Report on Community Mental Health Policies and Legislation in UK

This report provides an overview of community mental health in the United Kingdom, focusing on key policies and legislation such as the Mental Health Act 1983 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005. It discusses the importance of community-based services in delivering mental health care, addressing issues like restraint, decision-making, and professional roles. The report highlights the role of the National Health Services and local councils in providing these services, emphasizing the need for collaboration among professionals with diverse backgrounds. It also touches on the social determinants of mental health, such as racial discrimination and income inequality, and their impact on mental health outcomes. The conclusion underscores the critical role of community mental health centers in meeting the demands for mental health treatments across the country, emphasizing the need for accessible and equitable services.

COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH IN THE
UNITED KINGDOM.

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.............................................................................................................................3
Restraint of mental health ill people.......................................................................................3
Decision making.....................................................................................................................4
Professional Roles..................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION.........................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
A new community-based offer will involve the access towards the psychological
therapies, an enhanced physical well-being care, encourage of employment, the personalised
as well as trauma informed care and so on. The services presented in the community mental
well-being generally plays an essential part in delivering the mental well-being care that are
required by the adults and the older adults with the most severe mental well-being
requirements as close to home as possible. It can specifically encourage the people who are
having the psychiatric disorders to manage their self-care, enhance the social as well as the
skills of the relationships. These particular things can aid the people to attain the wider
quality of life via their physical well-being, the social connectedness, educations and
employment. In UK, approximately about 1 in every 4 people have experiencing the issues
with mental health and about 1 in every 6 people containing the reports which states that they
are specifically experiencing the common mental well-being issues such as depression and
anxiety. Having a mixed of this particular illness is the most common mental well-being
disease across UK, with about 7.8% of the people are meeting the criteria for diagnosis.
Approximately about 4 to 10% of overall people have experiencing the depression in their
lifetime. In this report, there is a discussion about the policies as well as the legislations such
as The Mental Health Act 1983 which are established to aid the people to overcome the
leading cause. The mental health legislations and the policies are specifically the foundations
on which to improve the services and the actions as well (Al-Kurdi, El-Haddadeh and Eldabi,
2018).
MAIN BODY
The community mental well-being services are jointly given by the National Health
Services as well as by the local councils. Having the variety of professionals with the
different education background, the cultures and the languages are specifically needed to
collaborate with each other. The mental well-being care increasingly come under the
spotlight in the very recent years. In this, the policies are essential to define the values the
values, the directions as well as the responsibilities, the functions and structure as well. Most
of the countries are decreasing the numbers of beds as well as are generally moving towards
the closure of mental well-being care organizations to replace particular institutional forms of
care with the community-based mental well-being services (Alruqi, Hallowell and Techera,
2018).
Restraint of mental health ill people.
In context with the guidelines of World Health Organization, a comprehensive mental
well-being policy must address the following problems such as the services in organization
involves the improving the mental well-being services, downsizing the large mental care
organizations as well as improving the mental well-being components in the primary well-
being care. It can also involve the quantity as well as the quality of the human resources. In
this, it consists the equity of the access towards the mental well-being services across various
different groups. There are specific pieces of the legislations which particularly governs
about how people with the mental health conditions can usually receive the care as well as the
treatment. It involves the Mental Health Act 1983, containing the deprivation of the liberty
safeguards. In this, the Mental Health Act 1983 is generally considered as the important piece
of the legislation which specifically covers the assessment, the treatment as well as the rights
of the people with a mental well-being disorder. People are generally detained under the
Mental Health Act that urgently requires the treatment for the Mental health illness. These

particular people are at a greater risk of developing harm towards themselves or others. In
contrast with the Mental Capacity Act, it generally received the royal assent on April 2005
and it has been implemented in the year of 2007. The Act specifically defines when people
lack the capacity as well as it can encourage the people with the limited decision-making
capability to make as many as decisions as possible for themselves. The Act particularly lay
down the rules for substitute making the decisions. The Mental Capacity Act can generally
aid the people as well as encourage the people who are particularly unable to make the
decisions for themselves. It states that every people whatever their disabilities are, contains
the right to make their own decisions. Through this Act, the people must encourage the other
people who are having the mental health issues in making their decisions if they can support
(Bennett and et. al., 2018).
Decision making.
In the mental well-being policy, generally defines the vision for the future that in turn
can aid to establish the benchmark for the specific prevention, treatment as well as the
rehabilitation of the various mental disorders as well as the promotions of the mental well-
being in the community. The provided mental health policies generally define a vision for the
future that in turns can aid to establish the benchmark for preventing, treating and
rehabilitation of the mental disorders as well as the promotions of the mental well-being
among the community. These are particularly essential because they coordinate, through a
common vision as well as a plan and in this, all the programmes as well as the services that
are related to these particular objectives. Without this type of the organization, the
programmes as well as the services are more likely to be fragmented as well as inefficient. In
this, the mental well-being outcomes are generally optimized when the mental well-being is
an important component of the public well-being.
The government actions as well as the policies can protect and can promote the
mental well-being and the health of its peoples. The provided services are more appropriate,
can accountable, equitable as well as an accessible. In this, the people are treated in the least
restrictive as well as intrusive manner. By the World Health Organization department, a
Mental Health Policy Project has been created by the department. The aim of the project is
generally brought together with the latest information on the Mental Well-being Policy as
well as the improvement of services, compile it into a guidance package, disseminate into the

