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Intervention Plan Draft

Intervention Plan Draft

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5-2 Final Project Milestone Three

T’Erica Huff

Southern New Hampshire University

Adolescent is an age characterized by rapid growth vulnerabilities, fortitude, and maturing individuality. Fortunately, majority of young people pass the stage healthy, while several of them do not. Mental health for adolescent: should focus on interventions and prevention strategies that aim at improving the mental health condition of youths, who are at risk or have developed mental health issues.

Some of the interventions and preventive programs that can be used to curb mental health conditions in young people include:

1. Mental Health GAP Action Programme (mhGAP)

This program offers evidence-based assistance concerned with the management and assessment of critical neurological, mental, and abuse of substance in non-specialist environment. It focuses on issues associated with adolescent all the time, such as Adolescent and Child Mental and Behavioral conditions and also on suicide or self-harm. This can be attained through suicide monitoring and training skills for adolescents and children (Schleider, Dobias, Sung, & Mullarkey, 2020). It is only used by nurses, doctors, or any health professional and health manager and planners.

2. Assisting the Adolescents to Thrive

His involves preventive and promotive interventions designed to be introduced to schools, social care, digital or community care, and health care. They are psychosocial strategies that aim at improving the psychological wellness while reducing vulnerability to poor mental health results, which target youths individually, as a group, or people providing care to them or their families.

3. Early Adolescent Skills for Emotions (EASE)

It aims at adolescents between the ages of 10-14 years who have great distress and are also impaired in their functioning. It is delivered by supervised or trained non-professional organizers to groups of adolescents and in separate, their care providers, living in adversities.

4. Sustainable Technology for Adolescents to Reduce Stress (STARS ; digital intervention)

This aims at involving final users from the initial through human oriented design that helps to educate the creation of the strategy and helps to minimize impairing psychological anguish that is faced by youths between the ages of 15 to 18 years living in towns.

5. Parental Help

When youths have a close, warm, and open relationship with their parents, they will always be free to open and tell their parents the distress they are going through. Parents can help by listening and taking their feelings and lastly helping them to overcome their challenges.

6. Professional Help

In case a child is having issues at school, a school nurse, teacher, counselor, or a psychologist can be of help (Weist, Lowie, Flaherty, & Pruitt, 2001). However, it is right for youths to go and visit a health visitor. They can also help referring them to further assistance.

7. Talking it Through

Young people should take actions of talking their feelings and also try to understand the challenge for them to come up with the best strategies to handle their problems.

8. Medication

A lot of medications done on mental health are focused on adults instead of children. It is important to assess young people and children by engaging an expert before being prescribed to any medication (Weisz, Sandler, Durlak, & Anton, 2005). It is true that when talking is involved as a therapy for children it can be effective for them, though drugs medication can also play an important part.

By employing the interventions given, youths will be able to overcome their mental health conditions and also control the effects of the situation. The interventions aim at making sure that young people are able to manage their mental problems and help them recover from mental challenges such as distress. The interventions focus on low income and minority groups who have been victimized. It also targets a community that is basically ready to help youths who have been dragged to substance abuse, domestic violence or bullying.

REFERENCES Schleider, J., Dobias, M., Sung, J., & Mullarkey, M. (2020). Future Directions in Single-Session Youth Mental Health Interventions . Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 264-278. Weist, M., Lowie, A., Flaherty, T., & Pruitt, D. (2001). Collaboration Among the Education, Mental Health, and Public Health Systems to Promote Youth Mental Health. Psychiatric Services. Weisz, J., Sandler, I., Durlak, J., & Anton, B. (2005). Promoting and Protecting Youth Mental Health Through Evidence-Based Prevention and Treatment. American Psychologist, 628.