Mental health professionals

After reading Chapter 11, one specific area where I think I would be most challenged (ethically and clinically) as a therapist when engaging in couples /family therapy is the issue of holding individual therapy sessions with members at the outset of therapy. Individual assessments provide therapists with valuable information regarding each individual’s history, commitment to the current relationship and goals they wish to get out of therapy. However, during these sessions individuals take the…

Center and would like to be considered for a position. I graduated from West Virginia University in December of 2016 receiving my Bachelor’s degree in Multidisciplinary Studies with concentrations in Business Administration, Sports Communication and Health Promotion. I am currently the Office Administrator for I.A.T.S.E. LOCAL 487, which is a labor organization representing Studio Mechanics and Broadcast Technicians in the film industry. After reading the job descriptions on the JHMBC website, I…

Wilderness Adventure Therapy Effects on the Mental Health of Youth Participants, written by mental health professionals Daniel Bowena, James Neilla, and Simon Crisp (2016), is an evaluation of 36 adolescents participating in a ten-week Wilderness Adventure Therapy (WAT) program in Australia. As young adults make up a large clinical population, many interventions are designed for younger children or adults, so this article begins by expressing the need for therapeutic interventions specifically…

time it tends to be bad (Baun, 2009). When it comes to mental illness, the media tends to be very skewed from reality (Baun, 2009). Research shows that mass media is the public’s number one source of information regarding mental illness (Baun, 2009). For those suffering from DID, and other mental illnesses the media’s negative and inaccurate portrayal of their illnesses can cause significant effects (Baun, 2009). Those that suffer from a mental illness no matter what that illness may be, are…

Mental illnesses are quite common. They affect 1 in 4 people (or 25%), which is more common than many people would like to believe. Yet there is a still stigma surrounding mental illness and mental health. Stigma is described as the negative view of a person because they have a mental illness. It is also described as a feeling of shame or judgement from others. This stigma can cause a person to blame themselves for something outside of their control, prevent them from getting the help they need,…

promoting 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…

Mental health services attempt to provide individuals with mental illnesses resources and coping tools that ultimately reduce hospital stays and afford individuals and families a better quality of life. They promote wellness by offering education not only to the individual struggling but to the family members and caregivers as well. In order to achieve treatment goals, it is necessary to incorporate multiple therapies focused on the health and wellbeing of the family. Psychoeducation groups…

Change in DSM In 1973 a historic advance in social justice took place and homosexuality was removed as a mental disorder from the DSM. The APA then acknowledged that not only was homosexuality not a mental illness, but there was a need for revision in the practice guidelines and ethical standards pertaining to sexual orientation. The APA recognized that mental health practitioners would need to go about offering services to people who identify as gay, lesbian, and bisexual in a very different…

Hornstein Evan Watters (2010), in his article, ‘The Americanization of Mental Illness’, describes how USA has exported mental illness to the world, he calls it "homogenizing the way the world goes mad” (para.1). Coupled with the constant expansion of the DSM and its diagnostic classifications, the pharmaceutical companies and the medicalization of psychiatry around the world, has greatly impacted how we approach mental health/ illness and its treatment. In Agnes’s Jacket, Psychologist Gail…

have been diagnosed with a mental illness of some sort. It has been on everyone’s lips at one time or another, and has been saturated throughout…