What other services (social and health) might be needed by the mentally ill? •What are three governmental sources that pay for mental health care? What populations are covered by these sources? •What are some of the challenges to using a managed care approach in mental health care? How does a managed care model of mental health care reduce health care spending?
More detailed studies are important to help answer the effectiveness of DTC to rehabilitate better than incarceration. This research will improve upon the other studies by attempting to solve their limitations. The idea of a third unknown variable resulting in a successful rehabilitation will be answered by continually surveying the 100 participants to the reason for their success. The limitation of not being made aware of an out of state arrest could be monitored by yearly checkups of the participants. The implication of proving that DTCs can better rehabilitate offenders than correctional facilities would revolutionize the judicial response to drug related crimes.
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.
Prisoners with Special Needs * The purpose of this paper is to discuss and understand prisoners with special needs within our corrections system. This paper will examine how special needs, mentally ill, and substance-abusing prisoners affect the jail and prison systems at the state and federal levels. Also, an analysis of what could happen if these prisoners were not cared for properly will be given. Additionally this paper will provide insight to a selected prison special offender population and show research of a program aimed to assist or care for that population. The characteristics of the program will be given, as well as how the program has affected the special needs offender population in that prison.
The program or study that I mentioned above about the specialty agencies can be a great place to start. What if those specialty agencies are manned by social workers who specialize in treating and diagnosing mental illness? Instead of letting probation/parole officers monitor these individuals, let the social worker whose trained in the mental health field managed they’re care. In the NASW Code of Ethics 1.15 Interruption of Services it states; Social workers should make reasonable efforts to ensure continuity of services in the event that services are interrupted by factors such as unavailability, relocation, illness disability or death. As the person is being released into society that is where the services are severed, we as social workers can implement programs to pick up the services after their release from prison and/or jails.
Skills and Characteristics of Mental Health Human Services Workers Patrick Pearson/ BSHS 471/Mental Health and Crisis Intervention Practices August 12, 2013 Joan Rachmel, MRC, CRC University of Phoenix Skills and Characteristics of Mental Health Human Services Workers As the author has communicated and firmly established during the first two weeks of this course, human services workers are among some of the hardest working people in show business. No wait that is James Brown. Actually it is true, human services workers are among some of the hardest working professionals in America and abroad and it is frightening to imagine this country and the world without the services they provide. Their clients include abused women and children, the drug and alcohol-addicted and many with learning and mental health disabilities, just to name a few. It seems their work is never done as the author can attest to first hand, as he lives with one of these phenomenal people who spend their workdays taking care of people and making sure everyone is fine.
Cognitive disorders: Are a category of mental health disorders that primary affect learning,memory, perception, and problem solving and include; amnesia, dementia and delirium. 1.2. Explain the key strengths and limitations of the psychiatric classification system. Strengths of Psychiatric Classification and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders include that it provides a well designed standard, and comprehensive diagnostic tool for clinicians and it allows physicians to look at the complete psychological make-up of a person. 1.3.
As a result of, the recent recession the group hardest hit were youth, the elderly, indigenous people, the disabled, and women (Social trends and emerging challenges and their impact on public health n.d.). It is social problems such as this that demands the most attention, from our public personnel. If problems such as this are going to be dealt with, by either a private or public agency, or the combination of both of these, there will be a need to hire extra staff, more employable hours will be needed, and the finances to do it (Schottland,
They struggle to make social connections and often cannot keep the ones they do make. For the seriously mentally ill, real freedom is hard to find. While many believe the policy of deinstitutionalization was a good thing, for the seriously mentally ill patient who needs constant care and daily therapy, the loss of that resource is tragic. A better understanding of how to divert mentally ill people who commit crimes away from prison is needed. Until then the cycle of prison to homeless to prison or worse will continue and the mentally ill will be doomed to a tragic life of never finding
Special Needs Offenders Community Corrections Programs February 2012 Americas over populated prison systems have left many offenders, including special needs offenders, shuffling their way through community sanction programs. Special populations are composed of women, sex offenders, substance abusers, offenders with communicable diseases, mentally ill offenders, and offenders suffering from mental retardation ( Cappella University, 2011). Special needs offenders require proper classification and specialized treatment efforts to promote successful rehabilitation. Unfortunately, this scenario often times fails to transpire. Due to the unique characteristics all six categories of special needs offenders possess, every criminal