SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL WELLBEING

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Social and emotional wellbeing is used by most aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
persons to give a description of the social, expressive and social welfare of a person. The term is
used to acknowledge the fact that the connection to land, culture and community are vital to
individuals and are able to influence their wellbeing (Rosalie , Stephen , Byron , Tammy , &
Sheree , 2019). Mental health on the other hand is also used frequently when discussing personal
wellbeing. The term mental health is used by the non-indigenous persons to give a description of
the way in which a person reasons and feel, the methods they use to manage with and take part in
their daily life. Individuals are thought of as being mentally fit if they do not have any mental
diseases (Gee, Dudgeon, Schultz, Hart, & Kelly, 2014).
Most aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander persons trust that psychological health and
mental disease give too much attention on challenges and do not give proper description to all
factors that comprise and affect welfare. As an outcome of this, most aboriginal and Torres
islander people prefer to use the term societal and expressive welfare because it fits properly
with a universal view of healthiness. The most important way is to think of mental health and
mental illness as part of an individual’s social and emotional well-being (Zubrick, et al., 2014)
Emotional health refers to a situation when one is having both the awareness of his or her
emotions and the capability of managing and expressing those feelings in an appropriate manner.
There is difference in the way both process information and express information (Zubrick, et al.,
2014).
A portion of mental health is concerned with how the mind processes and understands
info and experiences. On the other hand, emotional health involves a person’s capability to
manage and express their feelings that arise from what the individuals learned and experienced
(Zubrick, et al., 2014).

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Another difference is that with mental health, one can experience mental health issues
while keeping up with emotional health and vice versa. For instance, while struggling with
mental health challenge like having low energy for daily tasks, an individual can still have
emotional health getting effective methods to effectively manage the lack of energy.in this case,
we can say that one of these can thrive while the other one struggles (Jonelle, 2014)
There is also a huge difference in the scope of the two terminologies
Mental health does not only involve itself with the degree with which individuals
understand and process what they experience. Mental health also includes an individual’s
capability to carefully reason through decisions and keep up with steady and focused attention
duration. The increased scope of mental health makes it so different from emotional health,
which possesses the more focused definition of actively understanding and managing emotions
(Calma, Dudgeon, & Bray, 2017).
The aboriginal Torres Islander people generally perceive mental health as a person’s
ability to process information while emotional health as the capability of a person to express
feelings based on information that a person processes (Jonelle, 2014).
Question 2
The development of the indigenous principal healthcare services came up from the
incapability of the wellbeing services in Australia to meet the wants of the indigenous societies.
The evolution was a reaction to the realism that the indigenous people were in most cases
exempted and marginalized from the healthcare services. The solution was meant to establish
PHC services specifically for the indigenous people.
The first PHC services in Australia were launched in 1971.Today; there are more than
130 Aboriginal well-ordered PHC community controlled wellbeing services in the whole nation.

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There exist several reasons as to why the native PHC services are more likely the main services
used in improving the health of indigenous people.one of the basic motives is that indigenous
PHC services are in most cases curbed by their native communities and hence they are reinforced
by the values and values of the groups that they offer services to. Their success is also as a result
of the comprehensive services that programs that comprise treatment and management,
prevention and health promotion and also addressing the social determinants of health (Jonelle,
2014). The AMS was founded in Redfern. The project had cooperative origins. Its foundation
was set by Gordon Briscoe and Dr. Fred Hollows among others. These experts were concerned
about the health challenges that the aboriginals faced in Sydney. The sisters of mercy gave the
property in which the first aboriginal medical service was founded to the Redfern Aboriginal
community. The service today offers medicinal, dental, aged care and alcohol services to
approximately 50,000 patients annually. The modern design of AMS was designed by Merrima
Company (Jonelle, 2014) .
The principles of primary healthcare include equity, access, and empowerment, self-
determination of the community and inter-sectoral partnership. Primary healthcare is the first
level of contact that persons, families and communities have with the healthcare system. In
Australia, this comprises personal care with the promotion of health, preventing diseases and
advancement of the community. It also incorporates the interconnecting foundations of equity,
access, and self-determination of the community. Primary healthcare also encompasses the
comprehension of the social, economic, cultural and political determinants of health. In the
context of indigenous PHC service, there are eight characteristics that align with the primary
healthcare including; accessible health services, participation of the community, continuous
quality improvement, skilled labor force, equity in administering healthcare services to the

