Policy Analysis and Critique
analytical Essay
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According to Happell et al. (2011), there are two broad divisions of policy impact, including intended and unintended effects. The intended impacts of a particular policy vary extensively, depending on the organization and the policy context. They are enacted to barricade misgivings noticed in a particular organization. Hence, they provide beneficial protocols to the organization. The mental health recovery policy is an example of a policy that tends to avoid negativity in the mental health care division. On the other hand, the unintended impacts of the policy describe the side effects of the policy. Since policies are meant to govern an intricate adaptive system, slight changes in the policy affect existing structures by yielding counterintuitive impacts (Edgley, Stickley, Wright, & Repper, 2012). For example, changes in the mental health care recovery policy may influence the tax charged on hospital bills. Moreover, it may scare away patients due to augmented hospital costs.
For that reason, in the formulation of a given policy, senior officials have to analyze the impacts of the policy implementation process. This is important to ensure that the policy produces intended impacts rather than unintended ones. Additionally, this process reduces the chance of yielding unintended impacts. Mental health care systems tend to have intricate adaptive systems that require scrutiny of the policies before implementation (Mckechnie, 2013). The policy impact represents the initial step in the formulation of any given policy, especially in the mental health care system. However, there are four main procedures followed in the formulation of a given mental health care policy; particularly, the national mental health recovery policy. The four ste...
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In this essay, the author
- Explains happell et al. (2011) that there are two broad divisions of policy impact, including intended and unintended effects.
- Explains that senior officials have to analyze the impacts of the policy implementation process to ensure that it produces intended impacts rather than unintended ones.
- Explains that the terminologies used in the process of policymaking differ in various organizations, but they all conform to the above listed protocol.
- Explains that the national mental health recovery policy provides new directions to the existing mental guidelines and improves the delivery of mental services in australia.
- Explains that the policy challenges traditional ideologies of mental professionalism and expertise with new technological strategies. the policy framework covers cultural and social change and increases the input by professionals with vast experience into the mental health care system.
- Explains that the policy influences the health care workforce to consider the diversity of mental health disorders. its formation resulted from extensive research, consultation, and lived experiences.
- Opines that the australian government has invested a lot in the drafting and implementation of the mental health policy.
- Explains that policy is a governing guideline that abides by organizational or state goals to achieve the prospected outcome.
- Explains that policies differ from laws in that the latter restrict certain behaviours regardless of whether the restrictions will propel the organization to achieve its goals.
- Explains that policy governance is widely distributed in all sectors around the world, including australia's health sector, which is constantly reforming its policies to meet its ever expanding divisions.
- Explains that climate change and farmers' mental health: risks and responses. a qualitative analysis of international recovery-oriented practice guidance.
- Evaluates the value of existing recovery measures for routine use in australian mental health services.
- Explains byrne, happell, welch, and moxham, l. j. teaching recovery from a lived experience perspective.
- Analyzes cleary, horsfall, hunt, escott, and happell's continuing challenges for the mental health consumer workforce.
- Opines that mental health service user involvement in policy development: social inclusion or disempowerment?
- Explains that drapalski, medoff, unick, velligan, dixon, l. b., and bellack, a. s. developed a new scale to assess recovery of people with serious mental illness.
- Explains that improving forensic mental health care for aboriginal australians: challenges and opportunities. international journal of mental health nursing, 23(3), 195-202.
- Analyzes edgley, stickley and wright's analysis of the politics of recovery in mental health: a left libertarian policy analysis.
- Explains the development of a self-assessed consumer recovery outcome measure: my voice, my life.
- Explains the role of mental health nursing in the physical health care of consumers with severe mental illness.
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