Advocacy in Counseling

In the coaching discussion it was not said that my conduct was not meeting expectations, but not allow myself to be in situations where it appears I’m being insubordinate.

The American Counseling Association website defines professional counseling as “a professional relationship that empowers diverse individuals, families, and groups to accomplish mental health, wellness, education, and career goals.” As the counseling profession has grown and the demand has increased over the years there has been some confusion of what the difference is between counseling and psychotherapy. Sharf (2012) reports, often times

The philosophy that underlies the counseling profession is unique among mental health professionals. According to Remley & Herlihy (2014), the philosophy is made up of four components. First, counselor 's view mental health challenges through a positive, wellness-oriented lens. The primary goal of the wellness model is for the client to achieve the highest degree of mental health possible. Psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers follow the medical model of mental health. The goal of these clinicians is to cure the client’s illness, which differs drastically from counselor’s view of clients.

As the standards of the counseling profession are continuously being shaped, I desire to play a role in the educating

I believe counseling is a collaborative partnership between client and counselor. Furthermore, this collaborative partnership is built from trust and acceptance of both client and counselor. I hope in conjunction with clients to understand the issues and concerns so to help them tap into their wisdom, creativity, and strengths to meet their current challenges. I believe in a comprehensive perspective through which clients can better comprehend themselves in the framework that our thinking about events can lead to emotional and behavioral upset. Moreover, counselors are to provide a safe environment for clients to explore their challenges and identify ways to move differently in overcoming these challenges.

Discrimination model supervision is when the supervision will tailor their responses to the particular supervisee’s needs.  The supervisor will respond from three identified roles: teacher, counselor, and consultant. Each role is specified to address a specific need of the supervisee from focal points: conceptualization skills, process skills, and personalization skills.  The teacher role encompasses: evaluated observed session, identify appropriate interventions, teach, demonstrate, or model techniques, explain rational behind specific interventions, or interpret significant events in a session. This would be utilized by the supervisor to meet the needs of skill building, knowledge, and understanding (Bernard, 1997). The counselor role is assumed when the needs of the supervisee is a that of personalization skills. The supervisor can explore the supervisee’s feelings after their sessions with a client, help the supervisee define personal competencies and areas of growth, and facilitate self-exploration of confidence and/or worries from their interactions with clients (Bernard, 1997). The role of the consultant comes into play

Although the federal government controls the funding that will enhance the family relationship by supplying services, this unfortunately does not always rectify the family situation. If the system in place doesn’t work and the parent isn’t ready to have the child returned, this will leave a negative impact on the parent-child relationship. The parent may become frustrated and resort to behaviors such as substance abuse, physical abuse, and verbal abuse jeopardizing the parent-child relationship. As stated in Foster Care at issue, by Debra Bloom, family reunification is less likely to occur when parents are involved in the correctional system. Reporting that 16 % of mothers with children in foster care are arrested within 18 months, with the arrest occurring after the child has been placed in foster care. Suggesting that child welfare look beyond the system when developing potential outcomes.

According to author Kendra Cherry, “professional counseling is an application of mental health, psychological or development principles, through cognitive, affective, behavioral or systemic intervention strategies, that address wellness, personal growth, or career development” (Cherry - Paraphrase). Many counselors specialize in specific forms of therapy. Generally, counselors who focus on specific types of counseling methods usually require advanced knowledge in the specific field. Counseling can be described as guidance of an individual by utilizing psychological methods especially in collecting case history information, using various techniques of the personal interview and testing interests as well as aptitudes. Cognitive behavioral

The number of children with incarcerated parents continues to increase, thus the long-term ramifications of parental incarceration has become a topic of interest to many concerned people. In addition to understanding the effects of parental incarceration on children, school officials and penal institutions must be involved in support services available to incarcerated parents and their families.

release and states that they should be encouraged and provided assistance to maintain and establish relationships outside of the prison atmosphere to promote the prisoner’s rehabilitation and best interests of his or her family. In PA prisons they are removing programs from fathers that used to be beneficial. The prisons had a program called read to me its where a father is recorded reading a book to the child on a cd and able to mail it with the book home and it was removed. To follow this and adopt it would be great it may cut down on our younger generation becoming incarcerated so young. It may deterred the child from having the idea of a absent parent as out of sight out of mind. To maintain and establish family ties in prison can even cut back on some of the stressors that a inmate face. The support from a outside family at times is a tremendous help or even greater discharge plan strategy. Furthermore Rule 108, Services and agencies, governmental or otherwise, which assist released prisoners in re-establishing themselves in society shall ensure, so far as is possible and necessary, that released prisoners are provided with appropriate documents and identification papers, have suitable and adequately clothed having in regard to the work to go, are suitably and adequately clothed having regard to the climate and season and have sufficient means to reach their destination and maintain themselves in the period immediately following their release. I’m going to say within

Counseling is a relatively young profession when compared to other mental health professions. In my brief personal and professional experience with the field, I have come to define counseling as a process of engagement between two people, both of whom are bound to change through a collaborative process that involves both the therapist and the client in co-constructing solutions to concerns.

Advocacy is one of the major roles for professional school counselors. The concept of advocacy is the tradition of professional counselors, but the role of advocacy in school counseling was not valued until the recent times. The purpose of this paper is to give a reflection about the article on school counseling in order to show and describe the advocacy competencies of school counselors. The article was written by Jerry Trusty and Duane Brown. The article was set to provide a structure that helps to conceptualize advocacy in order to develop advocacy competencies.

The role of Professional advocacy according to Chapter 5: Professional and Social Advocacy in Clinical Mental Health is to ensure that people have enough information to ensure that they can make decisions and choices for themselves. It also refers to action taken to advance the profession of counseling in general and the clinical a mental health profession specifically. Both professional advocacy and client/social advocacy are essential to mental health counseling, to ensure that every individual has an opportunity to resources such as health care and employment, and to achieve optimal mental health (Chang, Crethar, & Ratts, 2010). Advocating for the elderly who experience being released from prison can be very challenging but rewarding. My job as a professional advocacy is to make sure clients feel that no matter what anybody else says that there is somebody who is by their side and is going to vouch for them and speak up for them.

I believe in keeping the family together and providing services to assist in helping with parenting skill in order for a child to grow up in a healthy environment. It is my concern that each female inmate who meet the criteria, must get a mental assessment completed before the child is allowed to stay with its mom. Therefore, the mother is required to maintain disciplinary free and understand if failure to do so that she and child will be placed in the appropriate caregiver according to a court order. Hopefully, if the inmate follows all guidelines that it will inspire her to set goals to never return to prison but to focus on setting the example of being for her child that with hard work and making a wise decision in life is so much better

When I looked at this question I did not think to look at it from the perspective of treatment focused more on the incarcerated individual (I guess a personal bias). It provided with a well-rounded argument as to some of the needs from a person that needs support not only in reintegration to the public but also to his immediate family. I think that it is important to take in consideration that while we can provide psychoeducation to the family, it would take some deep work for the parties in a family to be able to validate and process the very traumatic event of losing parents to jail or otherwise.