Single Session Walk In Counselling

One of the biggest contributors for poor healthcare is the stigma against mental health. This stigma allows healthcare providers to view those with a mental illness as having low relevance, thus creating disinclination towards providing adequate resources and/or care. This negative stance, based on misinformation and prejudice creates those that have a mental illness to lose their self confidence. Because of this loss, people with mental illness decide not to contribute to their health or livelihood. In the past fifty years, many advances have been made in mental healthcare. However, with the attached stigma, many people choose to not seek out treatment.

Psychotherapy and counselling are inseparable. The effectiveness of a counselling program is not just based on the connectedness and interaction between a therapist and a client, but also the framework of the counselling approach in helping the client improving his mental health or overcoming personal problems. There are an extensive number of psychotherapies developed by past researchers, with each therapeutic concept offering unique contributions in understanding human behaviour and useful implications for counselling practice (Bedi et al., 2011).

In the United States alone, approximately 20% of Americans experience a mental illness in a given year, and 1 in 25 Americans live with a serious mental illness that significantly impacts one or more life activities (NAMI.org, 2015). These disorders span across the lifetime, many starting by the age of 14, and mental health care is often the root of progress or hindrance for a person whose life is impacted by these unseen disorders. Though it is not always evident that an individual is experiencing mental illness, these complications influence the daily lives of millions of people worldwide, regardless of age, culture, race, religion, or other delineation. As a result, it is vital that this sector of healthcare be thoroughly examined for inefficiencies,

In recent times, the responsibility of providing health care services has fallen on the shoulders of the primary health care providers. In turn, this reflects on the treatment preferences of many citizens and the subsequent availability and further the affordability of health care services. Quite some patients now receive health care for mental disorders from their primary health care providers. Therefore, this shows that the mental health afflicted patients are getting the proper treatment and prescription of their disorders from their doctors.

This is an issue wherever anyone who is suffering from Mental Health, which is can be anyone in Canada.

The term counselling facilitates personal and interpersonal functioning across the lifespan with the main focus on emotional, vocational, social, educational, health related and developmental concerns this encompasses a broad range of practices that help people to improve their well being, alleviate stress and maladjustment, reslove crisis and increases their ability to live more fully functioning lives. Counselling is unique in its attention to both normal developmental issues as well as the problems associated with physical, emotional and mental disorders. The BACP states that “counselling takes place when a counsellor see a client in a private and confidential

In today’s society there is a greater awareness of mental illnesses. With this greater awareness one might assume that there would be a substantial increase in government involvement or funding in the area of mental illness treatment. Unfortunately this isn’t the case in the U.S. today. There are hundreds of thousands of people with mental illness that go untreated. These potential patients go untreated for many reasons. These reasons are discussed in the Time article “Mental Health Reform: What Would it Really Take.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate which method of therapy and counseling will be the most effective

Mental health is defined as an individual’s optimal care in managing the stress of everyday life, through their own unique approach and can efficiently and successfully make vital contribution within the community they live in (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, 2013). Since a break in a person’s optimal mental state affects not only the individual but society, it is important to understand what it means to have a break in one’s state of mental health and the different categories that is associated with mental illness. Focus will also be paid to why there is a need for the reformation of the mental health act in Canada; the social determinants that is associated with mental health and their contribution to society’s health’s. Finally, focus also need to be placed on how mental health is being promoted to society the stigma generally associated with it.

Michele has attended 5 sessions with this provider since the original referral was made and she has missed 3 sessions due to claims of illness and health concerns. Michele’s sessions have occurred at 45-55 minutes in duration and have been weekly. The session structure has consisted of building rapport and trust, identifying presenting problems in Michele’s life, creating therapy goals, and discussing life events that are considered stressors for her.

One of the best ways we can help is by being educated on mental health and educating those who are not educated. As many as sixty six percent of people that have depression do not realize that they have a disease and that it is treatable. Even in those that are diagnosed, only fifty percent receive any type of treatment, and only twenty percent receive treatment that meet the recommended guidelines set by the American Psychiatric Association(APA). The problem persists in Canada as well, with forty eight percent of patients having suicidal thoughts, twenty four percent of which had attempted suicide and were not given any sort of treatment after their attempt.

Medical History: Client does not present any medical history problem. Client had never experience counseling before, this is the first time he is having counseling. Client had stated that he feels comfortable with counselor and he likes he fact that everything being said is between the counselor and the client, besides any types of harm including himself or others.

In Canada, 1 in 5 individuals are affected by mental illness, but 5 in 5 individuals have to manage their mental health (CAMH, 2017). Many Canadians rely on counsellors and psychologists to help them navigate the hardships in their lives and cope with their day-to-day challenges. Everyone can benefit from talking to someone who will listen unconditionally and

Recommendations: (Identify the problem to be addressed, type of counseling [individual, family, group] frequency [50 minutes, once per week], and any recommendations for other services (i.e., couples therapy, medication evaluation).

For years the counseling profession maintained a strict face to face technique of meeting with clients. This trend is being challenged as more people are finding it difficult to arrange appointments, find specialists,