Video Analysis On Mental Health

In the film, the participants completed seven tasks, which were designed to highlight characteristics or symptomology of one or more mental illnesses. While observing each task, I sympathized with

This article helps support my research because it not only explains mental health and illnesses clearly, it also discusses strategies that can be used in the future to prevent and treat such occurrences. Instead of simply talking about problems, this article actually attempts to propose solutions for the betterment of all people. It also doesn’t shy away from the truth; expressing his passion for this topic, the author clearly knows what he is talking about and understands how to go about helping those

Misinformation and misperception about mental illness can lead to the stigmatization of ourselves, our parents, our children, our spouses and others that we care about. The consequences of stigma range from social isolation to poverty to barriers to quality treatment and care. Stigma perpetrated on a grand scale can result in a system that reinforces the idea that people diagnosed with mental illnesses are unimportant and therefore are unworthy of access to quality and affordable care. Some media outlets (films and television) serve to perpetuate negative stereotypes and reinforce stigma. Although relatively few people with mental illness act out in

Mental health disorders are a problem not only American’s face. It is a worldwide problem that today we still are unclear of what causes these disorders. “Mental health can be defined as a person’s condition with regard to their psychological and emotional well being” (Oxford Dictionaries, 2016). Mental health disorder can affect children all the way to the elderly. Stigma and discrimination can add to the suffering for mental health patients. It often leads to potential clients turn away and never find help because of the labels people put on

However, with today's technology, questions are being raised about the adequacy of treatment. Despite having more knowledge about mental illness, the majority of the people affected, don’t seek help. There is often a negative stigma among society about people with mental illness. People will avoid living, employing or even socializing with mental health victims. Because of this stigma is has caused an affected person to feel humiliation and shame of their sense of self worth.

This video recording assignment was extremely interesting. I was nervous as could be. Looking back at the video recording, I can hear myself stuttering and over-thinking what to say. I also repeated myself more than I would have liked to, but I believe that came from nervousness and jitters I was feeling. Once I began the interview, I started to become calm because I was listening to the Amanda’s statements and reflecting or summarizing back to her what I heard she said. I was also nervous about how I would sound and look on the video recording. It is important to sound as if I emphasized with Amanda. I wondered if restating what the client just said would come off condescending or disrespectful. It is so important to me to never come off as if I am in a place of authority because I feel like this type of ambiance would have resulted in Amanda building a wall with me that I would not be able

“…the ability of practitioners to identify, intervene and treat mental health complaints in ways that recognise the central role that culture plays in unwellness.”

This journal was written by Dr. Peter Byrne, a consultant liaison psychiatrist and an associate registrar for public mental health. Throughout his journal, Byrne speaks about the stigma of mental illness and ways to reduce the stigma. He starts off by defining stigma and the process of it. Towards the end of the journal, he expresses how everyone needs to get involved to be able to make a change to this issue. To be able to address the stigma one needs to know how to identify it. Byrne believes that by changing the way people view mental illness with the help of health professionals, interventions, and management by transforming the mentally ill person from patient to advocate, can be beneficial in reducing the stigma. The information provided

Central Idea: I am going to be talking about the stigmas associated with mental illness and what we can do to decrease this stigma.

The critical intervention video I chose was the birth to three years old. The video focused on soothing or calming a child that has difficult temperament. The video shows how to manage stress, upset, or arousal. Children from the age of 0-3 years old have very unbalanced nervous systems. They need caregivers to respond to their emotional distress with compassion. Babies need healthy attachment to their caregivers; this requires them to be seen, soothed, safe, and stimulated. It is difficult to do these things with children with difficult temperament because their nervous system is unbalanced. The way to resolve that is by balancing their emotional distress with active calming and soothing. If I were to intervene in a family environment when

The video showed a number of children and teenagers from all social backgrounds suffering from mental disorders, schizophrenia, autism and emotional problems, leading them to isolation from society while treating their issues in mental health facilities. These young individuals face obstacles and mistreatments in inadequate places under the supervision of careless professionals. The documentary tracks some of those public mental institutions and another private center dealing with troubled kids and reveals what's wrong with their procedures, and the irreversible harm they cause in those patients. In the beginning, the video showed a boy named Brian with 16 other mentally ill children on a bus going to the zoo. Brian suffers from mania and schizophrenia

My scenario was about 87-year-old male it was in hospital recovering from an ankle fracture that has been repaired. He had sustained a fracture by tripping over rugs in is home. He was not weight bearing on his ankle yet. Shift report stated that he is alert and oriented times three. He has a daughter named Catherine who lives in Calgary. The task for you today is the nurse was to remove his foley catheter and to administer his anticoagulant. When entering the room, the client was clearly not alert and oriented. The first words out of his mouth were that he was in pain, and when I tried to assess his pain he held out his fully inflated catheter to me that he had ripped out. The client appeared to be suffering from delirium, which could be caused by a multitude of risk factors, including his age, the fact that he was catheterized, he had undergone surgery, and he had been hospitalized because of his surgery. The client was very panicked, was asking lots of questions, and was trying to get out of bed to go and care for his dogs.

The authors of this journal Alina Coman, a professor in social sciences and communication and Corina Sas, who has a PhD human computer interaction, believe that stigma of mental illness negatively impacts the people with mental illness leading them to avoid mental health services. This idea ties right in to what I will be discussing in my article. The avoidance of getting help from professionals is one of my reasons as to why stigma of mental health is worsening them. This stigma is making it harder for the mentally ill to seek treatment. Throughout the journal, they support their claim by presenting a novel strategy which is really useful because the they present scenarios and poems that express the emotional world mentally ill people face.

The videos “Therapeutic Communication”, “Effective Listening”, and “Nonverbal Communication” created by Indiana University have the agreement that interviewers need to possess effective communication skill needed to conduct a proper interview. In order to have effective therapeutic communication the interviewer has to be aware of the different types of communication. The videos begins with an interview being conducted of a small group of students and experts on the matter giving concreate information and patient-based experience to answer questions.

Mental health—and the stigma that comes along with it—is a very important issue, one of global importance. Shah and Beinecke explain that 450 to 500 million people suffer from mental illnesses (15). Just considering the amount of people who suffer from mental illness is enough to prove that this is a global issue. Despite the large amounts of people who are affected by mental illness, only one third of countries have some sort of program to help (15). This shows the lack of concern for those who suffer from mental illness. Stereotypes affect many people, and those with mental illness are no exception. Everyone has their own preconceived perspectives and notions of mental health, and many of them are uninformed and unjustified. It is up to us to start changing our viewpoints on mental health.