Mental Health Disorders in Nurses
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UNDERSTANDING THECONTEXT OF MENTALHEALTH CARE DELIVERY
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1Definition and causes of mental disorder...............................................................................1History of mental illness.........................................................................................................1Effect of mental health illness................................................................................................2Treatment and support............................................................................................................2Grand nursing theory..............................................................................................................2Social theory...........................................................................................................................3Recovery movement theory ...................................................................................................3CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
INTRODUCTIONMental health disorders are one of the major challenges faced by nurses in there practice.There are various key concepts that impact people with mental health issues. These issuesinvolve problems in personal life, feeling low or lonely, family history of suffering from mentalhealth disorder, physical abuse, violence or abuse faced by individual. These can be the reasonthat can impact individuals mental health (McLaughlin et.al. (2015). It has been analysed thatpatient suffering from mental disorders are underpinned with the feeling of anxiety, depression,guilt and sadness. All these feelings made and individual weak, isolated and lonely. This reducesthe ability and efficiency of an individual to work. Patient suffering from mental health disorder are not interconnected with society. Theysuffer from social isolation and loneliness making them more stressed and weak. It criticallyimpacts there well-being. Report lays emphasis on various theories that can be used to makepatient aware about there well-being. Further it discusses experiences of me (as a future nurse)relating to the theories with mental health nursing. Paper critically highlights that how thesetheories can improve the health outcome of patient suffering from mental health disorders.Report discusses various theories like recovery movement, social theory and grand nursingtheory. MAIN BODYDefinition and causes of mental disorderMental health disorder are characterised by depressed moods or change in cognitivebehaviour. It hampers the quality of life of an individual suffering from it. In order to cure it,nurses needs to engage in providing various therapies such as cognitive behavioural, speech,psycho and talk therapy. These therapies have an aim to develop various ways of thinking andbehaving that can assist patients in reducing there psychological distress. I as a future nurse havealso initiated various theories such as social, grand nursing and recovery movement theory thatwill support service users in improving there mental health conditions (Moran et.al. (2016). History of mental illnessMental health disorder has a history, it can be caused due to factors such as personalproblem, professional issue or family history. I have selected various theories in order to enhancehealth outcome of patient suffering from mental health disorder. Grand theory has supported mein designing the framework that has helped me in understanding the nursing practices. With the1
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