examining the over prevalence of Asian community within mental health services. What are the services and specialist interventions
Assignment criteria: Summative Coursework: Final Project Submission (8000words) SEM 2 100%
The actual assessed piece of work for this module is made up of an 8000 word written assignment, which will consolidate your learning in previous stages by expanding your knowledge of a relevant topic area which is related to working with children, young people and families. The structure of the final year project should correspond with the headings provided in your summary
Question of the whole dissertation:
examining the over prevalence of Asian community within mental health services. What are the services and specialist interventions etc.
Chapter 1: 2,000 words
History of mental health legislations talking about the legislations and how mental health legislations have changed so comparing from medieval times to todays world
Consider the legal context. Legislation relating to mental health dates back to medieval times.
- 1601 Poor Relief Act
- 1834 Poor law Amendment Act
- 1845 Lunatic Asylums Act and pauper Lunatics Act
- 1913 mental deficiency Act
- Mental Treatment Act
- 1959 Mental health Act
- !983 Mental health Act
- 2007 Mental health Amendment Act
consider how language has changed. Note that the MHA 1983 is still the main piece of legislation and the 2007 Act only made amendments.
The main thing is spoken about the move that came in the post war years and the 1959 act to provide more care in the community rather than the large asylums. More of a social model approach rather than opposed on medical model. Consider these models and approaches in context of changing cultures. Migration and and changing society and what cause mental health problems.
MOVE ON TO THEN – Talking about how the approaches towards mental health have changed from medical model to social models.
Talk about western model, what the medical model is when was it around and how it was used in mental health, mention DSM and icd10 (Incarceration to decarceration)
And then how that changed to social model, culturally sensitive, UK now has a diverse society today comparing to centuries ago can pick a specific century in which UK had fewer ethnic e.g., BAME AND Asian population living in uk (Add percentages etc.. )
Lok at how treatment and interventions changed so psychiatric medication still prevalent but more humanist approaches such as counselling and CBT approaches. Bring it all up to date in discussing the westernisation pf the BAME community. Related pressures such as social media consider the community as a whole but also talk about women as well.
Chapter two
Is completed
Throughout chapter 2 I have talked about MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES IN SURROUNDING AREAS OF THE UK THAT SUPPORT THE ASIAN COMMUNITIES.
So I found few organisations for instance rethink mental illness, Pakistani resource centre, Roshni, Roshni ghar these charity based mental health services. So I had to talk about what the service is and what their objectives are and what services and support do they provide for Asian communities.
CHAPTER 3: 1, 686 words
Making sure there are title and subtitles placed where appropriately needed not too many tho
- Main focus of this chapter is: talking the experience of the Asian communities in the mental health system
There views on mental health system and experiences, this will need to be longer than the other question below as this is the focus but do make sure the one below is a good piece that states how mainstream services aren’t as culturally sensitive
- What professionals in mental health system think is preventing Asian community from accessing services stating for instance
Although government policy mandated that all mental health practitioners develop their “cultural competence” through dedicated training in race equality [2], this has not yet led to marked changes in clinical practice and has been suggested to reproduce institutional racism by continuing to “other” marginalised communities [32].
Where mainstream services have failed to engage South Asian service users, voluntary and community-based organisations have shown to be more effective, due to higher levels of trust, personalised support and being located in the communities they serve [76, 79].
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40615-021-00993-x#ref-CR77
