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ASS091-2 MENTAL HEALTH AND SOCIETY
ASSIGNMENT 1 REPORT
[SCHIZOPHRENIA IN WORKING ADULTS]
Table of Contents
Introduction 3
Critical Account of Mental Health Service Users in UK 3
Critical Account of Carers and Parents Views on Services Available in UK 4
Critical account of Support Mechanisms Involved in Process of Supporting Recovery of Individuals by Meeting their Diverse Needs 4
How Schizophrenia Impacts on Working Adults 5
Critical Analysis of Evidence for How Experience of Schizophrenia Affect Working Adults 6
How Interventions for Schizophrenia Impact Working Adults 7
Conclusion 8
References 9
Introduction
Mental illnesses or mental health disorders consists of a wide range of mental conditions that affects a person’s senses and affects their moods, behaviour and patterns, causing an imbalance in their state of mind and body. Several complex conditions are known to affect people mentally including anxiety disorders, depression, bipolar disorders, phobias; panic disorders and psychotic disorders (Centre for Mental Health, 2020). There are several social reasons that contribute to mental illnesses, which include poverty, unemployment, failed relationship issues, long-term stress, childhood abuse, trauma, loneliness, alcohol and drug abuse as well as domestic abuse. Due to these rising concerns, several mental health treatment organisations have been set up, which strives to work towards improving the patient’s health.
Critical Account of Mental Health Service Users in UK
According to Neufeld et al. (2021), studies have shown that approximately 12-25% of individuals suffer from a mental illness but only 34-56% of people take access of mental health services. There is a stigma associated with people suffering from mental illness despite several efforts by the Government to raise awareness programs as highlighted by Cummins (2018). The stress of living in a society under socio-economic debt and poverty are all the reasons that contribute to mental illnesses. A report submitted by Care Quality Commission (2017), reviews that too much poor care and variation in quality services were observed while accessing to healthcare services (Rethink, 2020).
While there a lot of positive outcomes too that were reported but it was found that there was a considerable decline in the healthcare services in between year 2014-2017. The mental health NHS trust in UK is a one-stop solution that provides a team of counsellors, clinical psychologists, psychiatrists and occupational therapists (Firth et al. 2018). People suffering from mental health problems, approach health and social services through their general practitioner or any member of the primary health team such as nurse or community pharmacist. They can either make a call to ambulance or call on helpline numbers and get started with the services.
The team works 24/7 to provide access to psychiatric service as well as special mental health service. A survey by Department of Health and Home office found that people, who come in contact with criminal justice systems too have mental health addressed and best options are given to choose from the services (Newman et al. 2015). Excellent leadership is required to improve the overall services and satisfy the patient needs. A culture of learning and improvement needs to be developed at all stages of care provided. There should be good governance practice that needs to be followed by staff, which will allow them to train older people suffering from ailments such as dementia.
Critical Account of Carers and Parents Views on Services Available in UK
If a child is looked after by a local authority, it assumes the role of a parental responsibility. The carers should be involved in all the discussions pertaining to the services provided for the person who is in care of the organisation since it will help in generating a positive as well as a negative outcome. As indicated by Cohen et al. (2017), 38% of individuals were extremely satisfied with the quality and care received by the person in care in comparison to 7.2% carers, who were extremely dissatisfied with the service.
Failures of high profile cases in UK Mid Staffordshire NHS trust have reinforced a need to focus on the general care (Mind, 2020). There has been very little research on the identification of safety issues in UK mental healthcare services. The context of mental health care is exceptional since it puts the service users at a risk of taking the treatment compulsorily.
The service users face a number of difficulties especially when they have to raise a concern about something, which is not heard and responded to in a formal manner. As highlighted by Berzins et al. (2018), there is a fear of repercussions amongst them as they might contact the same services again on a regular basis. Patient Measure of Safety (PMOS) is an adaptive measure to calculate the safety of a care system. It can be used as a potential research tool and can be used in general hospital care.
Critical account of Support Mechanisms Involved in Process of Supporting Recovery of Individuals by Meeting their Diverse Needs
World Health Organisation has placed greater emphasis on the service user involvement and given them greater control over the services they are likely to undertake. There have been major improvements in coordination of care between the clinical psychologists as well as the patients. As cited by Jaaskelainen, Miettunen and Ahmed (2020), schizophrenia as a mental disorder tends to incite suicidal thoughts in a person along with psychiatric como
idities, recu
ent relapses and treatment resistance. Hence, early interventions need to be developed for patients with such psychotic illness also known as CHR-P that is the clinical high risk for psychosis.
Several clinical trials have been ca
ied out to ascertain the right medications for treating cognitive deficits in schizophrenia but all in vain. Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) for schizophrenia patients provides them with a multidisciplinary team of psychiatrists as well as clinicians. The team has an intensive case management approach and...