Supporting Significant Life Events: A Report on Health and Social Care

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SUPPORTING SIGNIFICANT LIFE EVENTS
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LO1 Understand how significant life events impact on individuals and their social networks........................3
LO2 Understand the support available for individuals experiencing significant life events...........................3
LO3: be able to analyse made by health and social care services to support individuals experiencing
significant life.....................................................................................................................................................5

Introduction:
Life events are considered as a change, which suddenly occurs in someone’s life and sometimes it, occurs in
a way that the person may not be ready to face and thus it takes time to deal with. It is not necessary that a
life event will put an adverse effect on someone's life; it may or may not be. Different events can have a
different impact on an individual because life events can be desirable and may not be desirable.
LO1 Understand how significant life events impact on individuals and their social networks.
TASK 1.1: Explain the impact of significant life events on individuals.
When a person is having too much stress then he/she deals with many kinds of problems such as :
Headaches: Large studies have shown that an increase in stress leads to an increase in headaches.
Chronic Pain: Other studies have shown that an increase in the level of the stress hormone cortisol leads to
an increase in chronic pain in the body (Sheerin et al., 2018).
Frequent Sickness: Studies have shown that higher stress level is associated with an increase in
susceptibility to injection.
Decreased energy: Stress disrupt sleep and causes insomnia, which leads to low energy.
Acne: People in stress often uses their hands on their face and this is why acne occurs.
Changes in Libido:
Sweating: Due to an increase in the Blood Pressure, people start sweating.
Depression: Due to having a lot of pressure and stress, people often come under depression
Rapid Heartbeat: Studies have shown that heart rate increases frequently during stressful condition. A
heartbeat can also be increased by having high blood pressure (Dupéré et al., 2018).
The worst thing a person starts doing when he/she is under depression is taking anti-depression pills which
effects very badly to the human brain. A person's life changes when he/she is removed from the place where
they loved to be. When a person's loved ones die then he/she comes under great depression and stress. This
is called a negative life event. However, when a person gets a promotion or something he had not expected
to get then it is called positive life events.
TASK 1.2: Analyse possible group responses to significant life events that occur to one of its members.

Whenever a person is suffering from huge stress and depression than his/her family members, colleagues, or
friends always supports them and tries to make the situation as normal as possible (Ginevra et al., 2018).
They try to make the person involve in some activities so that he/she may forget what had happened in past
for a while and tries to overcome it as soon as possible. Conducting a group singing or a dance program and
involving him in both can help him to come out of depression. The family members or friends go
somewhere with the person to visit some places the person likes to make him indulge in something.
TASK 1.3: Analyse the impact for others in health and social care when an individual experiences
significant life events.
In the health and social care organisation, the impact on the people's present over there may be different
from one another. The workers give importance to such factors and try to help the individual in any way
they can. If a person understands the other person properly then only he can help him to get out of the
significant life events.
LO2 Understand the support available for individuals experiencing significant life events.
TASK 2.1: Evaluate the effectiveness of organisational policies and procedures in supporting
individuals and their social networks affected by significant life events.
For having a speedy recovery, all the organisational policies and procedures should be thoroughly practised.
The agency should give proper time and proper treatment to the patient to feel good and motivated. A time
period spent looking after a sick person can have an effect on the salary as well as the business (Light et al.,
2018). The probability is perceived after the choices and moves are made according to the individual's need
and these are continuously checked. Sensitive similarly happens between the staffs and the individual and
those recognised are important to them. The need of the families and friends to the individuals are
effectively investigated. Counselling helps a depressed person in many ways as if they reduce the stress
caused by chronic anxiety and improves sleep. They structure problem-solving techniques, which helps
them to solve it with their own ability. Mindfulness meditation is a great option for overcoming stress.
TASK 2.2: Explain how others in social networks may provide support to individuals experiencing
significant life events.

A depressed or a stressed individual can be helped to overcome in many ways by :
Friends: Friends can help the individual by taking him to some place where he likes to go, playing games
with him and talking some bad jokes which often goes in between the friend circle (Franko et al., 2018).
Family Members: Family members can help by making fun and jokes of the members of the house. The
individual would like to be a part of them. In this way, his stress would slow down.
Wok colleagues: Team colleagues often make fun about their boss and this is the best part any individual
likes. Making him involve in such matters would help him to come out of this.
Social Media: This is the way a person can be diverted (Garriott and Nisle, 2018 ). Nowadays there are
many trolls being circulated over the internet and the trolls are really funny.
Partners: In today's world, loved ones are more close than any other. The individuals may surely listen to
the ones they love as they never deny and this could help him to release the stress.
Health and Social care user: Health care users share information about the ill-effects of being depressed. If
the individuals get the point very clear, then he might try himself to overcome it.
TASK 2.3: Evaluate the suitability of external sources of support for those affected by significant life
events.
Some External sources of support for the people who are affected by significant life events are :
 We need to make them realise that we are with them and to listen to what they say.
 Without judging them from anywhere, we need to accept them as they are.
 We need to encourage them to help themselves like keeping themselves feet and doing things they
enjoy.
 We need to provide them with psychological therapy services and depression support groups.
 We need to be always in touch with them like by hanging out, having an evening coffee with them
etc.
 We need to very polite and have patience towards them.
 We have to take proper care of them as they are depressed and might take some wrong decisions.
There are several types of psychological treatment :
Cognitive behaviour therapy:

