Adult Psychiatry Order 774176
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Adult Psychiatry Order 774176
Introduction
Over the last few years, recovery-based has received a lot of attention as an approach that could help patients with mental illness. Healthcare professionals and psychiatrists have noted that treatment or recovery from substance abuse or self-contained single episodes of depression is easy, and it is harder to deal with SPMI (Guha, 2014). As such, there is a need to find an intervention that can help in dealing with complex problems/conditions or diseases such as schizoaffective disorder. To understand this, the paper explores the four questions that aim at getting the appropriate treatment for the patient.
Recovery for a Patient like Meena with SPMI
To help patients like Meena recover from severe and persistent mental illness can be very challenging because of a wide variety of causes. Notably, we can see that she is neglected for showing violent and destructive behavior within the apartment. In addition, the patient has no control over her diet, which makes it very hard for the drugs she is taking to suppress the bipolar disorder.
As a result, the patient needs specialized treatment, and one of those is the oyster care that encompasses an innovative form of the palliative philosophy and approach that specifically addresses patients with schizoaffective disorder or a combination of many challenging conditions (Outram et al., 2014). Using this approach, healthcare professionals are in a position to address the needs, pace, and possibilities of each healthcare seeker (Decorte et al., 2020). Oyster care works based on four pillars.
First, the social care pillar offers the patient what they are supported to do every day; psychological care entails changing the scope of therapy. This focuses majorly on mental well-being and comfort. The third pillar essentially provides the physical care to the patients that help them to respond to the physical impairments. And lastly, the existential care pillar seeks to enhance the experiences of the patient’s life as valuable and meaningful (Decorte et al., 2020). With a combination of these measures together with the medicines provided for Meena, then we can be hopeful that she suppress the condition and consequently act oblivious to the need or demand for an unnecessary and unwanted diet such as candy bar.
Meena’s Therapeutic Goals
Even though Meena has a case manager that is supposed to help her with medications, she is not ready to let them in her apartment. Because the patient has not been cooperative with LAIs in the past, she smokes 2 PPD, eats processed foods, and uses a crack of cocaine, then it can be concluded that she is her manager. Also, it can be noted that there are so many cases of mental illness in her family, and so there is no close relative who could provide or manage her therapeutic goals.
How to Help Someone Who Is Often Too Paranoid to Accept Help
To help someone who is often too paranoid about accepting help, firstly, do not be swift to argue with them. Secondly, we employ simple directions and prescriptions. Thirdly, people who experience paranoid need enough space (Pinkham et al., 2015). Such practices or actions help them not to feel surrounded or trapped. Lastly, call for help and focus the person on what is real.
My Thoughts on Meena’s Refusal to Make Appropriate Choices and Her to Reconcile Them
I think Meena is seriously carried away by her mental illness. The condition has reached a point where she has given up on it and is not concerned anymore about her health. I can reconcile her choices by focusing on what is real, applying the Oyster Care, and give her the space that she needs. These steps can help suppress her condition.
References
Decorte, I., Verfaillie, F., Moureau, L., Meynendonckx, S., Van Ballaer, K., De Geest, I., & Liégeois, A. (2020). Oyster Care: An Innovative Palliative Approach towards SPMI Patients. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11, 509.
Guha, M. (2014). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders: DSM-5. Reference Reviews.
Outram, S., Harris, G., Kelly, B., Cohen, M., Sandhu, H., Vamos, M., … & Loughland, C. (2014). Communicating a schizophrenia diagnosis to patients and families: a qualitative study of mental health clinicians. Psychiatric Services, 65(4), 551-554.
Pinkham, A. E., Liu, P., Lu, H., Kriegsman, M., Simpson, C., & Tamminga, C. (2015). Amygdala hyperactivity at rest in paranoid individuals with schizophrenia. American Journal of Psychiatry, 172(8), 784-792.