Mental Health and Wellbeing in Emergency Service Workers

Unit 2: Mental Health
and Wellbeing

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1 ...........................................................................................................................................1
P1. Exploring link among physical addition to mental heath......................................................1
P2. Assessing range of social as well as psychological factors which impacts towards mental
health addition to well being of emergency service employee....................................................2
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
P3. Reviewing significance of early experiences in childhood for mental health.......................3
P4. Exploring early warning signs of mental stress within individuals along with the support
structure that is provided by public service company..................................................................3
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................4
P5. Identification of interventions which could be used for promoting healthy methods for
coping with stress.........................................................................................................................4
P6. Reviewing strategies which could be used for the purpose of building resilience within
individuals....................................................................................................................................5
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................5
P7. Describing role of supervision to support well being of public service workers..................5
P8. Producing personal plan for enhancing own mental awareness as well as well being as
public service workers.................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Mental health and well being is a state of condition in which a person realises their
competences, deal with normal stress level, makes adequate contributions within a community
and work productively (Arslan, Allen and Tanhan, 2020). Expressing and managing range
emotions, ability to feel, express and learn, maintaining good relationships, etc are some of signs
that shows good mental health and well being of an individual. For the project, selected case is of
Grenfell Tower Fire which occurred on June 14, 2017. In this case, a fire broke out in twenty
four storey Grenfell Tower block of flats at West London, UK. More than 70 people were
injured, 72 died and 223 escaped. To help[ firefighters, NHS played important role in this case as
around 100 NHS trust took responsibility to provide urgent and emergency medical services to
people.
The report discusses factors which influence mental health addition to wellbeing, values
of early interventions and assesses strategies to promote healthy techniques for coping with
stress. It also reviews measures which public service employees could undertake for promoting
mental health addition to resilience.
TASK 1
P1. Exploring link among physical addition to mental heath
Mental health is delineated as state of well being in which all people realises their own
abilities, perform fruitfully, manage normal stress and makes huge contributions in society. It is
well being of emotional, psychological and social levels of an individual. A person having good
mental health have aspects to maintain healthy relationships, manage complexities of change
addition to express wider emotions (Bhugra and et.al., 2019). In contrary, physical health is said
to state in which an individual is able to perform activities concerned with occupations, daily
practices and sports. In case with Grenfell Tower fire, it impacted adversely on mental and
physical health of people and emergency service workers. Professionals of NHS says that
mental and physical health have great linkage as poor mental mental acts as risk factors for
chronic physical situation. In accordance to the case, people who suffered with serious mental
health situation are at great risk of experiencing degenerative physical conditions and population
that have chronic physical issues are generally at great risk to build poor mental health.
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