Mental Health: Self and Others

MENTAL HEALTH:
Self and Others

Contents
INTRODCUTION.......................................................................................................................................3
PART 1.......................................................................................................................................................3
1. a. The Mental Status Examination.......................................................................................................3
1. b. Clinical Formulation Table..............................................................................................................5
1. c. Plan for Nursing Care......................................................................................................................5
1. d. Clinical handover.............................................................................................................................6
PART 2.......................................................................................................................................................6
2. a. Identify and discuss one strategy that you would use to develop a therapeutic relationship with the
(selected person) and justify why this strategy is important for this person?...........................................6
2. b. Describe how the specific nursing strategy relates to the Recovery Model in Mental Health..........7
2. c. Identify one challenge that you may encounter when working with this person..............................8
2. d. Discuss one strategy that you can use to overcome the challenge....................................................8
CONCLUSION...........................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES............................................................................................................................................9

INTRODCUTION
Mental health is considered as level of psychological well being or situation related to the
absence of mental illness. Moreover, it also considered as situation when an individual is
functioning at the satisfactory stage of behavioral as well as emotional adjustment. There are
several situations which a person experience due to difficulties related to mental health disorder
such as depression, risk of suicide, schizophrenia and so on (Bao and et.al., 2020). The respective
report is based on case study related to the depression; the case is based on Mary who is at
responsible position in a large accounting organization. She lives with her husband Jim and three
children currently her family is noticing some huge change in behaviour and leaving condition
due to depression. The respective report include evaluation related to the holistic assessment and
planning in which they include mental status examination, clinical formulation table, plan related
to nursing care and clinical handover. On the other hand it also explains about therapeutic
engagement as well as clinical interpretation.
PART 1
1. a. The Mental Status Examination
Mental State Assessment
 Appearance & behaviour
 Appearance
 Motor behaviour
 Attitude to situation and
interviewer
Mary appears tidy and clean, she dressed in the
fashionable t-shirt and jeans along with sandals. Her
dark hair is brushed but in greasy and lank looking as
well as she is wearing no makeup. According to her
attitude she is feeling low and quiet at the situation.
 Speech form
 Rate
 Volume
 Quantity of information
 Speech content
 Disturbance of meaning
The speech form of Mary at the situation is low and she
sits quality with hands clasped in her lap as well as her
eyes are downcast (Chen and et.al., 2020). The speech
content of respective person is low and less confident as
compare to the normal days as she not like to interact