week 7 post 3

Considering the various populations with mental health needs, explain how a comprehensive mental health system should be designed to meet their needs. Does the current mental health system sufficiently address these? If not, how might it be improved?

Read Chapters 10 and 15 in the textbook.

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http://gcumedia.com/digital-resources/pearson/2011/introduction-to-social-work_ebook_12e.php

Brittany Meyer-Lee  

Hello,

Current treatments and the dominant model of mental health care do not adequately address the complex challenges of mental illness, which accounts for roughly one-third of adult disability globally (Lake & Turner, 2017). These circumstances call for radical change in the paradigm and practices of mental health care, including improving standards of clinician training, developing new research methods, and re-envisioning current models of mental health care delivery. Recommendations are to expand current practices to include integrative treatment strategies incorporating evidence-based biomedical and complementary and alternative medicine modalities that can be provided to patients using a collaborative care model. Recommendations also are made for an internal research program aimed at investigating the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of promising complementary and alternative medicine and integrative treatments addressing the complex needs of patients with severe psychiatric disorders, many of whom respond poorly to treatments available in mental health clinics from all over (Lake & Turner, 2017).

Lake, J., & Turner, M. S. (2017). Urgent Need for Improved Mental Health Care and a More Collaborative Model of Care. The Permanente journal, 21, 17–024. https://doi.org/10.7812/TPP/17-024

Hello Class and Professor Bullock,

Considering the carious population with mental health needs and also a first cousin and now a husband who suffers from anxiety I believe besides their help family members and those who deal with them on the day to day bases needs educational classes. It’s easy as a by stander to make up assumptions and my own theory by I am not the professional and it would make it a lot easier on the patients and their love ones to have the availability to educate and also know how to deal with mental illnesses. I also try not to step on their toes but never really know how to properly help them without hurting them or helping them improve in their day routine “Social support is a well-recognized protective factor for children's mental health. Whilst many interventions exist that seek to mobilize social support to improve children's mental health (Bauer et. al., 2021)”. And it’s also plays a huge role of stress on myself also. And if these options are available it isn’t commercialized nor do they companies offer these options like they should because my aunt is very active in her son’s life and she have these same struggles just teaching herself the best way she can.

Gabrielle Rideaux

Reference

Bauer, A., Stevens, M., Purtscheller, D., Knapp, M., Fonagy, P., Evans-Lacko, S., & Paul, J. (2021). Mobilising social support to improve mental health for children and adolescents: A systematic review using principles of realist synthesis. PLoS ONE, 16(5), 1–23. https://doi-org.lopes.idm.oclc.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251750