Mental Health Promotion: Self-Management in First Episode Psychosis

This homework assignment focuses on a mental health promotion strategy aimed at improving self-management skills in young people experiencing their first episode of psychosis. The assignment defines self-management as a crucial element, involving coping with stressors, preventing psychiatric conditions, and enhancing self-efficacy. It targets the population group of young adults (15-29 years old) with first-episode psychosis, emphasizing the importance of early intervention. The strategy involves resilience skill training, incorporating psycho-education to improve understanding of the disease and encourage patient participation. The assignment includes questionnaires designed for peers to assess their understanding of the topic. A fact sheet summarizes the key aspects, highlighting the disorder, the chosen health promotion element, and the implemented strategy. The provided references support the chosen approach and provide the basis for the analysis.

N A M E O F T H E S T U D E N T :
N A M E O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y:
MENTAL HEALTH
PROMOTION

Identify and define chosen mental
health promotion element:
 Self management is one important
element in the mental health
promotion. It involves the
management of health and well-being
in mentally ill people by the following
steps:
 Supporting affected people to cope
and manage the stressors of daily life
 Prevent and manage psychiatric
condition
 Improvement of self-efficacy and self-
regulation skills in person
 Develop skills to manage changes in
life
 It involves role management,
emotional management and patient-
provider partnership to improve
coping ability of patients (Bährer-
Kohler, 2012).

Overview of the population and symptom group:
This mental health promotion strategy is
focusing on the population group of
young people and symptom group of
first episode psychosis.
Overview of symptom group:
Psychosis is a mental health condition
in which a person experience distortion
or loss of contact with reality.
The main symptoms of psychosis
involves hallucination, delusion and
thought disorder
People with first episode psychosis are
those who have not experience
psychosis before
People with first episode psychosis have
physical manifestations like
restlessness, pain, dizziness,
constipation, fatigue and sleep
disturbances (Mueser et al., 2015).
Overview of population group:
Young population group between the
age of 15-29 years with 1s episode
psychosis has been targeted for
health promotion.
Management of condition in young
group is necessary so that the
symptoms can be controlled at an
early stage before the progression to
mature stage of the disease.
Early intervention is the gold standard
of care for people with first episode of
psychosis and the main rational for
early intervention is that reducing the
duration of untreated psychosis is
necessary to improve clinical,
functional and social outcomes in the
long term (Kirkbride et al., 2016).

One strategy to promote mental health and well-being
in the symptom group:
To promote mental health and well-being in the
symptom group, the strategy is:
To facilitate recovery in patient by improving their
resilience and coping skills
 To implement resilience skill training to target
coping styles, emotional and social functioning of
symptom group related to illness management
To incorporate psycho-education in resilience skill
training to improve understanding about the
disease and enhance patient’s participation in
management of the first order psychosis

Questionnaires for class peers :
The questions for class peers are as follows:
Q1. Self-management skills interventions
promote improvement in which health
outcomes in people with first episode
psychosis?
Q2. How is psycho-education related to
improvement in self-management skills of
symptom group?
Q3. How you can evaluate the success of
resilience skills training on improving self-
management skills of participants.

FACT SHEET
Symptom group: First episode psychosis
Population group: Young population
About the chosen mental disorder: First episode psychosis is a disorder
related to distorted thoughts and loss of contact with reality experienced in
people for the first time. Health promotion for this symptom group has been
chosen because delayed treatment deteriorate psychosocial functioning in
individual and targeting symptom control at early stage is necessary to
achieve optimal health outcome.
About the chosen mental health promotion element: Self-management
has been chosen for health promotion as poor coping skills further
deteriorates mental health and self-management skills supports mentally ill
people to live a meaningful life.
Health promotion strategy: To develop self-management skills in symptom
group, resilience skill training has been targeted. It is a strength based
approach to care that supports patient to recognize their strength in
managing the condition by better understanding about the disease and
learning about ways to address emotional aspects of coping with the disorder.

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