HLST259 Mental Health Nursing

Introduction

This report is suggested to bid to the managers so that the monetary fund is passed so that they provide and support the children and family in the family learning centre. It is for the welfare family centre which provided a variety of services, located in London U.K. The theme chosen by the family centre is to implement effective learning and positive risk-taking to children and their families.  Family centres are a non-profit organization that offers a variety of services such as family counselling services, dental services, primarily medical, vocational, and self-sufficiency support, early care, preschool services to children (Hof, Berckelaer-Onnes, Deen, Neukerk, Bannink, Daniels, & Ester, 2020).

At the welfare family centre, importance is given to the learning of children at a young age and positive risk-taking. the emphases on the services which are provided. The process of learning used is informal learning with experienced-based learning. Nowadays we can see a negative approach to learning and the children have negative experiences because of the unattainable learning structure in the school at welfare learning centre the focus is on positive learning. Another service that is focused on is the counselling and mental services in the welfare service centre, which is very important in the current time as mental health is of serious concern. The way by which learning is used is informal learning. Family counselling is a very important service provided by the well-fare family centre. The services are available all day long. By a positive approach, the process of counselling is done (Stephen & Edwards, 2017).

Further, the reports suggest some recommendations as to how the welfare family center can improve its quality and services.

Early child care

The welfare family centre focuses on the early child care facilities to increases children learning and positive risk-taking in the learning process in children at an early age. Early child care in a family centre, is the supervision of children at a family centre also known as day-care services. The age of these children varies from two weeks to eighteen years.  The similarly aged children are brought up in child care psychological effects and developments in both the child and the caretakers. The everyday routine will be emphasized with the multiple cultures and dealing with such diversity. The importance of such day-care with diversity is because many families are seeking and considering the child care with growing time. The programs which are offered at child day-care must know the similarities and differences between the multiple cultures. The cultural incorporation in the activities is necessary because of the children's mental development and the ability to see the world from a different perceptive (Ansari & Pianta, 2018). 

Child care services can be seen in different countries such as Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, India, the United Kingdom, the United States, and so on (Gerritsen,Wall  & Morton, 2016).

Childcare is been inspected by the Office for Standards in Education in England. There is a split of child care in U.K. children under five are been domesticated as child care which is known as childminding and day-care. Only registered professionals can be a childminder, they are trained, registered, insured, and are qualified as Paediatric First Aid. These child care work as per the Early Years Foundation Stage of the statutory framework, these guidelines are provided by the Department for Education.  The areas focused on child care are physical development, communication and language, personal, social, and emotional development, mathematics, literacy, expressive arts, and design and understanding the world (Wood, 2019).

Learning can be denoted as what young people and children acquire these are skills, knowledge, understanding, and behaviour. Communities of practice are what children learn from everyday practices. They learn from local social and domestic within the neighborhood, local communities, school practices, and home. All such practices shape the children about the world's engagement and participation. Children learn from the shared homes are through the games played with the carers, parents, friends, and siblings. Learning can be done from problem-solving and reading in the class to playing on the ground from exploration with friends and peers. All such practices influence and emphasises the learning experience of the children (Dawson & Guare, 2018).

Learning can be seen as fundamentals of education as a process of active engagement. There are two processes of learning they are formal and informal. Many children have a barrier in learning within the school, as most of the learning is formal learning been practiced. One of the reasons why some children do not learn while some learn they are because of the unequal opportunity provided by the school environment and social and cultural capital hidden inside the school curriculum. all these provide a negative environment for the learning of the children. Learning Waters (2009) argues that it is not what is taught in school rather is the experience that is more important in the process of learning (Hyun, Ediger & Lee,2017).

The formal education system in the U.K. has failed to provide proper learning to the children which have a negative consequence on the children at a young age resulting in employment prospects, unemployment, low pay, and poor health (Prince & Exeter, 2015).

Positive risk-taking in children in a safer environment builds confidence and teaches valuable life skills. They learn self-regulatory and independence in the children's which are very important in long term in their life therefore at the welfare learning centre the learning of children is at the top priority of the services. There will be no forced learning but experienced learning which will help the children in the long term (Duell & Steinberg, 2019).

Counselling and mental services

The counselling and mental services provided at the family centre helps individual, families, and groups resolve a wide range of issues such as personal, mental, and relationship. The wellness programs are programmed as workshops and support mental and physical health groups for parents. All services are provided at the family centres are by trained professionals. These centres are licensed and accreditable (Broglia, Millings & Barkham, 2018).

