Impact of Mental Illness on Clients, Families, and Carers: A Report

This report examines the impact of mental illness on clients, their families, and carers, emphasizing the importance of understanding these diverse perspectives. It delves into the principles of recovery and therapeutic optimism, highlighting their significance in mental health treatment. The report also provides a list of local care homes and services available to support individuals with mental illnesses. It underscores the necessity for effective practices in diagnosis and treatment, acknowledging the challenges faced by both patients and healthcare providers. The report stresses the need for effective communication and partnership between medical professionals and family members to ensure comprehensive care and support, ultimately aiming to improve the well-being of those affected by mental health conditions.

Written Project

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3
Impact of mental illness from a client perspective including family and carers perspectives3
Principles of recovery and therapeutic optimism...................................................................4
Record services available in local community to support clients with a mental illness.........5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Health is an important factor which is required to be focused by every individual for
spending their lives in comfortable manner. It is necessary for medical professionals to build
more effective practices to carrying out treatment procedure properly. It includes an essential
criteria of doctors or nurses to remain careful while diagnosing any patient and provide
medication carefully by studying their medical condition thoroughly (Cohen and Cohen, 2013).
In this case, mental illness is really critical issues in this sector that impacts negatively on life of
an individual. This assignment will attempt to understand perspective of clients and carer which
impact upon mental health. The principles of recovery and therapeutic optimism will be
mentioned. Finally, records of care home which can provide ideal services to mental health
patients will be provided.
TASK
Impact of mental illness from a client perspective including family and carers perspectives
Mental illness is kind of critical health problem because it is all about psychological
changes or disorders in mind of patient which may be positive or negative in different situations.
It includes several symptoms like changes in mood, erratic thinking, chronic anxiety,
exaggerated sense of self-worth and impulsive actions (Richards and Bergin, 2014). Thus, many
of such individuals remain violent every time and some of them are silent but may create violent
in certain conditions. In such cases, people may harm themselves due to which they have to kept
in mental asylums in secure circumstances by monitoring them on regular basis. Hence, to deal
with such people, it is necessary to make some effective and applicable practices while providing
diagnosis in proper manner.
According to care provider's perspective, patients with mental illness create several issues
while conducting certain diagnosis like psychotherapy, behaviour- therapy, cognitive- therapy,
brain stimulating and Electroconvulsive therapy. Thus, mental individuals may harm ward boys,
nurses or doctors and it is quite difficult to conduct diagnosing process due to non- cooperation
as well as violent behaviour of patient (Townsend and Morgan, 2017).
As per view points of family members, they observe violent behaviour of patient and not
able to understand anything. It is very difficult to deal with a close having mental issues because
in this condition, a person is not able to determine family members. Thus, mentally ill person

may harm other people as well as injure themselves while getting tempered. There is a direct
impact on the understanding on the person suffering from mental illness which makes
communication with other comparatively difficult.
Principles of recovery and therapeutic optimism
The mental health issue is very critical part of medical filed in which it takes lot of time
to get recovery of an individual to stable position. In this case, it is necessary for specialists to
thoroughly examine the actual mental condition of a person and then implementing an accurate
recovery or therapeutic process for reducing their problem. There are various kinds of principles
of recovery and therapeutic optimism beneficial for client along with their families. Thus, some
of these effective as well as efficient principles are explained further-
Uniqueness of the individual: This can be described as to thoroughly observe and
analyse actual unique features or response of body of an individual to determine most suitable
treatment for them (Grob, 2014). It is essential to select better diagnosis for a person according to
response of their immune system because body responding plays an important role for gaining
cure of any health problem which is favourable for clients and their family.
Real choices: The real choices are helpful build strengths of medical professionals that
provide support to maintain balance between role of care and help for patients. Thus, it will
become supportive to gain positive results and opportunities to attain duration form mental
issues. Client and their family members can gain benefits by taking cure from particular mental
problem in minimum period of time (Halpern, 2014).
Attitudes and rights: This can be explained as to examine and fulfil attitude or rights of
patient by providing actual information about mental status of patient to their family. It also
includes to convey details about treatment procedures, its complications and correct estimated
outcomes of diagnosis to family member of a person. Thus, they will get aware about exact
complexities of case which help them to make right and suitable decision to take health services
by more efficient psychiatrist.
Dignity and respect: The factor of dignity & respect indicates medical professionals to
behave respectful and obey feeling, values of belief of people while interacting with people.
Thus, it will provide support to clients and their family to remain comfortable with positivity to
gain health service in hospitals or asylums.

Partnership and communication: In case of mental illness, family members and
medical professionals have to establish partnership with an effective communication to deal with
patient properly. Hence,sharing of required information about an individual which facilitate to
make patient healthy along with reducing tension of their family.
Evaluating recovery: At last but not the least, specialist have to monitor and evaluate
results and process of recovery so that they can decrease chance of occurring emergency. It will
facilitate to reduce complexities in case of patient make them healthy soon (Thoits, 2013).
The principle of therapeutic optimism is required to be followed by mental specialists
while conducting treatment of patient and behave in positive manner to provide support to family
members. It includes the criteria of render hopefulness or confidence about future condition of an
individual so that their family members will become able to remain calm, think positive and hope
for a good.
Record services available in local community to support clients with a mental illness
There are various kinds of health care homes or clinics are establish in local areas which
provide service to people as per problem of them. Several local care homes are mentioned below:
Care Home Address Phone no.
24/7 Nursing and Medical
services
220 New South Head Rd,
Edgecliff NSW 2027,
Australia
[phone]
Catholic Healthcare
Vincentian Aged Care Service
48 Yurong St, East Sydney
NSW 2010, Australia
[phone]
The Sister Anne Court Aged
Care
180 Albion St, Surry Hills
NSW 2010, Australia
[phone]
Opal Aged Care 27/135 King St, Sydney NSW
2000, Australia
[phone]
Moran Sylvania 27-29 Sylvania Road, Sylvania [phone]

NSW 2224, Australia
CONCLUSION
The above report had concluded that mental illness refers to one of the most critical
health issues in medical field which is required to be tackled in proper manner. There are various
kinds of principles of recovery and therapeutic optimism which should be followed by medical
professionals to provide desired benefits to patients as well as their family members.

REFERENCES
Books and journals
Cohen, P. and Cohen, J., 2013. Life values and adolescent mental health. Psychology Press.
Richards, P. and Bergin, A. E., 2014. Handbook of psychotherapy and religious diversity.
American Psychological Association.
Townsend, M. C. and Morgan, K.I., 2017. Psychiatric mental health nursing: Concepts of care
in evidence-based practice. FA Davis.
Grob, G. N., 2014. From asylum to community: Mental health policy in modern America (Vol.
1217). Princeton University Press.
Halpern, D., 2014. Mental health and the built environment: more than bricks and mortar?.
Routledge.
Thoits, P. A., 2013. Self, identity, stress, and mental health. In Handbook of the sociology of
mental health (pp. 357-377). Springer, Dordrecht.
Online
Mental Health. 2018. [Online]. Available through:
<http://www.swsphn.com.au/mentalhealthcommunity>