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.
4.4 That the division conducts pre-sentence investigations on all offenders convicted of a felony that falls in the Intermediate/Active sentencing grid. Information provided in pre-sentence investigation reports is invaluable to the court, prosecutors, defense counsel and division staff. Further, that division provides a specific sentencing recommendation in each presentence report. This information will assist the division in their efforts to concentrate on quality contacts rather than the quantity of contacts. This will also facilitate the division’s migration from a pure containment model to an out-come based supervision model.
Reilly and Shopshire carried out a 12-week uncontrolled study, which demonstrated a decreased level of anger and an increase in anger control while Gerlock reported the effectiveness of anger management decreasing in a group of Pos -traumatic Stress disorder patients with high predominance rates of drug and alcohol problems; Though there are no data showing the effectiveness of anger management on the urge to use the substance. Participants in the study came from a drug rehabilitation center that admits clients with rigorous problems such as frequent relapses, previous poor treatment responses etc. The center also offers intense residential treatment to clients suffering from alcohol and other drug addiction problems. Individual therapist referred up to Forty-three participants based on personal opinion for the study, which were all random sampling; anger and forgiveness level scores eliminated three out of the original forty-three participants. The article also showed different levels of potential participants with detailed results.
As shown in the film, the hospital setting where the focus is on treatment, support and help, proved to be the most beneficial. most of the correction guards, except at maximum security prisons, do not know how to deal with these individuals. the mentally ill who committed only minor crimes, such as snatching of a purse as seen of the film end up being placed in maximum security prisons where they are left in confinement all day potentially making their mental disease worse. Funding, support, and organization is the only way that mentally ill individuals can receive the help they
It came back a year later that only 60% of these children that were treated were successful, while the rest failed, but it is stated that this medication is not for everyone and does have severe side effects. Some of the side effects are that of more sleep for the medicated, where as the unmediated can get less sleep. With Ritalin a child can become more depressed, but the pro would be the ability to focus more in school. In my personal opinion, you can medicate a child to death, but you need to understand the cause of the behavioral problem, before you can remove the cause. Just proving a child with medicine but not really knowing for what is not the answer.
SUD sometimes form as a way of coping with co-occurring disorders; “statistics show that nearly half of all people with a severe mental disorder are affected by substance abuse, and 29% of all people diagnosed as mental ill abuse either alcohol or drugs. Without proper diagnosis and treatment, mental health issues can be painful and difficult to cope with, which is why many people with mental health problems use substances to feel better” (Casa Plamera, 2009). Some co-occurring disorders are sometimes overlooked because some of the symptoms of mental disorders resemble the symptoms of substance abuse, such as: depression, anxiety, insomnia, paranoia, visual and auditory hallucinations, mania and violent behavior (Casa Plamera,
The main mental disorders in American Indian populations deal with substance abuse (Urban Indian Health Commission). American Indians have also been known to seek more help than the general population, but only when the use of traditional healing is involved (Beals,
The average length of stay at St. Elizabeth’s is eight years. Some individuals remain confined for decades, if not for their entire lives (Lally).” Connecting to my thesis, the convicts are all at different levels of their mental illnesses. One might not have to be in the facility as long as another might. The good thing is that there are mental institutions that help them. If a person with a mental illness is found guilty and but the test results show that they are in a sane mental state, there could be a problem.
Unfortunately the diagnosis is not most of the time effective before doctors start the treatments. Let us notify that the number of kids under medication is growing and medications given to them are primary used for adults. If we follow the statistics of Judith Warner after her research the number is about 5 to 20 percent of kids under psychotic medications. In 2002, other statistics showed that two million of pediatric prescriptions were written for Paxil and Ritalin that are originally used for adults. According to a medico health solution analysis of customer data, the use of behavioral medication for children topped all the areas of drugs in 2003.
Early mental health support can help a child before problems interfere with other developmental needs. Myth two, people with mental health disorders are unpredictable and violent. The vast majority of people with mental health problems are no more likely to be violent than anyone else. Most people with mental illness are not violent and only 3-5 percent of violent acts can be attributed to individuals living with a serious mental illness. In fact, people with severe mental illnesses are over ten times more likely to be victims of violent crime than the general population.