Mental Health and Well-being: Strategies, Interventions, and Policies

This report, focusing on mental health and well-being, examines various interventions and strategies for coping with stress and building resilience, including the "Every Mind Matters" initiative and the role of social media. It explores the significance of supervision for public service workers and the impact of social connections on mental health. The report also analyzes policies aimed at improving mental health at local and national levels, such as the Blue Light Programme, and concludes with a personal mental health and well-being plan, outlining goals, interventions, and timelines for managing stress and depression. This document is a valuable resource for students seeking to understand and improve their mental health.

Unit 2: Mental Health
and Well being

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Section 2: Interventions...............................................................................................................1
Section 3: Strategies and Policies...............................................................................................2
Section 4: Social Media..............................................................................................................2
Section 5: Significance of Supervision.......................................................................................3
Section 6: Impact of the others....................................................................................................3
Section 7: Individual mental health and well-being plan............................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFRENCES...................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Mental Health is not only the absence of the mental disorder. It is further defined as state
of the well-being in that each individual realize their own potential, which access that how
effectively they could cope up with general life' stress, working fruitfully and productively and
making contribution to their community. An individual could overcome stress and depression by
applying several interventions into the practices.
National Health Service is publicly funded system of healthcare in England. It is biggest
single-payer healthcare system across globe. It had its headquarter in London, United Kingdom.
NHS employ over more than 1.4 million employees. The above report includes intervention that
could be used for promoting health methods for coping with stress. Mentioning several strategies
and policies that can be used for building resilience among individual. Report carried forward
with accessing potential limitations and benefits of social media on an individual. Further stating
importance of supervision in support to the well-being of individual and public service workers.
Report ends with the impact of friends, colleagues and family on an individual's mental health
and well-being. At last preparing the personal mental health and well-being plan.
Section 2: Interventions
Most of the individual feel stressed mots of the times and some individual find stress is
helpful or could be motivating for them. Stress could cause several symptoms to the individual.
It could affect an individual mentally, physically and how one behave. There are many
interventions that care useful for an individual for coping with stress. The NHS with partnership
to the Public Health England (PHE) had introduced “Every Mind Matters” for helping individual
for taking simple steps for looking after the mental health, enhance the mental well-being and
supporting others. The steps are guided by the “Every Mind Matters” that individual can be
prepared for the ups and downs in life. It enables individual to develop a personalized action plan
which recommends a set of the action for self-care for dealing with stress, improving sleep, boost
up mind and feelings in control (Tennant and et.al., 2020). The another intervention is that they
had team of mental health which are 24*7 ready to help the mental health patients and them
effectively across the England. For adults, they are also investing in expanding Crisis Resolution
and Home Treatment Teams (CRHTTs) it is the expansion program which is helpful in rendering
acute care and reducing & eliminating the mental health and stress among the individual.
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Section 3: Strategies and Policies
There are many strategies that can be utilized by an individual for building the resilience
in themselves. Individual must interact with their family, friends and loved one's so that they feel
confident and could overcome the stress effectively. Raising owns self-esteem for working
further by setting challenges or various goals and for achieving them. By learning new skills one
can boost up self-confidence in themselves (Tough, Siegrist and Fekete, 2017). By developing so
that feeling in self let the to be living purposely. Paying attention and being more aware about
the current moment so that they can improve their mental well-being.
At the local and national level the ambulance service have been embraced challenges for
enhancing improving mental health and well-being. This service is violable to the individual who
are suffering from mental health and in emergency this can be opted by them (Rowe, 2017). The
Blue Light Programme have also been launched for tackling with mental health discrimination
and stigma. This is also helpful in building the resilience. They enhancement for accessing
individual with information related to mental health and well-being.
This policies are helpful for promoting mental health and well-being among the
individual during emergency situation. The large number people had effectively reduced their
stress and depression and improving mental health. It had a positive impact on individual they
had developed the confidence level in them and overcome the state of depression among them. It
is helpful in getting service at the time of situation many of the life are being saved through this.
Section 4: Social Media
Facebook is most commonly used social media site that is utilized by wide range of
public. It had become major part of individual's life's daily routine. Along with that there are
some advantage and disadvantages of using this sites for promoting mental health and well-
being.
Advantages-
 The main advantage is that information related to mental health, stress could easily be
pass on to wide range of public they can be further aware of what is good for their mental
health and what is not (Thorley, 2017).
 Various campaigns details which are related to individual's mental health could be access
by the individual, and they can further opt this for eliminating their mental stress and
tension.
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 The individual can also connected with their peers about their concern for mental health
