This will help me to gain employment in numerous state and federal level agencies. These fields consist of law enforcement agents and security officers, probation officers, correctional officers, game wardens, and detective work. I have learned that, in general, professional health service workers must acquire special characteristics in order to be successful and appropriately help those individuals that have mental health illnesses. I am learning to improve better analytical and investigation abilities as well as critical thinking, which are helping to make me stronger. Some of my characteristics include dependability because my employers as well as the mental health clients need to be able to
Contemporary Issue in Psychology: Final Project Sharee S. Terry PS115-24 Contemporary Issue in Psychology: Final Project Contemporary issues in psychology began with the study of human behaviors. We observed and discussed waiting behaviors in common areas thru out our society. We gained knowledge by conducting research on waiting behaviors in common areas we frequent as individuals. We explored the influence of stress on our daily lives and its healthy and unhealthy effects on our career, personal life and studies. Our own different and individual strategies for managing stress were discussed as well as how we learned these stress managing strategies.
These two models are proposed for measurement the victim’s recuperation and adaptive behavior (HI, E.1978). Client-centered approach and existential interventions are design to reduce and minimize symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and reduce psychological distress. Rape trauma is also targeted by these therapies through counseling. It is the goal to explain how these two approaches can change and improve the client’s life. Also, the goal is to help to understand which approach might suit best the client depending on their needs and specific situations.
Treatment planning provides a road map for the counseling process (Erford, 2010). Assessment and diagnosis play the most important role in case conceptualization and treatment planning because it allows the professional counselor to gain a better understanding about the client’s issues and needs. Professional counselors’ assessment involves intake interviews, test and inventories, behavioral observations and relevant information from other sources (Barlow & Durand, 2003; Nystul, 2006). According to Erford (2010) the assessment process helps the professional counselor put together a diagnosis and set up a treatment plan. Professional counselors also need to consider how issues such as race, ethnicity, religious beliefs, socioeconomic status, family structure, trauma, and sexual and gender orientation affect a client’s presenting concerns and what impact these variables have on the acceptability of , and the access to, counseling (Erford, 2010).
A P Assignment #1 09/01/2013 1. Advocacy as a mental health counselor means to become an agent of support and social change through the lives of my client, but also through the world around me as a professional. Advocacy in mental health counseling profession is to fight for equality, empowerment, and awareness both in clients and through community. Also, self-advocacy should be an important role that I as a mental health counselor should practice in my profession. By promoting self-advocacy it will help clients to effectively communicate, convey, negotiate and defend their own interest and desires.
Psychopharmacology and the Mental Health Counselor Knowledge of psychopharmacology is essential for counselors because ethical guidelines require counselors to remain current on scientific and professional information in their realm of practice. There has been a significant increase of individuals being prescribed psychotropic medication especially children. King and Anderson (2004) suggest that current research of the brain indicates that psychotherapy along with psychotropic medication is more effective than psychological treatment alone. Although counselors are not permitted to prescribe medication, recent finding displays the need for counselors to have knowledge on current psychotropic medications, their uses, and more importantly side effects. Although one ethical limitation of a counselor is that they are not able to prescribe medication, the counselor still plays a major role in the clients overall treatment, to include medication.
Philosophy of Counseling Counseling is a professional relationship that empowers diverse individuals, families, and groups to accomplish mental health, wellness, education, and career goals. (ACA, 2010) Professional counseling is the application of mental health, psychological, or human development principles through cognitive, affective, behavioral, or systemic intervention strategies that address wellness, personal growth, or career development, as well as pathology and the primary purpose of counseling is to empower the client to deal adequately with life situations, reduce stress, experience personal growth, and make well-informed, rational decisions. (U.S. Dept. of Human Services, Mental Health, United States, 2002) As a counselor, I want to assist my clients in overcoming their problem(s) and provide them with the problem solving tools to conquer any future problems they may encounter. During this time, we will set short-term, long-term goals, and process goal to give us the direction of counseling and the purpose.
Through this identification, the reader will attain a greater understanding of the requirements needed for competent mental health counseling. Role of Researcher Mental health counselors aside from specializations must be informed about the people whom they work for. Understanding the characteristics of their clientele, counselors seek to understand interests, attitudes, personalities and intelligent quotients (Sherpis, et.al., 2010). One method used to attain reliable and accurate data can be demonstrated through research within these areas. Variables within data both quantitative and qualitative must be approached from an unbiased perspective aimed at seeking relevancy to these clients.
Mental Health Counseling: History and Development Laura Ritchason COUN 5223 Mental Health Counseling: History and Development Mental health counselors accept a developmental perspective in that individuals grow and change throughout their lifetime. Therefore the understanding of the principles of human development, psychology, mental health and change theories offers essential serving relationships with individuals from diverse cultures in order to provide assessments, diagnosis, treatment through cognitive, affective, behavioral and systemic strategies in order to facilitate change. Mental health counseling had not evolved overnight as it might appear but history will show us when and how clinical mental health developed and the contribution
“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.