Mental Health & Intellectual Disability - Holistic Care

Introduction3

Discussion3

Mental Disorder in People with Intellectual Disability4

Children with learning Disability5

Adults with Mental Disability5

Rehabilitation Service for Maintaining Patient's well being6

Nurses Role and Holistic care of Mental Health Problems6

Impact of Smoking on Mental Health7

Social Construction and Perceptions about Mental Health8

Patient Education with Holistic Care8

Mental health requirements9

Conclusion10

Mental Health & Intellectual Disability - Holistic Care

Introduction

This paper formulates a logical and systematic model of holistic healthcare. Holism is an approach to health that informs about the dependencies of health over many interconnected elements which act in a way that affect the entire illness of the patient. The modern understanding of illness is contrasting to reductionist and linear. It is assumed that entire illness takes place with a disorder in the body that cause corporal symptoms and lead to restrictions and disability on social life. In modern times, healthcare system has given much important to holistic care of services in mental related problem. The aim of holistic nursing is to facilitate patients with proper self care and to overcome their illness. By giving holistic care, nurses can help mentally ill patients experience and attaining satisfaction with healthcare holistic nursing includes the usage of therapeutic massage, music, touch therapy, play therapy, guided imagery and communication skills.

Discussion

In the Victorian Mental Health Reform Strategy 2009-2019, the poor physical health of those having stern mental illness are considered for early treatment. This strategy offers an extensive range reform for guiding the growth of mental health services more than a next decade. It focuses on the role of advanced mental health services that can work in the support of clients for better managing their physical health. The inequalities of health experience with stern mental illness are not easy to explain by physical health factors. Health inequality among people with mental illness or disability are complex and interconnected with social isolation, poverty, homelessness, living conditions, lifestyle and other factors.

Mental health can be considered as a psychological and emotional condition of an individual. This is simply a balance between the entire expressions of life that includes spiritual, physical and emotional journey. According to World Health Organization, mental health is a condition of well being, in which the person understands his own capabilities (Ricketts, 2003). Moreover, mental disorder is a complex term which defines that something is wrong with the psychological conditions of the men. It is comprised on broader symptoms which are classified by the combination of abnormal emotions, thoughts, relationships and behavior with others. Usually mental sickness is considered by the sternness of symptoms which can be frequently diagnosed on an evaluation of the symptoms effects on its functioning (Berzins, 2009).

The two key diagnostic characterization used by the professionals of mental health are designed by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM IV) and the World Health Organization's International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10). In the year of 2013, the DSM is expected to update the 5th Version. For example, the global emphasis on the non communicable diseases has chief four ...