Mental Health and Wellbeing: Factors, Interventions, and Strategies

This report delves into the multifaceted aspects of mental health and wellbeing, examining the interplay between physical, mental, and social dimensions. It explores the impact of social and psychological factors, such as early life experiences and stress, on individual mental health. The report emphasizes the significance of early childhood experiences and outlines actions that community and social workers can undertake to identify early warning signs of mental stress. Furthermore, it provides an overview of specific interventions designed to promote healthy coping mechanisms for stress, including health promotion programs and educational strategies. The report underscores the importance of a holistic approach in addressing mental health challenges and fostering overall wellbeing.

Mental Health and Wellbeing
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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Chapter-1.........................................................................................................................................3
Chapter-2.........................................................................................................................................5
Chapter-3.........................................................................................................................................7
Chapter-4.........................................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13
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INTRODUCTION
The mental health is based on the term that mainly encompasses with wide range of
experience and situation of individual that can feel both physically as well as mentally. It is
concept which encompasses with continuum from server disorder, most common mental health
problem in which consider the mild symptoms of multiple duration, intensity. In another way, it
can be defined as mental health which based upon the individual life experience whereas
influenced by gender, beliefs, social class and experience of own family life.
The assignment will describe about the mental health and how it will be relates to well-being
the relevance of working with different patients but they will have different mental health
condition. The documentation will discuss about the differences between physical, mental and
wellbeing. It will identify the different social as well as psychological factors which directly
impact on the individual mental health condition. Furthermore, it will implement the plan by
using specific intervention that mainly used to promote healthy method which cope with stress
for different individuals.
Chapter-1
P1 Compare between the different health in term of their assessment of relationship between
physical, mental and wellbeing.
The world health organization can be define health as state of complete mental, physical
and social wellbeing where merely absence of disease. It is based on the consistent process in
term of biopsychosocial model of health. It must be consider the social factors, physiological in
health as well as illness. It may be differs from traditional medical model so as define the health
as absence of illness, which emphasises with significant role of clinical intervention. The
wellbeing mainly refer as positive aspects rather than neutral state which inspire for individual to
maintain their own health condition (Bakker and Rickard, 2019). As per understanding, NHS
local community has been proposed the accurate definition of health which mainly describe as an
ability to adapt, self-manage in proper manner. It may include the ability of individual to handle
the critical health condition. It has acknowledged the subjective element of health and consider
depending on the requirement of people.
Mental health and wellbeing
It can be defined the health which contribute to improve understanding of mental
dimension of health and wellbeing. In order to increase the recognition power of public mental
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health. It is to be consider as integral part of public health. For Example- NHS has been working
with the other parties and focused on the mental as well as physical health of individuals. It must
ensure that mental health recognized as equally which important to physical (Bhugra and
Ventrigliom, 2019). In this way, it will create public mental health policy to improve population
of mental health and wellbeing.
A wellbeing is based on the conceptualization of mental and physical health that are
widely accepted subjective wellbeing but it mat varies between individuals.
The relationship between mental and physical health
The physical and mental health are interrelated with each other, with evidence for
identifying strong relationship between two accumulating over past decade. The relationship
mechanism associated with the behavioral, social and physiological which defined by model of
health (Breslin and Leavey, 2019). Individual stress level affects on the physiological process for
increasing problem within nervous system, digestive and multiple defense functionality. In this
way, it clearly analysed that mental health directly affects on the physical health in order to
represent relationship between them.
The relationship between mental health and wellbeing
The relationship between wellbeing and mental health can be described into two manner.
First is dual continuum model and second continuum model.
Dual continuum model review the mental health condition which are strongly related to
the separate from wellbeing. It may be applied according to situation whereas possible to have
diagnosis mental illness. It is consistent with define the health which emphasizes with
importance of adaption and also recover from mental illness (Dickson and et.al., 2019). On the
other hand, Single continuum model view mental wellbeing which is integral part of mental
health, contributed continuously distributed in the populations.
P2 Describe about the impact of social and psychological factors on individual’s mental health
and well-being.
Psychological and social factors are contributed to interact with the consequences, causes
of health condition, and how these are experienced and interpreted by individuals.
