Legal Mandates for Reporting Child Abuse and Mental Health Concerns
1. Eight stages of life cycle are:
- Infancy
- Childhood
- Early adolescence
- Late adolescence
- Our 20s
- Our 30s
- Our 40s
- Our 50s and beyond
Right now Dolly is in the stage of late adolescence.
2. Six stages of development which Dolly is experiencing as a child are:
- New born development
- Infant development
- Toddler development
- Preschooler development
- School age development
- Adolescent development
3. Four questions which I can ask as a carer of Dolly are:
- Does she getting irritated all time?
- Did her sleeping patterns changes – increased or decreased?
- Is she is facing the loss of energy and not willing to do anything?
- Did her appetite changed – eating more or feeling nausea?
4. The importance of keeping of clinical documentation is that it is used for evaluating the professional practice, to determine the care a patient is needed, it keeps the record of the patient’s disease and their past history so that in future the case history can be used for the diagnosis of the treatment.
5. The agitating behavior of Dolly can be caused from many factors. Among which two of the factors are either depression or functional impairment of brain. In addition to the antidepressants for treating the disease there are some psychosocial treatments which include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Psycho education and Family therapy.
6. The consistency in this services leads to the better mood management and helps to manage stress. It also helps to cope up with the depression.
7. For gathering information about Dolly, firstly I had to talk to her and if she behaves agitatedly then I had calm her down for getting the information about her.
8. Three types of issues of bipolar disease are irritability or anger, depression and loss of interest in any kind of activities.
9. Three developmental issues are learning disorder evaluation and treatment, including ADHD; valuation for mood disorders; autism evaluation and treatment.
10. For identifying Dolly’s developmental issue I would like to choose the observation method.
11. 4 factors that cause the developmental issues are:
- Brain injury
- Infection before, during or after birth,
- Growth or nutrition problems,
- Abnormalities in genes and poor diet.
12. Three risk factors associated with Dolly’s developmental issue are:
- Pre-natal risks factors incorporate unending maternal disease, certain maternal contaminations, poison exposures and wholesome insufficiencies.
- Hazard factors in the perinatal period incorporate pregnancy-related confusions, rashness and low birth weight, and disease introduction amid pregnancy or at time of birth.
- Absence of access to quality care amid pregnancy, conveyance and not long after birth can fundamentally, antagonistically influence results for both mother and youngster, including adding to formative incapacities.
13. 4 health professionals to refer for the developmental issues are doctor, community care worker, psychotherapist and an attendant.
14. Lawful principles routed to family issues regularly begin in custom-based law, which has it establishes in legitimate customs acquired from America’s initial European lineage. Precedent-based law by and large alludes to legitimate standards which get from sources other than formal administrative establishment. The second bunch of lawful gauges most usually experienced by psychological well-being experts are statutory law and case law. Statutes are those laws established by authoritative bodies at the neighborhood, state, or government level, and case law alludes to point of reference setting choices passed on by courts. At long last, one every so often experiences authoritative laws which bear on family working. These are regularly named controls and start in the official branch of government, instead of administrative or legal branches, and as a rule manage arrangement execution.
Understanding the Medical Model and its Impact on Disabilities
15. Legal obligations of an organisation and/or employees working in the disability service industry are:
- Working in an ethical framework
- Following the policies
- To protect the clients’ rights
16. Section 64 (1) of the Children and Young Persons Act 1989 permits that any individual who accepts, on sensible grounds, that a youngster is needing insurance may advise a defensive intervener of that conviction also, of the sensible justification for it. This implies any individual is deliberately ready to influence a notice to the Child Protection To benefit when they trust a youngster need security and the tyke’s guardians can’t or unwilling to secure the kid. Under this part of the Act, notices are made out of good reasons, as opposed to since the law has constrained somebody to do as such.
17. Patients with bipolar turmoil, particularly sort II or cyclothymic issue, have visit scenes of significant wretchedness. Due to dejection, patients with bipolar turmoil have an expanded hazard for suicide.
