Mental Health Intervention Paper

Pursuing a career in Mental Health Counseling has been a part of my plan since I

This paper will define The Effects of Trauma and Crisis on Clients and Mental Health Counselors and give a brief overview on how these Natural and man-made disasters, crises, and other trauma-causing events have become a focus of the clinical mental health counseling profession. Due to the extreme trauma that children, adolescents and adult experience after a traumatic event it, is noted that most individuals that are exposed to traumatic experience usually develop major depression, generalized anxiety, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) later in

The providers of Pathways Mental Health Services are all licensed professionals such as marriage therapist and family therapist, health counselor, chimerical dependency, and one of them having a PhD in family psychology.

The events that unfolded on September 11, 2001 (9/11) at the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York City, had major repercussions on various levels. Its impact was not limited to structural and financial damage, but transcended to affect the emotional and mental stability of many people throughout the United States. Emergency preparedness protocols at the time of the events were insufficient considering the magnitude and the uncommon nature of the disaster. While structural damage was quantifiable, psychological implications were more complex to identify and consequently treat. Posttraumatic stress disorders (PTSD), is one of the most common mental health disorders that affects people exposed to traumatic disaster situations. The exposure may

and Dentistry and Director of the Program in Disaster Mental Health in the Department of Psychiatry and the UR Center for Disaster Medicine and Emergency Preparedness. For over a decade, he has responded to numerous national disasters as a volunteer with the American Red Cross. He has also developed comprehensive disaster mental health training programs for the New York State Office of Mental Health and the New York State Department of Health currently being disseminated throughout every county, state psychiatric center and acute healthcare facility throughout New York State.

Program evaluations have made contributions to the Mental Health field for many decades. In the past program evaluations have been conducted outside the scope of a traditional Marriage and Family therapy framework. Sprenkle (2003) elaborates that MFT’s have been trying to move towards evidence-based research and evaluations. Trying to find the balance between evidence based and a systematic approach. What is also an area that poses some challenges is counselors and therapists trying to implement programs into existing organizations (Sprenkle, 2003). Program evaluations are able to provide useful information to MFT’s to aid in making improvements (Mertens & Wilson, 2012). Merton & Wilson (2012) explain that evaluations may also interfere

Fritz, Charles. Disasters and Mental Health: Therapeutic Principles Drawn from Disaster Studies. Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware, 1996.

Lowe, Sarah R, et al. “Psychological Resilience After Hurricane Sandy: The Influence of Individual-and Community-Level Factors on mental Health After a Large-scale Natural Disaster.” Plos ONE, vol. 10, no. 5, May 2015, pp. 1-15. EBSCOhost, doi: 10 1371/journal.pone.0125761.

Hundreds of natural disasters occur every year wrecking thousands of innocent lives. When these unfortunate events occur, the toll is sometimes more psychological than they are physical. Buildings can be rebuilt, but sometimes the psychological trauma can be impossible to reverse. A study was done in 1989 observing the emotional health of 137 Stanford University students before and after the devastating Loma-Prieta earthquake. The goal of the study was to see if there was a significant change in their levels of depressions and stress. It was predicted that natural disasters cause a dramatic increase in psychological disorders such as PTSD, depression, and anxiety.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4124816/ withholding of patients in the nationwide ART program had been an apprehension prior to the earthquake, with mortality or loss following up about 35% of patients joined on ART, and this fretfulness intensified succeeding the earthquake. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4124816/ It has been renowned in natural disasters in other locations that patients with lingering illness’s can go through health educational services due to physical effects of trauma, new mental health issues including serious anxiety, despair, and post-traumatic stress disorder, as well as disruption in self-management tactics as they deal with individual losses and disturbances in habitual health

The role of culture is important to how people experience and react to distress. Distress can be caused by environmental disasters such as earthquakes which have a major impact on the health and well-being of people. One such impact on well-being is that of mental health. With this in mind, my topic for future research is the following: What are mental health challenges faced by people in times of natural disasters and how can these challenges be addressed by health workers to aid the psychological well-being of cross-cultural populations to prepare for future traumatic disasters?

An often-overlooked risk that indirectly affects first responders is psychological stress. Exposure to a wide range of victims in various states of medical need, as well as the long hours and stress of various unknown hazards can take a toll on mental health. “Stress could affect responders’ judgment about their own health and safety” (Jackson et al, 2002). First responders may push themselves too hard or place themselves in further harm if they are under immense stress. Furthermore, the social stigma of psychological disorders can exacerbate the risk as many first responders may not seek treatment. Experts believe cases of psychological stress amongst first responders is grossly underreported and understudied hazard (Jackson et al, 2002).

Kaakinen et al., (2015) stated that trauma is a vital experience that affects the family system. It is an emotional reaction to a terrible occurrence such as; rape, accident, or natural disaster (American Psychological Association [APA], 2016). Its effects transcends an individual family member to affect other members of a family resulting into secondary trauma, based on the severity of the trauma ( Kaakinen et al., 2015). Trauma is acquired or could arise as a result of disasters, which are oftentimes unexpected. Some of them include; floods, hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, transportation accidents or wildfires and more (APA, 2016). Effectively coping with the effects of trauma and recovery is largely dependent upon understanding the responses

Research shows that disasters can have severe impact on the mental health of society, generating a variety of psychological and social issues. Understanding the emotional consequences of a disaster is just as critical to intervention strategies and improvement. Tragedies extend much deeper than the survivors and family members of victims, effecting the mental health of first responders, witnesses and people exposed to the mass media coverage concerning the event. Firstly, this essay looks at the sequence of events leading up to 2006 deadly Sago mine explosion in West Virginia; analyzing how and why this mine disaster occurred. Secondly, we will discuss the psychological impact on those directly and indirectly exposed to the disaster. These

Natural disasters, such as earthquakes, hurricanes and cyclones, floods, and tornadoes are some of the traumatic experiences that may cause posttraumatic stress disorders. This type of disorders and other disaster related psychological problems are prevalent after natural disasters. As a result it is important to analyse those individuals that develop psychological problems especially to prepare and plan interventions both in the short and long term after disaster (Coşkun, Coşkun, 2000, p: 68). Earthquakes have quickly become one of the most highlighted natural disasters. Unlike other natural disasters, earthquakes occur without warning, the