Question

Evaluate the role of Mental Health Counseling, beginning with your own description of the field itself, including both the history and the philosophies involved, explaining where your specialization fits, and describing how your specialization might collaborate with Addictions Counseling, Cite the articles or other sources you use for the basis of your ideas.

In this part, specifically address the following questions:

1) How would you describe the key philosophies of the counseling profession: wellness, resilience, and prevention? Choose a wellness model, and explain how that model impacts the way in which counselors view clients and the concerns brought to counseling, including the kinds of information counselors need to have about their clients.

2)) How have those key philosophies developed? Provide a brief historical perspective of the counseling profession focused on the key philosophies of wellness, resilience, and prevention. Include the beliefs and assumptions that support those philosophies.

Answer 1

Role of mental health counselling

• A mental health counselor treats people with a wide range of mental health issues. He might treat patients struggling with depression, anxiety, eating disorders and anger management difficulties.
• He might also treat patients dealing with post-traumatic stress issues, grief and troubled relationships.
• For example, a mental health counselor might treat a patient who has been the victim of domestic abuse, or he may treat the abuser. Also, a mental health counselor might counsel individuals struggling with poor self-esteem.

Crisis Treatment

• Often, mental health counselors help individuals who have an immediate need for treatment because of a traumatic event. He might help individuals in distress following accidents or natural disasters, or counsel individuals following rapes, violent attacks or the unexpected death of loved ones.
• A mental health counselor might also provide crisis treatment when a patient has become suicidal, refuses medication or threatens to harm others, or experiences the sudden escalation of mental health symptoms that were previously under control.