Learning as the process of active engagement is very important for young adults who have issues in later life. Therefore, it is very important to look at how young adults make sense in their life. The counselling provides an understanding of different beliefs and systems of different cultures and their diversity (Marisa, Solihatun, Adelia, Fitri & Sahraza, 2020).

Flexibility: counsellors must be flexible in the adaptation of various situations and accordingly to various clients it is important to implement effective treatment plans for the client. For the same purposes, informal learning is used which will help the young adult by interaction. Learning here does not signify to be organized and objective-based it is more about the learner's standpoint (Scott, Hann, & McCracken, 2016).

Interpersonal Communication and Listening: counselling must be communicative and the counsellors must have listening skills. Therefore, for implementing such practice the young adult faces are the social and cultural capital which is more accessible to the young adults from privileged classes and social groups. These gaps in social and cultural capital lead to a difficult life for young adults who have troubles in interpersonal communication (Brown, Yu & Etherington, 2020).

Cultural Competency: at the family centre the process of learning is emphasized at socializing with an adult learns to live in an environment where there is cultural diversity where the confrontation of other cultures is a very important aspect of learning. This process of learning is informal learning. Informal learning helps in widening the horizon of young adults and children by getting better learning of the world and neighbourhood. A culturally competitive environment helps the consoles to understand the client's needs and understand them for optimum treatments (Chu, Leino, Pflum & Sue, 2016).

The lack of financial resources by the people also makes family centre counselling are very important. The children and young people might not have cultural resources to stand out and which results in less interaction with other people (Soltani,  Takian, Sari, Majdzadeh & Kamali, 2019).

Family counselling, or own circle of relative’s therapy, targets to deal with psychological, behavioural, and emotional troubles that reason family problems. Family individuals will work with a therapist to increase and hold a wholesome relationship (Ogundele, 2018).

The mission of the welfare family centre is to provide affordable mental health services to have hope, resilience, and healing in couples, individuals, and families from a variety of all cultures. At the welfare family centre, the therapy used is evidence-based therapy tools that help the individuals to improve their quality of life while having a stressful situation that will be coming from the challenges from life. The organization is willing to work will a non-profit organization for further assistance. The primary aim of the welfare family center is to provide and increase healing and resilience in the people in need (Cooper, 2022, pp. 127-151).

The welfare center also provided various helpline to assist the people which works on all days is the telehealth system and also in-person appointment.

Positive risk-taking does not necessarily mean eliminating the risk but managing them to maximize the choices they have and more life control. Risk-taking can have a positive effect on the individual which enables them to do the thing which is out of their comfort zone. Risk assessment is important for positive risk management. The management of risk involves a broad range of involvement, assessment, supportive, preventive and supportive measures (May, Ballard, & Siperstein, 2021).

A personalized approach in safeguarding and focusing on the desired outcomes is the positive risk-taking approach. With the assurance and insurance of support, the adult needs to manage risk. The individual circumstances and the personal history is taken into account while adopting positive risk-taking (Labrague,2021).

Recommendation

Family care should focus on the improving the quality of the health care services making sure that every member has good health in every age of group.  The main focus of the centre should to support the families in every aspect. The family centre understands by creating different examples and plays or showing them an educational film. There should be encouragement of learning and understanding within the families, making aware to support and consider the views of each and every member. Improving the services and offering the learning opportunities (National Academies of Sciences, 2018) . 

The childcare support should be given to families, improving the communications skills by development of languages. The care giver should form the deep bond with the children. To make them cooperate in the services and engaged with them that will be more effective and valuable in terms of the outcome of the services. Providing the counselling services to the young mothers about the child care and make their them understand about the parenting (Abrassart & Bonoli, 2015).

The centre should outreach to the community for the development work and support the families in improving their relationships with the schools and other public services. Expanding the capabilities of the family members by providing the counselling, guiding and experience of the volunteering this can help the family to develop the confidence and also it will help the members in changing their perspectives and directions of their and other family members own lives (Dallos & Draper, 2015).

Conclusion

The report concludes that the welfare family centre, located in London, U.K. is a family centre which works in including education and positive risk in the early childhood and The counselling and mental services.  There are two types of learning which is used they are formal and informal. At welfare family centre the emphasis will be given to the informal learning in both children and young adults. Learning can be seen as fundamentals of education as a process of active engagement. Active engagement is the process will is used for positive learning. Often school end up given negative approach to the students will eventually lead to school dropout therefore at family centre risk taking approach is been introduced and amplified.

The wellness programs are programmed as workshops and support mental and physical health groups for parents for the counselling and mental services. Positive risk taking is introduced in these sessions. Another thing used is the family counselling sessions for better communication between the families. Suggestion to improve the family centre are to provide equal job to the all learner and to emphasis on the communication skills.

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