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MENTAL HEALTH 
EDUCATION, ENRICHMENT 
AND ACCOMPANIMENT 
Celente French 
VPEK 875 
Module 2 
Dr.E. Du Plessis
OBJECTIVE 
 1. Analyse mental health education, enrichment 
and accompaniment as ways of promoting 
community mental health. 
 2. Evaluate the contribution of mental health 
education, enrichment and accompaniment to 
community mental health.
1. ANALYSE MENTAL 
HEALTH EDUCATION, 
ENRICHMENT AND 
ACCOMPANIMENT AS WAYS 
OF PROMOTING 
COMMUNITY MENTAL 
HEALTH.
 
The psychiatric Community health nurse forms a large link 
between patients in the community, and accessibility to 
treatment. Often nurses situated within the community come 
across patients that suffer from severe mental illness but have 
never been diagnosed. The mental health nurse is responsible 
for assessing patients within the community for signs and 
symptoms of mental disorders. 
The who proposed the development of community based mental 
health services worldwide for some time, however a lack of 
resources is hampering the development of these facilities. 
Currently specialist care is mainly available at psychiatric 
institutions and mental hospitals and very little patients actually 
receive mental health care in the community. Because mental 
health establishments could not be performed, mental health 
has now become an integrated into primary healthcare and 
community facilities.
 The reason why community based mental health nursing is 
becoming so popular is because when patients live within the 
community, there is often family available so support the 
mentally ill, patients have access to all benefits that everyone has 
access to and can be assisted and supported to live their lives 
optimally and as normal as possible without being isolated from 
the outside world. 
 With the availability of trained professionals in mental health 
facilities, it is possible for patients to have easy access to nurses 
who are trained to assist them in receiving treatment, being 
referred to members of the professional team, and being assessed 
on a monthly basis. Community based mental health nursing 
enhances prognosis of patients and has showed increased 
amounts of patient diagnosed.
Mental health education, enrichment and accompaniement
 Recommended development of standardized training 
packages, complemented by in-service training. The 
necessity for ongoing monitoring with specialist 
back-up is stressed to enhance quality of community 
based mental health. Regular refresher courses are 
of importance, preferably short courses presented on 
a regular basis. 
 Nurses within the community have the basic skills to 
do a mental health evaluation and refer to the 
appropriate channels and to check for basic aspects 
such as medication use, compliance to treatment and 
side effects.
Economic, political, technologic, legal and demographic 
aspects are continuously changing mental health care 
provision. Patients within the community is increasing 
community mental health movement. 
Deinstitutionalization  bringing mental health patients out of 
institutions and allowing them to function within a community 
setting, began in world war 2 when public mental health 
hospitals were overcrowded. 
Resources available for community mental health delivery: 
Hospital based treatment patients admitted must meet 
admission criteria. GAF of 10-50 qualifies a patient for 
admission. This is because patients with this extent of 
discomfort require intense skill and care to ensure coping and 
to provide for needs.
Resources:
COMMUNITY BASED TREATMENT 
 Community mental health centers 
 Mobile outreach units 
 Assertive community treatment 
 Psychiatric home care 
 Community based treatment programs for 
persistently ill mentally ill patients, mental health 
clinics for the homeless. 
 Adult day care settings, AIDS support programs, 
assisted living facilities, halfway houses, hospices, 
nursing homes, mobile outreach teams, schools, 
youth centers, primary care centers
THE ADVANCED PSYCHIATRIC 
PRACTITIONER IN PSYCHIATRIC 
NURSING 
 Community mental health nurses play a key role 
in the multidisciplinary team, assessment, 
diagnosis, counseling, therapy, referral to correct 
channels if necessary. 
 The ability to reach those who are unreachable. 
 integrating PHC and mental health as suggested 
by WHO. 
 Monitor coping, teach skills, identify gaps, 
support the unsupported. 
 Diagnose new patients within the community
HOW I SEE COMMUNITY MENTAL 
HEALTH NURSING AND THE ROLE OF 
THE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH 
NURSE.
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  • 1. MENTAL HEALTH EDUCATION, ENRICHMENT AND ACCOMPANIMENT Celente French VPEK 875 Module 2 Dr.E. Du Plessis
  • 2. OBJECTIVE 1. Analyse mental health education, enrichment and accompaniment as ways of promoting community mental health. 2. Evaluate the contribution of mental health education, enrichment and accompaniment to community mental health.
  • 3. 1. ANALYSE MENTAL HEALTH EDUCATION, ENRICHMENT AND ACCOMPANIMENT AS WAYS OF PROMOTING COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH.
  • 4. The psychiatric Community health nurse forms a large link between patients in the community, and accessibility to treatment. Often nurses situated within the community come across patients that suffer from severe mental illness but have never been diagnosed. The mental health nurse is responsible for assessing patients within the community for signs and symptoms of mental disorders. The who proposed the development of community based mental health services worldwide for some time, however a lack of resources is hampering the development of these facilities. Currently specialist care is mainly available at psychiatric institutions and mental hospitals and very little patients actually receive mental health care in the community. Because mental health establishments could not be performed, mental health has now become an integrated into primary healthcare and community facilities.
  • 5. The reason why community based mental health nursing is becoming so popular is because when patients live within the community, there is often family available so support the mentally ill, patients have access to all benefits that everyone has access to and can be assisted and supported to live their lives optimally and as normal as possible without being isolated from the outside world. With the availability of trained professionals in mental health facilities, it is possible for patients to have easy access to nurses who are trained to assist them in receiving treatment, being referred to members of the professional team, and being assessed on a monthly basis. Community based mental health nursing enhances prognosis of patients and has showed increased amounts of patient diagnosed.
  • 7. Recommended development of standardized training packages, complemented by in-service training. The necessity for ongoing monitoring with specialist back-up is stressed to enhance quality of community based mental health. Regular refresher courses are of importance, preferably short courses presented on a regular basis. Nurses within the community have the basic skills to do a mental health evaluation and refer to the appropriate channels and to check for basic aspects such as medication use, compliance to treatment and side effects.
  • 8. Economic, political, technologic, legal and demographic aspects are continuously changing mental health care provision. Patients within the community is increasing community mental health movement. Deinstitutionalization bringing mental health patients out of institutions and allowing them to function within a community setting, began in world war 2 when public mental health hospitals were overcrowded. Resources available for community mental health delivery: Hospital based treatment patients admitted must meet admission criteria. GAF of 10-50 qualifies a patient for admission. This is because patients with this extent of discomfort require intense skill and care to ensure coping and to provide for needs.
  • 10. COMMUNITY BASED TREATMENT Community mental health centers Mobile outreach units Assertive community treatment Psychiatric home care Community based treatment programs for persistently ill mentally ill patients, mental health clinics for the homeless. Adult day care settings, AIDS support programs, assisted living facilities, halfway houses, hospices, nursing homes, mobile outreach teams, schools, youth centers, primary care centers
  • 11. THE ADVANCED PSYCHIATRIC PRACTITIONER IN PSYCHIATRIC NURSING Community mental health nurses play a key role in the multidisciplinary team, assessment, diagnosis, counseling, therapy, referral to correct channels if necessary. The ability to reach those who are unreachable. integrating PHC and mental health as suggested by WHO. Monitor coping, teach skills, identify gaps, support the unsupported. Diagnose new patients within the community
  • 12. HOW I SEE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH NURSING AND THE ROLE OF THE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH NURSE.