Psychology At Jefferson Center For Mental Health

Growing up in a small town in Iowa I was unaware of the many situations involving hardship or misfortune that were around me. Therefore, it was not till college when I received the opportunity to work for a reentry program called the Transformative Justice Initiative that I became aware of the multiple factors lead to incarceration, drug use, homelessness, and other areas of hardship. The longer I was involved with the program the more I learned how mental health is convoluted in all of these situations and in all populations. Consequently, my experiences with the Transformative Justice Initiative helped me develop my future aspirations as a professional, which include a desire to work with individuals that have mental illness.

When working for Mental Health located at the Thunderbird Community Based Outpatient Clinic, daily routine included collaborating with provider’s regarding their clinic cancellations and guiding the Mental Health providers on maintaining their schedules to prevent overbooking. Guided interns on maintaining compliance with Mental Health policies and procedures as it pertains to mental health.

In my current field placement I work with adults who are seeking help with mental illness and substance use. The program is a Partial Hospital Program (PHP), however, there is housing available to those who are homeless. The program is a two to three week program and while the patients are there, the case managers provide group therapy, help with scheduling aftercare and find housing for those who need it. A large percentage of the patients have untreated mental illness and have been self medicating with substances.

The agency I am doing my practicum hours at is a nonprofit mental health agency that serves over 800 adults with mental illness across 28 locations in the Portland Metro Area. Their comprehensive support system includes outpatient clinics, group homes, semi-independent housing, homeless outreach, and peer-delivered programs. I focus on the care of adults, age 18 and over, with serious mental illness, such as Psychotic disorders & Mood disorders in one of the residential settings. Within the home, we are currently serving 17 individuals, who are receiving independent case-management dependent upon individual needs, interrelated with the challenges prevalent in those with mental illness including co-occurring substance abuse and

I am interning at Heartfelt, a mental health agency that works with adults, children and their families that deal with any type of behavior and mental health problem since 2006 with a mission to provide culturally competent, and professionally sound mental health, foster care, youth development and family support services to empower our community one child and one family at a time. The services that Heartfelt offers to clients are intensive in-home therapy, outpatient therapy, community support team (CST), peer support, medication management, and residential level III group home. Many of the clients at Heartfelt are offered Outpatient therapy service compared to other services. My role at Heartfelt is as an intern who is supervised by a MSW field supervisor completing tasks. Few of tasks that I perform at Heartfelt is shadowing professionals performing assessments and intakes with clients, working on various administrative projects such as finding resources for clients and reviewing and updating clients’ charts.

The Center for Behavioral Sciences (CBS) is a private non-public agency that provides treatment to children with developmental disabilities and autism. The main headquarters is currently located in Irvine, California, but services are provided all throughout Southern California in Beach Cities (South Bay Beach Cities to Long Beach and from Culver City to Norwalk and Cerritos), Orange County, Los Angeles, San Fernando Valley, San Gabriel Valley/Pomona, and the Inland Empire. CBS currently has 145 employees and about 300 clients give or take. Monetary figures are not authorized to be given at this point.

While studying psychology at the University of Southern Mississippi, I developed an interest in youth psychological health and social well-being. As an avid learner, I subsequently became interested in clinical child research and joined Dr. Christopher T. Barry’s Youth Personality and Behavior (YPB) laboratory as a volunteer research assistant during my sophomore year of college. After learning the dynamics of working in a research laboratory, and taking courses such as adolescent, social, developmental, and personality psychology, my interest in interpersonal relationships, personality, and mental health solidified. From then on, I sought to expand my experiences in undergraduate research. For example, I participated in my first independent research experience at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign through the Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP). I conducted research in the clinical/community division of the psychology department, and my research focused on how juvenile delinquency, ADHD, and perceptions of youth’s control in choosing their own mental health service impacted the magnitude of caregiver(s) strain. From my SROP experience, I learned a wealth of information about tabulating data, from coding variables to running statistical analyses in the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). SROP was a wonderful experience, and it catalyzed my progress as an undergraduate researcher.

