Healthcare Services and Concerns for Young People in Armidale NSW

This report provides an overview of the healthcare services available in Armidale, NSW, for young people aged 14-21. It details the range of services offered, including those related to Aboriginal health, mental health, sexual health, and various specialized nursing services. The report also highlights key concerns faced by young people, such as mental illness, suicide, and the impact of factors like family dysfunction and geographical isolation. The report references specific statistics regarding mental health disorders and suicide rates among young Australians, emphasizing the need for early intervention and support. The findings underscore the importance of addressing these issues and providing accessible healthcare services to support the well-being of young people in the community. The report concludes by referencing relevant literature supporting the discussed information.

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Table of Contents
Explaining the services available at Armidale NSW 2350 for the young people who are aging
between 14-21 years....................................................................................................................3
Presenting the main concerns that is faced by young people at the time of taking services.......4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

Explaining the services available at Armidale NSW 2350 for the young people who are aging
between 14-21 years
Armidale is seen as the health Centre located at hospital campus that offers wide range of
the community based services. It is the centre that offers range of healthcare services to
community on the basis of their health. The services that is available in the Armidale NSW
includes Aboriginal Health care services specialised in mental health, sexual health, promotion
and the health education. It facilitates extended and the ongoing care services which involves
foot clinic, podiatry services, program relating to transitional aged care, clinical
Neuropsychologist (Barrett-Lennard, 2017). Moreover, under this it also provides support for
the Dementia worker, education regarding Diabetes, Consultancy services in relation to Dietitian,
Respiratory & cardiac rehabilitation etc. Armidale facilitates general services like wound care,
continence care, medication related support, nursing care in home and the general reviewing of
the health conditions. The centre focuses on serving specialised kind of nursing services that
includes Nurse practitioner with regards to diabetes, for aged care they it offers transitional
Nurse as a practitioner, Consultant of Clinical Nurse in respect of continence, Dementia,
Respiratory etc. Furthermore, in context of nursing services it also provide for palliative
care, women's health and specialised management of wound. Under its family and the youth
services there are many services which is been facilitated by the hospital. This involves
audiometry within which hearing assessments for all kinds of the ages is provided. Counselling
services specifically for couples, families and an individuals facilitated by the social workers and
the psychologists. Nurses for family health in which home visits is been made for an assessment
and the screening, support to the youngsters referring to post natal stage of depression and
parenting advice (Wright, 2019). Services in relation to sexual Assault is also been facilitated in
which information and an education is been given to the young & adults along with ongoing and
the crisis counselling. Service of speech pathology is also been availed within which intervention
and an assessment for young and the adults with the communication or the swallowing
difficulties is facilitated.
Health promotion services are also provided to the young aged people under which
campaigns are organised for developing awareness among the community, information and the
health education. In addition all the above services, multicultural health services is also one of
the major service that is facilitated to the people from the linguistically and culturally different

backgrounds. Alcohol & the drug services is also available at Armidale in which counselling and
therapy services are offered to youth who are facing with drug and alcohol related issues.
Information regarding hepatitis C and program of syringe and the needle is been introduced in
consideration with detoxification management (Bartik, Maple and McKay, 2020). Armidale
emphasize on facilitating mental healthcare services with an inclusion of the adolescents &
children with an objective of preventing the promotion and an early intervening activities.
Presenting the main concerns that is faced by young people at the time of taking services
The major concerns that the young aged people were facing at the time of availing the
services of Armidale includes mental illness, suicide etc. Young people were been identified as
causing with higher level of mental health needs. The common factors which acts the reason of
causing such issue includes family dysfunction, geographical isolation, use of alcohol and an
effect of the bullying. The factors like loss & grief, adjusting to the life in an aged care facilities,
social isolation were counted as the factors that are contributing to high level of needs of young
people (Douglas and et.al., 2019). With respect to suicide prevention requirement, rate of the
hospitalisation because of an intentional harm to self were deemed as more in age of 15-25 year
of the age group in comparison to the other ages. Hospitalisation that results from an intentional
harm to oneself for an aboriginal people is the NSW were seen as more and more higher than for
the non-indigenous people.
Needs in relation to the suicide were been perceived as very high particularly in the rural
areas with the social isolation as a significant or important contributing factor. Suicide related
with needs of the young people ageing between 12-25 were determined as very high. The needs
for such group were been attached with bullying at the school and by way of the social media
sites. Lack of services and the approaches regarding an early intervention was been identified as
the higher service need specially for the young people. Particular intervention services like early
psychosis was determined as the specific need.
Moreover, it has been analysed that in the year 2015, mental disorders were depicted as
more prevalent in the young males as 16.3% than in females as 11.5%. The most common type
of the mental disorder that has been experienced by the young Australians stated as ADHD of
percentage value equating to 7.4% that is followed by an anxiety disorders of around 6.9%,
depressive disorder of approx 2.8% and in conducting disorder or 2.1% . In year 2013-14,
Australians who are aged between 12-25 years has indicated a high level of the psychological

distress as one of the key major issue. Suicide was seen s the main issue or concern for an
interview participant around all the communities. Younger people or youth aged between 12-25
years reported as the group of population commonly experiencing a suicidal ideation or in
completing the suicide (Douglas and et.al., 2020). Factor regarding to which higher proportion of
the people has agreed in contributing to the suicide involving a poor understanding and
prevalence about 83%, alcohol and the use of drugs around 82% and due to the family
breakdown of 76%. Thus, from the assessment it has ben concluded that the young people are
facing the issues with reference to suicide, mental illness and service needs as being homeless.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Barrett-Lennard, G. T., 2017. The “Armidale” Residential Workshops: Concept and Beginnings.
In Experiential Learning for Professional Helpers (pp. 1-8). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Bartik, W. J., Maple, M. and McKay, K., 2020. Youth suicide bereavement and the continuum
of risk. Crisis.
Douglas, L. and et.al., 2020. Reported outcomes for young people who mentor their peers: a
literature review. Mental Health Practice. 23(1).
Douglas, L. J. and et.al., 2019. Rewriting stories of trauma through peer‐to‐peer mentoring for
and by at‐risk young people. International journal of mental health nursing. 28(3). pp.744-
756.
Wright, K., 2019. Place Remembered: Unearthing Hidden Histories in Armidale Aboriginal
Community Garden.