Question

what do you believe are the “appropriate conditions” an individual needs to gravitate towards psychological health?

How can you help a client become a fully functioning person?

Answer 1

To gravitate towards psychological health, one must inculcate healthy practices in one's life. Apart from being physically healthy, sleeping well, maintaining proper hygiene, one must also be consistent in his healthy mental activities. These include refraining from maladaptive or irrational thinking, accepting oneself unconditionally, embracing the circumstances, being positive and seeking help.

Clients come with varied psychological problems, so as per the needs the appropriate psychological treatment has to be chosen. Not all treatments will be suitable for everyone. Also, it has to be tailor made. Sometimes one treatment has to be combined with other treatments and medications to get the desired result, which is the fully functional person. Apart from this, it is also crucial that the psychologist makes the client realise that certain treatments requires efforts and consistency from the clients and they have to carry forward the learning for application in their upcoming life problems.