Mental Health Case Study

There are many challenges in the field of mental health, which results in a crisis to improve the specialty overall. The World Health Organization (2007) stated that there is more nursing working in mental hospital or psychiatric units in the high-income regions rather than the low to middle income regions, which poses a huge problem to most of the population. One other issue is the lack of nurses specializing in mental health. This problem is formed by many causes. One of them is the stigma of the mental health specialty. In one case study by Brenda Happell and Cadeyrn J Gaskin (2012), they research the attitude of undergraduates towards mental health. It was shown that mental health is the least preferred specialty to go into. In another

It moves beyond a focus on individual behaviour towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions.” Health promotion aims to reduce the differences of health status among people resulting to equal access to resources promoting the highest potential quality of health one can achieve. Health promotion influences many things. In the Ottawa charter there are 5 strategies of health promotion. One is to build public policies, which are said to be the foundation of all other health promotion strategies because it influences how the distribution of money, power and material resources are proportioned. Other health strategies include supportive environment, enhancing community action, and developing personal skills and reorient health services (“Ottawa Charter of Health Promotion”, 1985). The nursing role of health promotion is complex because of their knowledge is multidisciplinary (Kemppainen, Tossavianen, Turunen, 2012). Depending on their specialty their health promotion varies however; the most common used health promotions by nurses are health education, national health and social care policies (Kemppainen, Tossavianen, Turunen,

One of the major problems why so many people have mental health is because they do not vocalize their problem. As said before, there is a challenge in the mental health specialty to recruit more psychiatric nurses caused by stigmatization Those who have a mental illness are not seen as humans and are isolated from society thus people who are mentally ill can not get the proper treatment needed to help them (Gouthro, 2009, p. 669). To reduce this stigma, education among nurses and the community is necessary. More research is needed on mental health to improve the professional practice for nurses going into mental health. improving education and awareness can break this barrier that restrains mentally ill individuals from opening up and psychiatric