Self-harm, suicide and intimate partner violence are examples in which a counselor should be actively assessing levels of safety and risk of a client. When it comes to members of one’s community’s safety being at risk, the community mental health workers and law officials approaches to mentally disabled members should be evaluated. Counselor Safety In the article, A Survey of Safety Training in Rehabilitation Counselor Education Programs by Davis, Schultz, Anderson, and Bartley (2009), the article discusses the importance of safety training including counselor competence in identifying and responding to threatening incidents, communication, critical incident debriefing, and prevention, as well as conflict and lifestyle management. The authors express the importance of infusing safety topics into counselor education programs. An important concern in the counseling and social work field is the counselor or social worker being a target of violence.
The evaluation on The Encyclopedia of Drug Abuse gave me a better understanding of stress and how it effects people. My evaluation on The American Journal of Psychiatry I found very interesting it had thousands of articles on mental illness and substance abuse. If I ever need to do any more research on mental illness or substance abuse I would definitely go back to this source. My third source was an article called Dissociation, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Substance Abuse. It was a valuable source because it gave me insight into the research that has been done on proving mental illness and substance abuse co-occur.
Running head: The Role and Life of a Mental Health Counselor The Role and Life of a Mental Health Counselor Mental health counselors provide counseling services for clients that suffer from personal issues (e.g. depression, substance abuse). Mental health counselors are trained to provide psychotherapy, psychological assessments, and diagnosis disorders of a specified population of clients in an individual or group setting, by helping them cope with mental and emotional problems (Erford, 2010). Counselors in the mental health profession are expected to maintain the confidentiality of records relating to the client’s treatment. Mental health professionals practice active listening and encourage the client to express their feelings.
Freud’s concept of psychoanalysis has helped many understand the importance of speaking to a therapist about his or her problems and concerns. Rogers’s person-centered theory has allowed therapists and counselors to understand individuals are unique and an individual’s development goes beyond early childhood. Psychology calls Freud one of the most famous and influential figures of controversial thinkers of the twentieth century (Grünbaum, 2007). Sigmund Freud’s work was influential to more people than he realized it would be. For more than 100 years, his work has been researched, reviewed, tested, and proven.
The structure of the corrections is designed so that they inmates are doing the same thing at the same time every day. A case manager is assigned to clients to help them focus on why it is that they are in the situation they are in. these case managers work differently than the ones for the community. These case managers are in place to help make treatment plans for the inmates, work with the corrections staff and even the family members of the client to come up with the best approach to dealing with the clients issues. There are also a lot of services in the corrections that may help a client achieve completion of their program.
Cognitive disorders: Are a category of mental health disorders that primary affect learning,memory, perception, and problem solving and include; amnesia, dementia and delirium. 1.2. Explain the key strengths and limitations of the psychiatric classification system. Strengths of Psychiatric Classification and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders include that it provides a well designed standard, and comprehensive diagnostic tool for clinicians and it allows physicians to look at the complete psychological make-up of a person. 1.3.
During my research i found that the services provided by mental health courts are the following: Specialized training of criminal justice personnel to identify and address the unique needs of offenders who are mentally ill or intellectually disabled. Voluntary outpatient or inpatient mental health treatment, in the least restrictive manner appropriate as determined by the court, that carries with it the possibility of dismissal of charges or reduced sentencing on successful completion of treatment. Centralized case management involving the consolidation of cases that involve mentally ill or mentally disabled defendants (including probation violations) and the coordination of all mental health treatment plans and social services, including life skills training, placement, health care, and relapse prevention for each
A Mental Health Social Worker is required to understand ideas and information spoken including expression and communication of ideas to others. Mental Health Social Workers work with a variety of population and need to be able to clearly and effectively convey ideas as well as interpret and understand a person’s ideas and information communicated through words. A Mental Health Social Worker also must be able to use deductive and inductive reasoning to apply general rules and combine pieces of information to form conclusions and produce logical answers. Occupation requirements are the work activities, and context of the position within the organization. For example, Mental Health Social Workers work with the public caring and assisting others.
Rehabilitation programs are programs that help the felons while they are prison. There are different types of rehabilitation programs for different types of problems. Whether the person has a drug problem or other problems there is programs that are in place to take care of each individual situation. The felon that gets the help while in prison does not always continue on the right path after his/her release from prison, but any help given could change a person’s
Starting in the 1970s, new patterns of treatment emerged that focused on offenders becoming more self-aware and teaching them to control their high-risk impulses. Current approaches to treating sex offenders include: Cognitive behavioral Counselors and therapists work toward changing sex offenders thoughts and patterns of arousal. Psycho educational Sex offenders often don't realize the impact of their behaviors on non-consenting adults and children. Offenders are made more aware of their responsibility for the acts they commit, and focus is placed on the offender's concern for his or her victim. Pharmacological Medication is used to reduce sexual arousal.