HNB3141 Nursing And Complex Care
Question:
In your future work, you will likely need to educate clients about treatment resources available for various mental health and wellness needs. Create a patient education handout in the format of your choice for an imaginary client with a mental health issue of your choice. Describe a common evidence-based practice relating to this mental health issue and how this treatment may address your client’s need regarding mental health and wellness.
Look at local programs in your area when selecting a program to recommend for this imaginary client. This handout/brochure should be used as a resource as if you were the behavioral health provider in a medical setting. Remember that as someone who is not a licensed mental health counselor, you must distinguish between offering counseling and how to connect clients with needed resources as diagnosed by licensed professionals. The purpose is to explain treatment approaches and educate your client on care options.
Answer:
Anxiety and depression:
- Conditions more serious than worrying and nervousness
- Cause terrifying fear about things which other individuals would not spend time thinking on
- Depression sets in after suffering from several days of anxiety
- Can feel relief from treatment
Symptoms:
- Constant irrational worry as well as fear
- Rapid heartbeat, fatigue, headaches,
- hot flashes, sweating, abdominal pain, and
- difficulty breathing
- difficulty in decision making
- inability for relaxing (Hunter et al., 2017)
- feelings of sadness and worthlessness in a constant rate
Treatments that would be helpful:
- cognitive behavioral therapy:
- often used in treatment for anxiety disorders
- can help in teaching people for management of their fears, anxieties as well as depressive symptoms
- helps in fighting out the causes that is resulting them
- people learn to take control of their emotions
- antidepressant medications
- mainly is prescribed for treating of both the conditions
- often used in the conjunction with cognitive behavioral therapy
- selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or SSRIs are important nowadays (Kessler et al., 2015)
- provide fewer side effects than the older
- anti-depressant drugs
- Exercise
- It can help in getting over both depression as well as anxiety disorders
- It releases chemicals making the body feel good
- It can help in relaxing
- Taking a 0 minute walk help in alleviating symptoms for several hours
- Relaxation techniques
- Includes practicing of the medication as well as mindfulness (Baer, 2015)
- Help in easing symptoms for both anxiety as well as depression
- Help in improving quality of life
- Organization for offering mental health services
- National Institute of Mental health provides an online site, which has several mental disorders enlisted under it. The mental health patients can go to their respective disorder list and thereby develop huge amount of information about the treatment procedures and ways of self management along with symptoms
- Anxiety and Depression Association of America is one of the best online resource that individual can access. It has 1800 mental health professionals and about 25 million people around the world visit the site every year for help. Current treatment and research information as well as free access to resources and support had helped individuals to overcome their disorders.
- Association for Behavioral and cognitive therapies also has their online site from where patients can get access and support from a CBT therapist and also contact them for their service
- Besides hospitals, community based mental healthcare centers, and others can be also access for service. Institute of Living- Center for Cognitive Behavior, Indiana Center For Cognitive Behavior Therapy, The Center for Cognitive Behavior Therapy and many others are also available for getting support and service
References:
Baer, R. A. (Ed.). (2015). Mindfulness-based treatment approaches: Clinician’s guide to evidence base and applications. Elsevier.
Hunter, C. L., Goodie, J. L., Oordt, M. S., & Dobmeyer, A. C. (2017). Integrated behavioral health in primary care: Step-by-step guidance for assessment and intervention. American Psychological Association.
Kessler, R. C., Sampson, N. A., Berglund, P., Gruber, M. J., Al-Hamzawi, A., Andrade, L., … & Gureje, O. (2015). Anxious and non-anxious major depressive disorder in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys. Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences, 24(3), 210-226.
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