Social factor in individual’s mental health and wellbeing:
Social factor influences on the individual health which relates to early life experience
which is known as key determinants of mental health and wellbeing. Adversely, it can be
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identified the experience of individual during their childhood which associated with increases
risk of poor health in adults life. It mainly including the abuse, parental divorce, domestic
violence. However, it also recognized that people who have not experience of adverse event in
their childhood stage (Kamerāde, Wang and Coutts, 2019). In this way, it go on to have health
problem or issues. So that social factors associated with the resilience during formative years. It
mainly involves feeling loved or having an adult and care their own child. In this way, it can
identify the adverse effect of experiences. The social support at certain level which enabling
individuals to manage stressful mental health under circumstances.
Psychological factors on individual’s mental health and well-being.
Stress is one of most common psychological factor in term of health, in particularly in
relation to work which estimated that how many people affected due to depression, anxiety and
other unmanageable stress. It has been generated the complication situation whereas leading the
mental as well as physical illness (Khamis, 2020). In context of working environment, it always
increase the work related stress as development due to person which unable to cope with demand
place on them. In NHS, professional workers has identified the level of people working in care,
educational and welfare, suggested that sense of social responsibilities which plays important
role in their own life experience (Morgan and et.al., 2019). Psychological factors influence not
just experience of health but also health behavior of individual. The perception of factor in the
form of costs, risk, susceptibility, confidence in the ability to manage or predict the behavior of
individual health. In order to understand the concept of health and wellbeing.
Chapter-2
P3 Review about the significant of early experience in childhood for mental health.
As early experience in childhood for mental health condition and also disruption to the
developmental process which mainly impair child’s capabilities towards the learning. In most of
cases, they also relates to their own life experience which help for improving the environment of
relationships and experience during early life.
The significance of early mental health experience while understanding reason behind
anxiety disorder and other stress. The young children respond and process emotional experience
in way that are different from adults (O’Neill and Mulvenna, 2019). Consequently, it become
difficult for diagnosis in early childhood stage. The professional worker within NHS local
community that have experienced of children’s have different according to their brain
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functionality. It can be identified the relationship with teachers, peers and parents. Especially
when it provide the strong behavior be it bad or good manner. If the environment of children is
strong. These type of relationship will provide the buffering effect when it also forced into
stressful situation (Pitchforth and et.al., 2019). On the other hand, child’s biological response to
stress which will become overactive and helping for susceptible the mental health problems.
These adverse experiences predicted during emergency in both mental as well as physical health
problem. In order to understand the toxic stress that damage child’s cognitive and social
development. In NHS, worker will continue to develop and leading abnormal hormones that
mainly identify during early childhood stage, as per experience (Bhugra and Ventrigliom, 2019).
It can easily identify the emergence risk in both physical as well as mental level. So that it useful
for addressing the mental health problem during early experience in childhood
P4 Perform the significant action that must be undertaken by community, social worker in
identifying the early warning sign of mental stress individuals.
It is the most common to feel stress symptoms by individuals and devasting impact on the
people lives. Most of stress signs are temporary that will be resolve on their own efforts.
However, individuals faced the uses for long times which become harmful for mental health
condition (Volpe and et.al., 2019). In another way, it may be influencing the relationship with
friends and families. There are some common sign of stress among individuals such as eating,
sleeping too much, having low energy, excessive drinking.
In NHS, The social workers and professionals are undertaken certain action to address the
sign of mental health condition among people. Initially, it can be used the screening system
which provide the facilities to determine health stress level (O’Neill and Mulvenna, 2019). It
may be including the professional those are interpreting data to address which individual meet
predetermined cutoff. This type of action is based on the advanced technique to current mind
status of individual.
Afterwards, it has been proposed the action to conduct the activity whereas how
individual person participate and use their own capabilities. In order to understand their own
mental ability whereas how it will deal with condition. The experience of individual shown the
sign of mental stress which become easier for health worker of NHS and community.
Furthermore, professional work in wide range of disciplines which including social work,
therapy, psychology and counselling (O’Neill and Mulvenna, 2019). Through different process,
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it directly interact with individual person to examine the mental stress level and then provide
medicine which increasing the capacity of mental health. Although successfully identified the
early warning sign of mental stress within individuals.
Furthermore, professionals can implement the action to perform testing that identifies
underlying causes of depression, stress. It always participating in health promotion and
prevention activities (O’Neill and Mulvenna, 2019). These type of activities are consider as
holistic in nature rather than concern on the specific functionality of individuals in order to
reduce the stress level. The social worker and community identifying the early sign of mental
health stress, which depending on the different requirement of age groups.
Chapter-3
P5 Implement the specific intervention that mainly used to promote healthy method which cope
with stress for different individuals.
