Mental Health Training

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Mental Health Training

• Maria Caves
• Clinical Lead Nurse for Mental Health

• Jayne Moore
• Mental Health Specialist in Health Promotion

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The Mental Health - Mental Illness Continuum

• Health

Distress
Problem
Illness
Health Promotion Personal Growth
Normal Resolution Self Help Voluntary Bodies
Specialist Service Primary Care Voluntary Bodies
Primary Care Self Help Voluntary Bodies
Everybody constantly moves along a continuum of
Mental Health/illness
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Mental Health Promotion

• Before Health Promotion takes place it is
  important to know what the Protective and Risk
  factors are

Protective Factors
Self Management Skills
Emotional Processing
Social Participation
Environmental Quality
Self Esteem
Environmental Depravation
Emotional Abuse
Emotional Negligence
Social Exclusion
Stress
Risk Factors
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Mental Health

• Mental health is the emotional and spiritual
  resilience, which enables us to enjoy life and to
  survive pain, suffering and disappointment.
• It is a positive sense of well-being and an
  underlying belief in our own and others dignity
  and worth.
• (Health Education Authority)

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mental illness

• A fleeting or long term disruption of usual
  thoughts, perceptions and feelings which can
  cause difficulty in personal and social
  relationships, self care, decision making and
  judgement
• (The Mental Health Foundation)

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Ten Steps to wellbeingwhich will help to protect
mental health for everyone

• Talk about your feelings
• Keep physically active
• Eat well
• Help yourself
• Do something creative

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• Learn new skills
• Get involved and make a contribution
• Drink alcohol in moderation
• Care for yourself and others
• Take a break

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General Facts and Figures

• Latest statistics state 1 in 4 people will have a
  mental health problem within the course of a
  year.
• 20 to 30 of all GP Consultations are about a
  mental health issue
• 50 of all GP Consultations have a mental health
  element to the issue discussed.
• 65 of people with a mental health problem will
  have experienced some form of discrimination.
• Almost 50 will have been abused or harassed in
  public.
• Official figures suggest that 14 of men and 20
  of women in England have some form of Mental
  Illness

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Continued

• Mental illness accounts for over a third of the
  burden of illness in Britain
• 1 in 6 of us will be diagnosed as having
  depression or chronic anxiety disorder, affecting
  1 in 3 families
• 1 in 4 people with anxiety and depression do not
  access services
• 1 million people are on incapacity benefit due to
  mental illness
• Layard Report (2006)

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• In a Survey by The Mental Health Foundation
  suggests
• 42 of people with mental health problems
  didnt tell members of their family.
• 22 didnt tell their partners.
• 74 didnt mention it on forms.
• 19 didnt even tell their GP.

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The Knowsley Picture

• Knowsleys population is more than twice as
  likely to have a serious mental health problem.
• The indicator rises to more than three times as
  likely if you live in some areas of Huyton and
  kirkby

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• 12.250 people in Knowsley suffer with depression
• Only 6,125 seek help from their GP
• 500-1000 seek help from independent/ voluntary
  sector
• 12,900 claimants for incapacity benefit in
  Knowsley (2nd highest in England)
• 5,392 (41.8) are mental health related