Community mental health service

academic support services in York University, I once came across a family who was distressed about their child’s education. The student had experienced adversity during first year, which led to poor grades and as a result, unable to continue his studies, and jeopardized his student visa. The family vented their frustration, confusion and was overwhelmed by the situation. As I spoke to the student in private, he demonstrated signs of isolation, guilt, shame, and felt pressured to continue school. Through these interactions I recognized some potential symptoms of depression. First, I made an appointment with the family and the student to meet with my seniors. I assisted my supervisors with the assessment of his case, discussing potential interventions and liaised with the appropriate departments. During the appointments, I, along with my supervisors, utilized active listening, reframing, and goal settings skills to provide the student and their family tools to cope with the situation and put it into a different perspective. Guided by my supervisor, I continued to follow up with him to ensure his overall…

Reflection Worksheet Introduction The Palmerston North Women’s Health Collective (PNWHC) has been part of the community since 1984 and providing the women of the Manawatu region with information and support on a wide range of health and well-being issues. The PNWHC offers free services such as pregnancy tests and cervical screening, and low cost services including counselling and natural therapies (The Palmerston North Women’s Health Collective [the PNWHC], 2014). The PNWHC was not my first…

Opportunities that I could have done something more about Networking with other social and community services in the community I appreciate that the PNWHC gave me a lot of learning opportunities during my placement. I enjoyed attending monthly members meetings hosted by Community Service Council (CSC), and Manawatu Abuse Intervention Network (MAIN) because I was able to meet social workers and key workers from a wide range of social and community service agencies in Palmerston North. Listening…

Community service and volunteering is important to ensure events happen and so that they run smoothly. During the presentations in class, many of the presenters mentioned how important volunteering was for their success, for example the Easter Seals. For me, volunteering is a valuable and educational experience that is rewarding. The purpose of this paper is to reflect upon my volunteer experiences and to illustrate how the knowledge obtained throughout this course has impacted my way of…

the use of informal helping networks, offering assertive community involvement by case managers, and to emphasis the relationship between client and case manager. In the early 1980’s, strength-base case management was implement in community mental health center and eventually in a statewide system of psychiatric institution, beginning a systematic new approach to working with clients (Rapp & Chamberlain, 1985). The client would set goals, that would set as their blueprint for the work that…

It allows the associates who partake in Depot Day, to take pride in the fact that they are assisting in their local community and making a difference. The service’s provided by Office Depot allows the customer sound technological advice rather than a sales pitch. Many times just taking the time to sit and explain how some of the new technology features work, allows the customer to better relate to the product and become more open to technology rather than to avoid it. Take for instance the time…

The answer is not to automatically incarcerate and teach juvenile offenders a lesson. “But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him?” (John 3:17, NIV). There are alternatives that successfully work with the youth to address the offense, outside of court proceedings. Diversion is an alternative method of programs, procedures and structures used to avoid judicial proceedings and a criminal record with youth…

understatement; I'm thrilled. There are a multitude of things I want to accomplish. On the contrary, however, I am anxious about going to Deerfield for quite a few reasons also. Going into Deerfield, I plan to do a myriad of activities. I plan to join clubs, play sports, and maybe even start a club of my own if it isn't there. However, there are multiple tasks that I aspire to accomplish. I hope to join a community service committee and do as many community service hours as possible,…

image and reputation about the members and their community. Any person who has not been part of Greek life and does not have any information about this community and its activities they would think sororities and fraternities are just a big house full of college people just having fun, drinking, and sleeping around. However, what they don’t know is that in reality there are rules to be able to be a member, such as a good GPA, no alcohol or drug substances…

Saftner is an article that displays all of the different ways you can volunteer. There are a lot of things you can do to help your community. “ Last week millions of Americans worked at soup kitchens, shelters, playgrounds, museums, prisons and schools.” (Saftner,98). This is just a small list of ideas there are for volunteering. You don’t have to be a certain age to volunteer, it actually makes young kids look very good. In an article titled “Feeding Frenzy” by Carlin and Sider a boy David…