactivity disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, conduct
disorder and many more within the early age. Therefore, these all aspect are based on the various
level that they have explain the early sign and symptoms which require support and care
(Pasanen and et. al., 2019).
P4 Explore the primal warning signs of mental stress among people and assist structure given by
public services organisations.
Stress is outlined as a normal response to the pressure of day-to-day life. They are usually
filled with fear, anger and sadness and other emotions which is considered as a normal emotional
response. There are some of the early signs which is related with the emotional stress are
heaviness in the chest and enhance the heart rate, headache, shortness of breath, dizziness,
feeling tired and depressive. Over the time, for gaining weight changes in the eating behaviours
(Javakhishvili and et. al., 2020). In addition to this, there are other mental or behavioural
symptoms basically include being emotional as compared to usual feeling, overwhelmed and
trouble and the keeping of tracks of things and remembering the equipment or the things in the
proper way. In addition, the person also feel difficulty in making the decision, problem solving
and facing challenges and focusing of the things. Moreover, they also create habit towards the
alcohol or drug consumption in order to make a sense to reduce the emotional stress. The
services that are usually support the community or the social areas which is the organisational
support by providing job training, knowledge, food housing, safety, and well-being that create
mental stability among the people. There is other factor that provide the proper respect in decline
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in the scenarios of mental illness with the help of public organisation that create awareness
campaigns and other factor with the help of digitalization to reduce the issues related with the
mental stress (Paukkunen, 2019).
M2 Study potential profit of early intervention over peoples’ mental well-being and health with
remark to one emergency work.
The primal intervention is used to minimise impact of psychogenic health issues and mental
conditions by using the proper approach of intervention that is stated for the identified risk
population, people experiencing mental well-being issues for the first time and an individual's
who is also experiencing some primal signs that shows the recurrence of mental issues. In
addition, the mental health issues are usually appearing in the context of early adulthood or the
adolescence that can seriously create hindrance in the school, in work and family relationship.
Therefore, at also show immediate and potential long-term negative personal and social outcome
which include substance abuse for the behavioural issues. Moreover, the complex mental health
issues are usually appeared in the childhood and can create implications on the early
development and long-term mental health and well-being. Therefore, United kingdoms or other
related countries they are usually experience some of the specific issues with lay onset of mental
illness. Therefore, it is also analysed that the benefit of the early intervention on the individual
can develop the well-being and resilience while taking the reference of emergency services in the
effective ways (Savage and et. al., 2020).
LO 3
P5 Determine interventions which are used to promote healthy methods to overcome stress.
There is the intercession which can be used in order to promote a healthy well-being
method to overcome stress generally occurs in people having mental issues. There is a secondary
level intervention that generally seek to equip the people having skills and capabilities in order to
manage the stress and can effectively promote the health as well as to furnish people with having
opportunities to engage in the activities that can effectively decrease the stress. There are the
cognitive behavioural therapies that can specifically contribute towards maintaining the
psychological distress as well as the behavioural responses that are quite problematic towards
stress. The therapy can effectively address stress by aiding people to determine the various
misconceptions about nature as well as cause of stress. It can also support people to improve
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people's new behavioural responses towards a particular stressful situation. In addition to this,
there is also a mindfulness training that must be given to people who are having stress. The
training can generally aim to promote the states of mindfulness as well as new adaptive
responses towards emotions and negative thoughts. It is mainly an idea that can effectively foster
the psychological health by generally aiding people to dissociate the negative ideas as well as the
emotions from emotional responses and dysfunctional behaviours(Stress management
interventions: Improving subjective psychological well-being in the workplace, 2018).
P6 Revaluate strategies used to build resilience among people.
