Mental Health Interventions and Public Health Priorities in the UK

This presentation provides a comprehensive overview of mental health interventions within the context of public health priorities in the United Kingdom. It begins with an introduction highlighting the significance of mental health issues among the younger generation in the UK and the need for governmental and individual interventions. The presentation then conducts a needs assessment, emphasizing the prevalence of mental health problems among young adults and the contributing factors such as stress, alcohol consumption, and lack of social support. The aim is to develop interventions to reduce mental health issues, with objectives including finding alternative intervention methods and identifying ways for adults to lead healthy lifestyles. The presentation outlines various intervention theories, including cognitive and psychodynamic theories, and explores different approaches such as psychological, biomedical, and social approaches. It evaluates these approaches and concludes by summarizing the importance of public health priorities in addressing mental health issues and the effectiveness of various interventions like classification and family systems. The presentation references several scholarly articles and online resources to support its findings.

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INTRODUCTION
• Public health priorities are priorities set by government to ensure
health and well being of individuals so that they can enjoy healthy
lifestyles. In another word, it broad range of topic starting from
“quality education” to life on land” that has become most of the
challenging topic due to increase in number of diseases.
• The topic is important to study because lot of younger generation
in United Kingdom are facing mental health issue that has affected
their health badly.
• So appropriate intervention need to be taken by government as
well as individuals to reduce the health issue so that adult people
can also live better lifestyles.
• There are number of stress that are faced by adult of UK at early
age that resulted in mental health issue so 11% of European has
delegates mental health as public health priority.
• This presentation has covered all necessary information related to
public health priority of UK and several interventions that can
contribute in gaining maximum outcome. It has also contained
several approached applied to intervention and finally critically
evaluate them in order to justify that it will helps in getting best
results.

NEEDS ASSESSMENT
• The topic of mental health is crucial because half of
mental problem are established by age of 14, which
further rise to 75% by age of 24.
• There are several factors that has caused mental health
issue among younger generation of United Kingdom such
as extreme stress, intake of alcohol, violence and lack of
social support or situation of poverty.
• It has been identified that at least fifth of population are
twice at risk of developing mental health issue as many
children are feeling more isolated that lead to depression
or mental disorder.
• In 2017 there were total 4451 death by suicide in England
among them 28% are people that have mental health
issue.

AIM, OBJECTIVES AND OUTLINE OF INTERVENTION
Aim
• The aim is to develop an interventions that can be taken in order to reduce mental
health public issue among adult in United Kingdom”.
Objective
• To find alternative intervention method that can be used in resolving mental health issue
faced by adult generation.
• To identify the way adult can live stressful and healthy lifestyles for a better lifestyles
ahead.
Outline of intervention
• Undoubtedly, it can be stated that mental health is important topic to study that include
psychological, social well being and emotional health of person. The factors that
contribute to mental health issue in adult generation are biological, previous experienced
like any trauma etc. medication (how you are using your intervention to help people).

Intervention theories• Cognitive theory
• Mental health has been identified as one of the main issue and
health problem among adults where there have been various
focus developed to bring on intervention theories. The most
common and highly recognised mental health intervention
theory is cognitive theory where it is scientific study of mind as
information processors bring on varied aspects of fundamental
goals informatively.
• The cognitive models of information tries to build peoples mind,
including perceptions that goes inside people minds including
language aspects, memory perceptions and conscious working
aspects within longer run. Cognitive theory enables people
working domains to be strategically analysed based on various
domains, to potentially analyse various aspects which lead to
mental illness and uneasy living scenarios. Cognitive theory
within intervention enables people to be comfortable within
treatments widely and also potentially enhances behaviours
within longer run, on where there are varied new domains of
higher specific functional avenues taking active shape.

Psychodynamics theory
• The psychodynamics theory can be analysed as one of the most
widely popular approach that emphasizes systematic study of
psychological forces that underline various factors as per the
human behaviour feelings and emotions widely on various
grounds.
• The patients experiences are widely analysed for creative strength
enhancement, higher informative goals efficacy and also to
develop treatments based on varied new profound strength. It can
be also analysed that psychodynamics theory is one of the oldest
theory within integration of mental health intervention where new
determined horizons are build on productively based on patient
historical experience impacting on keen aspects.
• It can be also determined that there is varied new scale innovation
coming on within technology in public health and medical science
which has brought patients brain working under analysis. Doctors
and therapists use it for enabling best treatments for patients
based on experiences and suitability within varied aspects and
also larger creative domains development informatively.

EVALUATI
ON
• The evaluation can be more specifically done where mental
health issues have been on constant rise on recent periods
where there are various teenagers and adults facing high
pressurised factors effectively.
• It can be also analysed that doctors, therapists have found
various aspects within living standards where unconscious
mind and conscious mind are in constant struggle and also there
is larger impacts on behaviour where varied new scenarios are
coming on.
• Health issues within mental health have bee on constant rise
globally on which there has been dynamic shift analysed ,
people facing depression side effects and pressurised life
decline standards. Teenagers and adults are facing new scale
decline in their health standards due to mental health issues
being increasable high among varied scenarios,

APPROACHES APPLIED TO
INTERVENTION
• There are several approaches which could be used for intervention of mental
health issue faced by younger generation like psychological, biomedical and
social approach. Therefore different approach that can be used to treat
people suffering for mental health issue can be described below:
• Psychological approach: It is term which means psychological
development and interaction of individuals with social environment.
Furthermore this approach included motivation enhancement, relapse
prevention, structured counselling and many other methods to treat patient
from issue of mental health.

EVALUATION
• The evaluation has been done specifically based on
various aspects where theories and approaches
enable to generate strengthening connective abilities
within treatments where doctors, therapists which
also enable to develop best treatments.
• Evaluation can be done more specifically for larger
new profound synergies, where doctors enable to
deliver best new medical services and also avail new
aspects imperatively. There is constant rise within
living standards among people recently where
mental health issues have been on constant rise,
also for keeping up best health standards. Doctors
and health staff members shall be strongly heading
towards up graded new structural practical theories
for evolving on best medical treatments parameters.
In UK there has been seen high rise among people
within adults facing various mental health issue
imperatively and also has been found to be widely
rising functional aspects widely.

CONTINUE ….
• Globally also mental health has been peeking
higher scale complexity within treatments and
people facing various health issues on which,
treatments and therapies have been idealised as
one of the largely effective aspect.
• Patient are encouraged to talk freely about
whatever happens to be on their mind, patterns of
behaviour and feelings that stem from past
experiences and unrecognized feelings become
apparent.
• There are theories of counselling also where
almost all of the many individual theoretical
models of counselling fall into one or more of
six major theoretical categories: humanistic,
cognitive, behavioural, psychoanalytic,
constructionist and systemic. Perhaps the
three main approaches are psychodynamic,
humanistic and behavioural.

CONCLUSION
• From the above presentation, it can be concluded that
there are number of adult or younger generation that
are suffering from mental health issue because of
segregation of family and nuclear family.
• Increase in competition level, more burden and
responsibilities on students are several factors that
have caused issue related to mental health.
• So, with increase in issue, public health has set
priorities to minimum the stress so that more and
more younger generation can have healthy lifestyles.
• It can also be summarised from above presentation,
that there are numerous intervention that can be used
to ensure better mental health.
• Such as classification, family system, simple and
crises are some of the intervention described above
can be helpful in making life of adult better.

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