power point on mental illness

1. MENTAL ILLNESS
PRESENTED BY:

5. M E N T A L I L L N E S S A R E H E A L T H C O N D I T I O N S
I N V O L V I N G C H A N G E S I N T H I N K I N G ,
E M O T I O N S O R B E H A V I O R
What is Mental Illness?

6. S O M E O F T H E M E N T A L I L L D I S O R D E R A R E :
•S C H I Z O P H R E N I A
•B I P O L A R
•M A J O R D E P R E S S I O N
•G E N E R A L I Z E D A N X I E T Y
Mental illness

7. Schizophrenia
 Schizophrenia this is characterized as abnormal
social behavior and failure to understand what is
real.
symptoms are:
Unclear and confused thinking
Hearing voices that are not real
Fail believes
Causes are:
Environmental
Genetics factors

8. Bipolar
 Bipolar this a mental disorder that cause periods of
depression and periods of elevated moods( high).
 Symptoms when low are:
 crying
 Have negative out look on life
 Poor eye contact with others
 Symptoms when manic
 Abnormal energic
 Happy or irritable

9. Major depression
 Major depression this mental disorder order
characterized by most than two or more of
extremely low mood
 Symptoms are:
 Low self-esteem
 Lost of interest in creative actives
 Causes
 Family history
 Major life changes
 Substance abuse

10. Social Issues that are associated with mental
illness
 Social issues are problem that influences a
considerable number of the individual within a
society.
 Three main issues are
 Unemployment
 Poverty
 Homelessness

11. UNEMPLOYMENT
Unemployment this is the state of having no job;
joblessness.
Unemployment tends to have higher level of impaired
mental health including depression, anxiety and
stress.

12. POVERTY
 Poverty, this is a state of being poor, having little
money or being in need of a specific quality.
 Poverty comes with higher rates of mental illness.
People with disorders are at higher risk of
descending into poverty than other people. They may
not be able to work because of their illness.

13.  . It is define as having no home; without permanent
place of residence. Mental illness in Jamaica has
been dominated

14. Agency that are involve with social issues that
are associated with mental ilnness
 Government ANGO
 Multi Care Foundation Art Therapy
Golden Age Home
National Council for Senior Citizens
 Private ANGO
Ministry of the Poor led by father Ho lung
Open Arms Dropping Centre
Dr Weney Private Home

15. What is the role of a social worker as it relates to
mental illness.
 Social worker who specialize in mental health issues
work clients battling mental illness substance abuse,
unemployment, and/or poverty, among other
challenges .

16. Conclusion
 Mental Illnesses if detected and educated from an early stage
and treated could eliminate some of the social issues.
 People with severe mental disorder are too often far away
from the labor market , and need help to find sustainable
employment. The majority of people with common mental
disorder, however are employed but struggling in their jobs.
Neither are they receiving any treatment nor any supports in
there workplace or community, thus being at high risks of jobs
loss and permanent labor market exclusion. This implies a
need for policy to shift away from serve to common mental
disorders and sub-threshold conditions; away from a focus on
inactive people to more focus on those employed: and away
from reactive to preventive strategies.

17. Social worker intervention in the mental health
field
The intervention of social work in the mental health
field has singular characteristics. These character tics
related to the notion of historical social process to
understand and explain with major dept and the
complexity of the context . Some factors of
intervention of the social worker with patient suffer
from of element of mental illness Schizophrenia are
Psycho education programs
Social skill training
Psychosocial invention

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