History of Mental Health Counselor

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History & Development of Mental Health Counseling Jonnathan A. Estrada Coun: 5223 Introduction to Mental Health Counseling October 25, 2013 572 SW Chesterfield Circle Lake City, FL 32024 Telephone: 386-344-4555 Email: jonny_830@yahoo.com Professor: Dr. Linwood Small The history and development of clinical mental health counseling has contributed to the current philosophical foundations of counseling (promoting wellness, facilitating prevention, and using a developmental approach to working with clients) as well as contributing to the development of educational standards, licensing and credentialing, and our role within our communities (Smith & Robinson, 2003). This paper will present an a elaborate analysis of how exactly the how the development of and the history of counseling has contributed to the philosophical foundations of counseling (promoting wellness, facilitating prevention, and using a developmental approach to working with clients) in the field of mental health counseling. Furthermore this paper will also demonstrate the continuous contributions to the development of educational standards, licensing and credentialing, and our role within our communities. Clinical mental health counseling’s influence of the current philosophical foundations of counseling According to the work of Smith and Robinson (2003), there are several significant events in the very history of mental health care that have directly and directly contributed to the development of mental health counseling, a specialty within the counseling as a profession. A profession in this case, is defined by Myers and Sweeney (2007) as a specific body of knowledge that is characterized by a professional
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