University Project: Mental Health System in Australia, Policies

This report provides an overview of the Australian mental health system, focusing on the impact of various acts and policies on care providers. It begins with an introduction highlighting the prevalence of mental health issues among youths in Australia and the importance of effective treatment. The discussion section examines key legislation including social policies, the Equality Act (2010), Human Rights Acts (1998), Mental Capacity Act (2005), and Mental Health Policy and Planning Unit Act (2006). The report emphasizes the significance of these acts for care providers in delivering equitable and respectful treatment, discussing how these legal frameworks influence the roles and responsibilities of healthcare workers. It highlights the importance of understanding these acts to ensure proper support for patients with mental health issues. The conclusion reinforces the necessity of these acts for effective healthcare delivery, referencing the impact of the acts on the health care supports to treat their customers effectively. The report concludes with a list of references used for the research.

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Introduction:
Mental health system is one of the major mental issues seen in youths across globe in the era of
technology. There are various types of mental health system which are making a major impact on
the society of Australia. Mental health system represents the issues of adopting high rates of
school failure, unstable employment, poor family background, social functioning. Mental health
system reflects on mental issues, health issues of the youths. In this way, proper treatments are
needed to reduce the issues from the society. Many acts like; social policies, human right acts,
equality acts, mental capacity acts and so on which have been promoted by the government of
Australia to reduce the major impact of mental health system from the communities. In this way,
the health care workers should be acknowledged about the impacts of mental and health issues
and also the policies that the Australian government have introduced. The paper is all about the
impacts of these laws on the mental health system care providers and the importance of
understanding the acts properly while they are providing supports to the mental health system
patients.
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Discussion
There are several acts to reduce the mental and health issues among the youth of Australia from
the society. The care providers should understand the importance of these acts while they are
providing the supports to the mental health system patients. The importance of the mental health
acts for the care workers are given below:
Social policy:
Social policy responses on the activities of people in the society. It is mainly focused on the
wellbeing, social security and also health care and social care. According to the social policy, the
health care organizations will be determined by the implementation of the factors that are playing
a great role in the social culture in the Australia (Stone, 2009). According to the act, every people
has a right to get proper treatment, and they can get immediate care support no matter the
condition.
Equality Act (2010):
Equality Act is all about to reduce the discrimination of the equality from the community.
However, in the case of mental health system, the person with a mental health system should not
be discriminated from the rights and their equality in the society of Australia (Stone, 2009).
According to the equality act, the equality of economy, equality of education and so on should be
dedicated to the people who are leaving in society. Apart from that, for the people who are
suffering from the mental health system, should be treated as a general human being and they
also have a right to get proper rights on the equality in the society of Australia. Getting proper
treatment from the care providers is also a part of the equality act (Chaloner, 2013).
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However, the equality act should be maintained within the health organization. Depending on
that, the care providers should be aware of the acts and the ways in which the people should be
treated according to the equality purpose. In the case of mental health system patients, the care
providers should be aware of the equality purpose of the patients (Long, 2016). To maintain the
act, they have to provide the similar service to cure them. Another way, they have to put
common concentration on the mental health system patients.
Human rights acts (1998):
Every people have their rights to express themselves. According to the human right acts, every
people should be treated well and with dignity and respect. In this way, the human right act will
be established in the society and the organizations. According to the human right acts the racism,
sex discrimination and caste discrimination will not be tolerated in the society. To reduce these
discriminations, people should be aware of the acts and its regulations. In this way, a proper
implementation of the human right act will be delivered in the Australian society. Nevertheless,
it is also very much important to implement the human right act (1998) in the health care
organization to treat all patients equally (Benjamin, 2013). Care supporters cannot make
differences among the patients with their sex race and other factors. They have to provide the
best support by installing the setting of human right acts among them. In this way, the employees
should be aware of the act when they will provide the care support to the mental health system
patients. They are also a part of society, and they have the right to get proper treatment from the
care-houses. In this way, the health support providers should acknowledge the human right acts
before working on any mental health system patient (Benjamin, 2013).
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Mental capacity act 2005:
Mental capacity represents the factors which the person can store in their mind. In other words, it
is a process when a person stores learnings in their brains to recall them in future. Depending on
that, some people don't have the capacity to learn much, and there are many people who can
learn much and more than any other person (Fennell, 2014). In this way, the people who cannot
store many learnings they are the victims of learning disabilities. In this way, they cannot
remember certain things when they need to recall them.' However, there are some acts and
policies which are very much important for the mental health system people to make them cure
with the help of people and also with the help of practitioners. Amongst them, the Mental
Capacity Act (2005) is one of the most important act which can make a better treatment for the
patients. The weakest part of mental capacity patients is that they cannot make proper decisions
on any certain time. Thus, it is very much important for the care providers to meet all the
objectives of the act to provide the best support to the patients in the health and social care
workplaces. The primary focus of the act is to make proper decisions on behalf of adults and
child who are suffering from the disease (Fennell, 2014). The Parliament of Australia has planned
the equality act in the year of 2005 to make all legal and regulatory frameworks more dedicated
towards the people who are dragging themselves backwards due to their disabilities. Thus, it is
one of the most improved and ideal steps that has been taken by the Australian government to
introduce them in front of the society (Hunt, 2012). However, implementation of the act is much
needed in the health care organizations to improve the care process for the people with mental
capacity lagging. The care supporters should understand how to make proper decisions for the
person while they are treating the patient. As the patient is inactive in the case of taking any
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crucial decision, the care providers will support them with proper judgments and also with the
best suggestion for the future activities (Hunt, 2012).
Mental health policy and planning unit act (2006): this act was passed by authorization of
Australian government. This act is to reduce the mental and health issues of youths of the
Australia. This act is to reduce the youth’s mental and health issues by the execution of proper
planning.
Develop comprehensive mental health services: Government of Australia dedicated to
sending inclusive, community –center, psychological health amenities for people with cerebral
disorders and their relations and chief emphasis on the nationwide mental healthiness policy.
Treatment of mental disorders:
 Psychiatric medication and etc.
 Physical health in people with mental disorder
 Psychological treatment
 Spiritual aspect
 Social aspects and rehabilitation.
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Conclusion
From the above discussion, it is clear that the acts of Australia government are very much
necessary for the care providers in the health care organizations. Depending on that, it is also a
great factor for the support providers while they are working with a mental health system patient.
They will remember the acts and will support according to that. Thus, the acts are having a great
impact on the health care supports to treat their customers effectively.
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References
Benjamin, D. (2013). Acts of Activism: Human Rights as Radical Performance by D.
Soyini Madison. Human Rights Review, 14(2), pp.163-164.
Chaloner, C. (2013). The Equality Act 2010 in Mental Health Sewell Hári The
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Fennell, P. (2014). The Mental Capacity Act 2005, the Mental Health Act 1983, and
the Common Law. International Journal of Mental Health and Capacity Law, 1(13),
p.163.
Hunt, S. (2012). Negotiating Equality in the Equality Act 2010 (United Kingdom):
Church-State Relations in a Post-Christian Society. Journal of Church and State,
55(4), pp.690-711.
Long, S. (2016). Marriage Equality Act and Changes to Health Insurance
Coverage. JAMA, 315(4), p.417.
Stone, J. (2009). Special Issue of Critical Social Policy. Critical Social Policy, 29(3),
pp.577-577.
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