UK Mental Health: Community Services, Policies, and Legislation

This report provides an overview of community mental health services in the United Kingdom, focusing on the policies and legislation that govern mental health care. It discusses the importance of community-based services in providing care for adults and older adults with severe mental health needs, emphasizing the role of these services in promoting self-care, social skills, and overall quality of life. Key legislations such as the Mental Health Act 1983 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005 are examined, highlighting their impact on the assessment, treatment, and rights of individuals with mental health conditions. The report also addresses the social determinants of mental health, such as racial discrimination, unemployment, and income inequalities, and concludes with the critical role of community mental health centers in meeting the demands for mental health treatments across the country.

COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH IN
THE UNITED KINGDOM

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...............................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.......................................................................................................................................3
Heading 1..........................................................................................................................................3
Heading 2..........................................................................................................................................4
Heading 3..........................................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION....................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES......................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
A new community-based offer will involve the access towards the psychological therapies, an
enhanced physical well-being care, encourage of employment, the personalised as well as
trauma informed care and so on. The services presented in the community mental well-being
generally plays an essential part in delivering the mental well-being care that are particularly
required by the adults and the older adults with the most severe mental well-being
requirements as close to home as possible. It can specifically encourage the people who are
having the psychiatric disorders to manage their self-care, enhance the social as well as the
skills of the relationships. These particular things can aid the people to attain the wider
quality of life via their physical well-being, the social connectedness, educations and
employment as well. In UK, approximately about 1 in every 4 people have experiencing the
issues with mental health and about 1 in every 6 people containing the reports which states
that they are specifically experiencing the common mental well-being issues such as
depression and anxiety. Having a mixed of this particular illness is the most common mental
well-being disease across UK, with about 7.8% of the people are meeting the criteria for
diagnosis. Approximately about 4 to 10% of overall people have experiencing the depression
in their lifetime. In this report, there is a discussion about the policies as well as the
legislations which are established to aid the people to overcome the leading cause. The
mental health legislations and the policies are specifically the foundations on which to
improve the services and the actions as well (Al-Kurdi, El-Haddadeh and Eldabi, 2018).
MAIN BODY
The community mental well-being services are jointly given by the National Health
Services as well as by the local councils. Having the variety of professionals with the
different education background, the cultures and the languages are specifically needed to
collaborate with each other. The mental well-being care increasingly come under the
spotlight in the very recent years. In this, the policies are essential to define the values the
values, the directions as well as the responsibilities, the functions and structure as well. Most
of the countries are decreasing the numbers of beds as well as are generally moving towards
the closure of mental well-being care organizations to replace particular institutional forms of
care with the community-based mental well-being services (Alruqi, Hallowell and Techera,
2018).
Heading 1.
In context with the guidelines of World Health Organization, a comprehensive mental well-
being policy must address the following problems such as the services in organization
involves the improving the mental well-being services, downsizing the large mental care
organizations as well as improving the mental well-being components in the primary well-
being care. It can also involve the quantity as well as the quality of the human resources. In
this, it consists the equity of the access towards the mental well-being services across various
different groups. There are specific pieces of the legislations which particularly governs
about how people with the mental health conditions can usually receives the care as well
as the treatment. It involves the Mental Health Act 1983 as well as the Mental Capacity Act
2005, containing the deprivation of the liberty safeguards. In this, the Mental Health Act
1983 is generally considered as the important piece of the legislation which specifically
covers the assessment, the treatment as well as the rights of the people with a mental well-

