Macro Practice Community Analysis

Have you ever been in a position where you where stuck and couldn’t decide between two careers? Whether it was something that you love to do or something that pays well? The answer may seem easy to you but when you start comparing the facts; that’s when it gets hard to choose. For many of us, graduates and people around the world have a difficult time choosing a career that can be a confusing process. A lot of people tend to settle down on a career quickly. Unfortunately, choosing a rapid occupation often leads to an unsatisfying path in the future, if not sooner. Eventually the individual decides to quit and start all over again. According to choosingacareer.net, “6% of

The career that I have chosen to pursue is Human Resources Management. When I started out on the path of “what I want to be when I grow up” I started in a completely different line of work. I wanted to be a Nurse when I graduated high school. I enrolled in college and I worked at a children’s hospital. After a while I started getting burned out by working long hours and on the weekend and I started to wonder if this was the right career that I wanted to continue with. I was offered a position at a staffing company that tailored to physicians and nurses and I

“I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile” (Walter Chrysler). Deciding on what one wants to be in life can prove to be a demanding task. There are so many, yet limited, different opportunities in the world to have an excellent career and make a decent living while doing something one loves. It is limited because there are only a few specific career paths that someone could take to make good money. It is very difficult to make a fulfilling living being a garbage man. There are many different opportunities because, within these specific careers, there are usually various paths to take. Someone who has dreams to be a

The first major controversy concerning classifications of mental disorders is the debate over dimensions vs. categories. According to the APA (2000), DSM–IV is a categorical classification that divides mental disorders into types based on criterion sets with defining features. Categories have been utilized in the past DSMs, however there has been much debate on changing to the dimensional model. The debate stems from the notion that in order for a categorical diagnosis to relate specifically to a disorder, the pathology would have to have been largely resilient to the influence of many other genetic and environmental influences (Widiger & Sankis, 2000). On the contrast, utilizing the dimensional model for a diagnosis would utilize a wide variety of neurochemical, interpersonal, cognitive, and other mediating and moderating variables that help to develop, shape, and form a particular individual’s psychopathology profile (Andreasen, 1997).

In an inpatient setting, patients admit with a mental health crisis and are especially sensitive to interactions with others. Often the first levels of engagement are challenging due to medications that are first given to stabilize each patient. During the engagement with Mark, it was important to encourage the sense of wellbeing towards recovery and placing a focus on his strengths. Engaging a client with their challenges and goals are suggested to be of focus instead of an individual’s mental health status or symptoms (Novotná, Urbanoski, & Rush, 2011).

2007). While highly skilled, the majority of primary care and family practitioners have minimal training in identifying or treating psychiatric conditions and/or substance use disorders (Collins, 2010). The Presidents New Freedom Commission on Mental Health (2003) indicated mental health conditions and substance use disorders often go unscreened and thus untreated in a primary care setting. Currently, working as an administrator of a behavioral healthcare agency I am a daily witness to the impact delays in appropriate care cause. This is not only worrisome, it often leads to a need for a higher level of care and higher cost of treatment due the prevalence of untreated illnesses. Marrying behavioral healthcare services within a primary care setting has shown promising outcomes, affording for greater access to care for those suffering from psychosocial conditions, all the while cutting costs and providing greater proficiency in service delivery. (Mauer, 2002). As an administrator, the potential to implement and manage programs that not only provide greater access to care, but also cut cost is an exciting avenue to

These ecological improvements justify close perception and concentrate as they develop. Changes in the healthcare insurance framework and in models of administration conveyance additionally will influence the way nurture all patients, not just those with co-occurring disorders. Backers of the health home model have advocated for incorporating behavioral health care services in a completely coordinated model for conveying primary health care, substance abuse treatment, and mental health treatment, predictable with the present health care reform that pressures less discontinuity in benefit conveyance. A broad coalition of health care providers and partners have supported the integrated model, and it as of now is being used by many healthcare systems. A full comprehension of this model and its qualities and restrictions is continually advancing. However, it likely would expand coordination and nature of look after patients with co-occurring

My current goal in my career is to become a licensed health insurance agent. I’ve spent the last 13 years in the health care industry. I reached a point in my life where I want to do something that I would enjoy doing, and feel that I am making a difference. My past positons were Claims Adjudicator, Senior Appeals Resolution Analyst, and my current position is a Network Operations Representative. All these positions have equipped me to be able to service the population in a different capacity. I’m currently working what I like to call my “plan”. The past few years have been a full of disappointments and that prompted me to evaluate where I am in my career.

