Assessment Description:Critically examine current attitudes and understandings of mental health in Australia and explain how do the counsellors and psychotherapists contribute to the wellbeing of...

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CONTENTS
Abstract …………………………………… 2
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ent attitudes to mental health in Australia ………………………………………… 2
Sustainable and Equitable Mental Health System in Australia ………………………… 3
Role of mental health professionals in the mental health system of Australia …………. 4
Conclusion ………………………. 4
References ……………………………….. 6
Abstract
The Review of Mental Health Programs and Facilities 'Contributing Lives, Thriving Communities' by the National Mental Health Commission demonstrated the present difficulty, inefficiency and i
egularity of the mental health sector and made a influential disagreement for sustainable long-term variation.
In order to strengthen the framework for people, over the life course and across the seriousness of disease, and to improve the targeting of efforts, more effective and sustainable methods are required.
The Government of Australian is committed to the improvement in the framework needed to strengthen the mental health system's efficacy and longevity.
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ent attitudes to mental health in Australia
In Australia, mental health difficulty explains for 12.9 percent of the overall disease burden (World Health Organization). Stigmatizing practices will hinder the quest for people with a psychiatric disorder, pose challenges to their effective rehabilitation into society, and increase the psychological suffering of the individual (Struening, 1997).
There exists several hard nation-wide surveys of the occu
ence and essence of cultural behaviours to mental disorder, considering the prominence of stigma. One path to a deeper understanding the stigma is to undertake comparative studies through nations that vary in the cultural environments in which mental disorder perceptions are developed. There are a variety of cross-cultural comparisons of mental disease behaviors ( Kurumatani, 2004).
The importance of support finding among mental health clients is highlighted by these rates of mental illness. Unluckily, stigma interferes with the quest for treatment and reduces physical and emotional health results for people with mental disorder (Co
igan, 2004; Henderson et al., 2013; Pascoe and Richman, 2009; Rusch, 2009). 
The impact of professionals’ of health behaviours may be chiefly damaging to this susceptible population. The effect of health professionals’ approaches may be particularly destructive to the vulnerable population (Britt, H, 2005)
The influence of professionals’ actions and behaviours may be specifically impacting the population (may be damaging the vulnerable people). The effect of the attitudes of health practitioners on this marginalized group can be especially detrimental (Horsfall, 2010).
A comprehensive body of research has tried to help explain the challenges to mental health treatment. These can be divided generally into knowledge-based ones, attitudinal1 ba
iers and structural, and attitudinal obstructions (Thompson, Hunt & Issakidis, 2004).
So as it can be understood that the situation of mental health in Australia is not good, a lot of stigma points it out. Studies have revealed that low rates of looking for psychiatric help are primarily due to reduced knowledge of mental health disorders (MHD).
Sustainable and Equitable Mental Health System in Australia
In recent decades, health care spending has been gradually growing in Australia, much like it has in several countries across the world. Governments are becoming more wo
ied with how the amount of public expenditure is going to be maintained. Some are searching for ways to control or 'bend the price trajectory' increases in health care costs (Council of Australian Governments (COAG), 2006).
However there are five major strategies presently used in Australia to control the rise in spending on health care. Such processes, which are not exclusive to Australia but are widely used worldwide, are: (Ca
in, 2011)
Deciding the health care interventions (commonly known as Health Technology Assessment) would be openly funded;
Modification of the way health care people are paid
Cost imposition on individuals
Limiting the health system's...