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Specialist Mental Health Programmes
Mental health familiarisation
(home care service)
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Synopsis:
To offer an introduction to mental health issues, including the signs and symptoms of mental illness (both functional and organic psychiatric disorders) and their causes, where known. To provide a simple understanding of the symptoms of dementia and other causes of confusion in elderly clients. Attention will be drawn to the urgency of referring clients in circumstances when there is a sudden change in the mental functioning of the client. An experiential exercise will be undertaken in order to provide an understanding of these symptoms from the point of view of the elderly client. A video will be used to assist with the above so as to provide a rationale for the range of symptoms and behaviours which participants may meet in the course of their work. Participants own experiences will be used as a basis for discussion and to provide strategies and guidance for ways of managing the problems and the issues, which they highlight.
Aims & Objectives:
- To increase staff awareness of our attitudes to mental illness.
- To increase staff awareness of the range and complexity of symptoms associated with mental illness and the way in which they are manifested.
- To reflect on the importance of boundaries which staff need to maintain when working in this specialist area and to establish what those boundaries need to be.
- To explore in simple terms the disabling effects that mental health symptoms can cause.
- To provide an understanding of dementia, depression and other forms of acute confusion in elderly clients, including an understanding of how it may feel to experience such confusion and disorientation.
- To introduce a person centred approach to providing care for clients with mental illness.
- To develop an appreciation of what is valued by the client in the way in which services are delivered.
- To identify risk factors in mental health and where these need to be addressed as a matter of urgency.
- To develop strategies for more effective communication, especially with people with dementia and other forms of confusion.
- To provide an awareness of how to respond appropriately in relation to clients from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
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• Up • Advocacy and mental health • Alzheimer's disease • Appropriate adult training • An holistic approach to mental health • Care Programme Approach • Communicating effectively with people with mental illness • Customer care training for clinicians • Dual diagnosis: mental health needs and learning disabilities • Working with people with eating disorders • Client and carer focused mental health assessments • Dementia • Supporting people with dementia • Mental health awareness training • Law in mental health practice • The Mental Health Act 1983 and the Code of Practice • Mental health familiarisation • Working with mental health clients and issues • Working with people with personality disorders • Client and Carer Focused Mental Health Assessments •
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