Comprehensive Report: Integrated Mental Health and Wellness Settings

This report provides an overview of integrated mental health and wellness settings. It begins by defining mental health and its importance, highlighting the impact of emotional, social, and psychological well-being. The report then explores the functionality of various roles within community health organizations, emphasizing the integration of mental health services into primary health settings and the role of these organizations in educating public health professionals and ensuring healthy environments. The discussion includes how the hierarchy within these roles ensures ethical compliance, particularly focusing on the responsibilities and training of community health workers. Three best practices are described, including licensing of clinical practitioners, methods for identifying individuals with mental health problems, and pre-participation psychological health screening. The report references key articles and publications related to mental health, community health, and public health, offering a comprehensive analysis of the topic.

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Integrated Mental Health and Wellness Settings
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Introduction
Emotional, social and psychological well-being defines one’s mental health. When the
aforementioned aspects affected the mental health will be affected too. Mental health affects how
one feels, thinks or acts. How one handles stress or makes choices in life is determined by one's
psychological health. In every stage of life, from childhood to adulthood, mental health plays a
very critical role (Nguyen, Davis, Counts, & Fritze, 2016). Everybody is entitled to mental health
care services regardless of where he or she lives. This is because everyone's primary health care
is essential. Emotional, social and psychological are key elements making mental and they must
be integrated together for the maintenance of the mental.
Functionality of various roles in community health organizations
Mental health care in primary health settings is provided for diagnosing and treatment of
patients suffering from mental disorders. It also involves strategizing on ways to put in place to
prevent future mental problems. Behavioral and psychological skills such as counselling and
interview have to be employed by the healthcare service workers when taking their day to day
activities. This works towards improving overall health outcomes. Integrating mental health
services involves in cooperating secondary and tertiary mental health services into the primary
mental health services (Ivbijaro, 2011).
Community health organization help in educating public health professionals. The
organization work towards preparing new public health professionals through training them.
Currently, many of the public health workers do not have formal training. It is the work of the
community health organizations to train such workers (Academics, 2018). All the societies must

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have health environments. It is the work of the community health organizations to ensure that.
They achieve this through the population-based promotion of health of health services which can
help to solve health menaces such as diseases and illnesses. Community health organisation is
entitled to ensuring there is protection for everyone in their areas of operations. The
organizations build a partnership which helps them in the provision of adequate health services
(Association, 2018). This is done through the collection of data to assist in controlling disease
occurrences.
How the hierarchy within the roles ensures ethical compliance
Community health workers are members of the society of having been trusted apply to
apply their unique understanding of language and experience to be able to carry out various
community roles that they have been entrusted within the community (Mejia-Rodriguez &
Spink, 2015). Before they start their work, community health workers are couched on ethical
volunteerism when serving the community. They have logistical, eye health and administrative
duties. Home visitations, proper education of patients and arrangement of screening sites are
some of the roles of the community health workers. During training, each of the workers is
taught on how to arrange screening sites for the outreach team early in advance (Balcazar, et al.,
2011). This helps to save time hence maximizing the number of individuals who will be treated
when the outreach team comes. Patients have different issues. Each patient’s records of whether
or not he or she was visited by the outreach team. This helps to make sure that at least everyone
has been provided with a chance to see the nurses

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Describe three best practices and relate them to the various roles
Mental health is a paramount requirement for every individual across all dimensions. One
of the practices involved in mental health setting is licensing of clinical practitioners who offer
psychiatric health care to patients. Evaluation and treatment of individuals with mental disorders
should be conducted by licensed individuals. This helps to make sure that everyone is treated
based on their problem. Secondly, there should be procedure on how individuals with mental
health problems are identified. There should be given methods which highlight how one should
go about a patient who has a mental illness. Lastly, a pre-participation psychological health
screening should be conducted. This helps the practitioner to gather any basic knowledge that
can help them treat their patient.

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References
Academics, T. N. (2018). Who Will Keep the Public Health?: Educating Public Health
Professionals. Public Health Agencies: Their Roles in Educating Public Health
Professionals, 145-304.
Association, A. P. (2018). The Role of Public Health in Ensuring Healthy Communities. ALPHA,
Online.
Balcazar, H., Rosenthal, E. L., Brownstein, J., Rush, C., Matos, S., & Hernandez, L. (2011).
Community health workers can be a public health force for change in the United States:
three actions for a new paradigm. American Journal of Public Health, 2199- 2203.
Ivbijaro, G. (2011). Integrating Mental Health Services into Primary Health Care. Wonca
Working Party on Mental Health, 1-7.
Mejia-Rodriguez, C., & Spink, D. (2015). Training Curriculum for Community Health Workers.
Community Health Worker Training System, 1-28.
Nguyen, T., Davis, K., Counts, N., & Fritze, D. (2016). The State of Mental Health in America.
Prevention of Mental Intervention B4Stage4, 1-59.