Saturday 14 February 2015

Effective Mental Health Counseling WA

By Beryl Dalton


Counseling services are often perceived to be services offered to mental health patients. However, therapeutic services often go beyond the imagination of most people. Clinical mental health counseling WA talks to people through their problems to identify and treating mental illness.

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.

Services offered include psychoeducational and prevention programs, psychotherapy, alcoholism and substance abuse treatment, assessment diagnosis, planning and utilization and crisis management.

In the recent management care environment, mental health therapists are uniquely qualified to meet the challenge of providing high quality care that is cost-effective. These individual practices in various settings such as community agencies, independent practice, behavioral management organizations, hospitals, employees assistance programs, integrated delivery systems as well as substance abuse treatment centers.

Through their assistance to individuals using cognitive therapeutic process, clients are able to cope with different life threatening situations including loss of loved ones, physical illness, relationship and divorce. They also offer effective service to individuals suffering from bipolar disorder that is serious mental illness.

In most cases trained therapists often use cognitive therapy to assist clients suffering from such health conditions. However, there are some counselors who are trained to work with distinct group of patients such as kids, youths or elderly.

All individuals providing such services are required to have attained masters in counseling. However, curriculum requirements often vary from one state to another. In most cases many states requires that the program either accreditation by the CAC or Related Educational Programs or be substantive equivalent.

Before licensing or accreditation for individuals providing such services, they need to have attained masters degree in clinical psychology or counseling. However, the curriculum often differs from one state to another. Despite this fact they all acknowledge accreditation from CAC (council for accreditation of counseling) and REP (related education programs).

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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