Psychology of Health and Wellness: Case Study of Jason, Action Plan

This case study analyzes Jason's multifaceted issues, including personal, functional, social, financial, and professional challenges, within the framework of the biopsychosocial model. It identifies interrelated problems and their impact, highlighting the significance of psychological factors like stress and their effects on Jason's overall well-being. The assignment applies the wellness wheel to address emotional, physical, social, environmental, and financial aspects. An individualized action plan is developed, including counseling, exercise, financial resource assistance, and physical treatments. The analysis emphasizes the need for a systematic approach, considering the interplay of biological, psychological, and social factors to foster holistic wellness and improve Jason's quality of life. The paper also references relevant literature to support the analysis and recommendations.

Psychology of Health and Wellness
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Introduction:
In this assignment, case of Jason is being discussed. Jason was experiencing multifactorial
issues. These issues were impacting his life significantly because all these issues are
interrelated and these issues exaggerate each other. Biopsychosocial model is useful in
elucidating Jason’s problems. Wellness wheel comprises of diverse aspects which can be
implemented to provide comprehensive wellness to Jason. It is necessary to prepare care plan
on individualised basis for the issues observed in Jason. It is necessary to bring positive
physical and mental health and functioning in Jason. It is necessary to develop care plan for
observed issues in Jason; also, plan should be prepared for potential issues because it is
highly possible that these issues can exaggerate each other.
Discussion:
Identified issues: In this case study, Jason was associated with multidimensional issues like
personal, functional, social, financial and professional issues. He was experiencing personal
issues because he got married and purchased home without proper planning. Hence, he was
experiencing subsequent financial problems. He was experiencing functional issues because
he was not able to work for the longer duration due to injury. He was experiencing pain and
discomfort after using computer for the longer duration. He was experiencing social issues
because his manger was not supporting him during this phase and he was not believing him.
Moreover, Jason was experiencing stressed which would lead to social isolation for him.
Jason was experiencing financial issues because his wife was not working and recently, he
purchased new home. His earnings were not enough to run their home. Jason was also
experiencing professional issues because his manager was not believing him and not
supporting him. For providing proper intervention to resolve these issues in Jason, it is
necessary to assess the severity of these issues and origin of these issues. All the mentioned
issues are related to the biopsychosocial aspects of Jason. Root cause of all these issues need
to identify and eradicate this root cause. If root cause of all these issues is not going to be
removed, there is possibility persistent augmentation of it. Integrated problem-solving
approach would be helpful in resolving these issues effectively. All these issues would affect
him in all the aspects. His personal, physical, psychological, financial and social life. All
these issues are interrelated. Effect of one issue would significantly affect another factor. As a
result of changes in physical aspects of Jason, there would be negative impact on
psychological, financial and social life of Jason (van Dijk-de Vries et al., 2012).
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Since, multiple biopsychosocial issues are associated with Jason, it is very important to assess
which issue required intervention. These issues need to be categorised according to their
grades and intervention need to be planned accordingly. It is not necessary to provide direct
intervention to all these aspects. Most significant impact on Jason would be psychological
effect like stress. Other issues can be effectively managed because these issues are visible and
these can be effectively managed. Psychological symptoms are not visible in the person and it
is difficult to plan intervention for psychological issues. Moreover, patients would not
express about their psychological problems. Psychological problems can affect Jason for the
longer duration because there is possibility of unidentified psychological symptoms.
Psychological problems in Jason would lead to behavioural changes in him. It would lead to
lack of motivation, ineffective communication, low in confidence, lack of support,
discrimination and social isolation for Jason. Psychological, social and financial issues
associated with Jason would not affect not only himself but also it would affect his family
members. Hence, it is necessary to assess the psychosocial issues in his family members also
(Smith et al., 2014).
Biopsychosocial model: In this study all the factors related to biopsychosocial model like
biological, psychological, and social factors arises. Biopsychosocial model is based on the
intricate interaction of biological factors like genetic and biochemical, psychological factors
like mood, personality and behaviour and social factors like familial, socioeconomic and
medical factors. Jason was experiencing biological issues like injury, psychological issues
like stressed and social issues he was not getting support from his manager. All these factors
are interrelated and these factors impact each other. As a result of injury his financial
condition was disturbed and he was feeling stressed. Injury also affected his relation with his
manager. His manager was not believing him. Hence, it is necessary to provide interventions
for all the factors together. If interventions provided to one factor, remaining factors would
remain untreated (Wade and Halligan, 2017).
