Counseling Specializations and Multidisciplinary Teams week 6
The Role and History of Mental Health Counseling
Dorothy Farrow
Capella University
Part 1 This Paper will cover how a Mental Health Counselor can promote wellness, as well as resilience for a certain client population. Wellness is doing well and being well. Wellness is a sign of positive personality, positive social skills, and positive emotions. Resilience is being able to recover from trauma, or adversity and recover fast, it deals with optimism and how well an individual have learn from a past experience. This paper explain how the wellness model plays a role in an individual life, and the key philosophies of the counseling profession, and how they are developed. Mental Health Counseling is one of the best fields of counseling, because of the demand, and need, it cross reference into any other field of counseling. This paper will cover the history of two major counseling professions MHS, and MFC.
Wellness Model
One of influential wellness model is the Wheel of Wellness, which is a theoretical based model. This model was developed as continual model basically based on individual psychology on Adler 's framework (Myers et al., 2001). In this model, spirituality was factored as the significant part and foundation of wellness. Spirituality was defined as the revelation of meaning, purpose, optimization, and connection that people get in relation to their lives. The life tasks of this model involves significant development of high-level of functioning in the areas of spirituality, self-regulations, occupation and hobby, companionship, and love (Myers et al, 2001). This model influences counselors approach in the sense that keen attention is paid in the main areas considered to influence a person 's well being (Meier, 2011). Considering spirituality in approaching different issues in counseling practice offers desirable results, which might not be realized through physical consideration. The other life task is Indivisible Self Model, which normally
Dorothy Farrow
Capella University
Part 1 This Paper will cover how a Mental Health Counselor can promote wellness, as well as resilience for a certain client population. Wellness is doing well and being well. Wellness is a sign of positive personality, positive social skills, and positive emotions. Resilience is being able to recover from trauma, or adversity and recover fast, it deals with optimism and how well an individual have learn from a past experience. This paper explain how the wellness model plays a role in an individual life, and the key philosophies of the counseling profession, and how they are developed. Mental Health Counseling is one of the best fields of counseling, because of the demand, and need, it cross reference into any other field of counseling. This paper will cover the history of two major counseling professions MHS, and MFC.
Wellness Model
One of influential wellness model is the Wheel of Wellness, which is a theoretical based model. This model was developed as continual model basically based on individual psychology on Adler 's framework (Myers et al., 2001). In this model, spirituality was factored as the significant part and foundation of wellness. Spirituality was defined as the revelation of meaning, purpose, optimization, and connection that people get in relation to their lives. The life tasks of this model involves significant development of high-level of functioning in the areas of spirituality, self-regulations, occupation and hobby, companionship, and love (Myers et al, 2001). This model influences counselors approach in the sense that keen attention is paid in the main areas considered to influence a person 's well being (Meier, 2011). Considering spirituality in approaching different issues in counseling practice offers desirable results, which might not be realized through physical consideration. The other life task is Indivisible Self Model, which normally
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