Reference no: EM133765406
Assessment Task: Critical Analysis
Relevance: As mental health professionals you will be making decisions about service user care delivery and service provision. Critical thinking, analysis skills, and the ability to apply evidence-based practice in healthcare are a necessity tot the provision of safe, high-quality clinical care.
Learning Outcome 1: Critically analyse contemporary issues in mental health settings
Learning Outcome 2. Identify and critically discuss in detail the consequences of mental illness for individuals, families and the broader community
Learning Outcome 3. Critically evaluate the significance of policies and strategies designed to enable safe and supportive environments when working with vulnerable people across the I ifespan
Learning Outcome 4. Critically analyse ethico-legal issues in current mental health practice: including, but not limited to, family violence and alcohol and other drugs.
Learning Outcome 5. Apply evidence-based knowledge and skill to the prevention of mental illness in a variety of socio-economic and culturally diverse communities in a health promotion role.
Learning Outcome 6. Apply the principles of assessment and planning to the development of interventions that support individuals requiring acute and chronic management.
Task Instructions:
After reading the historical article on Entwistle, consider and critique what changes have occurred in mental health care in contemporary mental health care settings.
The following issues may guide your response:
o Acute and community mental health settings
o Relevance of family and extended communities
o Practice changes for safe and supportive care
o Approaches in ethical considerations and contemporary legal issues for mental health care
o Health promotion and mental illness
o Changes to assessment and planning processes in acute care and community-based care.