Australian Prison Mental Health: A Health Promotion Project Overview

This report outlines a comprehensive health promotion project designed to educate prisoners in Australia about mental health risk factors, promote awareness, and implement preventative measures. The introduction emphasizes the importance of mental well-being and its impact on daily life, especially within the challenging environment of prisons. The project aims to address the high prevalence of mental health issues among prisoners, such as depressive and anxiety disorders, and the associated negative behaviors. The report details the project's objectives, including educational activities and awareness programs, spanning a six-month period. It incorporates primary public health promotion management, focusing on providing prisoners with information about mental health, its impact on their lives, and strategies for prevention, like exercise and healthy habits. The report also identifies key stakeholders, including prisoners, prison management, the government, and the media, and discusses the importance of community consultation. It proposes a catchy tagline for the project, and describes various health promotion activities like dramas, workshops, and training sessions. The report concludes with a proposal for evaluating the project's success, comparing mental illness statistics and observing prisoner behavior, and reiterates the critical need for mental health support within the prison system.

Health Promotion
Project Plan

Contents
Health promotion title – Provide education to prisoners on the mental health risk factor
awareness and preventions in Australia............................................................................................3
Introduction.........................................................................................................................................3
Health promotion and target group outline.......................................................................................3
Health promotion aim.........................................................................................................................4
Health promotion prevention management perspective...................................................................4
Stakeholders and community consultation........................................................................................5
Health logo...........................................................................................................................................5
Health promotion activity description...............................................................................................6
Health promotion evaluation proposal..............................................................................................6
Conclusion............................................................................................................................................7
References............................................................................................................................................8

Health promotion title – Provide education to prisoners on the mental
health risk factor awareness and preventions in Australia.
Introduction
In current time almost every person is experiencing mental health issues which affect
their day to day life. Mental health is considered as a person emotional, social as well as
psychological well - being. It generally impact on how an individual think, feel, thought as
well as act (Hubley, Copeman and Woodall, 2021). Moreover mental health of a person also
determine that how they handle stress, make choices as well as relate to others in specific
situation. In every stage of life mental health is very essential from childhood, adolescence to
the adulthood. In addition to this it is also essential in very situation of life even if a person is
going through hard time. Similarly in respect of prisoners they also go through several mental
health issues because there they not able to share their thoughts or feeling which make them
lonely as well as depressed. In addition to this, in prison some prisoners experienced several
violence situation from others which also impact on their mental as well as physical health.
This will also leads to some dangerous mis-happening such as wild fight, try to take their
own life and many others. The respective report is based providing education to prisoners
related to the mental health risk factors as well as it also include awareness. Along with this
preventions are also mentioned in report.
Health promotion and target group outline
In order to leave a healthy life it is essential to have proper mental health because if a
person not have proper mental health they not able to conduct their day to day activities
properly as well as it also impact on their performance and productivity. In respect of
prisoners they go through several mental health issues which impact on their health such as
depressive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, manic depression, bipolar disorder, mania,
personality disorder, another anxiety disorders and many more. These types of mental health
illness force prisoners to take some wrongful steps such as hard others badly, wild fight, take
their own life and many more (Kurasawa and et. al., 2020). So it is essential to make
prisoners understand as well as aware about the risk factors, awareness as well as preventive
measures so that they leave effective life by avoiding mental health issues. Moreover when
prisoners get aware to the ways that how they can avoid mental illness they able to maintain
their health as well as it also not impact on their personality.

Health promotion aim
The main aim of this project is to provide education to prisoners on the mental health
risk factor awareness and preventions in Australia. In respect of this different promotional as
well as awareness activities or programmes can be conducted at prison so that prisoners can
enhance their understanding related to the mental health. In addition to this, through those
activities prisoners also able to know how to prevent themselves for getting ill mental health
because that will directly impact on their behaviour, presence or appearance, practices and so
on (Lee and Yoon, 2020). In context of this aim health promotion aim is developed according
to which education activities will be conducted from the 6 months for prisoners that is related
to the mental health risk factor awareness and preventions in Australia. The main objective of
conducting this activity is to decrease the ratio of mental health risk factor in the prison
because it leads to several unlikely situations.
Health promotion prevention management perspective
Public health promotion management is essential as that will help in conducting
effective promotional activities which aware people for maintaining their promotional health
in proper manner. In this report the health promotion prevention management is based on
increase awareness of prisoners related to the mental health risk factor awareness and
preventions in Australia. There are main three types of public health promotion management
perspective i.e. primary, secondary as well as tertiary. In respect of this project respective aim
is fall under the primary public health promotion management perspective as that is an initial
stage. In addition to this, it is considered as health care services which are come at the initial
stage in order leave a healthy life. In this first prisoners get information about the mental
health which is incorporates a person passionate, mental, and social prosperity. It influences
how an individual think, feel, as well as act (Mettler and Wulf, 2020). It additionally decides
how a person handle pressure, identify with others, and settle on decisions. Psychological
well-being is significant at each phase of life, from youth and puberty through adulthood.
Along with this, they also get know about the different types of mental problems which they
experienced in prison such as depressive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, manic
depression, bipolar disorder, mania, personality disorder, another anxiety disorders and many
more. Moreover, they also get awareness about the symptoms or sign of mental illness such
as long lasting sadness or irritation, social withdrawal, dramatic changes in sleeping as well
as eating habit, excessive paranoia, anxiety and many more. In addition to this, the prisoners
also get awareness and knowledge about how they can prevent themselves form the mental