- Nervousness Disorders. Nervousness issue, for example, freeze issue, fears, and post-horrendous anxiety issue, ordinarily coincide in these patients. Patients who experience the ill effects of a tension issue notwithstanding bipolar turmoil are at expanded hazard for suicide.
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Side effects of bipolar issue in youngsters are regularly mistaken for consideration deficiency hyperactivity issue (ADHD). Moreover, the two conditions can correspond.
- Substance Abuse. Patients with bipolar turmoil much of the time manhandle medications and liquor. In spite of the fact that medication and liquor mishandle might be a type of self-prescription, substance manhandle can trigger or intensify bipolar manifestations. Cigarette smoking is extremely basic among patients with psychological instability, including bipolar confusion, due partially to nicotine’s consequences for the cerebrum.
18. Issues could affect Dolly’s developmental issues are:
- Some environmental factors such as poverty, housing, employment of the family members and education.
- Some biological factors such as general health, gender, health practices and mental health.
- There are some relationship factors are attachment, parenting styles and social networks.
19. Three professionals to whom I would refer dolly are psychologist, community care worker, and a gynaecologist. The psychologist will help her in the treatment of mental health, the community care worker will assist her in her daily activities and she is pregnant she also need a gynaecologist for her check up.
20. Twodetailed examples of principles written in organisation policies and protocols for completing documentation.
- Security and privacy – All data in a patient/customer’s social insurance record is private and subject to winning protection laws and approaches. Social insurance records contain wellbeing data which is ensured under enactment.
- Auditing – Social insurance records over all settings and clinical ranges must be inspected for consistence with this approach. PHOs must set up a system and timetable for examining of records and support and assign review instruments and procedures.
21. Two legislative requirements and provisions are relevant to service delivery and delegated responsibility. Those are :
- Health Services Act and Health Administration Act
- Work Health and Safety
22. The Medical Model states that inabilities comes about because of a distinct individual’s physical or psychological constraints, and are detached from the social or geological situations. It is once in a while alluded to as the Biological-Inferiority or Functional-Limitation Model.
It is shown by the World Health Organization’s definitions, which fundamentally were conceived by specialists:
- Weakness: any misfortune or variation from the norm of mental or physical structure.
- Inability: The absence of the capacity of doing any work that is within the limit.
- Handicap: any detriment for an individual, causing because of incapacity.
23. Psychoanalytic theory is a strategy for examining and treating identity issue and is utilized as a part of psychotherapy. Incorporated into this hypothesis is the possibility that things that happen to individuals amid adolescence can add to the way they later capacity as grown-ups. Freud trusted that the psyche is made of two sections – the cognizant personality and the oblivious personality – and that the oblivious personality regularly prompts individuals to settle on specific choices regardless of the possibility that they don’t remember it on a cognizant level.
24. The psychodynamic approach incorporates every one of the speculations in brain science that see human working in view of the cooperation of drives and powers inside the individual, especially oblivious, and between the distinctive structures of the identity. this hypothesis depicts that that our conduct and the mental issues that we endure can be followed past our cognizant poise – that our intuitive personality, and the inborn driving forces that we may not know about, are what impact the route in which we carry on.
Therapeutic Approaches for Mental Health: CBT, Humanistic, and Existential Therapies
25. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can be utilized to treat individuals with an extensive variety of emotional wellness issues.
CBT depends on the possibility that how we think (comprehension), how we feel (feeling) and how we act (conduct) all communicate together. In particular, our contemplations decide our emotions and our conduct. CBT means to enable individuals to wind up plainly mindful of when they make negative translations, and of behavioral examples which fortify the contorted considering. Intellectual treatment causes individuals to create elective methods for considering and carrying on which plans to lessen their mental distress.
26. The humanistic and existential approach separates itself from other helpful styles by including the significance of the customer’s subjective experience, and also a worry for positive development instead of pathology. Though the watchwords for humanistic psychotherapy validity, compassion and unlimited positive respect, the significant subjects of existential treatment are the customer’s duty and flexibility.
