This document outlines a district mental health program presented by Degama Arati. It discusses the components of the program which include training manpower, public education to increase awareness and reduce stigma, and outpatient and inpatient services for early detection and treatment. A district mental health team would be comprised of professionals like psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, nurses, and other support staff. The team would work to implement training for primary healthcare personnel, conduct early identification and treatment of mental illnesses, and refer patients to primary health units. Nurses would play a key role in providing care to inpatients, conducting therapies, educating families and the public, and assisting psychiatrists with research and monitoring mental healthcare delivery.

1. DISTRICT MENTAL
HEALTH PROGRAM
PRESENTED BY: DEGAMA ARATI
[ B.SC NURSING THIRD YEAR ]

3. INTRODUCTION

5. COMPONENT
 Training of all manpower to be involved in programme.
 Public education in the mental health to increase awareness
and reduce stigma.
 OPD and IPD services for early detection and treatment.
 Providing data and experience, at the community level to the
State and Centre for future planning, improvement in service
and research.

6. TEAM WORKERS
 Psychiatrist
 Clinical psychologist
 Psychiatric social worker
 Psychiatry/ community nurse
 Program manager
 Program / case registry assistant
 Record keeper.

7. ACTIVITIES
 To implement this activity mental health professional from
nearby medical college will conduct/organize training
programs for primary healthcare personnel to provide
essentialmental healthcare in the district.
 Early identification and treatment formental illnesses in the
community.
 Referring all persons with mental healthproblems to their
respective primary health unit.

8. Continue
 Intensive education to thhealth unityabout availability of
treatment for mentaldisorders, universal nature of mental
illness, and regarding the need for regularfollow-up in
the primary health centre.
 Promotive and preventive activities for positive mental
health .
 Linking psychosocial care and public education with
social welfare departments.

9. ROLE Of NURSE
 The National Mental Health Program for India (1982)
recommended the formation of a District Mental
Health Team (DMHT) in order to decentralize mental
health therapies to treat syr care at the district level
with two qualified illness. It became co psychiatric
nurses and a psychiatrist.

10. CONTINUE
 The role of the psychiatric nurse in the district mental health
program is to provide care to in the patient.
 The care includes meeting their basic needs, conducting
occupational therapy, recreational therapy and individual and
group therapy, along with mental health education to families
and the public in general.

11. CONTINUE
 In addition to the above, qualified peop psychiatric nurses will
actively participate stays in decentralized training to
professionals and non-professionals working at taluk and
Primary Health Centers (PHCs).
 They will also supervise the task of multipurpose workers in
mental healthcare delivery.

12. CONTINUE
 They will assist psychiatrists in research activities in monitoring
mental healthcare at districtand PHC levels.
 Their active participation in mental health education to the
public will go a long way in creating public awareness in the care
of individuals with various mental disorders.

13. THANK YOU