Importance Of Good Mental Health: Tostate Of Mental Health Care Services In Thailand

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It was found that there was no improvement or there was only slight progress in condition of 1 5 out patients.

Survey results showed that only 13 of participants received treatment.

And therefore the subjects of survey included people with depression, chronic depression, hypomania, mania, emotional disorders, drug and alcohol consumption disorders, psychosis, dementia and suicidal risk. Even if they sought counseling or treatment. So a report conducted as recently as August 2016 put the general amount of personnel working in mental health department at 2801. Lots of us are aware that there are not popular among university students and only a small number of graduates pursue careers in mental health, while subjects associated with mental health are offered as part of curriculum at universities.

In Thailand, for the most part there’s a severe lack of trained mental health personnel, including counselors, psychotherapists, psychologists, occupational therapists, and social workers.

They rationalize that mental disorders are not dangerous diseases so they believe And so it’s unnecessary for them to seek counseling or treatment.

They still perceive that cost of treatment per session as high. People from middle to upper classes are those who earn better salaries and receive better education. Normally, patients or relatives will only consider seeking counseling and treatment when symptoms have worsened or affected patients physically and socially, for instance. Thus, are ashamed to seek counseling or treatment. To primary concerns is that Thai society harbors serious prejudice against and intolerance for those who have mental health problems. Now this includes relatives and family members being that they fear society’s disgust and aversion or that people should be paranoid that topatient, who is their relative, will harm others. With that said, problems go undiagnosed and untreated until they get so bad someone gets hurt. Notice that they perceive people seeking counseling or treatment as insane. Most Thai people lack valid knowledge and understanding about mental problems, as Chutima explains. Whenever getting that said, this situation highlights a complex problem.

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Regarding mental health counseling centers, So there’re only 19 service providers managed by Department of Mental Health whereas there’re 77 provinces in Thailand and population is higher than 70 million. Chutima is aware of. Some regional big cities, just like Bangkok or Chiang Mai, have mental health counseling centers managed by private sectors. There’re only two such places in Chiang Mai that Ms. Eventually, these problems highlight a couple of important biases in who can access help, where those who live in big cities, who are well educated and can speak English, and who have enough money to be able to afford treatment are far more gonna get without any stretch of imagination that social workers in antitrafficking industry would also need support to handle emotional ll of work they do. In this piece, we’d like to share story of one of our students, Nong Gaht, to emphasize role proper mental health care can play in expanding freedom and opportunity and how oppressive lack of it can be.

What may not be obvious, however, is that mental health services are also critical to prevention of child slavery and exploitation. Undoubtedly it’s widely understood that victims of trafficking and abuse will be in need of mental health care services to aid in restitution and rehabilitation. Those who do not live in areas in which government offers counseling centers as a part of Universal Health Care Coverage have to receive services from private hospitals. Therefore, these people do not have enough money to seek continual mental health counseling. So, factor that impacts them most is stress resulting from a bad economy. Thailand is a developing country and hundreds of Thai people who are mentally affected are those from low and middle classes. Therefore, they will have to pay for transportation and accommodation, if they need to receive counseling or treatment from public hospitals located in other wns or provinces. Then, ultimately, most challenging aspect for staff is determining how to support these victims to return to society and continue their lives. Needless to say, people who many victims are most certainly to come in contact with for every victim requires specialized care.

In any case, now this has not been successful.

People who was victims of abuse, violations, or was trafficked suffer from a myriad of complicated symptoms and conditions.

Thus, even those people who do reach out for the serious issue of social services provided outside official system. Final challenge our friend. Both direct and indirect financial damages resulting from fact that patients do not seek counseling or treatment in early stages are estimated to be as high as tens of thousands of million baht or they can be immeasurable, as in case of loss of life.

In our experience, people who are impoverished, who are systematically excluded and alienated from society, who lack education and awareness or are in some way controllable are most vulnerable to trafficking and exploitation. While finding need to deal with when help, improperly conceived and executed, becomes just another sort of incarceration, even if Nong Gaht’s end point does not result in sex trafficking. He subsequently left their facility and went back to a government home, Meanwhile, our staff had set him up with a non governmental orphanage whose staff are trained to deal with complicated cases like his. Staff members at The Freedom Story were shocked and horrified to see him reduced to a ‘zombie like’ state. His case is further complicated as long as he is stateless, and thus has severe restrictions on his ability to travel to Chiang Mai for regular treatment and care. Our staff ok him back to doctor to verify diagnosis and prescribed treatment, and doctor admitted Nong Gaht’s case was beyond scope of her expertise. Then, Freedom Story staff remain unconvinced that so it’s top-notch treatment for his case, doctor in Chiang Mai switched his medication and he now is in somewhat better shape.

Next steps remain both critical and uncertain.

While our staff members try to find an alternative school situation, he is still not preparing to school because of his behavioral problems.

She had recommended taking him to Chiang Mai for better treatment. Nong Gaht’s name is changed to protect his and his family’s privacy. Now let me tell you something. Plenty of thanks to Chalermkwan Chutima for her expertise and generous time spent helping to write this article, and to Paweena Nakha for her causes were not understood, behavior was. Unacceptable to local community. His mother ok him to a government home and lived with him there, with toproblems, and with his ‘drug addicted’ stepfather.

They ok him to see a psychologist who had diagnosed him as bipolar and gave him heavy medications essentially to sedate him so he may be better controlled.

Nong Gaht comes from similar village as one of our Freedom Story staff members.

Like hitting and inappropriate uching of himself and girls, he began getting into trouble for getting more aggressive and doing inappropriate things. Did you know that the people there were also ill equipped to understand or I spoke with Chalermkwan Chutima, Founder/Executive Director at Upstream Family Community Learning Center, that provides holistic care and legal assistance to vulnerable children and their families, in order to she agreed that it was not uncommon to sedate people as a method of controlling behavioral problems.

What follows is information that she has graciously provided to Surely it’s symptomatic of a larger problem where mental health care professionals in Thailand are insufficiently trained in best practices and wider culture lacks understanding of mental health problems. Where will they put him, if people around him can no longer afford tomedications. We at The Freedom Story have seen all these problems play out in case of our student, Nong Gaht. Let me ask you something. Would he have remained in a catatonic state, shunned from all society?