The stress management technique or method that have been developed to reduce, prevent
and cope with stress. In order to emphasized with adaptive technique while reducing stress
behavior among individuals (Breslin and Leavey, 2019). It may be including relaxation, problem
solving and other time management which help for improving lifestyle of people. In NHS,
healthcare professional influence of stress on both psychological as well as physical well-being
documented in proper manner. The health stress is consider the most complex and dynamic
process which directly interact with the individuals. It is depending on the strategies for coping
with stress by implementing intervention.
In recently, has been analysed that effectiveness of stress management intervention which
directly related to the physiological mechanism and modification of life style process (Volpe and
et.al., 2019). Therefore, intervention prevent the stress level and also promote the healthy method
which easily cope with stress among different peoples.
Conduct health promotion program: It is the best intervention that must be proposed by
individual, health workers and professional. They will be integrated with the different activities
of health promotion (Breslin and Leavey, 2019). In order to maintain the prevention and
rehabilitation. The intervention strategies are divided into different groups of individuals such as
legislative, educational and environmental.
In this way, it underlying the intervention which may include feasibility, possibility of
integration, sustainability and simplicity into multiple health system. Afterwards, professional
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committee consisted of team who were experts in the particular areas such as health education,
psychology and stress management. In some situation, the intervention had different as per target
groups.
Educational is based on the cognitive behavior and other are related the symptoms of
stress, illness. It also conducting the face to face session while interacting with individuals and
provide information about stress management (Volpe and et.al., 2019). It will be recognized the
stress by using health promotion technique. Furthermore, annual meetings, seminar those are
holding to review and presenting the continuous education.
P6 Understand the strategies that help for building resilience of individuals.
Resilience is based on the process which being able to adapt the situation and quickly
bounce in the stress level. It may be manifest as friends, families among relationship problem
due to the health issue (Breslin and Leavey, 2019). This type of problem occurs in workplace and
even develop financial problem. When developing resilience that help to cope adaptively and
make change in their lifestyle. It can be adopted by NHS community whereas social worker
provide better services and facilities through an efficient strategy. There are some common
strategies help for building resilience of individuals.
 Practice self-compassion: this strategy is mainly involves offering the compassion to
individual who will suffer with attitude, behavior. In this way, it will require to
participant in the self-compassing program to relief mind stress, anxiety and lower
depression (Volpe and et.al., 2019). Sometimes, it also compared with other people who
did not participate or face issue in their own lifestyle. There are three step which mainly
consider aspects of self-compassion such as be mindful, be kind and not spend so much
time as alone. These thing happen to automatically control or manage for building
resilience.
 Meditate: it is another strategy that generally used in the reduce painful thoughts. It
mainly relates to the past experience of individual whereas they faced the mental health
issues due to stress. So as needed to practice mindfulness which bring more and more
power to deal with negative emotion (Bhugra and Ventrigliom, 2019). This strategy will
adopt in regular lifestyle to handle the critical mind health situation in proper manner.
Afterwards, it useful for building resilience of individuals. For Example- Mindfulness
program is based on the stress reduction which help for individual participant to cope
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with challenges. The strategy is involves bring more attention towards physical sensation
of breath and expression of chest.
 Cultivate forgives: it is the best way to beneficial for mental as well as physical health. It
help for ready to begin with new thing and become more powerful practices within
individual lifestyle (Bhugra and Ventrigliom, 2019). It provide the better clearly
acknowledging what thing happened which may including the stress level of individuals.
In order to examine that how it completely affecting on the life of people. So as require to
adapt the strategy in regular lifestyle and also mindfully aware of feelings, thoughts
during process.
Chapter-4
P7 Describe about the impact of community or social employee own mental well-being and
health on the colleagues. Individual receiving support.
Mental health is consider as critical condition which affects on the ability of human
thinking power whereas they unable to deal with ups and downs in their lifestyle. It is something
that individual enjoy their mental health because they don’t have proper sense to move into
particular direction (Pitchforth and et.al., 2019). In NHS, mental health problem common in the
professional and workers, when they have seen the problem so that it automatically increase
anxiety, depression. For some people, they have become complex mental health condition and
require support and proper treatment. During this situation, mental health worker and
professional empower individual with mental illness.
