Social justice – psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner

Social justice – psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner

Social Justice

The social justice principles are the basic foundational structures of the society. These principles comprise of equality, fairness, and human rights recognition. Social justice with respect to mental health is a concept that deals with identifying and eliminating the existing challenges of the system experienced by individuals during the process of seeking equal healthcare services pertaining their mental issues (Shim, 2021). The role of PMHNPs is to practically apply the principles of social justice as mentioned above, within healthcare service provision to patients. Initially, the PMHNPs used to advocate equity in mental health access, which showed that factors like level of income, residential place as well as an individual’s beliefs and culture would have potential limit might on their ability towards asking for timely assistance.

The first advocacy type is legislation promotion as well as the promotion of attempts of ensuring equity in accessing the healthcare services related to mental health issues especially in underserved areas. The PMHNPs are also committed towards providing treatment options that are culturally sensitive, portraying their professionalism among their patients’ different beliefs, encounters and cultures (Thrift & Sugarman, 2019). Additionally, the PMHNPs also support cultural awareness and cultural humility towards ensuring that patients are confident in their long-term or short-term journey towards mental health recovery. PMHNPs also play an essential role towards reducing the misconceptions as well as the misunderstandings surrounding the mental health illnesses through participating in advocacy and other initiatives such as creating awareness to the public members. Finally, PMHNPs participate in advocacy reforms that target poverty reduction, reduction of discrimination and reduction of other aspects of the society that contribute to deterioration of mental wellness of individuals (Thrift & Sugarman, 2019).

References

Shim, R. S. (2021). Dismantling structural racism in psychiatry: a path to mental health equity. 
American Journal of Psychiatry
, 
178
(7), 592-598.
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2021.21060558

Thrift, E., & Sugarman, J. (2019). What is social justice? Implications for psychology. 
Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
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39
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