Chapter 14: Mental health professions and practices Flashcards
What are clinical service providers?
-from a variety of health care professions
- also includes “peer support workers”
What are some examples of clinical service providers (see slide deck for more details of each)?
- family physicans
- nurses
- psychiatrists
- clinical psychologists
- social workers
- counsellors
- Occupational therapists
- Pediatricans
- geriatricans
- Occupational physicians
- pharmacists
- dieticans
who are peer support workers?
people with lived experience of mental illness
What is the recovery model?
- not related to a cure, but to achieving a full and productive life (growth and transformation: individuality of life experience, meaning and purpose)
- emerged within the field of addictions
What are the 4 key components to recovery?
- finding, maintaining, and repairing HOPE
- re-establishing POSITIVE IDENTITY
- building a MEANINGFUL LIFE
- TAKING RESPONSIBILITY
What is client-centred care?
- where client is at the core of all therapeutic efforts
- respect person’s autonomy, self-determination, and participation in decision making
What are therapeutic relationships?
formation of an alliance and sense of trust among patient and therapist
Can health care professionals become overwhelmed and emotionally exhausted?
yes
What are 2 common things seen in exhausted HCPs?
- compassion fatigue
- burnout
What is compassion fatigue?
loss of empathy and development of pervasive negative attitude and hopelessness
What is burnout?
state of emotional, mental, and physical exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress
Is it important to have a good understanding of impact that work has on our own mental health?
yes
Do we need to develop healthy coping strategies?
yes
What do good organizations provide for HCPs?
- supportive working environment
- healthy organization culture
- good leadership
What are the 4 dimensions of transformational leadership? (see slide 14)
- challenging
- engaging
- inspiring
- influencing
there is a movement to build collaborative mental health services (shared services). true or false
true
what is inter-professional collaboration?
interaction and co-operation of agents from different professional groups
- can be hard to accomplish
What are “communities of practice”?
- groups of people who share an interest, a craft, and or a profession
- may evolve naturally or created on purpose
- comprised of diverse population
- important social networks!
What is “insider knowledge”?
people who have extensive first-hand experience in various experiences
What is “lived experience”?
people exposed to life experience that most people do not encounter
Do family members and caregivers have insider knowledge AND lived experience?
yes
findings indicate that including family members can have better outcomes in treatment of patients. true or false
true
What are 4 other key stakeholders? (see slide 19 for description of each)
- managers and administrators
- politicians and government bureaucrats
- researchers
- educators
What is a stakeholder?
individuals who affect the system or who can be affected by it
