What is Mental Health?
Mental Health is the ability to exist in "a state of well-being in which the
individual realizes his or her abilities, can cope with normal stresses of life, can
work productively and fruitfully, and can contribute to their community".
Mentally healthy people successfully carry out activities of daily living, adapt to
change, solve problems, set goals, and enjoy life.
What is Mental Illness?
Disturbances in one's ability to cope effectively.
What can Mental Illness do?
-Effect Daily Activities
-Impair Judgement
-Alter Reality
What is a Stigma?
•Stigma: A sign of shame, disproval, or disgrace, of being shunned or rejected.
•Often ends up with the unjust treatment of those being stigmatized
(discrimination).
What is Inpatient care?
•Individuals are admitted to inpatient psychiatric care based on need. The
severity of mental illness, level of dysfunction, suitability of setting, patient
cooperation, ability to pay for services.
Inpatient care provides patients with a safe, stable and therapeutic surroundings
24 hours a day. Patients may be committed to psychiatric care by way of the
criminal justice system.
What is Outpatient care?
•An outpatient mental health care setting is a facility that provides services to
people with mental health challenges within their home environment. With
,these services, psychiatric patients are able to remain within their communities,
associating with normal aspects of life, a considerably more therapeutic option
than a mental health unit at the hospital.
•This approach can be "hit or miss" due to mentally ill people using the services
sporadically.
What is the community support system model?
•The community support systems model views patients holistically.
•The goal is to create a support system that fosters individual growth and
movement towards independence.
•Coordinated social, medical and psychiatric servies enable the success of this
model.
Effective community Support systems are consumer oriented, culturally
appropriate, flexible enough to meet individual needs, accountable and
coordinated. A typical program may include services such as health care, food,
housing, income support, Rehabilitation, advocacy and crisis response.
What is a Crisis?
•A crisis happens when a person feels that they have lost the ability to use their
usual problem-solving and coping skills. Common sources of crisis include:
•Loss of a loved one.
•Change in employment circumstances
•Being victimized.
•Trauma.
What is a Crisis Intervention?
•Crisis Intervention describes a short term, active therapy that focuses on
solving the immediate problem and restoring the patient's previous level of
functioning.
•Crisis services help stabilize the patient, prevent further deterioration, and
support the patients' readjustment process
What are the Guidelines for providing safe, effective Crisis Intervention?
1. Care is needed immediately.
2. Control.
, 3. Assessment.
4. Patient Disposition is determined.
5. Referral.
6. Follow up.
What are some High-Risk Patient Populations?
Homeless People
Children, Adolescents and Elderly
HIV- Positive Patients
Veterans
Patients who live in Rural areas.
What are Attitudes?
are ideas that help shape our points of view; they can also describe one's
outlook.
What are Beliefs?
•are convictions that are intellectually accepted as true, whether or not they are
based in fact.
What are Values?
•are things that one holds dear or one's feelings about the worth of an item, idea,
or behaviour; they are formed in childhood.
What are Morals?
•reflect one's attitudes, beliefs, and values; these are not easily changed.
What are Rights?
•is described as a power, privilege, or existence to which one has a just claim.
•Rights help define social interactions because they contain the principle of
justice; they equally and fairly apply to all citizens
•Rights also are associated with obligations
•The Canada Heath Act is federal legislation pertaining to publicly funded
health care. The primary objective is "to protect, promote and restore the
physical and mental well-being of residents of Canada and to facilitate
reasonable access to health services without financial or other barriers".
Mental Health is the ability to exist in "a state of well-being in which the
individual realizes his or her abilities, can cope with normal stresses of life, can
work productively and fruitfully, and can contribute to their community".
Mentally healthy people successfully carry out activities of daily living, adapt to
change, solve problems, set goals, and enjoy life.
What is Mental Illness?
Disturbances in one's ability to cope effectively.
What can Mental Illness do?
-Effect Daily Activities
-Impair Judgement
-Alter Reality
What is a Stigma?
•Stigma: A sign of shame, disproval, or disgrace, of being shunned or rejected.
•Often ends up with the unjust treatment of those being stigmatized
(discrimination).
What is Inpatient care?
•Individuals are admitted to inpatient psychiatric care based on need. The
severity of mental illness, level of dysfunction, suitability of setting, patient
cooperation, ability to pay for services.
Inpatient care provides patients with a safe, stable and therapeutic surroundings
24 hours a day. Patients may be committed to psychiatric care by way of the
criminal justice system.
What is Outpatient care?
•An outpatient mental health care setting is a facility that provides services to
people with mental health challenges within their home environment. With
,these services, psychiatric patients are able to remain within their communities,
associating with normal aspects of life, a considerably more therapeutic option
than a mental health unit at the hospital.
•This approach can be "hit or miss" due to mentally ill people using the services
sporadically.
What is the community support system model?
•The community support systems model views patients holistically.
•The goal is to create a support system that fosters individual growth and
movement towards independence.
•Coordinated social, medical and psychiatric servies enable the success of this
model.
Effective community Support systems are consumer oriented, culturally
appropriate, flexible enough to meet individual needs, accountable and
coordinated. A typical program may include services such as health care, food,
housing, income support, Rehabilitation, advocacy and crisis response.
What is a Crisis?
•A crisis happens when a person feels that they have lost the ability to use their
usual problem-solving and coping skills. Common sources of crisis include:
•Loss of a loved one.
•Change in employment circumstances
•Being victimized.
•Trauma.
What is a Crisis Intervention?
•Crisis Intervention describes a short term, active therapy that focuses on
solving the immediate problem and restoring the patient's previous level of
functioning.
•Crisis services help stabilize the patient, prevent further deterioration, and
support the patients' readjustment process
What are the Guidelines for providing safe, effective Crisis Intervention?
1. Care is needed immediately.
2. Control.
, 3. Assessment.
4. Patient Disposition is determined.
5. Referral.
6. Follow up.
What are some High-Risk Patient Populations?
Homeless People
Children, Adolescents and Elderly
HIV- Positive Patients
Veterans
Patients who live in Rural areas.
What are Attitudes?
are ideas that help shape our points of view; they can also describe one's
outlook.
What are Beliefs?
•are convictions that are intellectually accepted as true, whether or not they are
based in fact.
What are Values?
•are things that one holds dear or one's feelings about the worth of an item, idea,
or behaviour; they are formed in childhood.
What are Morals?
•reflect one's attitudes, beliefs, and values; these are not easily changed.
What are Rights?
•is described as a power, privilege, or existence to which one has a just claim.
•Rights help define social interactions because they contain the principle of
justice; they equally and fairly apply to all citizens
•Rights also are associated with obligations
•The Canada Heath Act is federal legislation pertaining to publicly funded
health care. The primary objective is "to protect, promote and restore the
physical and mental well-being of residents of Canada and to facilitate
reasonable access to health services without financial or other barriers".