It is highly possible that untreated factor would exaggerate remaining factors. In the initial
phase, this model was considered suitable for psychiatric illness; however, in the later stage it
was being used for physical and psychological illness. It was evident that in few of the cases,
this model was used based on the personal preference of healthcare practitioner. Hence,
generalised applicability and validity of this model need to be validated in large trials. It is
necessary to consider professional limits and ethical considerations for broader applicability
of this model (Kusnanto et al., 2018). Biopsychosocial model is considered as philosophy of
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clinical care and practical clinical guideline. This model is useful in exploration of
relationship between physical and mental aspects of life. This model is very necessary in
patients like Jason because relationship between physical and mental health is very complex.
Since, Jason is experiencing all the issues like biological, psychological and social; this
model is necessary in him to provide holistic intervention to him (Benning, 2015).
Wellness wheel: Wellness wheel is based on the seven dimensions. These dimensions include
emotional, intellectual, physical, social, environmental, financial, and spiritual. All these
dimensions are interconnected and all these aspects need to be kept balanced for well-
rounded and balanced lifestyle. Wellness is not merely absence of illness; however, it is
motivation for positive physical, mental and social well-being. It is useful in enhancing
wellness and through self-reflection and goal setting. In case of Jason, aspects of wellness
wheel like emotional, physical, social, environmental and financial need to be considered.
Jason is emotionally disturbed due to his physical injury, financial loss and loss of social
belief. Psychological stress in his life is also responsible for emotional disturbance. As a
result of injury, physical wellbeing of the Jason gets badly affected and it produces pain and
discomfort in him specifically when he would work on computer for the longer duration
(Dziegielewsk, 2013).
Physical injury also made him to keep himself away from his job. Social wellness is
associated with getting support and guidance in the stressful situation to get rid of stress.
Social wellness is helpful in establishing healthy relationship. Social wellness of Jason gets
affected because he was not getting support from his manager. Hence, he was feeling more
stressful. Accident didn’t affect environmental wellness of Jason directly; however, it would
impact him indirectly. Environmental wellness can be promoted through making environment
more acceptable. However, due to injury and pain; he would not be able to clean his
environment. Hence, environmental wellness of Jason gets affected (Kwon, 2015).
Action plan: Action plan for Jason should be individualised and there should be effective
communication among Jason and healthcare providers. Healthcare providers should not
address not only medical aspects but also feelings, symptoms and circumstances of Jason.
Action plan should be directed towards feeling well for Jason. Healthcare provider should
make sure that Jason feel bright, outgoing, energetic and humorous. Healthcare provider
should provide counselling to him and should make him talkative. It would make him less
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stressed. Healthcare provider need to identify accurate emotional and psychological triggers
for Jason (Nadir et al., 2018).
Jason need to be provided with comfort and should make sure that triggers are not going
become more serious. It is necessary to perform him relaxation exercise for minimum 45
minutes on daily basis. Personal issues of Jason need to resolved by providing counselling to
him. Social workers need to provide counselling to him. Functional issues of Jason need to
resolved by asking him to perform exercise because due to long duration work, he was
getting pain and discomfort (Bouras, 2017). Physiotherapist need to provide training to Jason
to perform exercise; hence, he would not feel stressed during long duration of working hours.
Intervention need to be provided to reduce pain in Jason (Deyo, 2015).
Social issues of Jason need to be solved by giving motivational education to him. It would be
helpful for him to tackle his manager and convince manager to believe Jason. Financial issues
of Jason would be solved by making arrangements of some financial resource for him.
Physical issues of Jason would be resolved by providing him with proper treatment for fast
recovery of his injury. It is necessary to cultivate certain characteristics like self-awareness,
active cultivation of trust, self-calibration, minimisation in emotions, informed intuition and
communication in him (Fassino, 2010).
Conclusion:
Systematic approach was implemented for providing intervention to Jason. Issues and
problems in Jason were identified and its impact on Jason were demonstrated.
Biopsychosocial model was implemented to assess multifaceted problems in Jason. Wellness
wheel was used for improving wellness in him. Synergy of different approaches proved
useful in preparing care plan for Jason. This approach provided holistic perspective to the
psychological, biological and social aspects of care plan of Jason. It helped to strengthen the
positives and lessen the negatives in Jason.
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