RESPONDING

TO CRISIS,
PROVIDING
TREATMENT
BS PSYCHOLOGY 1-5N
GROUP 5
MAIN IDEAS TO BE TACKLED
DURING THE DISCUSSION
a. Determine the appropriate
treatment depending on the nature
of crisis.
b. Present/Current situation of
mental health system in the country.
c. Different beliefs and practices of
Filipinos that affect their mental
health.
DETERMINE THE
APPROPRIATE
TREATMENT
DEPENDING ON THE
NATURE OF
CRISIS.
A. DETERMINE THE APPROPRIATE
TREATMENT DEPENDING ON
THE NATURE OF CRISIS.
There are 4 stages of crisis
1. Anxiety
2. Defensive
3. Acting Out
4. Tension Reduction
 STAGE 1 OF CRISIS:
ANXIETY
• Anxiety – a noticeable change or
difference in a person’s behavior.
• Signs:
Can be recognized through:
• Body language
• Facial expressions
• Isolation
 STAGE 1 OF CRISIS:
ANXIETY
• How can you help?
• Being aware and noticing the crisis
• Let person know you care
• Listen
• Develop their coping skills
(e.g. music, meditation, talking, drawing)
 STAGE 2 OF CRISIS:
DEFENSIVE
• Signs:
• Lose rational thought
• Belligerent (showing aggressiveness) and
challenging authority
• How can you help?
• Allow time to vent
• Remove the audience
• Set limits
• Identify choices
• Define consequences
 STAGE 3 OF CRISIS:
ACTING OUT
• Signs:
• Total loss of rational control
• Physically violent

• How can you help?

• DO NOT INTERVENE
• Call emergency services (e.g. 911 in
America)
 STAGE 4 OF CRISIS:
TENSION REDUCTION
• Signs:
• Regaining of rational control
• Ability to discuss issue

• How can you help?

• Teach coping skills
• Teach ways to control behavior
PRESENT/CURRENT
SITUATION OF
MENTAL HEALTH
SYSTEM IN THE
COUNTRY.
B. PRESENT/CURRENT SITUATION OF MENTAL
HEALTH SYSTEM IN THE COUNTRY.

Mental healthcare in the Philippines faces

continued challenges including underinvestment,
lack of mental health professionals and
underdeveloped community mental health
services. Although the recent Mental Health Act
legislation has – for the first time – provided a legal
framework for the delivery of comprehensive
mental healthcare, economic restrictions
preventing people from accessing mental
healthcare should be considered to enable the…
B. PRESENT/CURRENT SITUATION OF MENTAL
HEALTH SYSTEM IN THE COUNTRY.

…population to equitably access appropriate care

when required. Increased investment is urgently
needed to improve the training and recruitment of
psychiatrists, nurses, psychologists, social workers
and other multidisciplinary team members,
particularly as large numbers of skilled
professionals continue to emigrate.
B. PRESENT/CURRENT SITUATION OF MENTAL
HEALTH SYSTEM IN THE COUNTRY.

R.A. 11036
The state affirms the basic right of all
Filipinos to mental health as well as the
fundamental rights of people who require mental
health services.
B. PRESENT/CURRENT SITUATION OF MENTAL
HEALTH SYSTEM IN THE COUNTRY.
The state commits itself to promoting the
well-being of people by ensuring that; mental
health is valued, promoted and protected; mental
health conditions are treated and prevented;
timely, affordable, high quality, and culturally-
appropriate mental health case is made available
to the public; mental health service are free from
coercion and accountable to the service users; and
persons affected by mental health conditions are
able to exercise the full range of human rights, and
participate fully in society and at work free from
stigmatization and discrimination.
B. PRESENT/CURRENT SITUATION OF MENTAL
HEALTH SYSTEM IN THE COUNTRY.

The State shall comply strictly with its

obligations under the United Nations Declaration of
Human Rights, the Convention on the rights of
Persons with Disabilities, and all other relevant
international and regional human rights
conventions and declarations. The applicability of
Republic act No. 7277, as amended, otherwise
known as the "Magna Carta for Disabled Persons",
to person with mental health conditions, as defined
herein, is expressly recognized.
B. PRESENT/CURRENT SITUATION OF MENTAL
HEALTH SYSTEM IN THE COUNTRY.

Objectives - The objectives of this Act are as

follows:

(a) Strengthen effective leadership and

governance for mental health by, among others,
formulating, developing, and implementing national
policies, strategies, programs, and regulations
relating to mental health;
B. PRESENT/CURRENT SITUATION OF MENTAL
HEALTH SYSTEM IN THE COUNTRY.

(b) Develop and establish a comprehensive,

integrated effective and efficient national mental
health care system responsive to the psychiatric,
neurologic, and psychosocial needs of the Filipino
people;

(c) Protect the rights and freedoms of persons with

psychiatric, neurologic, and psychosocial needs;
Filipino people;
B. PRESENT/CURRENT SITUATION OF MENTAL
HEALTH SYSTEM IN THE COUNTRY.

(d) Strengthen information systems, evidence and

research for mental health;

(e) Integrated mental health care in the basic

health services; and

(f) Integrate strategies promoting mental health in

educational institutions, the workplace, and in
communities.
DIFFERENT BELIEFS
AND PRACTICES OF
FILIPINOS THAT
AFFECT THEIR
MENTAL HEALTH.
CONCLUSION
Mental healthcare in the Philippines faces
continued challenges including underinvestment, lack of
mental health professionals and underdeveloped
community mental health services. Although the recent
Mental Health Act legislation has – for the first time –
provided a legal framework for the delivery of
comprehensive mental healthcare, economic restrictions
preventing people from accessing mental healthcare
should be considered to enable the population to
equitably access appropriate care when required.
Increased investment is urgently needed to improve the
training and recruitment of psychiatrists, nurses,
psychologists, social workers and other multidisciplinary
team members, particularly as large numbers of skilled
professionals continue to emigrate.
REFERENCES
• https://www.researchgate.net/public
ation/330368006_Mental_health_ser
vices_in_the_Philippines
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
pOi0kKhPyX8&feature=youtu.be
GROUP 5 MEMBERS
Enaje, Azaliah P.
Lituania, Nerie Lyn D.
Pascual, Andrei Dean P.
Soliman, Carlos Fernando T.
Trinidad, Jan Chanelle D.