University Mental Health Practices, Relationships and Recovery Report

This report delves into mental health practices, relationships, and recovery, emphasizing a recovery-oriented approach in mental health care. It highlights the importance of caregiver-patient relationships and the collaborative nature of treatment. The report discusses the role of occupational therapy in facilitating recovery, addressing various areas of functioning, and building strength and positivity in patients. It emphasizes the involvement of family members and the integration of holistic approaches, including social factors, to support patients. The report also examines the importance of understanding the experiences of individuals with mental disorders and providing them with the tools to lead active, purposeful lives. The study reviews literature from international and Australian sources and outlines how occupational therapists can work with patients to improve their mental conditions, including the use of various intervention programs. Finally, the report stresses that recovery involves hope, social identity, and a meaningful life, requiring a shared decision-making process that is personalized and client-driven.

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Mental health practices, relationships and recovery
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Mental health practices based on recovery implies to the care sessions that the
caregivers need to give to the patients by implementation of the caregiver’s capability by
considering the patient’s behavior, attitudes, principles, knowledge and values (Tew et al.,
2012).
Recovery oriented practitioners to assist mental health patients; necessities and
incorporation of therapy:
Practices based on recovery largely promotes the relationship between the caregiver
and the patients in a collaborative and active manner. On the other hand people with
experience of mental disorders are considered to be experts on their condition and the
caregivers are experts on the present treatment procedures available (Richards, Coulter &
Wicks, 2015). Practices based on recovery is encapsulated as care of mental health that:
 Understands the situation of a patient and the likelihood for recovery by
inculcating strength and sharing of experiences of the sufferers.
 Maximizes the involvement of the sufferer in the recovery process. It includes
personalized care, drawing attention to the cultural needs of the patient
(Scanlan & Still, 2013).
 Includes inculcation of holistic approach which necessitates a wide number of
factors including social approaches.
 Helps the family members to assist the patients in the recovery process.
 Lastly, includes the need of understanding the people with experience of
mental disorders that are still unresolved to feel better and help them get out of
traumatizing conditions.
Review on literature was organized for the international and Australian literature
consisting of mental health recovery oriented literatures. Goal of the review was create an

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understanding of the term for good practices. However, the review did not include the
broader issues in the system. It only focused on practices based on recovery. Some literatures
were specified for youth and children, emphasis on older people was given in some other
literatures.
Occupational therapy and recovery:
Therapist involved in occupation therapy understand the need of mental soundness.
The knowledge of therapists helps in the process of recovery in collaboration with individuals
with experience. Several areas of functioning are addressed by the therapists (Crouch &
Alers, 2014). The relation between recovery and occupation is very clear by analyzing
participation of people in socially and personally important activities. The practice
emphasizes on clinical focus on the symptoms of people and the complexions related to
building strength and positivity.
Role of occupational therapist:
Therapy based relationships between the practitioner and patients by implementation
of approaches based on strength by analyzing strength of the patient under treatment should
be initiated with inculcation of the skills of the practitioners. The family members should also
be incorporated in the recovery of a person. It increases the possibility of recovery (Schell et
al., 2013).
Summary:
With respect to the perspective of the people will mental ailments, the term recovery
means achieving recovery by gaining hope and retaining it. It requires the collaboration of the
therapist and the patient to live an active life with a social identity and lead a purposeful life
(Brooker & Latham, 2015). The model of recovery needs the implementation of decision
making on a shared manner, it should be in a personalized and driven by the client.

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Occupation therapists are indulged in group activities for the betterment of mental
health of the people under consideration, it involves groups like Pyscho-education multi
family groups and several other groups involved in development of a person’s identity,
building the expressions of the patients in addition to analyzing the social skills that the
patients have (Carlström & Ekman, 2012). The occupational therapists should be associated
with several available programs on psychosis intervention as per available research work, it
improves the positions of the programs and helps the people associated with it to productively
participate in it. Studies on mental health needs was found to be provision of services based
on occupational therapy, increases the enhancement of mental conditions(Olsson et al.,
2013). The patients have been seen to have productive roles in several activities within a few
months of discharge from the health care centers.

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