Mental Health Compliance

Policies have an important role in regulating and shaping the values in a society. The issues related to mental health are not only considered as personal but also affecting the relationships with significant others. The stigma and discrimination faced by people with mental health can be traced to the lack

MHSA TERM PAPER Mental Health Services Act (MHSA Prop 63) The Mental Health Services Act is a monumental proposition that has helped many people for more than a decade. In California alone, close to 1.2 million adults and around 422,000 children live with a serious mental illness (State 2010). Without the proper treatment, suicide is the leading cause of death for a person battling an untreated mental illness (State 2010). With over thirteen billion dollars raised so far, MHSA has been the root of funding for mental health in California (Williams 2015). MHSA is still a work in progress. The act is nowhere near perfect, as a recent audit has shown, but it is certainly a step in the right direction.

“Everyone has an important role to play in achieving healthcare rights and contributing to safe, high quality care. Genuine partnerships between those families and carers of people receiving care and those providing it lead to the best possible outcomes.” (Western NSW Local Health District 2012).

Access to mental health care is not as good as than other forms of medical services. Some Americans have reduced access to mental health care amenities because they are living in a countryside setting. Others cannot get to treatment for the reason of shortage of transportation or vast work and household tasks. In some areas, when a

S.689: Mental Health Awareness and Improvement Act of 2013 Introduction In the course of proper identification, evaluation, and treatment, children and adolescents suffering with mental illness can conduct positive, normal lives. Nevertheless, the devastating majority of children with mental illnesses are unsuccessfully identified and the lack of treatment or support services have led to a subordinate worth of life and violence. The Mental Health Awareness and Improvement Act of 2013 (S. 689) is an inclusive bill proposed to address the extensive issue of mental health. By strongly considering the United States’ struggle against mental illness and school violence, as well as utilizing theoretical constructs to examine the Senate’s bill, a social worker can develop a more holistic perspective that can productively integrate practical insights reached from a variety of different points of view.

III. Existing Resources to deal with problem The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA) required group health plans and health insurance issuers to ensure that financial requirements (such as co-pays, deductibles) and treatment limitations (such as visit limits) applicable to mental health or substance use disorder (MH/SUD) benefits are no more restrictive than the predominant requirements or limitations applied to substantially all medical/surgical benefits. MHPAEA supplements prior provisions under the Mental Health Parity Act of 1996 (MHPA), which required parity with respect to aggregate lifetime and annual dollar limits for mental health benefits. The most recent change came with the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama’s signature health care legislation. It mandated that mental health services be comparable to surgical and medical services in order

Overview of the Disorder The National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI, 2015) estimates 1 in 5- 48.8- million adults in the United States are diagnosed with a mental illness each year. Amongst adolescents and children, it is estimated 1 in 5 youth ages 13-18-(21.4%) have, or will have a serious mental illness every year (NAMI, 2015). For children ages 8-15 the prevalence of experiencing a serious mental illness at one point in their life is 13% (NAMI, 2015). Although, children and adolescents are most commonly diagnosed with mood, conduct and anxiety disorders, there are those who occasionally experience psychotic disorders such as early onset schizophrenia.

The ‘Mental Health Act 2007’ is another piece of legislation that would allow an Adult such as Colin to be safeguarded. The act is the law in England and Wales that allows people with a mental disorder to be admitted into hospital, detained and treated without their consent. The reason

According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, “1 in 4 adults live with a serious mental illness (Ken).” This means that in American there are almost 62 million people suffering from mental illness (Mayo Clinic). With that being said, only a small portion of the United States’ healthcare budget is used to fund mental health related research and facilities. Sarah Kliff, journalist for the Washington Post, reported, “…about 5.6 percent of the national health-care spending, according to a 2011 paper in the journal Health Affairs (Sarah).” Kliff also expressed that the United States has a budget of $113 billion dollars annually to spend on healthcare. Consequently, that means that only 6.3 billion dollars are spent on mental health issues every year. This is a staggering number consider that roughly 25% of the United States’ population is living with a serious mental illness (Sarah) Due to the large portion of American’s living with serious mental illnesses it directly impacts family communication. To get a better understand on family communication and mental illness this paper will discuss what a mental illness, communication symptoms of mental illness, how to improve mental illness, as well as communicating options for help with your loved one.

Fortunately, mental health counselors have a stringent accreditation procedures that require them to apply professional standards of practice under the supervision of an experienced counselor as part of the institutions CACREP requirements for one hundreds in their practicum and four hundred hours in their internship. In theory CACREP requirements provide the counselor in training opportunities to become competent in their skills and responsibilities while gaining an understanding of the mental health processes.

Currently there is no training in place to assist healthcare professional in learning more about mental illness and working with mental ill patients. However, during instruction student are provided with basic information regarding working with patients with mental health issues. Implementation of a new curriculum with have a few

Intake forms are completed when a member enrolls in an episode of care. Clinical facilities and agencies have their own intake assessments, nonetheless the types of questions include a combination of similar and specialty specific, dependent upon the practice. The function of the intake is gathering detailed information about the members psychological, physical, and social environment. Information is assessed with the member to identify needs for treatment. Intake assessments can be completed and reviewed by a licensed specialist such as a therapist or nurse. Assessment provides insight into appropriate treatment that supports medical necessity.

“A recently published study shows that nearly 30 percent of the general population would benefit from mental health care; however, only 10 percent of the population actually receives help” (Nauert, 2016, pg. 1). Therefore, “it is important to support governments to adopt mental health policies and to integrate mental health policy into public health policy and general social policy” (Jenkins, 2003, pg. 14). In view of the fact that “mental disorder causes a heavy burden for societies, impedes the development of other health and development targets, contributes to poverty and differentially affects the poor and, last but not least, because mental health itself is of intrinsic value as is physical health" (Jenkins, 2003, pg. 14). Therefore, in

Through this essay it has become evident that’s mental health nurses need to have a full understanding of the mental health act 2007 and the changes it has bought to this area of care. They need to be aware of how necessary it is for the recovery of consumers that they themselves and their family and carers be involved in their mental treatment. Recovery-oriented services need to be assessed by the nurse and the consumer to ensure an individualised and personal recovery journey. Nurses will need to tailer their care to each consumer as each individual has different and experience and supports. Nurses need to remain unbiased in their care delivery and not be influenced by the stigma that surrounds mental illness. They need to work in partnership

The author still finds this topic of mental health policy extremely interesting. With her own personal stakes in this policy she hopes she will be able to better advocate for individuals like herself. The population of the mentally ill are definitely being neglected. While we do have laws to prevent