Consumer Voice Central to Mental Health Context and Practice

This essay delves into the crucial role of the consumer's voice within the context of mental health, highlighting the significance of patient input in shaping care and recovery processes. It emphasizes the importance of a patient-centered approach, discussing how nurses, family members, and other healthcare professionals can contribute to the well-being of individuals suffering from mental illnesses. The essay references key literature, including research on recovery-oriented health services, the impact of the patient's environment, and the role of nurses in supporting patients. It underscores the need for policies and practices that empower patients, enabling them to actively participate in their treatment and recovery journeys. The essay concludes by summarizing the key points and reinforcing the importance of the consumer's voice in improving mental health care outcomes.

Consumer Voice is Central to
All Current Mental Health
Context and Areas of
Practice.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................2
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3

INTRODUCTION
During the time when any patient is suffering from any kind of mental disorder or illness
then it becomes very much important that the people who are around them are helping and curing
them. That patient would only be requiring care and love from others in order to heal them
ignoring and avoiding them would be putting more mental pressure on them. So the present
essay would be dealing with what role nurse is playing in recovery of mental health patients and
how could everyone else help them as well.
MAIN BODY
Under the context of Goodridge, Isinger & Rotter, (2018) it is very much important that
patient is getting recovery from their mental illness which they are suffering due to any reason
laid down. This will be including potential recovery of patient during his journey from mental
health patient to healthy and fit person. There are many polices which are been made under this
mental health and illness practice which particularly must be followed by those who are suffering
from disease which is affecting not only physical but mental health of patients. So every one who
is involved into this process must be knowing their role and responsibility which need to be
completely followed by them all. There are peoples like family, friends, nurse, doctors and peers
of that patient who would likely be the one who are affecting in recovery of mental health.
Maldonado, (2017) said that recovery of mental health would be meaning that procedures
which would be helping in regaining and recovering back the hope. This would be done under
the principle of recovery paradigm this is telling all person who would be responsible for helping
the patients. A National Framework for Recovery oriented health service was launched on 12th
July 2013 by the Australian Health Ministers Advisory Council (AHMAC). This would be
including all such factors which will be dominating and capabilities of mental health workforce
so that they are applying the recovery approach. There are two documents that are involved in
this framework one stating guideline for mental health who are practising this as their career
goals they are the one who would be delivering service to consumers of mental health. The other
document would be stating background about research and policy which would be linking with
framework of policy.
Hirschtritt, Chan & Ly, (2017) said that National Frameworks would be including
recovery of person who is suffering from mental illness so that this is helping in creating new
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and meaningful life which is contributing into their social life as well. Every individual whether
he is mentally well or not is having their own strength or uniqueness this is also giving them their
different standing in society in which they are living into. It is also important to see the possible
effects if trauma under which they are going through and experiencing. It becomes important that
the person who is responsible for brining up the mentally ill people and with giving them all
respect and promoting which is needed by them. Whole environment in which they are living or
getting their treatment must be good and as according to them only so that they are getting their
emotional support this will be called to as dignity and respect as per Goldblatt & Edlis, (2017).
The involvement of patient and their family within the recovery phase is very much important as
this will be including partnership and communication with them so that we could have
knowledge what they are thinking and wanting.
Moritz, Westermann & Nagel, (2017) said that nurse are very important part at the time
of recovering of mentally ill patient as they are the one who could remain close to them at all the
time and on t he hand they are the one who is responsible for their recovery as well. In the health
care organisation there are many nurses which are caring and helping patient at the time of
recovery period of their patients (How nurses and their work environment affect patient
experiences of the quality of care: a qualitative study, 2018). There are time when voice of
patients are been suppressed by others who are working around them or taking care of them but
under the mental health care policy they must be having their own voice which is under the
National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Role of nurse in raising their patient and helping
them so that are been able to live their life in normal way as they were before which is also
mentioned by van den Muijsenbergh & van Weel, (2016).
CONCLUSION
From the report Consumer voice is central to all current mental health context and areas
of practice it can be easily concluded that many polices which are been made under this mental
health and illness practice which particularly must be followed by those who are suffering from
disease which is affecting not only physical but mental health of patients
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REFERENCES
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Goodridge, D., Isinger, T., & Rotter, T. (2018). Patient family advisors’ perspectives on
engagement in health‐care quality improvement initiatives: Power and partnership. Health
Expectations. 21(1). 379-386.
Hirschtritt, M. E., Chan, S., & Ly, W. O. (2017). Realizing E-Prescribing’s Potential to Reduce
Outpatient Psychiatric Medication Errors. Psychiatric services, appi-ps.
Maldonado, J. R. (2017). Psychiatric Aspects of Critical Care Medicine, An Issue of Critical
Care Clinics, E-Book (Vol. 33, No. 3). Elsevier Health Sciences.
Moritz, S., Westermann, S., & Nagel, M. (2017). The customer is always right? Subjective
target symptoms and treatment preferences in patients with psychosis. European archives of
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van den Muijsenbergh, M., & van Weel, C. (2016). Giving voice to the voiceless: how to
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