CMHT

Community Mental Health Team

Community Mental Health Team

Introduction

With the inception of this world, God created the man kind. However, the sole purpose of mankind is still unknown to numerous individuals living in our society. Amongst the primary purpose, of the creation of mankind was to help and assist each other, in the moment of distress or trouble. God also endowed numerous responsibilities on the mankind. It can easily be analysed that the individuals belonging to the medical or psychological professions, are playing a pivotal role of fulfilling their responsibility of helping and assisting those in trouble and distress to some physical or mental ailment.

However, it is highly imperative that the government and the administration of the respective hospitals and other institutes takes concrete measures for not only ensuring that the best practices are employed, but also in gauging the practices and procedures performed by the individuals belonging to the respective domains.

Community Mental Health Team

The Community Mental Health Team denotes a group or number of professional belonging to the domain of the mental health. These individuals work together in the form of groups, with the sole purpose of assist, aid, help and facilitate the individuals suffering from numerous and a substantial range of mental health issues. Interestingly, all the different individuals and professional who team up, encompass differing and distinct knowledge, awareness and understanding of the different domains of psychology or mental health issues. These broad and distinct scopes of knowledge can be effectively utilised to tackle and resolve a case, or a mental health issue of an individual. When the expertise of different horizons come together to reach a conclusion or solution, the results are highly effective and prompt.

Individuals that are commonly referred to CMHT are not the ones, who possess mild mental ailment, which can be solved effectively either by counselling, support, prescription of appropriate medicines, or similar approaches. The individuals that are commonly referred to the CMHT are the ones who suffer from serious mental ailment, which cannot be rectified via the previously mentioned approaches (Prytys, et.al, 2011, pp. 48).

Significance of Outcome Measurement in Current Policy

It is highly imperative to judge the service or the treatment, which the distinguished doctors, psychiatrists and nurses perform, in order to resolve or ease down the misery of a patient or individual suffering from a dire mental ailment. This judgement will present a clear picture of the effectiveness of the endeavours of these diligent medical personnel involved, in this domain. However, the extent of the effectiveness of their endeavours can only be gauged, if the team employs effective measures to estimate the issues, such as, the level of problem the individual had. Moreover, the treatment provided by the appropriate CMHT personnel; the effect of their treatment in the form of betterment or aggravation of the mental situation of the individual; and Most importantly the outcomes of their treatments.

There is a high significance of the measurement of the effectiveness of the treatment provided and its outcome. If the measurement of the outcome is not healthy ...