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.
Also an example of the a prison system and the agency carrying out its day to day duties and the regulatory authority the agency has concerning prison health care. Along with the authorization for employees working in prison hospitals and the effect that this has on the overall health care in prisons. PHS correctional health care they are the first private company to specialize in prison health care. They were “Founded in nineteen seventy-eight, PHS is a team of more than three thousand and eight hundred caring professionals providing high-quality, cost-effective patient care in the challenging correctional environment. Their depth of experience and proven results-driven practices provide exceptional care in hundreds of jails, prisons and juvenile facilities nationwide.” PHS correctional health care (2011).
Communication skills, family centred care and compassion are necessary attributes for a nurse to have, in order to develop and maintain therapeutic relationships with pediatric clients. Nursing pediatric patients while having many similarities to nursing those of other age groups brings unique challenges due to the young age of the person. Nursing babies and children takes a special kind of nurse. One who is sensitive to the needs of the whole family. Skills in how to communicate effectively with both the pediatric patient and their parents are important for a nurse to foster to maintain good therapeutic relationships.
With the years’ experience of working with troubled children, Rogers was influenced in constructing his client-centred approach by the post-freudian psychotherapeutic practice of Otto Rank. In 1940 Rogers became a professor of clinical psychology at Ohio State University; where he wrote his second book “Counselling and Psychotherapy” in 1942. In his book Rogers suggested that the client, by establishing a relationship with an understanding, accepting therapist can resolve and gain the insight necessary to restructure their life. In 1945 Rogers had set up a counselling centre at the University of Chicago where they conduct studies to determine the effectiveness of his methods.
I currently see patients in our Kernicterus and BIND Clinic in the Division of Child Neurology, Department of Neurology, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, Virginia. The Kernicterus Clinic is a full-service consultative clinic. We make and coordinate referrals. You may be seen in consultation with recommendations for treatment to be carried out locally, or receive ongoing care at our clinic. • Diagnosis - New patients fill out a questionnaire, and then undergo a carefully history-taking, physical and neurological examination.
A Psychiatrist is someone who may diagnose and support young children with mental health problems and will work along staff to support the individual child. Sometimes a physiotherapist may be involved if the child has difficulty controlling their movements e.g. a child with cerebral palsy. All of these help with the child’s development supporting both parents and children also at the pre-school and at
The therapeutic role of play in hospital Playing is a very important part of development for all children. For a child spending time in hospital or recovering from illness this can play a very important role in helping the child to come to terms with what is going to happen to them and help them make sense of what they are going through. Through play children may express emotions that they may find hard to in other ways. By pretending, for example, a dolly is a child in hospital going through similar experiences to the child, you can show the child what may happen and explain that dolly will get better after the doctors operate and fix the dolly. If the child needs bed baths, this can be distressing; through letting them give their dolly a bed bath in play you can talk through what the dolly may be feeling and why the dolly shouldn’t be scared.
?Paediatrician:-Takes care of a child's medical needs. Social Worker:- Provide support to vulnerable children and families. Outreach Service:- Visit settings to assess children on whether they will be in need of additional learning support in school or whether they will attend mainstream school or not. L3 CYPW Development Task 11 To meet the needs of individual children, the environment can be adapted by •Having knowledgable and trained staff. •Wheelchair access such as ramps, wider doors, space between furniture and accessible toilets.
Re-evaluate and record the patient care needs of the acutely ill and/or chronically ill at each home visit and obtain necessary revisions from the patient’s physician as needed. Communicate with and regularly update the patient and/or family regarding his/her plan of care. Provide skilled nursing services, treatments and procedures, and administer medications as appropriate for the patient’s care and safety, in compliance with productivity standards. Maintain a safe therapeutic environment for the patient. Coordinate discharge planning and prepare discharge summaries and instructions.
The National Service framework for mental health (NSF 1999) standard 4 states that clients with severe mental illness should have access to a range of effective mental health services they need and prompt as well as effective help if a crisis does occurs. The NSF (DOH 1999) also notes that there are over 4000 deaths