Mental health professionals practice active listening and encourage the client to express their feelings. Mental health counselors develop and implement treatment plans based on the client’s physical or mental condition. Client information is collected through interviews, observations or tests which guide counselors in the development of therapeutic information strategies that will help clients deal with their problems by targeting at-risk behaviors which promotes optimum mental and emotional well-being of the client (Erford, 2010). Over the past decade organizations have come to the realization that mental health professionals need to become competent in cross cultural interactions. Competent multicultural mental health professionals play a key role in success of mental health counseling interventions (Connerley & Pederson, 2005).
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 Meaning centered approach also add insight into nature of addiction. Young, M., DeLorenzi, L., & Cunningham, L., (2011). Using Meditation in Addiction Counseling. Journal of addition & offender counseling, 32: 58-71. The authors, Department of Education and Human Serevices , University of Central Florida, completed a study on how meditation reduces stress and that counselor have use this as a new wave to incorporate meditation as a part of their program.
The key philosophies of the counseling profession consist of wellness. “Wellness is conceptualized as the paradigm for counseling provides strength-based strategies for assessing clients, conceptualizing issues developmentally, and planning interventions to remediate dysfunction and optimize growth. Wellness counseling models have stimulated significant research that helps to form the evidence base for practice in the counseling field. The development of these models is explained, results of studies using the models are reviewed, and implications for research needed to further inform clinical practice and advocacy efforts are discussed.” Professional counselors are encouraged to use wellness as a positive state of well-being through developmental, preventive, and wellness-enhancing interventions. These interventions are based in a philosophy of care, ethical practice requires the use of evidence-based techniques.
Yet from early childhood until death, mental health is the springboard of thinking and communication skills, learning, emotional growth, resilience, and self-esteem. These are the ingredients of each individual’s successful contribution to the community and society (Mayer et al, 2000 and Keyes, 2002). Within this essay I will be referring to ‘Hannah’, a service user I met as a student nurse on placement. I was privileged to
1, 1, 13-23. Greater Manchester AHP/HCS Life Long Learning Project Team. Hand out 3 Models of reflection. Available URL http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:Ta_9a2Ad4FUJ:www.bolton.nhs.uk/SHA/LLL/resources/reflective/Framework%2520for %2520Reflection.doc+Johns+Model+of+Structure+Reflection&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=uk th Accessed 11 January 2008 Hilliard C (2006) Using structured reflection on a critical incident to develop a professional portfolio. Nursing standard 21 (2) 35-40 Johns C (1995) Framing learning through reflection within Carper’s fundamental ways of knowing in nursing.
4-mat Review: Worthington Hope-Focused Marriage Counseling: A Guide to Brief Therapy ___________________ A Paper Presented to Dr. Eric Scalise Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary ___________________ In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Course PACO 603 Premarital and Marital Counseling ___________________ by Peter Heikkinen February 24, 2013 Worthington, Everett L. Jr. Hope-Focused Marriage Counseling: A Guide to Brief Therapy Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press. 2005. CONTENTS OF BOOK 1. BRIEF MARITAL COUNSELING…………………..…………………………………..…17 2. BIRD’S EYE VIEW OF HOPE-FOCUSED MARRIAGE COUNSELING ……………….28 3.
Psychotherapeutic Theories and Models (CPc1) Assignment 2 Paul Carey Student No: 1241-13 Abstract In this assignment I will explore the theories of Existentialism and Narrative therapy, giving an overview of the main elements, including examples of potential weaknesses or limitations that may occur in their clinical use. I will then discuss and explore the ways the theories links with the case study of John, using examples from Johns presenting story to explore a clinical application. Theoretical discussion Existentialism is a philosophical approach to therapy (Corey, 2009a), where the therapist practically applies this approach to a relevant discussion and thinking about a client’s life (Van Deurzen & Adams, 2011). It is not so much a therapy about individual problems, as it is a therapy on the problem of life, or living, as applied to the clients own sense of self in the world (Van Deurzen & Adams, 2011). Philosophers who laid the foundation for the approach gave focus to the existential or ontological dimension of our existence (Cohn, 1997).
Counseling is grounded in Developmental Theory and the counseling profession had its etiologic underpinnings in prevention and wellness. The counselor collects data to assess the client’s mental, emotional and/or behavioral problems or behavioral disorders to help clients adapt effectively with the concerns presented. Mental Health Counselors are concerned about the client’s environment with a more global view than other professionals, as well as a concern that goes beyond treating dysfunction or pathology and dealing with the clients’ self-awareness, personal growth, and wellness. Mental Health Counselors increasingly utilize a psycho-educational model for counseling clients, in conjunction with the more traditional medical/illness model for assessment and diagnosis. One day, I intend on advocating, planning, and teaching group therapy sessions that are based on post traumatic stress.
January 27, 2012 IMPLICATIONS FOR COUNSELORS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS Chapter 2, pages 34-35 This portion of the chapter discusses the close connection between counselors and psychologists. I found an interesting article about the subject in the Society of Counseling Psychology Division 17 web page. Title: Counseling vs. Clinical, What is the difference between a clinical psychologist and a counseling psychologist? In this article, Patricia R. Roger and Gerald Stone, provide a detailed explanation of the connection and differences between a counselor and a psychologist. According to the article, psychotherapy and counseling are terms that are often used interchangeable.