Essay: Promoting Mental Health and Wellbeing in Adults

This essay provides a comprehensive overview of mental health and wellbeing, focusing on adults. It begins by defining mental health and wellbeing, emphasizing their interconnectedness and impact on an individual's life. The essay explores secondary interventions, such as the Five Ways to Wellbeing framework, and community-level interventions designed to promote mental health. It also addresses risk factors, protective factors, health inequalities, and equity issues that affect mental health. The essay references the Coronavirus Act 2020 and the NHS long-term plan as examples of policy interventions. Furthermore, it discusses the importance of anti-stigma campaigns and the role of community initiatives in supporting mental health. The content highlights the significance of positive mental attitudes, regular exercise, social connections, and learning in fostering wellbeing. The essay emphasizes the need for early diagnosis and treatment of mental illness, aiming to equip readers with knowledge to manage stress and promote a healthy lifestyle.

Promoting Mental Health and
Wellbeing
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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11
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INTRODUCTION
Mental health of the people is an important factor that affects the well being of the person.
Mental health of the person is an integral part of the health of the person. Positive mental health
of the person gives the positivity to the person and gives positivity to their well being. Promoting
the mental health means getting awareness of the mental health of the person and their effect on
the well being (Gruebner, and et.al., 2017). The wellbeing of the person is dependent on their
mental health a lot.
The essay is will discussed on the mental health and the well being of the adults. Mental
health is a behavioral and the emotional wellbeing of the person. It is all about the people
thinking, feeling, likes and their behavior. Mental health affects the daily life routines of the
person and to their physical health as well. This report is based on the secondary interventions
that promoted to the mental health and the well being.
MAIN BODY
Mental health is an emotional, social and the behavioural aspects of the person that affect
the wellbeing of the individual. It affects the thinking, feel and act of the person. It is an
important and the essential component of the health of the person. The mental health of the
person affects to its whole life, if the mental health is good then it will create better life of the
person and if the person’s mental health is not good that it will destroy their life. Well being is
the experiences of the person health, their happiness and also to their prosperity.
Well being includes the good mental health that gives the high satisfaction to the life and
helps to create the value and sense to their life. Wellbeing is all about feeling well and will give
the positive life and able to get success with the positivity (Slade, Oades, and Jarden, 2017).
Having the good mental health and the effectiveness creates the happiness and the wellbeing of
the person. The happiness of the person will totally depend on their well being. The well being is
totally depended on the person life that will positively affect. The characteristics of the wellbeing
is the satisfaction from the life, social support, people have an ability to cop up with the
challenges they are facing with the positivity and don’t affects to their mental health. Good
mental health and the well being help the persons to get more engaged with the life to the
positivity. The effective mental health of the person gives the meaning and purpose to their life.
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Good mental health gives the direct state of the well being of the person. It realises to the
person of their own potential, increase their productivity towards their work, person can cop up
with the stress, create the positive surrounding around him and can give positive contribution to
the community. Positive mental health allows to enjoy all the activities of the life and creates the
value of the life to the person. Positive wellness will reflects to the person’s living standard of
the life with the happiness and engagement with the life effectively. Positive wellness creates the
sense of the connection with the world and gives meaning to the life (Siegmann, and et.al.,
2019). The well being and the positive mental health helps to cope up with the mental illness,
having the positive mindset and give the person confidence to cope up with their illness
effectively. The mental health disorders are the range of the health conditions that affect the
mind, mood, behaviour of the person negatively. The positive mental health creates the positive
wellbeing by creates the positive mood and behaviour.
Wellbeing is all about feeling good about oneself and the life while the mental health
involved the emotional and the social wellbeing. As it affects to the persons think, feel and the
act. From the metal health an individual can consider the way to manage the stress and related to
other. Wellbeing is all about being happy and has satisfied life. Mental health is a notion of the
effective well being (Karpetis, 2020). Both the wellbeing and the metal health are interconnected
with each other. Having the positive mental health will significantly affects the wellbeing of the
person positively. There is not a single definition for the feeling good; the words used for the
feeling goods have different perspective. An individual can feel good if he feels so happy; having
the mental health of the person is good and feels wellbeing. To feel good every person has
different perspective of feeling good and all have their own way of thinking to feel good.
Recently the policy made in the England for the persons that are affected from the mental
health and the wellbeing that is known by the name Corona virus Act 2020. The Corona virus act
provides the temporary changes under the patients of the mental health Act 1983 and the
effective impacts of the rights of the human. It also helps to look on the people that are affected
from the pandemic that affected to their mental health and supported to their health and social
care (Coronavirus Act 2020, 2021). The NHS long term plan that is published in 2019 that
emphasis on the improvement of mental health services of adults. With the help of the adult
mental health services the plan s set to give the psychological therapies to the 380000 people by
the end of 2023/24. As per the statistics the 1 in the 4 people are suffering from the metal health
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problems in the UK. From that the 1 of 6 is suffering from the common problem of metal health.
