Question

2) Describe five values that apply to mental health care (70 - 100 words each)

1) Briefly describe the philosophies that apply to mental health care (50 - 100 words)

Answer 1

Values of mental health care:
• Respect and trust: Treating all individuals equally with respect. Honouring the patient’s views and ideas and being flexible and fulfilling the patients desires.
• Resilience: Providing care according to the culture and values. Improving the health by using opportunities and learning from the challenges.
• Responsibility: The information provided to the patients should be of high quality and evidence based. Taking up opportunities that will lead to a positive change.
• Reflection and action: Working and collaborating with others to provide culturally and sound and meaningful mental health information. Making well informed decisions and using implications of mental health research.
• Unity and diversity: Improve the mental health by promoting the human rights of people including the patients with mental illness.
Philosophy of mental health:
It is an interdisciplinary approach of the philosophy of mind, psychology, neuroscience and moral philosophy. A better understanding reveals that philosophical injury is continuous with good mental health care in response to genuine and deep conceptual complexity.