Nurse-provided social support versus social network-personal relationship-based social support

Nurse-provided social support versus social network-personal relationship-based social support

Social support refers to an individual’s physical and emotional comfort and resources to help another person cope with stress. Children with chronic mental illness can get social support in different forms. For example, they can get professional social support from healthcare providers like nurses or social network-based social support through personal relationships with friends and family members. This paper analyzes the potential effectiveness that can result from professional social support and personal relationship-based social support in helping children with chronic mental illness.

Effectiveness of nurse-provided social support

Professional social support from healthcare providers such as nurses can work closely with children with chronic mental health illnesses from a social support system. This social system can help them to make healthy choices and behaviors and develop strategies for coping with stress (Lundstrom et al., 2020). For example, nurses can use different social support systems, such as emotional, instrumental, and informational support systems. They better understand how these supportive social support systems can promote psychological health for children with chronic mental health illnesses. For example, a nurse can use professional approaches such as a social group with normative influence to engage children with chronic mental illness and help them change their behaviors. A nurse can also use social support to motivate patients to achieve their health objectives. For example, nurses can provide psychotherapy interventions such as counseling and person-centered therapy to help children with mental health issues achieve their health goals. This allows a nurse to provide emotional and social support for patients by interacting and communicating with their patients. A significant part of nurses is spending time with patients and their families (Chronister et al., 2021). With this in mind, it is apparent that nurses can provide social support to children with chronic mental illness in different ways, such as coaching, interacting, and counseling the patient.

Effectiveness of personal relationship-based social support

Naturally, human beings are social beings, and as a result of this, our relationship with other people significantly impacts our mental and physical well-being. Children with chronic mental illness can benefit differently from strong personal relationships or social connections. For example, they can interact socially with friends and family to reduce loneliness. This can increase the overall sense of contentment and reduce the risk of depression and antisocial behavior. Arango et al. (2018) suggest that social connection can help an individual to improve their self-esteem and reduce the rate of anxiety. Ma et al. (2020) suggest that social connection with friends and family members can help a patient with mental illness to establish a sense of self-worth and feel loved. Overall strong social connections with friends and family can better deal with their feelings of anxiety, depression, and loneliness and recover.

References

Chronister, J., Fitzgerald, S., & Chou, C. C. (2021). The meaning of social support for persons with serious mental illness: A family member perspective. Rehabilitation Psychology, 66(1), 87.

Lundström, S., Jormfeldt, H., Hedman Ahlström, B., & Skärsäter, I. (2020). Mental health nurses’ experience of physical health care and health promotion initiatives for people with severe mental illness. International journal of mental health nursing, 29(2), 244- 253.

Ma, R., Mann, F., Wang, J., Lloyd-Evans, B., Terhune, J., Al-Shihabi, A., & Johnson, S. (2020). The effectiveness of interventions for reducing subjective and objective social isolation among people with mental health problems: a systematic review. Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 55(7), 839-876.

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Analyze the potential effectiveness resulting from professional or nurse-provided social support versus enhancement

of social support provided by personal relationships and social networks for parents of children with chronic mental illness.