Friday, February 13, 2015

Effective Mental Health Counseling WA

By Beryl Dalton


Counseling services plays critical role in assisting individuals suffering from psychological and emotional problems. It is also essential in behavior modification and adapting to life challenging situations. However, the services rendered by mental health counseling WA go beyond individuals expectations of such services.

These are distinct professionals with specific national standards of education, training as well as clinical practice. They are highly skilled professionals providing flexible, consume oriented therapy. Such professional are able to combine traditional psychotherapy with practical problem solving strategies thereby creating a dynamic and efficient path for problem resolution and change.

These services entail prevention and psychoeducational programs, psychotherapy, planning and utilization, assessments and diagnosis, alcoholism as well as substance abuse and crisis management strategies.

In the present management care environment, the mental health counselors are qualified to meet unique challenges therefore, provides quality and cost-effective care. They work in various settings such as independent practice, community agencies, and behavioral management organizations, employees assistance programs, hospitals, substance abuse treatment centers and integrated delivery systems.

They are able to assist individuals with normal cognitive therapeutic process to cope with difficult situations in life such as physical illness, loss of loved ones, relationship and divorce. In addition, individuals suffering from serious mental illness (bipolar disorder) can also be assisted. Counselors need to adhere to the set ethical principles for instance knowing when the client should seek referral services. They are trained on identification on detecting whether the client is abused or has experienced violence or suicidal attempts. Such knowledge is essential in offering effective service to the service seekers.

The most strategy often employed by therapists offering such services is the use of cognitive based therapy. However, others might opt to integrate other strategies depending on the unique needs of the client. In most cases the therapists are trained and specialized in handling patients of different age groups such as children, youths and adults.

In most cases therapist often uses cognitive based therapy in offering services to their service seekers. However, others are integrating other approaches to meet unique needs of their patients. In addition, they are also specialized in offering services to individuals with specific ages such as youths, adolescents, children as well as adults.

In addition, counselors need meet core objectives which are suggested to all counseling practitioners. This includes career development, human development, group work that is group development techniques dynamics among others. They have other standards such as using the diagnostics as well as the statistics guideline of mental illness.

In addition, they are also supposed to meet the core content objectives of rendering such services as proposed to all counseling professionals. This includes knowledge on human growth and development, group work (techniques, dynamics and development) and career development. They are supposed to adhere to the standards such as statistical and diagnostic manual of mental health.

These individuals are required in all jurisdictions to have residency as well as a specific supervised clinical experience upon completion of their education. In which during this period they are expected to work under a supervisor that regularly consults with them and provides documentation for licensing to the board.




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