Mental Health Pychotherapy

Psychiatric assessment that focuses on symptoms and monitors psychopathology. This assessment measures positive and negative psychotics as well as anxiety and depression. Psychotropic treatment in reducing the symptoms of psychosis and correcting depression causes optimism among mental health professionals and leading a normal life. The search for more advanced psychotropic drugs is also ongoing in symptoms. Psychiatry conceptualised phases of illness into acute, maintenance and continuation domains. It suggested concepts like relapse, recurrence, remission and recovery based on symptoms profiles over time. Psychiatric models tended to view recovery from mental illness similar to that seen in physical diseases. Despite the power, influence and dominance of psychiatric concepts, once taken as standard, they have gradually began to face opposition (Jacob,2015).

People may not have full control over their symptoms, they also can have control over their lives. Recovery is not about getting rid of problems but seeing beyond that person’s mental health problems. Recovery is about looking beyond those limits to help people to achieve their own goals and dreams. It argues against the traditional concepts of social attitudes also and mental health. Health professionals often have reduced expectations. Recovery can be a voyage of self discovery and personal growth such as experiences of mental illness can provide opportunities (Jacob,2015).

People with severe mental illness now live in the community. Far too many people live isolated lives. A key role for mental health and social services is to support people to regain their place and take part in mainstream activities. People with severe mental illness need to be supported to create their own goals, map their processes, recovery plans and others (Jacob,2015)

More than 50 years of research on client attrition from therapy, obstacles to the delivery and success of treatments remain poorly understood. This article offers a review of the literature on attrition. Interventions for reducing attrition are reviewed, and recommendations for implementing these interventions into psychotherapy practice (Barret, Chua, Crits-Christoph, Gibbons and Thompson,2008).

References

Barrett, M. S., Chua, W.J., Crits-Christoph, P., Gibbons, M. B., & Thompson, D. (2008). Early withdrawal from mental health treatment: Implications for psychotherapy practice. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 45(2), 247–267.
Jacob,K.S.(2015).Recovery Model of Mental Illness : A Complementary Approach to Psychiatric Care. Indian J Psychol Med, 37(2),117-119.
Onnela,J.P. & Rauch,S.L.(2016). Harnessing Smartphone Digital Phenotyping to Enhance Behavioral and Mental Health. Neuropsychopharmacology, 41, 1691-1696.