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.
Task A Supervision Notes As an experienced social care worker you have been asked to mentor a new social care worker. You plan to use a supervision session to explain about the duty of care and how this helps to protect individuals from harm and abuse. Prepare a set of notes to help you in this supervision session. In the notes, you must include an explanation of: Ai What is meant by the term “duty of care” It is a legal obligation to provide care and support to vulnerable adults. The social care worker must do everything they can to keep the service users safe from harm, injury and abuse.
Research on Counselor and Client Safety COUN5252- Crisis Assessment and Intervention Abstract Within a therapeutic relationship, both counselor and client safety are crucial to success. Although not a priority in the past, mental health counselors should receive safety training within their counselor education program. Counselors can be targets to both verbal and physical threats. Counselors must do their best to evaluate client safety in crisis situations. 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.
The focus of training tends to be on the staff group delivering the services, to ensure that all recommendations and standards are achieved. p.d.p is important for my career, increases my employability, and helps me progress and gain promotion within my work place. As a senior member of staff, I am responsible for others: Staff, residents, visitors, etc so it is paramount that I am knowledgeable in all areas of management, Also is important for me to ensure that staff recive the training to ensure that they are aware of and follow, the current health & social care standards, legislation, and guidelines for good practice. .This will ensure a good work force are following all the same standadrs to ensure that best practices are met and a high quality of care is given to the clients, I ensure the team of staff i supervise have regular traing some that is refresher training on a yearly basisfoe example manual handling/administration of medication and the medication error policy and procedure this is one i ensure ,as i dont want any medication error but if this was to hapen, as we are only human i want to stress the importance of reporting and what the out comes are if you dont report/safe guarding which is in house and deliverd by yearly trained D.A.P.A(DESIGNATED ADULT PROTECTUON .) /health and safty training and ensure my team have read or
Your credential(s) requires you to continue your learning and skill developments to maintain your credential(s). When you have credential(s) it gives you professional recognition and credibility, professional achievement, career advancements, professional opportunities, personal accomplishment as well as higher pay. Certification also improves quality and safety. It gives patients a start on how they can expect their level of care that they will receive from your healthcare facility. What is the importance of becoming a nationally credentialed medical assistant?
Unit 502: Promote Professional Development Unit code: SHC 52 Be able to prioritise goals and targets for own professional development SHC 52/2.1 Evaluate own knowledge and performance against standards and benchmarks The expected standards and benchmarks include: The Essential Standards for quality and safety which states you can expect to be cared for by qualified staff: • Your health and welfare needs are met by staff whom are properly qualified. • You will be looked after by staff whom are well managed and have the chance to develop and improve their skills. National Occupational Standards (NOS) describe best practice by bringing together skills, knowledge and values. National Occupational Standards are valuable tools to be used as benchmarks for qualifications as well as for defining roles at work, staff recruitment, supervision and appraisal. Code of Practice for Social Care Workers Social care workers must: be accountable for the quality of their work and take responsibility for maintaining and improving their knowledge and skills.
In reviewing the website ACA website, www.counseling.org, I was able to read what their mission and motivations are. The mission of the American Counseling Association is to enhance the quality of life in society by promoting the development of professional counselors, advancing the counseling profession, and using the profession and practice of counseling to promote respect for human dignity and diversity. As a professional mental health counselor it lists The ACA Code of Ethics and the purpose of these codes, and what each section involves. The ACA Code of Ethics is extremely important to safeguard not only the clients we serve but ourselves as professionals. Section C discusses professional responsibility.
Personal Identity Paper Chrystal Langston COUN5004-Survey of Research in Human Development for Professional Counselors Capella University October 25, 2014 Key Philosophies of the Counseling Profession Counseling is a support process in which a professional counselor assists clients in different areas to promote wellness, mental health, and educational and career goals. The key philosophies of the counseling profession include wellness, resilience and prevention. Wellness pertains to the state of complete physical, mental and social well-being. It is an active process of being aware of and making healthy choices that result in positive life-style choices. Additionally, the counseling philosophy also focuses on resilience.
Collaborate and connect existing mental health resources for students and staff at Trent University. 4. Promote individual safety and an inclusive community at Trent University The Resources The following partners, stakeholders, and organizations will be valuable resources to our project and in attaining our goals. Support Trent-Fleming School of Nursing The School of Nursing (SON) has played a major role in initiating this project due to the gaps that they identified on campus with regards to lack of resources for both students and staff. This partnership will enable us to collaborate with the administrators of Trent University in overcoming any issues we may have with distribution of the mobile resource.
Assignment 418 Task A: team brief What is Coaching? The term coaching typically refers to methods of helping others to improve, develop, learn new skills, find personal success, and achieve aims and to manage life change and personal challenges. Coaching is a form of training or teaching, normally involving one-to-one support (a coach and a learner or 'coachee'), aimed at helping a person improve, often in a very practical sense. (www.businessballs.com/coahing.htm ; 2015) | | | What is Coaching? The term coaching typically refers to methods of helping others to improve, develop, learn new skills, find personal success, and achieve aims and to manage life change and personal challenges.