Tom Case Study

Problems and issues facing Tom

There are various problems and issues that may confront Tom in the case. Those problems and issues could be classified and analyzed via three categories, as the micro, meso and macro aspects (DuBois & Miley, 2013).

The micro aspects of problems and issues facing Tom include he is on the cusp of becoming diabetic, Tom is not medication compliant, and assaulting another resident at his last shelter. As identified from the case, Tom is becoming diabetic, as noted by one dietician. This means that Tom is trying to eat less than he need to or want to. This is one micro problem in his lives, while the influences of the behavior could be quite harmful for his health in the long run. However, if Tom do not perform strict

This is the behavior that he had to accept, as he has nowhere to go as he had lost his housing prior to be admitted and he doesn’t think anyone will give him a lease with the housing history that he currently has. “Sleeping rough”, however, could be harmful to his health and also might influence who stay in the public

After knowing his mental health problem and issues, Tom had stayed in many hospitals and had not totally be cured. So, the mental health problem seem to have continuous impacts on his work and lives, until nowadays. In his 20th, he had worked as a storeman for 5 years during his early 20’s, but his mental health problems and binge drinking made him unreliable and a safety risk at the factory. The example also could show how the long-term impacts of his mental health problems might influence his lives in the following life. The currently physical health problem is also supposed partly due to the mental health problems of Tom. As suggested by Hio et al. (2012, p.42), long-term suffering of mental health problem could be damage to the physical health of the human beings. The research had identified relations between mental health and physical health by identifying how mental health problems could influence the functional system of the human beings and furthermore to influence the physical health conditions of the human