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[ANSWER]Mental Health Questions: Knowledge for Mental Health Care Practice
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| Title: | Knowledge for Mental Health Care Practice |
| Order Type: | essay |
| Essay Subject: | Medicine — Mental Health Care Practice |
| Essay Language: | British English |
| Essay Standard: | Degree 2:1 class |
| Essay Minimum Sources: | 20 |
| Essay Required Sources: | See attached |
| Essay Referencing Style: | Harvard (in-text citations) |
| Upload: | Upload Completed work |
| Description: | Summative Assessment Guidelines Students will be given four case scenarios addressing the following areas: • Mental Health Care Practice Conditions (Learning Outcome 1) • Personality Disorder (Learning Outcome 1) • Dementia Mental Health Care Practice & Practice (Learning Outcome 2) • Problematic substance use (Learning Outcome 3) Each scenario will have a key question requiring the student to demonstrate their understanding of the subject area, with due regard to Mental Health Care Practice promotion and recovery and relating this to their role as Assistant Practitioner (learning Outcome 4, 5). Assessment weighting: Each answer will have a limit of 700-800 words, and will be equally weighted (25% each) Important note: Your answers should refer to the particular case scenario for each question – and draw on a range of literary sources, including appropriate national clinical guidelines. Question 1 Jay Jay, aged 23, was assessed by the Crisis Resolution Team because his family had become concerned about his behaviour. Over the last 6 months he had terminated his part time work. He had also become increasingly reclusive by spending more time alone in his flat, refusing to answer the door to see his friends. After some in appropriate suspiciousness, he allowed the Team into his flat and then disclosed that government scientists had started to perform experiments on him over the last year. These involved the insertion of an electrode into his brain that detected gamma rays transmitted from government headquarters, which issued him with commands and ‘planted’ strange ideas in his head. When asked how he knew this, he replied that he heard the ‘men’s voices’ as ‘clear as day’ and that they continually commented on what he was thinking. He explained that his suspicion that ‘all was not right’ was confirmed when he heard the neighbour’s dog barking in the middle of the night – at that point he knew ‘for certain’ that he was being interfered with. Prompted by the nurses, Jay also mentioned that a man in his local pub knew of his plight and had sent him a ‘covert signal’ when he overheard the man conversing about the dangers of nuclear experiments. He also admitted to ‘receiving coded information’ from the radio whenever it was turned on. The Team found no evidence of abnormal mood, incoherence of speech or disturbed motor function. Jay agreed to a psychiatric hospital as he was now afraid of staying home alone. Question 1: Jay Identify the Mental Health Care Practice condition that Jay seems to be experiencing, outlining the aetiology, symptoms and presentation of this condition. Question 2 John John is a 20-year-old pre-registration nursing student in his first year at University. John is being seen by the Nurse Practitioner at his local GP surgery for a urinary tract infection. The Nurse Practitioner assessing him is struck by John’s low mood and sadness. So, she begins to ask him questions about his low mood. John reveals having a number of unpleasant experiences after smoking cannabis over the past few years which has resulted in him hearing voices over the past year. The voices were pleasant at first and John was able to ignore them but recently they have become more distressing and a lot harder to ignore. On further questioning, John reveals a history of drug and alcohol misuse that began at the age of ten. At his mother’s home alcohol was freely available. John also reports that he began to drink alcohol daily to relieve the stress from the voices. In recent weeks, John began to isolate himself from his friends, who he feels he cannot talk to. He says they would not understand him and may see him as mad. John has become more withdrawn and does not like partying as much as he used to; he prefers to stay in his room alone listening to music on his iPod and smoking cannabis which he says relaxes him. John plays the guitar and has composed a few songs in the past but has not had any pleasure lately in playing his guitar and has also been missing a lot of lectures at University. John is concerned about his situation but doesn’t know what else to do about the exam stress and the voices. Despite drinking alcohol daily, John denies he has a drinking problem and says that the alcohol is helping him numb the voices in his head. He reports that recently he has begun to feel like people are out to get him and does not feel safe outside his room. John has a past history of suicidal thought but denies current suicidal ideation. Question 2: John Discuss how a comprehensive Mental Health Care Practice and substance use assessment of John would be carried out. What other assessments/investigations may be indicated? Give reasons for your recommendations. Question 3: Belinda The Home Treatment Team has been asked by the GP to assess Belinda. She is a 27 year old woman who has been known to the Mental Health Care Practice Services since the age of 17. Her condition has changed very little in ten years. She is currently unemployed. She has frequently in the past got herself in serious debt, and will spend money without any regard for the financial consequences. Mental Health Care Practice. She lives in a Housing Association