Initially, they can use therapy, support and advocacy which enable people to manage
social factors in term of employment, relationship (Pitchforth and et.al., 2019). Therefore, it
allows them to get over mental stress while building resilience among individuals. In NHS, The
social communities always tries to transform individual well-being and also improved the society
as well as economy. Many people can be used the mental health service which always support
for recovery. Individual’s living with wide variety of illness such as depression, schizophrenia
and other type of personality disorders. The mental health problem will be associated with the
different issues in regards of physical illness.
In NHS, The social worker’s support individual by setting mental health program which
promote the better health services. In this event, professional may perform significant role for
identifying the forensic services, adolescence and child mental health condition. In this way, it
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always focused on the experience of people because it became easier to understand their own
capabilities. The social workers are becoming great leaders which always inspire or motivate the
individual towards healthy lifestyle (Volpe and et.al., 2019). For Example- it will understand and
inspire individual which make tough situation to handle the situation effectively.
At workplace, wellbeing is increasing the productivity and profitability as much support
the colleagues to make an effective plan (Pitchforth and et.al., 2019). Afterwards, it will create
an effective relationship to manage the mental stress by community. In this way, it is great
impact on the individuals whereas they can understand reality. The social worker will continue to
support individual during crisis and also greater integration of health as well as social care. It
help for prevention of mental health condition in order to reduce stress level.
P8 Develop a plan of how to enhance or maintain own mental health and well-being as
practitioner in community or social work.
It should be developed the self-care plan which always helping to enhance to health and
well-being. In order maintain the professionalism as employee at workplace (Pitchforth and
et.al., 2019). First of all, it will require to identify certain activities and practices that always
support for wellbeing and professional. NHS has focused on the self-care plan and inspire
individual to adapt in their own lifestyle. The self-care plan is based on the long term
achievement. It must be following different steps to create plan of self-care.
Analyze and implement aspects of self-care
The self-care is matter for personal development whereas Individual group of people
adopt the approach will be different. It also relates to the workplace and outside the look after
holistic wellbeing (Volpe and et.al., 2019). In order to meet the professional as well as personal
commitments. There are different aspects of self-care which useful for relationships, professional
or workplace, emotional, physical and spiritual and psychological.
In this way, it can easily discovering the various aspects of self-care and compete with
mental health problem by using self-care plan (Bakker and Rickard, 2019). Once developed an
understanding towards mental health wellness plan which make sure that various incorporate
elements in building strong self-care plan. In order to improve and build the mental health
condition in proper manner. It should be included the information within plan.
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 Initially, understanding own mental health status, identifying the essential requirement to
maintain the good mental health condition in proper manner (Bhugra and Ventrigliom,
2019).
 Furthermore, It can be analysed the personal triggers and identify the experience of life
event. In some situation, it become challenge in the maintaining good mental health and
wellbeing.
 On regular basis, it has been addressed the daily regiment of mental health and wellbeing
activities. It mainly used for creating balance, structure and layout in the own mental
health condition (Bhugra and Ventrigliom, 2019).
 It is listing the strategies that mainly helping to cope with life stress, emotion and
unexpected circumstances. Moreover, it will be upsetting the situation or condition.
 In order to support that available which mainly including mental health professionals,
Friends, family.
 It provide the flexibility to mental health and well-being plan. In event that different step
as well as element needed to be changed.
Professional and workplace self-care
These activities are mainly involved that help to work consistently at professional level.
NHS professionals are engaged with the consulting with experience colleagues who will support
for reducing the stress level (Bakker and Rickard, 2019). Furthermore, it will be setting the peer
support group which are established the relationship between staff and client at workplace. Time
to time, it must attend the professional development program to enhance the self-awareness and
maintain the own mental health and well-being.
Mental health self-care
The different activities that will help to maintain mental health care with intellectually
and engage with other professional challenges found in personal life or workplace. In order to
keep maintain the effective relationship with individuals (Bakker and Rickard, 2019). It allows to
safe experience with full range of mental health as well as emotions.
CONCLUSION
From above discussion, it has concluded that mental health which mainly associated with
wide range of experience and situation of individual that can feel both physically as well as
mentally. In this way, it can be defined as mental health which based upon the individual life
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experience whereas influenced by gender, beliefs, social class and experience of own family life.
It has summarised about the mental health and how it can be related to well-being, relevance of
working with different patients but they will have different mental health condition. In this
report, it can be identified the significant differences between physical, mental and wellbeing.
Furthermore, it also understand the social as well as psychological factors which directly impact
on the individual mental health condition. It can be implementing the intervention which help for
controlling the stress level among individuals.
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