There is various varieties of dimensions to cope with stress but when talking about
constructive mental well-being, one of them is resilience. The resilience is generally a cognitive
process of being able to adapt well as well as it can bounce back rapidly in times of stress. In
this, improving resilience can effectively aid people to overcome adaptively as well as can
bounce back after the difficulties or challenges. In this, the strategies that can effectively build
resilience in an individual such as individual must develop or improve the skills as well as
practice the stress management activities like exercise, yoga and meditation that can be
specifically used to cope the stress and its associated components. In order to build resilience,
people must eat healthy food and do exercise on daily basis. People must develop a social
connection so that they can effectively able to share their emotions and feelings that actually
trouble them a lot. People must develop the problem-solving skills that can help them to make
solutions to the issues arises more positively without creating any stress (10 Ways to Build Your
Resilience, 2020).
M3 Measure potential goodness and limitations of use of social media to encourage mental well-
being.
The people who are actually being connected with social media are specifically involves
benefits if people are connected with social media. It can efficiently grow awareness about
essential problems towards a number of people. Being socially connected can make people to
combat their loneliness as well as can make them to share their views and feelings with others so
that they can feel satisfied or relaxed. The use of social media can positively gives a risk-free
space where any people can enquire questions as well as approach a countless well-being
resources (10 Ways to Build Your Resilience, 2020).
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D2 Evaluate a local or national strategy to encourage the resilience and mental well-being of a
limited group among public services sector.
Across country, the national mental well-being scheme generally involve aims to
encourage the various mental well-being of community people and can effectively prevent the
improvement of mental well-being issues and its associated disorders and positively decrease the
influence of mental illness on people, their families and across community.
LO 4
P7 Account role of supervision in encouraging well-being of public services individuals.
The role of supervision while encouraging health of public services workers such as it
can positively gives staff workers and managers the opportunity to discuss the various gaps of
skills as well as the needs of development or improvements and can effectively put the action
plans in a place in order to address them effectively. The supervision can also ensure that staff
workers involve enough knowledge and skills to be confident in their job role it is also analyse
within the regions of Manchester (Effective supervision, 2020).
P8 Make personal plan to better own mental health consciousness and well-being as a public
services individuals.
The personal plan to improve mental health consciousness and well-being can involve
such as:
 Develop connection with variety of people such that good relationships can be
established with people as it is quite essential for mental health.
 An individual must be physically active. As being physically active is quite effective for
physical well-being and fitness as well.
 People must develop or learn the new skills such as problem solving skills, effectively
communication and many more.
 People must pay attention towards the present moments i.e., mindfulness (5 steps to
mental well-being, 2019).
M4 Analyze impact of family, friends and colleagues on public services individual’ own mental
well-being and health.
In this, the family members having psychogenic illness generally be an highly a stressful
time as well as reducing stress may drive out several reactions like somatic issues such as
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reduced appetite, fatigue, migraine and many more. There is also emotional and cognitive issues
such as depression, anxiety, anger and so on (Does mental health affect and impinge on family
relationships?, 2022).
D3 Examine impact of policies which may encourage mental well-being and health in a public
services context
The policies which are involved in mental health can specifically defines a vision for
future that in turn can aid to found a benchmark for treatment, prevention as well as
rehabilitation of various mental illness and t can effectively promote the mental well-being
across community (Policy Priorities, 2022).
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, it is analysed that mental well-being illness can make a bad
striking on an individual's life. It can badly affect individual's daily living activities which can
results in increasing stress, cannot handle relationships with people. From the above study, it is
effectively identified that there are the ways or methods that can help people to increase their
well-being and can effectively able to cope with mental illnesses. Through resilience, people can
able to manage their daily living such as can able to perform daily activities such that, it can
make people independent. It is also identified that performing exercise, yoga and meditation can
be an effective way to overcome components of mental illness that can contribute towards stress,
depression, anxiety and many more. In the above report, it is also determined that connecting
with social media and social friends can help people to increase their well-being by sharing their
emotions and feelings with friends can make them feel relaxed. In order to manage or cope with
stress causing mental illness, there are the cognitive behavioural therapies and mindfulness
trainings which can positively help people to reduce the influence of stress and other components
that can cause mental issues.
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