Mental Health

'No Health without Mental Health'



Table of Contents

Introduction1

Literature Review1

Nursing Models for Mental Health Practices2

Strategies and Activities4

Discussion5

Current Trend/Development within Mental Health Practices5

Role of Nursing10

Psychiatric Nurse10

Care Management: A Case Study Approach.11

Description of Subject's Mental Health Promotion Needs11

Implementation and Outcomes13

Recommendations13

Conclusion15

References16

'No Health without Mental Health'

Introduction

Mental health is a concept that aims to create stable living conditions and environments that enable individuals to maintain a normal lifestyle and share in the benefits of the state. These efforts include measures to increase the chances of more people living a normal health life with full mental well being and stability. Donahue (2010) describes mental health promotion as promoting positive mental health by increasing psychological well-being, competence and resilience and by increasing supportive living conditions and environments (Donahue 2010: 203).

This essay will address current trend/development in mental health practices and critical analysis of past researches in this context. The mental health trends will be discussed and outlined. In addition to that, care management will be discussed that what are the implementation and benefits of care management, which will be analyzed using a case study. Also, the relevant recommendations are also discussed in the end of the paper for further improvement in mental health practices (Peate 2009: 82).

Literature Review

Osborn (2001) describes depression as a common mental health disorder that presents with depressive mood, loss of interest or pleasure, feeling of guilt and low self-worth (Osborn 2001: 329). The lonely society Report for Mental Health Foundation (2010) describes loneliness as a situation experienced by the individual as one where there is an unpleasant or inadmissible lack of quality of certain relationships. This includes situations in which a number of existing relationships is smaller than considered desirable or admissible or situations where the intimacy one wishes for has not been realized. Thus, loneliness is seen to involve the manner in which a person experiences and evaluates his or her isolation and lack of communication with other people (Peate 2009: 79).

Relationship between nurse and patient can be defined as a continuous process of interaction and communication that would create understanding, honesty, humility and mutual respect (Krauss, 2000: 29).

Significance of this patient-nurse relationship is very important in mental health nursing. This development of relationship with the patient helps out other members of the interdisciplinary team to gauge the right and correct response of patient towards the progress of medical treatment. According to Lego, one to one relationship between patient and a nurse can be defined as a cornerstone upon which other modalities rest and it give support and guidance to other modalities (Hayes 2004: 639).

There is a strong need in mental health nursing of developing such options and components that are driven by theory and that can be linked firmly with the results. Extensive research should be done on relationship and the main focus of that research should be on the development of a unique practice identity (Beeber, 1995: 252).

Nursing Models for Mental Health Practices

It has been argued that nursing models that have been used in mental health are archaic and ...