Mental health problems are the main cause of the disability in the persons of the age between the
21 to 29 years old. It is become the more serious problems that are to be faced by the people of
the UK. The mental health of the people is also affected by the corona virus pandemic. From the
pandemic most of the people are get depressed and affected to their mental health.
The risk factors are the factors which are responsible for identifying the state of mental
health which an individual imbibes. There are various risk factors in maintaining mental health
for the adults in which they suffer and sometimes they are unable to get the treatment. Mental
health and wellbeing are the two major phases which constitutes the whole human body to
function specially the mind to function effectively and efficiently (Tanzania, 2021). The risk
factors denotes that how mental health and wellbeing can be affected through the external and
internal risk factors. Risk factors such as depression, stress, anxiety are the major mental issues
and create problem to the adults.
The protective factors of mental health and well being are the factors which help in
providing the positive mental attitude and make the individual take less stress and worry less.
The protective factors are exercising, self regulation of emotions, coping skills and problem
solving, regulations and rules followed at home, work and school by the adults in an effective
manner (Oliver and et.al., 2020).
Adults who are suffering from mental health issue face health inequalities and equity issues
which they face in the society. This makes them even more conscious and they are unable to take
decisions for themselves as they are being judged for what they are being and about their mental
health condition which they face (Hosseinpoor and et.al., 2018). The factors or determinants
which are mentioned by the health inequalities are social isolation, stigma and exclusion from
the society on large grounds. These are major inequality factors which demotivates individuals.
This is seen in adults who do not willing then participate in keeping their mental health
strong and therefore, they remain cut off from society which creates equity issues and through
this they are unable to take the correct path (Corburn, 2017). Therefore, it becomes difficult for
the adults to cope up with their mental illness and on that scale the society affects the
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individual’s life and mental health and wellbeing. The equity issues and health inequalities are
directly linked to wellness and mental health.
Primary intervention is defined as measures which help in preventing onset illness before the
disease begins. Proper immunization is to be taken in the primary prevention of the illness or the
disease (Rhodes and et.al., 2017). Regular exercise is to be taken care of while preventing the
illness especially mental illness which is being there to the individuals especially to adults.
Primary prevention of mental illness is that the adults should intake positive mental attitude by
eating hygienic food and drinking adequate water.
Secondary intervention is defined as the preventative measure which leads to early diagnosis
of the mental illness and this helps in curing and treating the mental illness or the disease through
which any problem is caused due to that (White and et.al., 2018). Mental illness at any stage is
dangerous therefore, whenever the prevention or treatment of the mental illness is possible,
adults should be able to take care of themselves so that when they are facing such problems they
are able to cope up with it in a significant way and effectively.
There are five ways to wellbeing framework which are described as below –
Connect – For maintaining wellbeing, adults should talk to someone and communicate more
with the people rather than sitting alone (Chernyshenko and et.al., 2018).
Active – Regular physical activities will help the individual to crate positive environment around
themselves and make them relieved from depression and stress.
Notice – By noticing the broader ways and strengthening the awareness around the adults can
take care of their wellbeing.
Learn – Learning is the process which should not be topped and this should continue for the
whole life and for the wellbeing of the adults and individuals.
Give – Participation in the community and social life will help the adults in increasing their
wellbeing and they will be able to pay attention while gathering happily with the people.
The primary and secondary intervention in the wellbeing framework will help the
individuals in deciding how and in what ways they can improve their mental health and
wellbeing (White, 2017). This will also help them in creating the ways through which they are
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able to make the effective process of how to remain health mentally and physically for
improving the wellbeing.
Community level interventions refer to multicomponent interventions which combine
environmental changes and the individual changes. And it aims to promote wellbeing of the
individual who are residing in the community (Thiyagarajan and et.al., 2019). Various strategies
are being framed which helps in promoting the wellbeing of the adults and reduces the mental
stress by improving mental health.
Mental health can be improved by taking and initiating the community level interventions
which will help the adults to cope up with any type of mental illness which they are facing.
Community level interventions concern the whole society and the local community which is
concerned with the purpose of providing and taking care of the adults to check their mental
health and wellbeing (Linas and et.al., 2021). These five ways of wellbeing help in making the
framework more effective which includes the factors such as connecting, be active, noticing,
learning and giving. Through these five ways the framework of the individuals is improved and
they are able to gain mental healthy lifestyle and enhance the wellbeing effectively and
significantly.
Anti – Stigma Campaign – The anti – stigma campaign aims in creating awareness around drug
– use stigma which individuals are indulged into. The secondary prevention in reducing mental
stigma is to be aware of behaviour and attitudes of individuals (Maulik and et.al., 2017). The
secondary prevention also constitutes as focusing on positive aspects, self – educating about
mental illness which includes any disorders etc. Education should be provided regarding mental
health problems which individual incurs. Therefore, anti – stigma campaign will help in
protecting and making aware adults about their mental health.
