Alcohol Drugs and Mental Health Assessment 3

assessment 3

Apply understanding of mental health issues and recovery processes

Letter.

Sunnyvale Rehab Centre.
Tuesday

Dear Jimbo,
Ben is one of my clients and he's asked me to see if he can come into your program sometime soon. He is very immature and has poor social skills.
I think that his parents are to blame for this as they moved around a lot when he was young.
Ben comes into our centre quite a lot and he told me that he fancies Mary, one of our other clients. I don't think that she fancies him.
He is always off his face when he arrives and usually causes fight by punching and hitting the other residents.
I don't think that he would fit in very well at your service, so i would think twice before accepting him into your residential program. I can fax over a copy of his assessment report if you like, or you can just call me if you want more info.

Cheers
Fred Neeson.

Question 2

Match the intervention to the benefit it could provide a family.

Systemic family therapy ( Help develop adaptive strategies and reduce confusion )
Psycho educational family therapy ( Reduce the stigma of having a family member with mental illness )
Respite care ( Having a break and spending time with the other children or with social networks )
Support groups ( Provide a ' Real World ' view of the issues being faced by families )
Multiple family groups ( Developing better systems within the family unit to address problems and communication )

Question 3

List some internal and external coping mechanisms that might be used by clients with a mental illness?

Internal:

* Allow for time out. Make time to regularly do things you enjoy and to socialise. * Ask about respite care. * Talk about how you feel. Don’t bottle up things up, and ask for support if you need it. * Be sensible about what you reasonably can and cannot do. Try to prioritise and organise what you need to do. Ensure that this is realistic and fair, and that it includes