Humanistic and existential methodologies share a conviction that customers have the limit with respect to mindfulness and decision; nonetheless, they contrast in their hypothetical points of view. The humanistic point of view sees human instinct as essentially great, with a possibility to keep up solid, important connections and to settle on decisions that are to the greatest advantage of oneself as well as other people. The humanistic specialist goes with/guides customers to free themselves from presumptions and positions that may piece them from living more full lives. The therapist supports and features development and self-realization, while keeps up those clients have a natural limit with respect to dependable self-direction.
27. Causes for formative postponements are various. They are sorted as hereditary impacts acquired from organic guardians and natural impacts.
28. Professional boundaries are crucial in social care work since we are working at a profound level with the helpless individuals. This implies that we have a duty for them to get things done to the best of our capacity and to guarantee that our assistance and support does not harm or disappoint them. Working with troublesome issues can likewise be exceptionally distressing and depleting work, and expert limits help us to oversee ourselves and our feelings.
29. Erikson’s (1959) hypothesis of psychosocial improvement has eight particular stages, taking in five phases up to the age of 18 years and three further towards adulthood. The stages are:
- Trust vs misrtrust
- Autonomy ve shame
- Initiative vs guilt
- Industry vs inferiority
- Generativity vs stagnation
- Ego integrity vs despair
30. Piaget’s (1936) hypothesis of cognitive development clarifies how a youngster develops a mental model of the world. He couldn’t help contradicting the possibility that knowledge was a settled characteristic, and viewed subjective advancement as a procedure which happens because of organic development and association with nature.
Multicultural Counseling and Social Justice Competences
31. For documentation of the information about Robert I will consult with his father, his mother and his doctor, because his parents were the persons with whom Robert is too much close. Also the doctor who can tell about his physical conditions.
32. Two stakeholders whom I may consult in any actual or potential problems in relation to delivering community services to Robert are the community centre workers and the doctors who are treating Robert.
33. For accessing that the services that are provided to Robert is appropriate or not, firstly I will see the mental health condition of Robert and then I will see that the care offered to Robert is appropriate or not.
34. Robert displays anger outbursts, which he often directs at objects, i.e. kicking walls, He tends to isolate himself from group activities, and often rocks his head, grinning and making gurgling sounds whilst listening to music.
35. Other than unexplained bruises & scratches & behaviours of concern Robert is facing some more issues those are he is not getting proper care as his parents have become old and not getting proper care as he didn’t want to interact with the community care members..
36. Two other networking sources upon which I can rely upon for supporting and assisting Robert are KidsHealth.org and PubMed health. KidsHealth provides simple explanations about Down syndrome that is easy for people of all ages to understand. PubMed Health gives data to purchasers and clinicians on anticipation and treatment of sicknesses and conditions. PubMed gives essential information of Down syndrome including clarifications on the circumstances and end results of Down Syndrome, the Symptoms and treatment of Down Syndrome.
37. Issues with down syndrome patient that would require documentation and reporting are:
- Sleep issues – Obstructive rest apnea is a typical issue for individuals with Down disorder. This is a rest issue that can influence a youngster’s conduct and capacity to focus. It can likewise influence the heart.
- Behavior and emotional wellness – Some adolescent with Down disorder can have conduct or psychological well-being issues that influence how they play and function at home, at school, or in the group.
- Neck precariousness – Bones in the neck or spine can be shaky in a few people with Down disorder. There are quite often obvious signs when there are issues. Day by day physical movement is essential to your kid and ought not be constrained by additional stresses.
- Thyroid – The thyroid organ is typically ordinary in babies with Down disorder. It can quit working ordinarily for half of individuals with Down disorder by adulthood.
38. Interpersonal Skills are the most important skills you need to lead other people successfully. The most successive practices inside this class of abilities included “Collaborates with another kid”, “Connects with protests” and “Plays together with a similar sort of question”. Kids with DS oftentimes exhibited the first two practices in the two conditions. Verbal and non-verbal correspondence, that is, with another individual and cooperation with objects, is a fundamental component of social improvement; what’s more, the capacity to show them in a rational and correlative way is basic for a socially competent execution.
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