Menatl Healthcare

What is Mental Health?

Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices. Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood.

5 Warning Signs of Mental Health Risk

• A Change in Personality. If someone is acting like a very different person, or not acting or feeling like themselves, this is a warning sign.
• Uncharacteristic Anxiety, Anger, or Moodiness. ...
• Social Withdrawal and Isolation. ...
• Lack of Self-Care or Risky Behaviours. ...
• A Sense of Hopelessness or Feeling Overwhelmed

There is no health without mental health

Mental Health Assessments in Accordance with Internationally Accepted Principles

Description Mental health assessments should be made in accordance with internationally accepted medical principles and instruments (e.g: WHO's ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders - Clinical Descriptions and Diagnostic Guidelines, Tenth Revision, 1992)

Components

This principle includes the following components:

 1. Mental health assessments include:

 a. diagnosis;

b. choice of treatment;

 c. determination of competence;

d. the determination that someone may cause harm to self or others due to a mental disorder;

2. Mental health assessments should only be conducted for purposes directly relating to mental illness or the consequences of mental illness

Implementation

Selected actions suggested to promote this principle are:

1. Promoting clinical training in the use of internationally accepted principles;

2. Refraining from referring to nonclinical criteria, such as political, economic, social, racial

and religious grounds when assessing the potential to cause harm to self or others;

3. Performing complete reassessments each time a new assessment is conducted;

4. Refraining from basing an assessment only on the https://healthcare.healthconferences.orgpast medical history of mental disorder.