flat with her mother, who had contacted the Home Treatment Team because her daughter was threatening to throw herself in front of a bus. Belinda has a long history of deliberate self-harm, including self-inflicted cuts to her arms, thighs and torso. She has also taken repeated overdoses of medication. She was sexually abused as a child by her father, who is serving a prison sentence. Her mother suffers with depression. She has a love/hate relationship with her mother, who challenges her daughter’s promiscuous behaviour, binge drinking and substance use, often leading to very heated arguments and sometimes physically aggressive fights between them. She has frequent uncontrolled outbursts of anger, following which she often says she feels empty and bored. She says that all she ever wanted was love, and tends to form very intense short-term relationships with men which break down early into the relationship. Following relationship breakdowns, she often makes very dramatic gestures, for example setting out to get arrested by shoplifting, or arriving at her GP surgery asking for self-inflicted cuts to be dressed. Mental Health Care Practice. Belinda tells the Home Treatment Team shat she is feeling more depressed than ever, because her mother has suggested that she should find a flat of her own and move out. She says that this is very cruel of her mother and that she cannot manage without her mother’s help. She tells the Team that her mother has always wanted to get rid of her, and she begs the Team to persuade her mother not to abandon her. Question 3: Identify the type of disorder that Belinda is most likely to be diagnosed with, and give your rationale for this conclusion. How would you develop a therapeutic relationship with Belinda. Question 4: Mr R Mr. R is 54 Years old and married, with two daughters aged 20 and 14. He lives with his wife and youngest daughter; his eldest daughter lives locally. Mr. R has his own textile company that he has managed successfully with a business partner and close friend for many years. There is a familial history of young-onset Alzheimer’s Dementia; his mother developed the condition in her late 50s, which eventually resulted in her requiring nursing-home care, and died in her mid-60s. In the months prior to referral, Mrs. R had noticed increasing incidents of forgetfulness in her husband; he would forget conversations and repeat questions that he had just been given answers to. She also noted that he would be searching the house for things he had misplaced and, on occasion, accuse her of hiding or losing items. He had forgotten instructions and planned tasks. This resulted in him forgetting to collect the youngest daughter following a school trip and not arriving at pre-arranged meeting places. He had taken his wife into town and, after visiting a shop on his own, had driven home without her. His business partner had also, on an increasing number of occasions, contacted Mr R’s wife to enquire as to his whereabouts, as he had not turned up to an arranged appointment. This was having a detrimental effect on business, and customers were expressing their annoyance. Despite prompting Mental Health Care Practice and supporting organising of his workload by his partner and secretary, the situation was deteriorating rapidly. Mr R did not appear to be aware of these difficulties at the time and felt it was ‘just his age’. He did however mention that people were concerned about his memory when visiting his GP regarding an unrelated health matter, resulting in a referral to the local memory clinic. Mr. R quickly developed visuospatial problems and was told he should stop driving. He saw this as a ‘devastating blow’ and angrily challenged his directive. He underwent a driving assessment at the DVLA centre, the outcome of which supported the clinical opinion, and his licence was withdrawn. QUESTION 4: Drawing on appropriate evidence, discuss the case study in relation to: • Symptoms, presentation and patterns of dementia Mental Health Care Practice. |
| Number words: | 3000 |
| Due: | Friday, 4th December 2015 09:00:00 GMT |
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The causative agents of Schizophrenia are divided into categories. The first one is genetics. Hirsch (2013) asserts that the condition is not triggered by just a single genetic anomaly but a complicated interlink of the environmental conditions and the genetics. In as much as the disorder affects a lower percentage of the population, it is projected that a past of family psychosis increases the chances of suffering the disease. According to Kneisl (2010) the disorder is evident in 10% of those individuals with a first-degree relationship with someone previously diagnosed with Schizophrenia. Such a person may be their sibling or parent. However, Sims (2012) notes that the highest risk is apparent when one of the identical twins tests positive for Schizophrenia. The Environment: Exposure to malnutrition before birth, mostly during the first and second trimesters increases the risk of Schizophrenia according to Siegal (2012). Brain Chemistry: an anomaly in some of the brain chemicals especially the neurotransmitters like glutamate may trigger Schizophrenia (Kneisl 2010). Such compounds facilitate communication between the various brain cells. In some cases, networks of neurons may also contribute. Substance use: Baucum (2010) states that some of the past studies have proved the link between some of the mind-altering drugs and contraction of Schizophrenia. Such drugs, when used during the teen years, increase the risks of Schizophrenia according to the expeditions…Mental Health Care Practice[Buy Full Answer for Just USD 9: 3387 WORDS]
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