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aboriginal people, flexibility in the approach to healthcare, holistic healthcare, self-
determination and empowerment. Employing skilled workforce assisted in embedding the
cultural values of the community, customs and services (Gee, Dudgeon, Schultz, Hart, & Kelly,
2014).
Question 3
Screening for SEWB has increased huge attention in Australia. Since it empowers early
distinguishing proof and the executives of customers' SEWB concerns, evidence proposes that
SEWB improvement may require an emphasis on both diminishing stressors (chances) and
improving ability to adapt to these, just as upgrading defensive variables. Be that as it may, the
evaluation and the executives of SEWB is a mind boggling and testing task, due to a limited
extent to a scarcity of proof about what may be viewed as proof based SEWB practice. There is a
nonappearance of national rules for SEWB screening and the board, a scarcity of reasonable
appraisal instruments, and few distributed assistance or program assessments (Erika , Janya ,
Veronica , Barbara , Ross , & Irina , 2017). Given the absence of proof, PHSs have overseen
SEWB worries among their patients through assorted methodologies, for example, formal
screening approaches routinely or through wellbeing checks or casual and shrewd screening.
Different projects have incorporated those that forestall and care for emotional well-being issues
and substance abuse, arrangement of network and social ability, family bolster projects, and
support for lodging, welfare, and different administrations (Erika , Janya , Veronica , Barbara ,
Ross , & Irina , 2017).
Healthcare providers spend most of their time at work.it is therefore definite that they
develop friendships. The development of new friends can influence the social wellbeing and the

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caregiver’s level of engagement. Healthy relationships can have a great effect both mentally and
physically. They are used to support emotional wellness is the search for continuous growth and
balance in the seven dimensions of wellness. Most of the people think of wellness in physical
aspect only. The term is used to invoke thoughts, weight management and blood pressure among
others (Erika , Janya , Veronica , Barbara , Ross , & Irina , 2017). Emotional wellness is much
more than physical health since it integrates physical, mental and spiritual well being
The physical dimension of healthcare is utilized in the aboriginal community when in a
variety of healthy behaviors including; having adequate exercise, good nutrition and abstinence.
It helps aboriginals in learning about and recognizing indications of sicknesses, acquiring steady
medical checkups and protecting oneself from injuries and harm. The aboriginals’ health habits
are developed by physical wellness and this adds to their life (Erika , Janya , Veronica , Barbara ,
Ross , & Irina , 2017).
AMS also offers emotional wellness. The healthcare providers offer warm services and
make the patients feel loved. This also leads to the expression of human emotions such as
happiness and revelation of the level of satisfaction. Provision of emotional health leads to
advanced self-acceptance among patients. The ability of healthcare givers to interact successfully
with the aboriginal people and to live up to the expectations of the patients the caregivers meet
assist in developing communication skills and developing intimacy with others. Emotional health
within the aboriginal community assists members in generating a sustenance system of friends
and family members (Calma, Dudgeon, & Bray, 2017). Through emotional health, AMS helps in
the development of respect for oneself and respect for others. AMS helps in instilling a set of
beliefs, values or values that assist in giving course to the aboriginals’ lives. Through the
provision of social wellness, the aboriginals find meaning and purpose of human existence and to

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raise things that cannot be enthusiastically clarified or ones which are complex. The AMS helps
individuals in exploring spiritual core, spending time while meditating and seeing chances for
development in the encounters that life fetches to a person.

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