member states and assist with its implementation. the project will aid to create the policies as
well as the services and then put them into the practices that in turn will lead to enhance the
mental well-being care, treatment as well as the promotions. The legislations which are under
the community mental health such as Mental Health Act 1983 is generally designed to protect
the rights of the people with the various mental well-being issues. This act can particularly
certify that they are only admitted to the care organization against their will when it is
absolutely important to ensure their well-being or the safety or for the protection of the other
people (Bull, 2017).
Professional Roles.
The Mental Health Act has been introduced the possibility of the patients which is
being treated informally. Prior to this, all the patients in the care organization were on an
order. The Act has generally reinforced the status of the informal patients, but it can also give
some of the rights to those detained, most notably the right to appeal as well as to have the
written information on these particular rights. Although both of the care organizations bed as
well as the admissions have decreased, the trend for involuntary admissions has been elevated
since in 1983, both in the actual numbers and the proportions of all the admissions. The
legislation of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 is generally a law which specifically protects the
vulnerable people particularly over the age of 16 around decision making. It states that every
people, whatever their disability, has the rights to make their own decisions wherever
possible. people must encourage the people to make their own decisions if they can. In this,
having the mental capacity generally means that people can effectively able to make as well
as can effectively communicate their own decisions (Dong and et. al., 2017). the mental
capacity act 2005 generally gives a statutory framework to empower as well as protect the
people who are generally at a risk and are not able to make their own decisions. This
particular act can make it clear who can specifically take the decisions as well as in which
situation. It can aid the vulnerable people to plan ahead for a time when the people may lose
the capacity. This act is generally designed to support as well as protect the vulnerable people
who specifically does not contain the mental capacity to make their own decisions about the
care and the treatment as well. This act can be applied over the people who are at the age of
16 and above. There are the ways in which the Mental Health Act generally impact over the
people such as it generally set out teh legal rights which specifically apply towards teh people
having the mental illness. Under this particular legislation, a person can be admitted, detained
as well as treated in teh care organization for a specific mental illness without the consent of
a patients. It is generally a subject which the people can find the difficulties or distressing to
understand. By acquiring such legsialtion the people can effectively able to decrease their
anxiety level, enhances the moods. It generally aid people to have a higher sense of calmness
as well as teh inner peace. Through this legislation, people can effectively able to decrease
the risk of depression. In this, with the help of the mental health act legislation, people are
effectively able to reduce the anxiety level as it can help them how to manage with the
situations or particular conditions.
There are also the social determinants of the mental health such as the racial
discrimination as well as the social excursion. It can also involve the adverse early life
experiences, reduced education, an unemployment, the insecurities of job, income
inequalities, the low access towards the sufficient healthy foods and so on. It is a well-known
that there are various social factors which affects the serious risk for the mental health
disorders as well as the use of drugs and the results of the health of a person with these such
illnesses. In addition to their combined effects and an independent, the social as well as the

surrounding environmental factors can specifically influences the genetic determinants of the
wellbeing as well as the disorders through the genes by the interactions with the environment
as well as the epigenetic mechanisms. These particular social as well as the environmental
factors has clearly contains an effect at the people level and they should encounter the
interventions in the clinical settings. The social determinants of the well-being as well as the
social determinants of the mental well-being can specifically exerts their impacts more
widely at the level of community. It can be more effectively addressed through the alterations
in the public policies and the social norms as well. In this, it is more specifically the social
determinants of the mental health, it is particularly exemplified here by an income inequality
as well as the reduced level of education. These are usually understood as being supported by
an unequal dispersion of the opportunities. In this, they are more deeply the public policies
such as the legislations which may not specifically pertain towards well-being but can has far
reaching impacts over the well-being (Goldstein and Keohane, 2019).
CONCLUSION
The community mental well-being centre are generally critical to meeting the
demands for mental health treatments across the country. Filling the gaps when the people are
usually unable to obtain treatment from the private care organizations, the community mental
health centre generally operates on the very front line in aiding the people to contend with the
major challenges to their mental health. The social workers, counselors, psychologists as well
as peers support the specialists. These particular are some of the professionals who generally
give the services at the community mental health centres. In this, the community mental well-
being centre are more frequently contracted with the other care providers among the
community for the specific services. It generally has helped several people over the years as
well as there are various challenges which are particularly continue to confront the effective
provisions of the mental health services in the society across the nation. In this report, it is
concluded that mental health legislation is necessary to ensure the regulatory framework for
the mental services as well as the other providers of the treatment and care. Mental health
legislation is also essential to ensure that the people having the mental disorder are afforded
protection from the often-devastating penalties of several mental disorders.

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