I am interning at Pittsburgh Mercy’s Behavioral Health Service Coordination Unit (PMBH-SU). The unit serves 500-700 clients (consumers), and includes six teams. Each team includes a supervisor and 10-to-15 service coordinators (SC) and aids a specific population, such as adults, adolescents, and children. Additionally, all service coordinators’ clients have a mental health illness(s) diagnosis. PMBH-SCU provides outpatient services and individualized supportive services to clients of the Pittsburgh Mercy Health System. Employees in this unit typically obtained a social work or human services education or related professional experiences. The Unit’s goals are to coordinate services, offer support, and empower consumers to live healthy, fulfilling

Approximately 200,000 individuals with schizophrenia or manic-depressive illness are homeless, constituting one-third of the approximately 600,000 homeless populations. In today’s society, metal health and illnesses are overlooked and sweep under the rug as if they are not a real life issue. Mental health hit home the beginning of my junior year in high school, when my older cousin was diagnosed with schizophrenia and ended in prison. He was actually a great person, but did not receive the proper help he needed to function as “normal” individual in society; this is why I chose a career path in psychology. I want to be a psychologist and work with patients of with schizophrenia. I would love to make an actual difference in this field by conducting

Self report is a type of psychological test in which a person fills out a survey or questionnaire. The purpose of this test is to find out the participants interests, values, behaviors, and traits or personality types. An example would be asking a participant about their feelings, attitudes, beliefs and so on.. Projective assessment is a type of personality test in which the individual offers responses to ambiguous scenes, words or images. An example of this would be looking at various pictures and determining any internal emotions stirred inside. This test designed to reveal hidden emotions and internal conflicts from inside the participant. Behavior assessment is a is a method used in the field of psychology to observe, describe, explain,

Despite current behavioral health progress monitoring systems more focus on mental health systems, these systems are also connected with emerging health technologies and disease management programs (Steinfield et al. 2014; Steinfield et al. 2016). In other words behavioral health is more than mental health and substance use disorders. This brings along health behavior change, life stressors and stress-related physical symptoms (Davis et al. 2013). On the other hand, traditionally behavioral health has a close relationship with behavioral medicineand these two concepts developed paralel to the emergence of health psychology (Matarazzo 1980). Studies about social health behaviour points out that social forces, ideologies, finances and pharmaceutical

I love the challenge of working with different types of disorders and populations. I value every stage in a human beings life and believe we all have the right to receive treatment at pivotal stages in our lives. Most recently, I completed my internship at a state psychiatric hospital where I was able to further hone my skills in individual and family therapy, projective and objective assessment, case presentations, and diagnostics. My training also allowed me the opportunity to work individually with emotionally disturbed individuals who presented with personality disorders. Some of my most satisfying experiences were conceptualizing from a psychoanalytical perspective, and reviewing conclusions at case presentations.

This part of the paper can be very simple, but it gives the reader an idea about what they are going to be reading about and makes them decide whether it is worth reading or not. A good abstract has many qualities that include accurate information, it is easy to read, straight to the point and contains about 150-200 words. You will need to start a new page for the abstract and it will be the first thing the readers see after the title page. There will be a header for this page meaning a page number on the far right, top hand corner and then the title of the paper on the far left, top hand corner of the page.

Counseling psychology is one of the many subfields of psychology, but it is the most thought of when one thinks of a psychologist. This special field helps clients to explore the positive side of themselves and their lives and understand the negatives. Counseling psychologists focus their work on the overall wellbeing of their clients. This subfield also has many benefits to society. Counseling Psychology helps people to improve their life, and while they do not solely focus on mental disorders, they can focus on physical, emotional, and mental needs. An average individual who is experiencing troubles in his life may seek out guidance from a counselor.

While studying Psychology and Sociology as an undergraduate at Howard University, I realized how impactful one’s environment can be for their physical and psychological well-being. This awareness prompted my ambition of becoming a competent mental health provider, assisting a diverse clientele while remaining perceptive to the covert factors that impact behaviors. Upon obtaining my Masters in Counseling, I will have the capability to create a true transformation in client’s lives by nurturing their capacity to approach and manage the difficulties of life.