The crucial role of case management, social services, case workers, counselors and medical healthcare workers all play a crucial role in helping an individual with a psychiatric disability. In the YouTube video provided, (http://youtu.be/DFIDmuevXQQ), it explains how the Mental Health Court was originally constructed in 1999 and the purpose in providing services for the mentally ill clients. By conducting a separate court system for people suffering with mental illnesses, the judicial system is able to help mentally ill people seek the mental health treatment they need. These therapeutic methods include creating a treatment plan, providing resources to help these clients, as well as providing medication and therapy so that they are better able to be combined back into normal society and provide a safer community. In helping these clients in the mental health court system we are able to conserve government funding by reducing the process of unnecessary incarceration.
The first program is the Juvenile Justice Diversion Program (JJDP). This program is a court alternative diversion program that is in partnership with the Cook County State’s Attorney and Probation Screeners. This program allows youth’s with a chance to participate in various positive and constructive programs that integrate them into educational development, leadership development, and community service opportunities that are located in their own community. The second juvenile program that is offered is the Juvenile Justice Imitative. The Juvenile Justice Initiative does not only work and support youth’s that have been involved with the system, but also with those who are at risk of being involved with the system.
By establishing differences between psychiatry and psychology,how counselling and psychotherapy emerged from these disciplines becomes clearer.Psychiatry relates to the process of healing the mind through medical intervention.Psychology has its roots within academic study and research of human and animal perception.Psychoanalysis is ‘interested in exploration of the unconscious mind in order to cure’. [psychoanalysis-techniques]From Freud,,the seeds of contemporary counselling and psychotherapy practice were sown.The journey to it’s current position is neither rigid or fixed within it’s application of ideas.Perhaps becoming more apparent by viewing current practice as originating from the same tree root but realizing itself as different branches inevitably intertwining and overlapping.The position of many of the originators of psychotherapeutic theories were within psychology Nelson-Jones[2006]and their ideas permeated through to counselling and psychotherapy and discussed as follows: From my research I established the view that there are three main schools of thought.The psychodynamic;the humanistic-existential and the cognitive-behavioural schools.For the
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.
D. Rehabilitation Many youth receive rehabilitative services to become productive upon release. Rehabilitation is defined as the restoration of someone to a useful place in society. The end result is to not return to crime. Analysis The family situation has been shown to have an impact on whether a juvenile is likely to offend. Peer influence has also been identified as an important factor for juvenile offenders.
These treatment programs will help get juvenile offenders back on the right track towards a positive lifestyle. There are various types of community-based treatment options for delinquent youths to utilize. These options would include probation, intense supervision, house arrest and electronic monitoring. While on probation a juvenile offender is under standard supervision of a probation officer. The
In 2006 she began teaching courses in medical sociology, Introduction of the Sociology of Selfhood and Identity, Qualitative Methods and a senior seminar on contemporary therapeutic cultures at the Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. What constitutes well being and how social practices produce experiences of healing are the core themes in her research. She is particularly interested in health practices outside biomedicine
What services are available for children and young people and their families in your local area? Temporary/Permanent Care: The popular form of temporary or permanent care would be a foster home. They are different types of temporary and permanent care but most children and young people are put into a foster home so that they can be fostered by families. Some children are placed into a foster home for a short period of time as it is temporary but then there are some children that are there permanently which can be from 3 weeks to 2 years or maybe more. In certain situations putting a child or a young person in a foster home would be an advantage to some families if they are having really bad problems.
(2011, p.22) had to evaluate the effects of implementing the Advancing Research and Clinical Practice through cross collaboration (ARCC) model. It was aimed at addressing the effects on nurses and the outcomes and its impact a community setting. To facilitate the study, a 2-group of controlled and randomized sample was used for the design. Nurse participants were recruited from Queens, the Bronx and Manhattan. The findings indicated the effectiveness of ARCC model incorporating the EBP in home healthcare settings and mentoring nurse beliefs about EBP and its implementation (Levin at al., 2011, p.21).
“From the past of Clinical Mental Health” “From the past of Clinical Mental Health” In the next pages the reader is going learn about the history of clinical mental health counseling as to how the past has changed the present with philosophical foundations, educational standards, licensing, and credentialing with the communities. The reader will have a greater understanding of the past to the present with how society and counselors raised the bar for care givers of mental health. One may think that we have not come far in the last 100 years in counseling but that is far from the truth. The hope that the writer can made it clear that so after reading this paper the reader has a greater knowledge of the past to the present of counseling.