being disorder. People are generally detained under the Mental Health Act that urgently
requires the treatment for the Mental health illness. These particular people are at a greater
risk of developing harm towards themselves or others. In contrast with the Mental Capacity
Act, it generally received the royal assent on April 2005 and it has been implemented in the
year of 2007. The Act specifically defines when people lack the capacity as well as it can
encourages the people with the limited decision-making capability to make as many as
decisions as possible for themselves. The Act particularly lay down the rules for substitute
making the decisions. The Mental Capacity Act can generally aid the people as well as
encourage the people who are particularly unable to make the decisions for themselves. It
states that every people whatever their disabilities are, contains the right to make their own
decisions. Through this Act, the people must encourage the other people who are having the
mental health issues in making their decisions if they can support (Bennett and et. al., 2018).
Heading 2.
The provided mental health policies generally defines a vision for the future that in
turns can aid to establish the benchmark for preventing, treating and rehabilitation of the
mental disorders as well as the promotions of the mental well-being among the community.
These are particularly essential because they coordinate, through a common vision as well as
a plan and in this, all the programmes as well as the services that are related to these
particular objectives. Without this type of the organization, the programmes as well as the
services are more likely to be fragmented as well as inefficient.
In this, the mental well-being outcomes are generally optimized when the mental
well-being is an important component of the public well-being. The government actions as
well as the policies can protect and can promote the mental well-being and the health of its
peoples. The provided services are more appropriate, can accountable, equitable as well as an
accessible. In this, the people are treated in the least restrictive as well as intrusive manner.
By the World Health Organization department, a Mental Health Policy Project has been
created by the department. The aim of the project is generally brought together with the latest
information on the Mental well-being Policy as well as the improvement of services, compile
it into a guidance package, disseminate into the member states and assist with its
implementation. the project will aid to create the policies as well as the services and then put
them into the practices that in turn will lead to enhance the mental well-being care, treatment

as well as the promotions. The legislations which are under the community mental health
such as Mental Health Act 1983 is generally designed to protect the rights of the people with
the various mental well-being issues. This act can particularly certify that they are only
admitted to the care organization against their will when it is absolutely important to ensure
their well-being or the safety or for the protection of the other people (Bull, 2017).
The Mental Health Act 1959 has been introduced the possibility of the patients which
is being treated informally. Prior to this, all the patients in the care organization were on an
order. The Act has generally reinforced the status of the informal patients, but it can also give
some of the rights to those detained, most notably the right to appeal as well as to have the
written information on these particular rights. Although both of the care organizations bed as
well as the admissions have decreased, the trend for involuntary admissions has been elevated
since in 1983, both in the actual numbers and the proportions of all the admissions. The
legislation of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 is generally a law which specifically protects the
vulnerable people particularly over the age of 16 around decision making. It states that every
people, whatever their disability, has the rights to make their own decisions wherever
possible. people must encourage the people to make their own decisions if they can. In this,
having the mental capacity generally means that people can effectively able to make as well
as can effectively communicate their own decisions (Dong and et. al., 2017).
Heading 3.
There are also the social determinants of the mental health such as the racial
discrimination as well as the social excursion. It can also involve the adverse early life
experiences, reduced education, an unemployment, the insecurities of job, income
inequalities, the low access towards the sufficient healthy foods and so on. It is a well known
that there are various social factors which affects the serious risk for the mental health
disorders as well as the use of drugs and the results of the health of a person with these such
illnesses. In addition to their combined effects and an independent, the social as well as the
surrounding environmental factors can specifically influences the genetic determinants of the
wellbeing as well as the disorders through the genes by the interactions with the environment
as well as the epigenetic mechanisms. These particular social as well as the environmental
factors has clearly contains an effect at the people level and they should encounter the
interventions in the clinical settings. The social determinants of the well-being as well as the
social determinants of the mental well-being can specifically exerts their impacts more
widely at the level of community. It can be more effectively addressed through the alterations
in the public policies and the social norms as well. In this, it is more specifically the social
determinants of the mental health, it is particularly exemplified here by an income inequality
as well as the reduced level of education. These are usually understood as being supported by
an unequal dispersion of the opportunities. In this, they are more deeply the public policies
such as the legislations which may not specifically pertain towards well-being but can has far
reaching impacts over the well-being (Goldstein and Keohane, 2019).

CONCLUSION
The community mental well-being centres are generally critical to meeting the
demands for the mental health treatments across the country. Filling the gaps when the people
are usually unable to obtain the treatment from the private care organizations, the community
mental health centres generally operate on the very front line in aiding the people contend
with the major challenges to their mental health. The social workers, counsellors,
psychologists as well as the peer supports the specialists. These particular are some of the
professionals who generally give the services at the community mental health centres. In this,
the community mental well-being centres are more frequently contracted with the other care
providers among the community for the specific services. It generally has helped several
people over the years as well as there are various challenges which are particularly continue
to confront the effective provisions of the mental health services in the society across nation.
In this report, it is concluded that mental health legislations are necessary to ensure about the
regulatory framework for the mental services as well as the other providers of the treatment
and care. The mental health legislations are also essential to ensure that the people having the
mental disorder are afforded protected from the often-devastating penalties of the several
mental disorders.

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