Question

Develop a position statement concerning an issue that impacts clinical mental health counselors.

To prepare your assignment, gather facts and formulate a well-supported argument that counselors' scope of practice should be expanded in some way (for example, extending Medicare provider status to mental health counselors, extending the Indian Health Service to recognize professional counselors as health care providers, or urging state counseling licensure boards to adopt the requirement of graduation from a CACREP-accredited counseling program for licensure to improve license portability across state lines).

Example: This is your paper’s introduction (one paragraph). For the purposes of this assignment, replace this text with a brief paragraph in your own words stating what will be included in this paper, thus cuing the reader as to what will follow.

1) In this paragraph, describe why to advocating on behalf of the profession is an important role for professional counselors.

2) Next, describe public policy. Describe and evaluate an example of how public policy can impact counselors’ scope of practice through licensure laws or other types of professional counseling credentialing.

3) Next, make recommendations for how counselors decide when and how to advocate for a change they decide will benefit the profession. Describe processes through which you could advocate on behalf of the profession on an issue that impacts the credentialing (licensure, certifications) of Clinical Mental Health Counselors.

4) Conclude this part of your assignment with a paragraph describing the role that advocacy for the profession will play in your future as a Clinical Mental Health Counselor. Construct your concluding paragraph so that your reader feels motivated to become involved

Answer 1

Purpose, of Writing this assingment is to put some light on the issues faced by our clinical mental health counsellor's.

In, Today's world we can see mental issues are increased much more than our past era, may be that happens due to our daily competitive life or because of our busy schedule, we all lapse in making time for our family and even sometime for own, this all bring some guilt for not doing anything for our love's one .. Many able to tackle this hustle bustle some not . Here, we talk about how this mental issues come from, but now we ll keep focusing on what are the challenges and issues are present in our india for clinical mental health councelllor. we ll foucs on this point by point given below....:-

1. DISTRUST ;- Distrust is a one of the most important issue faced by our councellor in the world of mental health, people who are challenged with mental issue they dont believe in going to councellor for there treatment. They don't belive in medical treatment and when they go to councellor they don't trust their councellor and don't give proper information. this is most important challenge for them to bring out truth information from patient's.

2 .RIGHT TO PRESCRIPTION :- In, india councellors dont have right to give prescription and medicure, thats why in severe case the need to counsult other doctors or psychiatrist, which take more time to come to the end of treatment. mental health issues already take more time to cure compartively to other disease. By, giving right to prescription we can make whole process convinent and less time taking.

3.COUNTERTRANSFERENCE :- Sometime, time its happen that counsellor get attached with the issue of patient's, may be by relating or countertransferense of his own problem, in this case counsellor may became emotinally attach with patient and this is completely against the right of counselling.

4. LACK OF AWARNESS :- In, our country there is lot of lackness toward mental heatlh, they don't believe in treatment of mental issue. they don't have proper awarness regarding what is mental issue exactly. We, need to first literate them to create awarness in people for there own concerns.

Last, but not the least we can conclude the whole answer with the concern that our clinical mental health counsellor are facing lot of issue in today's science due to the lack of awraness regarding the mental health, they need to know more about the mental health and there treatment and its benfits, we need to spread awarness and proper knowledge to people, So, they can trust counsellor and able to talk about there problems openly.