Mental health professionals

Case Synopsis Linda Carter is an African American female that is twenty-two years of age. Ms. Carter has been diagnosed and suffers from several mental illnesses, such as Schizophrenia, Bi-Polar disorder, Depression, and Anxiety. Ms. Carter also is Intellectually Disabled, and was/is a victim of domestic violence, sexual abuse, and homelessness as a child and adult. Ms. Carter is the third child in a family of five, who parent substance abused. When Ms. Carter was nine years of age when she, and

Professional counseling is different from other counseling and psychology related fields. The desire of social work is to help the destitute. Psychology wants to understand the nature of a person. Psychiatry deals with medical interventions. Professional counseling which officially grew out of the vocational counseling movement of the twentieth century (Neukrug, 2014) tends to focus on development, prevention and wellness (Mellin, Hunt, & Nichols, 2011). It is this focus on development, prevention

privileges to clinical psychologists argue that mental healthcare services are in crisis and that the mental health needs of society are not being met. They attribute this crisis primarily to the inappropriate prescribing practices of general practitioners and a persistent shortage of psychiatrists. It is believed that, as they would increase the scope of the practice of psychology, prescription privileges for psychologists would enhance mental health services by increasing public access

Hostels project. I am passionate about mental health and I wish to pursue a career in clinical psychology. I have currently been working as a research assistant for the medical director of the Huntercombe group, where I have had the opportunity to develop auditing and research skills by conducting studies and literature reviews. My role has involved working closely with all the Huntercombe group hospitals to collect data from patients and healthcare professionals to identify improvement areas, by

Professional Development Plan Angela Alimole Walden University NURS 6001, Section 10, Foundations of Graduate Study December 26, 2017 Professional Development Plan Nursing has been a constantly developing profession. Nurses must be confident and remain open to alliance and assessment to achieve the best patient care. For a long-term and flourishing profession, nurses must pledge to improving their knowledge through lifetime education. (Swihart, 2009). As I begin a graduate study in nursing I

In assessing psychology’s public image, two dimensions are paramount in the issue: “popularity” (or how the public feels toward psychology and psychologists), and “understanding” (what the public knows about psychology and what psychologists do) (Benjamin, 1986, p. 945). While overall, psychologists are met with a moderately favorable attitude (Guest, 1948), several studies have revealed a deficiency in the knowledge of who psychologists are and what they do (Wood et al., 1986; Wollersheim & Walsh

choose this article to discuss based on Dr. Welfel’s discussion in Chapter 12 regarding “The Ethics of Coaching” where she asked the question “what constitutes competent and ethical coaching?” regarding coaching as a practice activity for mental health professionals that has emerged fairly recently and has grown dramatically in a brief period (Welfel, 2016). Coaching is distinct from psychotherapy because the focus is on the present and the future, is centered on helping clients achieve their potential

criteria for the study were previous suicide attempts, drug abuse, and being admitted to a hospital for suicidality. Whether or not the hospitals conducted a mental health assessment was not a requirement for participation in the study, but this factor was considered. Materials Each participant met with a psychiatrist for a complete mental health assessment regardless of the hospital conducting one. This assessment sets the baseline for that participant. After the initial psychiatric evaluation

in my early undergraduate career to find my sense of purpose. That experience drove me to explore an undergraduate degree in psychology, and further, a Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. What stood out to me about Roosevelt University was a quote in the testimonials section on the Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program’s homepage. In that quote, Dr. Dennis Frank said, “In order to be effective and competent counselors, students need to have an understanding of their own issues

together since now we moved almost yearly. We became close and during high school it was the same and she is the reason I became passionate about mental health. During her transition into and the first two years of high school she became depressed and self-harming. It took me years to accept and realize this experience affected more than I had thought. Mental health and medicine was a career path I had not considered when planning my future in high school until I experienced the impact from it. To understand