and thus further it is helpful for them in seeking the help from them and thus further they
can also guide them better on it.
 Individual can be more aware and attentive to mental health and illness.
 It is helpful in motivating individual and boost up them for further release stress.
Disadvantages-
 Much fake news can also be passed out to the individual related to mental health as they
can further suffer from more mental stress.
 The promotion could also lead individual to feel depressed and get demotivated further
(Marselle and et.al., 2019).
 Individual could not be communicating to their peers and sharing their problems after
knowing about the overall effect on the individual mental health.
Section 5: Significance of Supervision
Public service workers such as health care professional, volunteers are facing a lot of
mental stress and depression. Thus, they need to maintain their stress effectively in such a way
that they can over come it and perform their job well. It is very essential for individual public
service worker to work for the betterment of local society. For this they also need to be healthy
and free from mental pressure & stress. They supervise and guide professional for working
effectively as that they could perform their job well and further treat well their mental ill
patients. The professional also need proper guidance and set prevalence so that they can further
treat their patient and let them to recover mental stress and become physically well.
It is very helpful for individual to also that they can get guide lines and information to
them regarding mental health and illness. These can be very immensely helpful for both in
overcoming the stress and mental pressure. An individual could be got motivated and encouraged
by these supervisors they lead to guide them for working further and prevailing to reduce mental
stress and depression (Laidlaw, McLellan and Ozakinci, 2016). It is more essential for an
individual to being well and motivated immensely so that they can further achieve their goal and
objectives effectively. Each and every individual suffering from mental illness need a
supervision and guidance from public so that they can easily recover from such critical situation.
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Section 6: Impact of the others
The friends, colleagues and family had impact on an individual's mental health and well-
being. The friends, family and colleagues had a huge impact as the friends of an individual had a
negative impact if they are abusing, letting an individual to feel below and discouraging them for
each and every aspect. If an individual is depressed and mentally discouraged by their friends
then they could suffer from mental illness. If an individual's family is supporting and further
helping him then the individual will never feel lonely but if they are facing from any mental
pressure from their family side then they could not survive in this environment (Fancourt,
Tymoszuk and Steptoe, 2018). They will thus feel depressed and lonely which result to mental
illness of individuals. Colleagues also plays an essential role in everyone's life as they have been
spending their most time with them if colleagues discriminate with each other and let individuals
to humiliate other ones then the individual feel depressed and pressured. If individual have
friends, family and colleagues who are not supporting the then they could further suffer from
metal illness and stress but if they are full of positivity and supporting each other than the
individual will not face any of the stress and depression further and thus they can have good
health and mental state further.
Along with that the friends, colleagues and parents also impact the mental health and
well-being of public service workers. These workers are also facing a various level of stress and
mental pressure from their jobs and thus they could also have a stress and depression from such.
As they can have pressure from many such situations while rendering service to the public if they
are relaxed then they could effectively provide services to them but if they depressed and under
pressure and not mentally well then they can't be able to provide services well to the society
(Biggs and et.al., 2017). There friends and colleagues helps them to work ahead with positive
attitude through which they can render great services to them. If a public service provider had
their parents support then they could release their mental pressure and effectively perform their
job.
Section 7: Individual mental health and well-being plan
Mental Health
Problems
Goal and
outcomes
Interventions Evaluation Time
duration
Stress I am suffering for
stress due to lot of
For releasing
mental stress I will
From
meditation, I
2 months
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problems and
issues which have
been met by me
during my life-
cycle.
be doing
meditations and
yoga.
Communicating
with my family
and friends so that
I can divert my
mind from such
tensions.
can easily
control state
of my mind
and having
control over
my mind. I
could
further have
communicat
ion and
making
friends and
having a
great life
with them.
Depression I need to overcome
myself from the
situation of
depression as with
this state of mind I
couldn't perform
my job well.
To overcome this
state I will be
joining
motivational
sessions which
would help me to
be encouraged and
full of positive
vibes (Andreucci
and et.al., 2018).
The another thing
which can be done
by me is to join
therapies so that I
could recover
This will be
helpful for
me in
recovering
quickly and
having a
positive
energy for
working
ahead
greatly.
3 months
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fastly.
CONCLUSION
From the above study it can be concluded that it is very essential for an individual should
have and mental health and well-being. With the busy and rush full life individual are suffering
from several tensions, stress, pressure and depression. Each and every individual had their own
tensions across their life and having some problem in their life some of them cope with such
problems and some of them couldn't which is further result in mental illness. For recovering such
they will be need some policies, strategies and measures that can be further used by an individual
to overcome stress and depression. By overcoming this they can have good mental health and so
that further they can perform their work positively and effectively rendering a good services to
the public. So for having a good life individual need to have great life and must be associated
with adopting various intervention so that they can be let physically fit and well. Through this an
individual could be encouraged and motivate further and spend their life with great exposure and
helps other also to cope up with stress and mental pressure and have great life ahead.
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