It is a therapy in which the individual recognises that the way he thinks and act affects the way he feels. In
this treatment, the professionals find out the behaviour pattern of the individual, which is making him
depressed. It helps to change the way of thinking and the behaviour by teaching him to rationally think about
difficulties. This treatment is suitable for all types of ages, children, and grandparents (Martela et al., 2018).
Interpersonal therapy(ipt): This therapy focuses on the relationships of the individual. This psychological
therapy is totally based on the idea of relationships because this is a reasonable person usually comes under
great depression and stress and they do something, which they should not (Richards et al., 2018).
Behaviour therapy: Unlike CBT it does not aim to change the beliefs and attitudes. Its main aim is to
reverse the pattern of avoidance, withdrawal.
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy: This is generally a meditation type therapy. Here the main target is
to make you focus on the present moment. It does not matter whether it is pleasant or unpleasant. It tries to
stop thinking about the future or the pastor unpleasant thoughts (Kircanski et al., 2018). This is the way a
person can prevent stress and depression. As a result, he will be able to tackle any future problems easily.
Physical treatments also help in reducing stress. The treatments are as follows:
Exercising Body and Mind: Doing regular morning exercise can help in improving physical health and
mental ability. Studies have shown that daily morning exercise helps in improving alertness and
concentration power. When stress or depression affects the brain, it affects the whole body through the
connection of the nerves (Weststrate et al., 2018). Therefore, it is very necessary to keep the body fit so that
both the brain and body work together properly. Researches have found that the daily practice of aerobic
exercises helps to reduce stress thus by proving a good sleep and a stabilized mood. Doing the aerobic
exercise for five minutes also can stimulate anti-anxiety effects.
Religious support also helps in many ways such as:
Give up control: We need to think that we are not responsible for everything that happens in our lives.
Good things and bad things can occur anywhere and anytime. Spirituality helps to decrease the need to
blame ourselves every time for bad things (Hutchison, 2018).
Maintain a sense of purpose: Most of the people spent their time by thinking about what is life is all about.
People start thinking that life is a race and he/she has to be a winner. This certain things makes them
depressed and feel stressed.

LO3: be able to analyse made by health and social care services to support individuals experiencing
significant life.
TASK 3.1: Analyse possible organisational responses to the need to support individuals experiencing a
significant life event.
Responses from the organisations to support the individuals experiencing a significant life event are as
follows:
Planned Response: In planned responses, the organisational system collects past information of the
individuals i.e., what has actually happened with him that he has undergone such a situation. They identify
consistent treatment or behaviour in his data and information and develops a program, police to handle such
situations in future. In this, future cases are addressed effectively (Vess et al., 2018). Due to having much
divorce cases in past people are coming into depression and stress as well and as a result, they either come
under the addiction of drugs or they commit suicide. For all these reasons, the health and organisational
system have prepared programs and policies to deal with.
Emergency Response: In an emergency response, the organisation responds to the emergency cases an
individual is experiencing. In such cases, the organisation is aware that there could an emergency and the
place of conduct would be unknown (Clarkson, 2018). Now, when a natural disaster occurs and the person
loses his/her property when he comes under huge stress and for this reasons the organisational systems have
implemented short-term programs to help them to reduce the impact of stress.
TASK 3.2: Reflect on own personal contributions to the support of individuals experiencing
significant life events.
If someone or my friend of my family himself is really depressed or in stress then firstly I would make him
understand that every problem has a solution and not to take any wrong decision. I would provide him with a
psychiatrist therapy where he would learn how to overcome stress or depression. I would try to take him
somewhere with the other friends to make him involved in something which he likes. I would suggest
his/her parents be very patient and polite towards him and to make him feel that his/her guardians are always
with him to listen to whatever he/she says (Ludwig et al., 2018). I would talk to the working colleague of
him/her to come and spent some moments with him so that he would feel much better than before.
Organising programmes in the house will also help him/her to indulge in something and reduce stress. Often

people in stress starts taking anti-anxiety, depression, sleeping pills and alcohols too, much, which is a very
bad option. I along with the family members would make him understand that alcohol or the pills are not the
right to recover rather than doing daily morning exercise and workouts (Spitze and Trent, 2018). Daily
morning I would take him to run, do exercise, do aerobics so that his mind would become fresh and he might
not feel stressed. I would also suggest the one he loves more than anyone to ask him does to share the
problems with him/her. This is because when we share any problems with someone then our mind becomes
relaxed and we think that he/she will surely give me some solution. If he goes to holy places then it would
be a very good option. I would surely go with him to make him realise that whatever is happening is not
acceptable but you can overcome it. Do not feel bad or think that it's your fault. I think these are the best
ways I can help him with and I am sure that he can overcome this and will find a perfect solution.
TASK 3.3: Make recommendations for improving the support available in a health and social care
organisation for individuals and their social networks when affected by significant life events.
According to my recommendation, the individuals who are affected by significant life events must have
government support and good policy. A proper organisation culture like psychiatrist program, Interpersonal
therapy should be given to them if they come under stress or depression. The person handling this situation
should be provided with proper accommodation and facilities so that nothing is lagging behind for his
comfort.
Conclusion:
According to the Researches, the above information provides all genuine and appropriate information
required for supporting significant life events. The above information includes a proper analysis made by
health and social care services and personal contribution to support individuals.

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