My First Day Of The Mental Health Class

I valued the participants, with a mental illness, sharing their perspective and experiences of living with a mental health diagnosis. As social workers, it is beneficial to understand a clients experience and environment to the best of our ability. I will take away the stigmas faced by individuals with a mental illness and consider how this impacts their psycho, social, and emotional

I am particularly satisfied with the research component of the course; I am interested in the modules related to cognitive behavior therapy through integrative research. In addition, learning about individualized therapy within current social, political, and cultural context offers a solid foundation to employ specific contextual tools. Furthermore, I am interested in human development across the lifespan that focuses on diversity and social justice issues. The course encourages an individualized assessment, and tailored response to match my client's needs.

Mental health is essential to overall health as well as efficiency. It is the foundation for thriving contributions to family, district, and culture. All through the lifespan, mental health is the source of thoughts and communication skills, knowledge, pliability, and self-esteem. It is all too easy to dismiss the worth of mental health until troubles emerges (Brager, G. & Holloway, S., 1978). Mental health troubles and illnesses are factual and disabling conditions that are experienced by one in five Americans. Those who do not get treatment, mental illnesses can consequence in disability and desolation for families, schools, societies, and the workplace.

In my persuasive letter to the Guilford County Board of Education, I used many different strategies to convince the board to incorporate mental health education into the high school curriculum. I began by showing that I had first-handedly experienced the problems that arise without proper knowledge of mental disorders, establishing my credibility to my case. I told how I was personally effected by a mental illness to show the board members why mental health is serious. I then went on to explain how mental health education would end the stigma of mental illness caused my ignorance in the subject, as well as teach young adults how to get help.

Throughout the lesson I realised that the task were quite the same with the idea of it, it was just designed in a different layout of the work. This could have stagnated the development of prevention against mental health issues. We could have also improved the conclusion with a better description of mental health better and answer the questions and doubtful points from the

This was a very eye opening class for me. Coming from a mental health counselling background I have to admit it is a major difference in how social workers operate versus therapist. In this essay I will reflected on how this social work class has genuinely affected me, my strengths and weaknesses, and what I have taken away from this class. I always gain a great deal of satisfaction from helping others. I remember from middle school on through adulthood I was the go to person. If a person had an issue or needed to talk. I was the voice of reasoning. I was the one able to grab hold of certain resources if someone was in need

The labelling and stigma attached to mental illness has held and retained my interest over the course of the semester, as it has equipped me with future skills to be able to apply to my future practice as a social worker as well as to my own personal life. Having had a close family member of

Mental illness is complex and its treatment even more so. I have lived and worked with individuals with mental illness for my entire life. This course is helping me take a deeper look at mental illness, its treatment and my place within it.

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

During my time in university, I was very involved in extra-curricular activities that focused on supporting my fellow students. I was an active member and volunteer of the Acadia Mental Health society and I developed a student-run personal support line (PSL). Working with these organizations, I got to see first-hand the impact we can all have in helping to change the way people think about mental health by increasing mental health awareness, providing

Transition: First, let us discuss the danger of not including mental health in students’ education.

Mental illness has become one of the most rapidly growing diagnoses to date ranging from clinical depression to Schizophrenia. It has become a worldwide epidemic and has created a shortage of specialized workers. As the shortage of veteran mental health workers declines, the amount of recent college graduates increase. Additionally, as more individuals aim to obtain a Social Work degree many have been reluctant to enter the mental health field due to stigmas and negative attitudes surrounding mental health patients. This has brought up the question of whether or not students within social work department and students not in social work would be comfortable working with individuals who have been diagnosed with a mental illness. In order to successfully answer this question the University of Tennessee conducted a study which included three types of students: those who were actively in social work classes, those who had other majors but were still in Social Work and those who were not in social work classes. This study not only measured the student’s willingness to work with mentally ill individuals but also measured their attitudes regarding the concept of mental health.

I chose this topic because I wanted to focus on a matter that is relevant to the audience in order for them to be interested. Also, I wanted the audience to learn something new that they could apply to their lives currently.

For me, the most important learning results from theoretical knowledge, more practice in dealing with the individual with mental illness, attending mental health workshops and practising mental status examination of the individual. Reflection allows me to improve the ability to move on, do better and to learn from experience and examine self. I will overcome my fear by maintaining a therapeutic relationship with the patient and treat a patient in a non-judgemental manner and show empathy towards a patient. Besides, I will develop positive ideas regarding mental illness and apply therapeutic relationship and compassion to deal with psychiatric patients. Additionally, I will improve my skills in viewing the mentally ill patients in a separate way.

Hearing so many good things and bad things about college I didn’t know what to expect and look forward to. That change my junior year knowing different college come every year I didn’t really pay it any mind what college I wanted to go to until ODU, Virginia State University and Virginia Teach came. It was Virginia State first year of visiting out school and I knew I wanted to go there I start getting e excited for college that were talking about their experience at college and what to look for when we graduated if we decided to go to college. Eager to start a new chapter college sound like it could be a little nerve wrecking but I thought I could handle it.