Mental Health Promotion, Prevention, And Intervention For Children And Youth

The final health promotion level is tertiary and involves patient care and maintenance after a patient has been treated in an acute care setting for disease processes. An example of tertiary care is home-based pulmonary rehabilitation for COPD patients. COPD is a chronic disease involving the lungs with symptoms including fatigue and shortness of breath.

Can you provide examples from your Service, how or what activities, that the Agency provides that encourages meaningful involvement in each of the 3 service levels (individual, program and Organizational level)?

Occupational Therapy in children with mental disabilities is growing every year. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, about 13 percent of children ages 8 to 15 had a diagnosable mental disorder and the most common is attention-deficit/Hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) (Any Disorder Among Children ,n .d.).Also, children with autism spectrum disorder percent have increased its ratio, 1 of 62 children which is approximately 200,000 cases per year(Any Disorder Among Children,n .d.). Occupational Therapy practitioner impacts the ability to engage in daily life activities and help those children to develop the skills needed to be independent in their future. The Model of Human Occupational Therapy (MOHO) is a model based on client centered

Level II: Provides all the services a level one, excluding specialty doctors. For example, a cardiac surgery is not available at a level II trauma unit.

My topic is looking at the affluent youth portion of the population and their mental health needs versus non-affluent youth. My topic explores how they are affected by their social economic status and the effects consumption may have on our well-being. Furthermore, my topic touches upon how youth may process and express emotion. My first article is The Culture of Affluence: Psychological Costs of Material Wealth, this article consists of multiple studies. In the first study the sample size was 264 suburban white tenth grade students from white-collar families and 224 inner-city tenth grade youth mostly minorities and of low social economic status.

The first article is “A pilot play-based intervention to improve the social play interactions of children with autism spectrum disorder and their typically developing playmates” by Belindi Henning. This article demonstrates ways that occupational therapists are effective in helping to assist patient’s, in this case children with autism spectrum disorder, to effectively develop skills that help them with their tasks of day to day living. One of the ways that occupational therapists help these children is by using motivation through play to address the areas that the child is having difficulties in. Occupational therapists also play a role in helping the child’s parents by training and guiding them to continue to use the tools that their child is being taught at home. The article lists several other methods that the occupational therapists use to help the children with ASD in interacting in their environment. Overall, the article showed how with the help of the occupational therapist the children can better interact with others and their environment.

The single-subject study, Immediate Effect of Ayre’s Sensory Integration- Based Occupational Therapy Intervention on Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders was conducted by Renee L. Watling and Jean Dietz to evaluate the effectiveness of Ayre’s sensory integration (Ayre’s SI) intervention on reduction of undesirable behaviors and increase in task engagement of students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

(2007) conducted research on a total of 46 adolescents aged between 13 and 18 with High Functioning Autism or Asperger’s Syndrome and showed effect sizes that ranged between r = .34 and .46 in terms of social competence and effect sizes that ranged between r = .32 and .73 in regards to improvements on problems behaviours. Cook et al. (2008) synthesised the results of 77 studies (a total of five meta-analyses for adolescents with Emotional and Behavioural Disorders) and shoed an effect size of r = .32. Laugeson et al. (2014) conducted SST research on 77 autism spectrum adolescent students between 12 and 14 with an average difference score of 6.54 for increased knowledge of social skills. These results indicate that overall, SST has produced a moderate effect size. However, despite not all students being likely to have positive results from SST programs, the results of these studies indicate that as a whole, SST may be a viable and effective social skills intervention for high school students within inclusive

With the prevention of mental disorders “To prevent” plainly means “to keep something from happening”. The World Health Organization defines health promotion as “the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health” (WHO, 2002). Prevention main concern is avoiding illness while promotion is about improving health and well-being. A mental health promotion intervention that is aimed at increasing well-being in a community may have the outcome of decreasing the occurrence of mental disorders. Mental health promotion efforts are believed to reduce weakness to a disorder and sometimes prevent a disorder.

The concept of recovery from mental disorder, especially for youth, is highly discussed when talking about mental health research, and is the core focus of this article. Recovery in mental health is highlighted to be variable, and can not be considered consistent amongst all patients. This variability permits a deeper evaluation of how recovery is being used in the treatment. The issues scrutinised comprise the meaning of recovery, the different opinions on the likelihood of a full recovery and the effective support for recovery. The practicality of treatment is questioned, and what profound and longstanding consequence of such treatments could have on youth in treatment.

Children in crisis are at a higher risk of developing mental health issues due to traumatic experiences. Several interventions are available to reduce the effects of traumatic experiences on children. In this paper, the effectiveness of psychiatric programs for children in crisis will be investigated. It is hypothesized that psychiatric intervention programs are effective in reducing stress reactions in children in crisis but an holistic approached must be adopted to obtain better results. The following four literature reviews attempt to validate and support this hypothesis.

In level 1, the reactions of the participants to the training are accessed; whether they liked or perceive the training’s relevance to their work. According to Kirkpatrick, every program should at least be evaluated at this level to provide for the improvement of a training program.

Autism is a neurodevelopmental biological disorder that is characterized by the deficits of communication, reciprocal social interaction and restricted and repetitive behavior patterns, interest, and activities. (D 'Elia, Valeri, Sonnino, Fontana, Mammone, & Vicari, S. 2014). To enhance these deficits several treatments were created. (D 'Elia, Valeri, Sonnino, Fontana, Mammone, & Vicari, S. 2014). Some of the interventions are highly structured and others take a social approach that focuses on the child’s interest while embedding their daily activities in a natural setting/environment. (D 'Elia, Valeri, Sonnino, Fontana, Mammone, and Vicari 2014). The main goal of educational interventions is to promote social responsibility and personal independence. (D 'Elia, Valeri, Sonnino, Fontana, Mammone, & Vicari 2014). The structure of this intervention are cognitive, behavioral, social and some areas of academic success. (D 'Elia, Valeri, Sonnino, Fontana, Mammone, & Vicari 2014). Two of the interventions that will be discussed in this study is TEACCH and ABA. Also, in the study, I will be referring to Autism using different terms such as Autism Spectrum Disorder(ASD),people on the spectrum, autistic people, and people with autism.

At the start of level three, the individual is met with basic social needs: the need to feel loved and desired

A three -tier structure, namely primary, secondary and tertiary intervention exists. A good example to illustrate this would be alcoholism or substance abuse. On a primary intervention, campaigns warn off the harmful effects of substances abuse. The secondary intervention is the abuse itself, the ability to recognise the symptoms and treatment via rehabilitation or counseling, whilst tertiary intervention is the support that is offered after rehabilitation. Here organisations like Alcoholics Anonymous come into play, to prevent relapses and to offer maximum support.