Saturday, February 7, 2015

Services Offered By 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.

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

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.

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.

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, they need to meet core content objectives that are recommended to counseling experts. That is human growth and development, career development, group work (dynamics and techniques and group development). They also have additional standards which include applying statistical manual and diagnostics of mental health.

These professional have broad awareness and knows how to relate research to mental health counseling. Even though it is not within their scope of duty to recommend medication to clients, they are expected to be knowledgeable of common psychoactive medicines such as contraindications and their side effects.

In all the jurisdictions they are required to have residency or a particular duration of supervision to gain experience upon completion of their education. In which the therapist work under clinical supervisor who regularly consult with them as well as providing documentation to the licensing board.




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