Home > K272 Challenging Ideas In Mental Health
Question: Explore how personal accounts of mental distress can inform professional understanding and benefit the treatment process.
Answer: One of the most persistent complaints among service users is that professionals never listen (quoted Anthology, Ludlow, page 186-190. What people who suffer with mental distress want is a choice of good quality options. Choice, empowerment and control over a person’s life are very important to good outcomes in mental health. However, it needs to recognise that too much choice can overwhelm people, particularly when they are unwell. One way to improve the situation is to enable professionals to empathise, to put themselves in the place of the other person....(short extract)
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- Subject: K272
- Course: K272
- Level: Degree
- Year: 2nd/3rd
- Mark: 85%
- Words: 1685
- Date submitted: April 27, 2011
- Date written: Not available
- References: Yes
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 3698
