Week 12 Flashcards
1
Q
What are the 4 historical context of family work in mental health ?
A
- Deinstitutionalisation
- Western Model of Care
- Blaming Families
- Issues of privacy & confidentiality
2
Q
What are the challenges for families?
A
- Mental Illness
- Family Histories
- Families not helped to manage impacts
- Families of mentally ill have own needs
- Patient-centred focus by clinicians
- Unsure how to ask for help
- Social Stigma related mental illness
- Rural communities
3
Q
Who are carers?
A
- Someone actively caring for a person with a mental illness i.e. friend, family member, significant other
