Assessment 4: CASE STUDY ANALYSIS REPORT Overview This assessment provides you with the opportunity to examine the issues, available services and treatments for people living with a specific mental health illness. You are required to choose one case study, available from the unit's vUWS site, and analyse the case study based on the following questions 1350 – 1650words
: 1. What are the psychosocial issues for the person in the case study?
2. What informal supports are available to the person?
3. What professional and/or agencies are involved or likely to be involved with the person?
4. What are the gaps in service delivery for people with this mental health illness?
5. What advocacy needs to happen for people with this mental health issue?
Mrs Jones is worried about her daughter Katie. She has asked her GP if it is normal for young girls to go on a diet and to be obsessed about losing weight. Her GP reassured her that it was a usualway ofgrowing up particular for young girls AND THAT THEY USUALLY GREW OUT OF IT
MRS JONES IS NOT SURE ABOUT HER ADVICE FROM HER DOCTOR BUT SHE THINKS PERHAPS KATIE WILL GET OVER IT NOW THAT SHE IS WORKING AND NOT UNDER SO MUCH STRESS. Katie assures her that she is all right and that she is eating ok now. when she thinks about it, but Katie’s mum hasn’t actually seen Katie’s eat in the last few month she skips breakfast and tell her mum she gets cappuccino and a muffin on the way to work when she gets homes she tell her mum she has already had a snack before she left work and she had a large lunch anyway.
Mrs Jones is still worried about accepts Katie’s assurance.T hen one of Katie’s workmates rings and says thatKatie’s has fainted at work and she could she come in to take her home. Her work mates say she wonders if it is because Kates hasn’t been eating anything that day. Her workmates says that she also wonders if Kate has a stomach bug or something because Kate has been throwing up at work lately. Mrs Jones goes into Kates work to pick her up and bring her home.