Social Work In Mental Illness

Mental illness is a lot like having a psychical illness, and more than sixty million Americans suffer from some type of mental disorder every year. Most people who suffer from a mental disorder are unaware that they even have a mental problem until they seek some type of medical attention. The evolution of Social Work in Mental Health, has been influenced by development of different types of psychiatric care. Mental illness causes a lot of emotional pain and that pain causes us to push for a solution. Social workers do many things some of the important work that social workers so is help people who have a range of issues that includes eating disorders, mental illness, financial problems, substance and mental abuse, along with marriage and

relationship problems to emotional pain. Mental health can also be defined as someone who has eating disorders as well as psychopathology of childhood / adolescence and autism. In attempting to bring mental health and social work to a better understanding psychiatric hospitals that work with psychologist aim to provide as much information as possible in response to severe chronic disorders and limit overcrowding asylums and helping patients with their interventions.That is why mental health and psychology still is a major area of study today, and that's why clinical and social work methods are still being used today, so they can help towards finding the best intervention for the people who are needing it. When I was in high-school I knew i wanted to be a psychologist I worked in a mental hospital with a lock down facility that housed about 120 patients. I worked as a patient care assistant. I took care of people who had a lot of mental disorders that ranged from being manic depressant, suicidal, bi-polar, having anxiety, schizophrenia,and people who had multiple personalities.

I have taken a great interest on how the brain works and what makes people do the things they do, I am always finding new information when reading that I find interesting. Spain has a similar development that occurred in countries that were more developed and psychiatric care traditionally depended on the provincial councils and was not integrated into the social security system. Because of the evolution of social work in mental health the psychiatric system was significantly reduced to asylums and organizations due to the simple fact of having a scarce and confusing network of charitable and social assistance ranging from religious congregations, to city and county councils. In the seventy's social work in mental health was influenced by social assistants that was ambiguous and had a lot of knowledge and experience in both mental and psychiatric fields. These social workers were learning the different types of mental illness and so they could identify their problems. Social workers also were having one on one sessions with people who had mental disorders so they could set up interventions to help

people. People who have been diagnosed with some type of mental illness were having a hard time in society and it made it hard for them to find jobs, housing which caused poverty, rejection, and social isolation.

Patients that had a mental illness and attended intervention and rehabilitation classes did better in society than those who didn't have intervention. Providing health care for those who have mental health problems can be difficult at times especially if you don't know what problem they have. Vast testing can be done in hospitals, mental health centers, rehabilitation centers and psychiatric asylums to diagnosis the problem so treatment so clinical monitoring and evaluations can be done. Mental health illness is much more than just an illness, it is a disease that requires a lot of scientific research as well as therapy and knowledge. Mental health workers work aside with psychiatrist, psychologist, nurses, o and occupational therapist so patients can have a better social life where they can live in society and not feel neglected. Patients who have severe mental illness may require more psychiatric care and social workers who are working with these patients have to be attentive to the social consequences so their patients can have a better understanding of whats going on with

them.

Skill Development: I think the skills i would need to help me to develop in my career would be to have better literacy and numeracy skills, good problem solving and research skills, and clinical evaluation skills. It also helps to have compassion, and patience and knowing what the addicctive nature of anger and its outcome, understanding on a personal level so you can better relate to your patients so you can find the best solution to their problem