DISTRICT MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM.pptx DMHP

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1. DISTRICT MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM PRESENTED BY: DEGAMA ARATI [ B.SC NURSING THIRD YEAR ]

2. INTRODUCTION

3. COMPONENT Training of all manpower to be involved in programme. Public education in the mental health to increase awareness and reduce stigma. OPD and IPD services for early detection and treatment. Providing data and experience, at the community level to the State and Centre for future planning, improvement in service and research.

4. TEAM WORKERS Psychiatrist Clinical psychologist Psychiatric social worker Psychiatry/ community nurse Program manager Program / case registry assistant Record keeper.

5. ACTIVITIES To implement this activity mental health professional from nearby medical college will conduct/organize training programs for primary healthcare personnel to provide essentialmental healthcare in the district. Early identification and treatment formental illnesses in the community. Referring all persons with mental healthproblems to their respective primary health unit.

6. Continue Intensive education to thhealth unityabout availability of treatment for mentaldisorders , universal nature of mental illness, and regarding the need for regularfollow-up in the primary health centre. Promotive and preventive activities for positive mental health . Linking psychosocial care and public education with social welfare departments.

7. ROLE Of NURSE The National Mental Health Program for India (1982) recommended the formation of a District Mental Health Team (DMHT) in order to decentralize mental health therapies to treat syr care at the district level with two qualified illness. It became co psychiatric nurses and a psychiatrist.

8. CONTINUE The role of the psychiatric nurse in the district mental health program is to provide care to in the patient. The care includes meeting their basic needs, conducting occupational therapy, recreational therapy and individual and group therapy, along with mental health education to families and the public in general.

9. CONTINUE In addition to the above, qualified peop psychiatric nurses will actively participate stays in decentralized training to professionals and non-professionals working at taluk and Primary Health Centers (PHCs). They will also supervise the task of multipurpose workers in mental healthcare delivery.

10. CONTINUE They will assist psychiatrists in research activities in monitoring mental healthcare at districtand PHC levels. Their active participation in mental health education to the public will go a long way in creating public awareness in the care of individuals with various mental disorders.

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