Rehabilitation counseling

Journal #1: My Thoughts on Becoming a Mental Health Counselor Tanya Mizell Walden University Journal #1: My Thoughts on Becoming a Mental Health Counselor With great significance, my progression through the Walden University’s mental health counseling program will indeed impact my life both personally and professionally. The impact of my studies and training will assist me in making the changes and enhancements that are necessary for me to be a proficient, commonsensical and open-minded…

effect on alcoholism for individual based treatments client’s as well. Rather it’s a female or male client in treat counseling inclines treatment retention, while declining the use of drugs (heroin) use. In addition for the client to cope with reality they’re likely being slowly weaned off any ATOD with either an opioid detoxification, in addition to methadone, or followed up by rehabilitation maintenance. This demonstrates another form of having a reinforcement based treatment (RBT) which is…

information to analyze and evaluate a client in order to identify problems, plan for treatment, and aid in diagnosing. Tests usually take the form of paper and pencil, for children observation through play. Other types of testing focus on therapy and counseling. Here the testing may focus on personality traits, levels of functioning, and diagnosing. Counselling Experience Many people will, at some point in their lives, find themselves in the role of a counsellor without having a true…

(Rosenberg). In the article “Staying Sober After Treatment Ends,” Tina Rosenberg discusses how continuing sobriety after rehabilitation services, specifically impatient services, is much harder than one would think. Many people who experience residential rehabilitation treatment become sober while still in the facility itself; however, whenever patients are out of the rehabilitation center and back into the real world, many tend to relapse. This is due to the fact that these people are not…

WHY (LOCATION NAME) (Location Name) is the leading provider, for sustainable recovery, within the Stuart, Florida area. Providing our clients with the recovery tools that they need, accompanied by the privacy that they desire and deserve, our clients walk in feeling confident in our treatment program. So what do we offer that makes us a step above the rest? These are our top for, however after exploring our website and talking to the wonderful staff at (Location Name), you will find many more…

Agency Name: Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Center Interviewed: Dave Anderson, MA, LPC, CAADA Time in Substance Abuse Service: 11.5 years Title within Agency: “Outpatient Therapist” Date: Monday, October 5th, 2015 at 4:00pm This Monday our team interviewed Dave Anderson, MA, LPC, CAADA of sacred heart rehabilitation center in Flint Michigan. Dave was kind enough to field our interview from our team. Dave is a substance abuse outpatient therapist, he specializes in helping his clients obtain…

Being the youngest in the Sober Living, I live at, it’s like I have six moms and/or older sisters. All of the women have inspired me with their recovery and learning a new way of life, as so am I. One of the ladies I live with Tiffany P. (for anonymity reasons can’t write her full name; she is in a 12 Step program as I am) is a Hawaii-born lady, straight from Honolulu, Hawaii. The reason why I’m writing about her and not the other five ladies, is because our story starts in Acton Rehab almost…

On Friday, October 28, 2016, I attended my very first open meeting for Overeaters Anonymous located in the Beebe Memorial CME Temple next to a church in 3900 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, CA at 6pm. This was the first time in a long time that I felt welcomed into a community of people whom I had just met. I arrived thirty minutes before the meeting and spoke to Louis, the meeting advisor for the night. I let him know I was a student who was taking a class on Addiction and wanted to know if it was…

conceptualize with all the needs that a client may warrant including social, environmental, and financial, which are common pathways that lead to substance abuse as it is found in most cases used as methods of coping. Nonetheless in addition to counseling and other behavioral therapies, at times pharmacological intervention may deem necessary, to increase the goal of effectiveness for positive outcomes. Drug of choice Naltrexone, is the drug of chose I resonate with because of the…

This time gave me an opportunity to undertake reflective listening through active listening which according to Rogers (1975) in his “client-centered” therapy argues that it encourages the client to share the information in more depth than if I was only asking directive questions. This enabled me to gain information when the client brought out the underlying issues including those that I had not thought about. The active listening also improved my relationship with the client since I was able to…