Kimba Mental Health Case Study

Introduction I am a social worker working for a non-government organisation and I am working in a rural town with a population of around 10,000-14,000. This rural town is five hours away from the closest city. For the purpose of this assignment we are going to go by this rural town as Kimba. In recent years the mental health status among families, individuals and communities in rural environments has been a main focus of the media and the government as it has had a great impact on those living in rural communities. Some issues that have impacted the mental health among the individuals in rural communities are increased debt, reduced income, land degradation, natural disasters together and economic stringency (Bay & Maidment 2012, p. 75). In rural cities like Kimba there are difficulties when trying to overcome these mental health issues as they lack resources that the cities have. These resources that are missing from rural towns include lack of organisations, lack of knowledege, lack of skills and lack of services available. The lack of resources will be further outlined throughout the paper.
Mental health issues in the rural community
Mental health issues in rural communities like Kimba are most commonly seen caused …show more content…
I have done this as I am based in the heart of Kimba therefore all residents are either a walk away and if not luckily enough there is a bus that runs through the town which makes it easy for clients to access me. In-reach services will provide cost saving and the cost savings can go to providing more resources for my clients. Wilson (2002) discovered that in-reach services are more appropriate in larger towns or in more compact areas with higher