Suicide Prevention Strategy/Plan – Suicide prevention strategy helps in saving individual who
is suffering from mental illness and is anytime ready to give away life (World Health
Organization, 2018). For this purpose, suicide prevention strategies are made which helps the
individual to get away through process of this stigma and mental illness of which they are
suffering. For this various programmes are initiated and individuals are saved from not giving
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away their lives. Also, for suicide prevention strategy, there are various call numbers for suicide
prevention through which the person can be saved.
There are various advantages which are seen and observed in the interventions which are
done through anti – stigma campaign and suicide prevention strategy that is being framed for
saving the adult and keeping them mentally healthy (Linardon and et.al., 2021). Through these
interventions, individuals or adults are able to analyze their mental state and mental health. By
making the adults aware of the situation they are able to take care of their mental state and by
measuring the advantages of these interventions which are referred under the secondary
interventions there are ways through which people are taking initiatives to keep safe and sane
their mental health.
The problems which are faced in these interventions are that these interventions can be
sometimes harmful and may generate negativity which may affect the mind and the mental
health of the individuals can be hampered (Attygalle and et.al., 2017). The problems which are
being faced by the individuals by following these interventions are that they are sometimes
unable to understand the significance of these interventions are therefore they make the most
inappropriate move towards having proper knowledge and understanding of what these factors
are meant for in helping the mental health problems.
The interventions which are discussed will help in preventing the individuals and make
them aware of their mental health situations. The sub – groups which are formed will help the
adults by making them aware of the situation which they are facing in the mental health or if they
have any issue of having any problem (Healy and et.al., 2018). The sub – group within the
groups will encourage and give a hand in getting rid of the problems which the individuals are
facing.
The secondary interventions which included the anti – stigma campaign and the suicide
prevention plan will help the adults in analyzing their mental health conditions and this make
them more aware of the situation in which they are. This will help the individuals in making the
decision which will help them in deciding the various angles of how the adults can improve their
stigma and enhance their mentally stability (Knittle and et.al., 2018). Therefore, the interventions
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helped in dealing with the hand – to hand sub – groups within the groups of adults for the
interventions.
Health inequalities and equity issues which affects the interventions which are the defined
in the secondary prevention intervention. The interventions such as the anti – stigma campaign
and suicide prevention strategy creates issues in the society and affects the individuals who are in
the process of healing and are facing the health inequalities and equity issues within the local
community and society at large scale (Veinot and et.al., 2018). Health inequality issues for the
interventions are created in the society and the local community which becomes difficulties for
the individuals who are not able to concern about their wellbeing and the society with health
inequalities create the issues and affects the whole mental health of the individual.
Therefore, the main issue which arises is that the individuals with the mental health issues.
Being mentally healthy is the prime purpose of leading a healthy life which the adults are
seeking for in god manner and therefore their wellbeing is also being affected in the process of
health inequalities which are the major issue in the community.
Evaluation is the process of presenting a judgement which is based on the study of the
intervention. Public health professionals will analyze and understand whether the evaluation is
being done appropriately and in significant manner (Weatherly and et.al., 2017).
The value of evaluation is defined as conducting the process or evaluating so as to enhance
the understanding and knowledge along with the concept and main idea added the judgements to
be observed.
The discussed intervention can be evaluated in the form of questionnaire, focus groups and
interviews. As these methods are directly related to the primary research therefore, the evaluation
of the intervention can be done effectively and efficiently with this process. In this, the most
effective form of how the intervention can be evaluated is through framing the questionnaire
which will include the questions (Frank and et.al., 2018). In focus group it will be identified to
target the groups or customers and in interviewing the intervention will be done by face to face
interviewing sessions of the individuals who are suffering from mental health problems. This
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will help in making effective results and will evaluate these results through the three processes
discussed above.
CONCLUSION
Thus, it can be concluded from the above report that background of the easy helped in
defining what mental health and wellbeing is through the definitions. Along with this,
similarities and differences between them were also framed and identified. Key policies and
statistics helped in providing the derail knowledge and understanding about the topic.
Furthermore, key risk and protective factors were analyzed. Health inequalities and equity issues
were identified. Further, primary and secondary interventions were discussed and analyzed. Five
ways to wellbeing framework provided details. Health equalities and equity issues regarding the
interventions were analyzed. Along with this, secondary prevention intervention points were
discussed and formed in detail. Evaluation and value of evaluation were defined and how these
interventions were evaluated. Thus, this is how the mental health and wellbeing served the
individuals the better information of how and by what process the individuals should remain
positive and create positive mental health effectively.
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