AOS 1 - Mental health workers + Wellbeing & PD Flashcards
What do mental health workers do?
Work specifically with people living with mental health disorders, their families, carers, and friends.
How do mental health workers support mental wellbeing?
Psychological development?
Talk individuals through challenges, help develop problem solving skills.
Help individuals develop strategies to resolve the presenting psychological, social, and environmental problems in their life - improves quality of life.
What do psychologists do?
Specializes in the study of mind and behavior, or in the treatment of mental and behavioral disorders.
How do psychologists support mental wellbeing?
Psychological development?
Provides psychotherapy and counselling, involves changes in behaviour and thinking patterns - improves mental wellbeing.
Provides management and treatment plans for mental disorders.
What do psychiatrists do?
Medical doctor who specialises in mental health, qualified to assess mental and physical aspects of psychological problems.
How do psychiatrists support mental wellbeing?
Psychological development?
Can make a diagnosis and develop management plan for treatment and recovery with individual.
Provides psychological treatment - can prescribe medication and perform medical procedures (deep brain stimulation).
What do mental health organisations do?
Range of services that provide support for people with mental health conditions in their efforts for recovery.
How do mental health organisations support mental wellbeing?
Psychological development?
Provide support for those who cannot afford a psychiatrist/psychologist.
Similar to mental health workers -
Help individuals develop strategies to resolve the presenting psychological, social, and environmental problems in their life - improves quality of life.
What are culturally responsive practices?
Requires health care services to be respectful of health beliefs and practices of diverse communities. (EG Torres Strait Islander peoples).
How do cultrurally responsive practices support mental wellbeing?
Psychological development?
Recognises culture shapes the expression of mental health problems and the process of treatment and recovery.
CROSS-CULTRUAL PERSPECTIVES:
MH professionals recognise that what constitutes a mental disorder and its characteristics are not universal.