So, you're not cut out to be a doctor, dentist or professional athlete. You're one of the regular people in the world working 9 to 5 and trying to make ends meet while dreaming of another life. You've heard people talk about seeking happiness at work instead of working endless hours at a job you don't like just to pay the bills, but your particular skill set doesn't really lend itself to many career choices.

e is an example of a complex societal issue that is frustrating to tackle, since the fundamental attitude of the corporations laying off workers is personal interest. Ironically, they expect social programs to be responsible for their workers while at the same time cutting them back in order to increase profits (Wharf, B & McKenzie, B, 1998). Moreover, it can be discouraging when the changes society wants to see happen are not set in motion with any haste. In order to work at this level, social workers must stay well-informed regarding changes to policies and laws, as well as frequently retrain in order to update their credentials. The biggest disadvantage of macro level practice is the inability to change the restrictions of policies and rules on certain social issues, because it is primarily controlled by relatively few men in business and federal government who rule in accordance with their own interests (Wharf, B & McKenzie,

Schizophrenia is a complex disorder and its diagnosis according to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth Edition (DSM-5) is based on polythetic criteria (American Psychiatric Association, 2013).Therefore it is common that patients may present with completely different clinical pictures (Keshavan et al., 2008 and Lang et al., 2012). Similarly the patients often do not correspond to the identified clinical patterns and present with mixed symptoms and syndromes, thus triggering additional variability in its aetiology, and uncertainty in the treatment and prognosis (Lang et al., 2012). To gain insight into the clinical picture of the disorder several models have been used.

After all, my past goals had never been directed toward what I truly wanted in life. Admittedly, when I took the job at the Daily Union in 1997, I had ulterior motives. I believed that if I surrounded myself with writers, that one day the opportunity to become a writer would present itself. That opportunity, of course, never came. I had decided after high school not to attend college, and so I was stuck in this entry-level job. As the company progressed, I was molded into a graphic designer, despite my lack of education. While I always liked this job, I knew that it was not my lifelong passion. Writing was always my first objective, but sadly, courage was my downfall. However, after experiencing this push from my comfort zone, the original idea of becoming a writer emerged once more. I knew with all my heart that a career in writing was what I wanted to pursue, in whatever

These career ranged from a court clerk to an adult probation officer. I received a few interviews, even receiving two interviews for the adult probation officer position, but did not get the job. I felt like this job would have been a fabulous opportunity to serve the public sector and put my newly earned criminal justice degree to use by rehabilitating offenders. Other careers I applied for required years of experience, with of course being a recent college graduate I did not have. The in 2015, I made a life-chafing decision. I was currently working as a full-time loss prevention officer in a private sector when I decided to join the United States Air Force. What better way to serve others and work in a public sector at once?

In our professions, like in life, we hit crossroads. These crossroads sometimes lead us to better things and other times to dead ends. My career started in nursing due to one of those crossroads. Way before I wanted to do nursing, in college, I followed my own personal philosophy to do whats best for me, no matter what, but I soon realized I had no passion or interest in where my life was going. I was not fulfilled or happy with my accomplishments. I decided to start over, as many of us do at thaty age and accidently started my career as a firefighter. While I worked as a firefighter, I felt I received undeserved respect. Friends and family were proud to brag about my career, but again I didn’t feel full filled. I am grateful for the opportunity I received however after so many years as a firefighter Ive grown to realize the reason I was not happy, was due to the culture/philosophy. They always spoke as if it was us against the world, we were a family outsiders were not welcomed easy, and in a way we segregated ourselves from the rest of the world. The fire department had its own politics, its own rules. As a young single adult I loved it, I had somebody always there to pick up the pieces or vice versa. Still, I knew something was wrong, something was missing. I became a paramedic while still at the fire department and I fell in love with the medical field. It was all easy for me at first, I became one of the top medics and quickly people above noticed and I started

For the first time since I was a teenager, I was choosing what my career would be outside of the military. When I chose to separate from the military after serving for eight years, I started to consider what my next career move would be. I started to look at jobs that I would enjoy doing. Once I started to research what kind of jobs I wanted to do, I started to consider what the job requirements were. Most of the jobs required at least a degree and most of them required a Bachelors degree. I then began to realize that I only had my military experience and military leadership, as I did not take advantage of all my military education. I then began to realize that my only option was to go back to the job that I had prior to joining the military.