During the mid-80’s, Department of Health created the ___, later named ___
- Task Force on Mental Health
- Project Team on Mental Health
- Reorganized the National Mental Health, now named the National Center for Mental Health
- Contributory in proposing two mental health bills in the late 80’s
Project Team on Mental Health
NATIONAL MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM
In 2017, Senate Bill No. ___, 2017 was passed in the
congress and senate and was signed into a law on ___ as the ___
- 1354
- June 21, 2018
- Philippine Mental Health Act
(Republic Act no. 11036.)
GOAL : Reduce the incidence (rate of new cases) of mental illness and related problems
Primary prevention
GOAL: Reduce mental ilnness’ prevalence by shortening the duration of episodes through prompt intervention
Secondary prevention
GOAL: Treatment and rehabilitation as a way to improve the symptoms of illness and prevent further problems for the individual and the community
Tertiary prevention
Treatment goals for mental disorders:
- Reduce symptoms,
- Improve personal and social functioning,
- Develop and strengthen coping skills, and
- Promote behaviors that make a person’s life better
- Treatment with medications
- Medications are termed as PSYCHOTROPIC MEDICATIONS
- Affect psychic functions, behavior, or experience
Psychopharmacological Therapy
- Considered as 1st line treatment for almost all psychiatric ailments nowadays
- Not recommended for children ↓11 yrs. of age
Psychopharmacological Therapy
Main Types of Medications for Psychopharmacological Therapy
- Antidepressants
- Antipsychotics
- Sleeping pills & minor tranquilizers
- Lithium and other mood stabilizers
Use of alternating electric current which shall pass through the brain to produce unconsciousness and a convulsive seizure
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
- Aims to relieve severe symptoms of some mental health problems
- Criteria for its usage are present
- Risks of the procedure
▪ Pregnancy
▪ Elderly
▪ CV conditions
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
Treatment through verbal communication
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy
Examines current problems as they relate to earlier experiences, even from childhood
Psychodynamic psychotherapy
Psychotherapy
Focuses on current thinking patterns that are faulty
Cognitive psychotherapy
Cognitive psychotherapy
Focuses on how maladaptive feelings and behaviors are the
result of distorted thinking, and uses exercises, role playing, and other structured procedures to promote new thought patterns
Cognitive-behavioral therapy
- Comprised of concerned members of the community who are united by a disability or predicament not shared by other members of the community
- Sharing of experience without feeling alienated helps the person to cope easily and quickly
- Informal groups of people who come together to address their common problems
Self-help groups
The isolation in a treatment facility with the aim of restoring the person of his previous healthy state
Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Mental disorders can last a ___, and most who have them simply live with their symptoms. Thus, today the primary objective is most often ___ rather than cure
- Lifetime
- Recovery