illness that will include regular exercise or yoga, encourage self to learn new things, take care
of body, set proper sleeping and eating pattern and so on. These all aspects are considered
under the primary Health promotion prevention management perspective that help in
enhancing awareness of prisoners about the mental health in effective manner.
Stakeholders and community consultation
Stakeholders are considered as individual or group of individual who are related to the
specific business or project. These people may impacted on the project or can get impacted
with the operations. It is essential for the management of project to include stakeholders in
the decision making process because they are directly or indirectly related with the company
or project activities (Nilsson Lindström and Bringsén, 2021). The stakeholders can be internal
who are related with the project from inside as well as external stakeholders who may affect
the work from the outside. So for the management it is essential to conduct proper evaluation
of both internal as well as external stakeholders for developing effective decision. The
respective project is based on providing education to prisoners on the mental health risk
factor awareness and preventions in Australia. In this project the stakeholders are prisoners,
management of prison, government, and media and so on. These are considered as main
stakeholder of the project which increase awareness of how to maintain proper mental health
so that all work can be conducted properly. The prisoners are consider as the main
stakeholder in this program because they are the one on which whole program is based as
well as the activities are also conducted for them so that they maintain their mental health. In
addition to this, the management of prison is another main stakeholder because they are the
one will develop strategies and plans so that mental health of prisons can be maintain.
Moreover another stakeholder i.e. government will develop rules and regulations so that the
project can be more beneficial as well as they also provide proper funding so that work of
project can be done properly and effectively. Media stakeholder will generally cover all the
information and show to all so that other also get aware for their mental health.
Health logo
It is considered as tag line or logo which is used for the project so that everyone can
connect it as well as understand the message properly (Parker and Fleming, 2020). This is so
it is essential that the logo or tag line must be catchy so that everyone can get attracted
towards it as well as it also help in gathering more and more audiences for the specific
program. In respect of this program which is based on providing education to prisoners on the

mental health risk factor awareness and preventions in Australia. Its tag line can be like “A
healthy mind is the greatest treasure to find”. This will encourage prisoners to visit at the
program as well as do participate in the practices conducted in order to make stable and
healthy mental health.
Health promotion activity description
In order to make program successful it is essential to conduct several activities which
are interesting and creative because that will help in attracting audiences as well as
encouraging them to be interested in program. The respective health promotion activities are
conducted on the basis of providing education to prisoners on the mental health risk factor
awareness and preventions in Australia (Peres and Sharaby, 2020). For this different activities
can be conducted such as conduct drama according to which role play will be conducted in
order to providing information related to mental health, how it can be prevent as well as what
are the symptoms of it. In addition to this, management may also conduct workshop in which
expert will come in order to provide information about the mental health, how to avoid
mental illness, facts to be adopts and many more. Along with this, management of prison may
also provide training session to prisoners so that they know how to avoid different types of
mental issues such as depressive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, manic depression,
bipolar disorder, mania, personality disorder, another anxiety disorders and many more. In
addition to this, it is essential for management to conduct these types of activities on the
regular basis.
Health promotion evaluation proposal
It is essential that to evaluate the proposal of a program because through that it can be
determined that whether the project is done in proper way or not. In order to evaluate the
health promotion proposal which is based on aware or education to prisoners on the mental
health risk factor awareness and preventions in Australia that it get successful done or not
several activities can be conducted (Truman, Bischoff and Elliott, 2020). For this first
comparison can be done between the past statistics of prisoners getting mental illness from
the current record. If the current year data if less as compare to last year then the program is
conducted properly and successfully. In addition to this, another strategy which can be
conducted to evaluate is observation of prisoner’s behaviour that they are happy or not. If
they look happy and enjoying then the program work correctly.

Conclusion
By conducting analysis of above mentioned topic it can be summarised that for every
individual it is essential to take care and maintain their mental health because through that
they can conduct their work in effective manner. Moreover if a person is not mentally strong
then they not able to conduct their work properly as well as it also impact on their activities
or performance which done on day to day basis. In addition to this, every person can
experience mental illness at any time. So it is normal as well as one of the main issues that
prisoners in Australia go through several mental health issues which impact on their leaving
as they take huge action sometime such as harm self or others, do wild fighting and so on.
The common metal issues among the prisoners are depressive disorder, post-traumatic stress
disorder, manic depression, bipolar disorder, mania, personality disorder, another anxiety
disorders and many more. So it is essential for management of prison as well as government
take some steps so that they can overcome from it. Moreover, so it is essential for prison
management and government to take steps so that prisoner can get awareness about the how
to maintain their mental health condition. In this they need to know about mental health, its
types which may take place as well as symptoms. Along with this they also need to
understand and know different preventive measures in respect of maintaining the mental
health such as regular exercise or yoga, encourage self to learn new things, take care of body,
set proper sleeping and eating pattern and so on.

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