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Written Assessment

Assessment 1 – Written assessment

Weighting: 50%

Word length: Written section 2000-2500 words

Learning Outcomes: 1 & 2

Objectives and outcomes:

Throughout this course the learning tasks aim to ensure that you are thinking critically and developing an advanced understanding of mental health nursing. This assessment task allows you to explore one of the interventions/therapies studied in this course by undertaking a role-play demonstrating its use, critiquing your use of the intervention and justifying its use for the consumer and context.

The Task

The assessment is in two parts:

1. A video of a role play between yourself and a ‘consumer’ which demonstrates your ability to use one of the interventions/therapies examined in this course. This section is not graded.
2. A paper that does the following:
1. Critiques your use of the chosen intervention/therapy.
2. Provides a justification as to why this particular intervention/therapy is appropriate (or not appropriate) for the ‘consumer’ and context, and its significance for mental health nursing.

Preparation

1. Select an intervention/therapy from those provided in this course. You may choose to use something that you are familiar with or challenge yourself and attempt to ‘try something new’. Remember, your demonstration of the intervention/therapy is not graded so it doesn’t matter if you do not show mastery.
2. Search for and select appropriate literature that provides evidence from which you may draw on to critique your use of the chosen intervention/therapy and to justify why it is (or isn’t) appropriate for the particular consumer and/or the context.
3. Choose a friend/colleague/relative who is happy to undertake a role-play with you.
4. Choose a situation to use in your role-play to demonstrate your use of the intervention/therapy.

Hint: it is easier if you choose a situation that is not too complex.

Written part

1. Write an introductory paragraph that introduces the intervention/therapy and its value to mental health nursing. Describe how you will be critiquing your use of the intervention/therapy and justifying its use in the particular consumer situation.
2. Provide a more detailed overview of the intervention/therapy and its relevance to mental health nursing.
3. Describe your role-play, the type of consumer and the context.
4. Justify why it was chosen for this type of consumer and the context.
5. Outline how the role-play progressed and how the intervention/therapy was used.
6. Critique your use of the intervention/therapy and assess its relevance for the consumer/context.

Hint: Critique does not necessarily mean to criticise. Determine the positive components as well as any negative ones.

7.   Explain how your justification demonstrates the relevance and/or importance of this intervention/therapy for mental health nursing.

1. Write a concluding paragraph that summarises the main points of your paper, draws it to a close and also makes a conclusion on the effectiveness of this intervention/therapy for mental health nursing.

Video 

1. The length of the video should be between 15 to 25 minutes. Try to ensure that it is long enough to demonstrate this particular intervention/therapy.
2. Film the video in a quiet area.

Submission 

Submission will be a two-part process:

1. Upload your video to YouTube. We will provide you with detailed instructions on how to upload a video to YouTube on your Moodle site. You will set the privacy settings so that only people provided with a copy of the hyperlink can view it. It is recommended you try to upload your video before the due date as issues with large video files can occur.
2. Your written submission though Moodle should contain the following
1. The written section (See above)
2. A copy of the hyperlink to your YouTube submission

Creative arts therapy

Creative arts therapy has gained popularity in various health and medical fields because of its number of applications ranging from children to elders. The therapy is particularly used for psychiatric and mental disorders. Art therapy was first introduced in the year of 1942 by Adrian Hill mainly for moral strengthening and psychiatric help.  The therapy is defined to be an umbrella covering therapies like music therapy, movement and dance therapy and art therapy utilising visual arts objects. Art therapy is a mean to encourage mentally ill patients to both communicate and manage their emotions. Dealing the emotional requirements of mentally ill customers in for mental health nurses can be difficult. But by using art therapy these nurses can attain beneficial result because the therapy addresses—considerately, powerfully and meticulously—the emotional requirements of mentally disabled people. It offers remedy by providing collective link of people around as well as by giving the experience of rule and the prospect to both convey and manage sentiments. In addition, this therapy gives hope by making the use of nonverbal communication and offering opportunity to make connotation via life re-evaluations.

Considering a usefulness of the creative art therapy, the paper will critique its application for the betterment of a mentally disabled patient. This therapy is used to manage a mentally disabled person because this therapy has shown to heal emotional situations by developing an ability to self-reflect, facilitating a person to understand him/herself, diminishing symptoms and changing thinking patterns and behaviours (Camic, 2008). Creative arts therapy is not merely about special techniques but regarding the power of the arts to react to human distress. For this reason, the critique is based on this therapy for the mentally disabled individual.

Provide a more detailed overview of the intervention/therapy and its relevance to mental health nursing.

Art therapy is a higher level brain health focussed therapy that utilises the creative way of art making to augment and improve the physical, emotional and mental well-being of people of all ages. Art therapy has been demonstrated to be efficient in a wide array of health conditions. People with mental disability frequently have problems of speech, social adjustments, coping with daily life activities and reduced level of intelligence.  Conventional "bottom-up" psychotherapy focuses on the articulatory tools and is therefore not always efficient in helping these people. On the other hand, the art therapy helps mental health care provider with ingredients of logaoedic therapy enhances the ability of mentally disabled people to at least undertake purposeful conduct, including speech and language functions, especially intelligibility. Furthermore, this therapy involves visual arts (such as sculpture, drawing, performance, painting, etc); psychotherapy; creative procedures and counselling.  Puig, Lee, Goodwin & Sherrard (2006) stated that creative art therapy improves communication, and reinforces confidence since patients accept it easily. In another words art therapy is a three way process between the therapist, the customer and the artefact or the image.

Art therapists have a good understanding of art processes, underpinned by a sound knowledge of therapeutic practice, and work with individuals and groups in a variety of residential and community based settings, for example: adult mental health, learning disabilities, child and family centres, palliative care and the prison service. The diversity of these areas of work is reflected in the number of special interest groups that have developed in affiliation with the British Association of Art Therapists.