Summary: Ending A Helping Relationship

Enabling choice of specific care and services to meet the patient’s health and social care needs and preferences. 4 Providing information that is tailored to each person to assist him or her in making decisions based on the best evidence available. Assisting patients to interpret technical information, evidence and complex concepts and helping them to understand their options and consequences of this, while accessing support from other health and social care experts. 4 Supporting the person to assert his or her choices. If the individual is unable to do this for him or herself, then the nursing team or an appointed formal advocate would present and pursue the person’s stated wishes. 4 Ongoing evaluation to ascertain that care and services continue to be appropriate for each person. This involves encouraging, listening to and acting on feedback from patients and service users.

Contact between an addictions counsellor and a client is usually initiated by the client referring him/her self, an outside agency refers them, family physician or the addictions counsellor initiates contact through outreach or other agencies. Assessment can be seen as the beginning of treatment and it becomes an opportunity to encourage the client to begin to move towards change. The initial assessment involves a mutual investigation and exploration between the client

Self-referral is direct request by an individual for health care services for example, when an individual refers themselves to healthcare services for their wellbeing or support. An individual may refer themselves to a health professional or carer so that the individual is in control of their care, promoting self-management and health-focused behaviour. Also, a person may feel uncomfortable to seek help for their problem from non-professionals such as family or friends and may prefer to seek advice from a professional such as a nurse or doctor. In this case, self-referral does not apply to Ruth as she is unable to physically refer herself to any service as she is too young and cannot go anywhere by

Holding the right information will make it easier to know and understand individuals needs as well as their individual views, c=this can be done by having a record form of information on individuals to record these things

This is the first stage of the care planning cycle. Referral can be professional or in some cases self-referral. What is meant by the word referral is to direct to a source for help or information. There are many examples of referrals

Service users should be given sufficient information about any treatment they are offered so that they can make an informed decision about whether or not to take it.  Information should include the benefits and possible risks of the treatment, the likely duration of treatment and any financial costs. The service user should also be given information on alternatives to the treatment being offered.

The role of the social worker in this setting is to perform duties as an informed clinician based on evidence based practice to provide individualized case management to all clients. The social worker will complete a comprehensive intake assessment which includes demographics of the client, address presenting problem, and a risk assessment. Client’s also receive mental health screenings and individual and group counseling to gain new coping skills and address any triggers to prevent relapse utilizing interventions as CBT and Motivational Interviewing. The social worker will discuss limits of confidentiality and a signed informed consent from the client to receive services.

Counselling: “The professional guidance of the individual by utilising psychological methods especially in collecting case history data, using various techniques of the personal interview, and testing interests and aptitudes” (Merriam-Webster's online dictionary, n.d.). It is the process in which a counsellor creates a safe and open environment for a client to speak about a problem that may be affecting them or if they need guidance in how to deal with a particular situation.

Affirmation. For example a client who always feels stressed, is unable to change state and who does not feel in control of their

The article that was reviewed for this discussion was Court-Ordered versus Voluntary Clients: Problem Differences and Readiness for Change, written by Thomas O Hare. This article explored the defenses in treatment for different sources of referral, such as those who are voluntary and court ordered clients. The article discusses that this study on the relationship status between referral sources and the process and progress in treatment was conducted due to lack of information existing on this topic. To address this question of the relationship of referral source and progress, O Hare investigated areas of topics such as the denial of any problems that need to be addressed, recognizing a problem exist and considering making the necessary changes, the begging process of taking necessary steps and mandating the steps of treatment towards managing the problem at hand. These categories are expected to help providers measure where their client is starting. This feature is important as we discussed earlier in the semester, it helps the provider, help the client in a

If and when the individual is ready to accept help it may be necessary to refer them to another agency that can better meet their needs. Where to “refer a consumer depends on the resources that are available in your community” (Halley et al.). Being involved in all the stages of a referral can be as simple as providing contact information and a follow-up, at times, though, much more is required. “People who have unmet needs will be fearful and confused and will need your assistance in understanding why they need help and what the help will do for them” (Halley et al.). Talking to them, as well as allowing them to collaborate in finding resources can empower an individual to take the first steps towards healing. Furthermore, explaining

Breakups are hard, to say the least. It’s a similar idea to being addicted to some sort of drug and going through withdraw. Well, that would be in the most extreme of cases, anyways. Many people deal with breakups in different ways. What is generally expected would be a lot of crying and maybe some anger mixed in. Some people are calm about it, to the point of it showing no effect to them. Usually, I would see myself being the calm person, yet I find myself in my ex’s closet, looking out on an empty room in an attempt to see whatever he could be doing.

Discuss the range of appropriate support both internally from external agencies to meet identified need

There are things that you don’t seem to grasp, and I urge you to get the message.

Imagine meeting a person (for the very first time) and as time passes, you and that person grow closer together. The time you two spend together is so precious that the individual becomes your residential counselor. A residential counselor is a person who does not let you out of their sight. The individual accepts you and all your imperfections. That friend cherishes, upholds, and adores everything that involves only you.