CPSY 400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Community Mental Health Act, Mental Health Counselor, Generalized Anxiety Disorder
22 May 2019
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Chapter 18: clinical mental health and private practice counseling. Many clinical mental health and private practice counselors belong to american mental health. Counselor association (amhca) as well as an association that matches their specialty. Community mental health centers act of 1963 - most significant early piece of federal legislation; intended to promote local mental health initiatives. Clinical mental health counseling is interdisciplinary in history, practice settings, skills/knowledge, and roles. Many counselors describe themselves as mental health counselor or clinical mental health counselor. The amhca has certification standards for counselors to become certified clinical mental. Primary prevention and the promotion of mental health. Primary prevention - characterized by its before the fact quality ; it is intentional and group- oriented rather than individual. Bloom"s (1996) configural model of prevention focuses on 3 dimensions: 1. counselors need to work to increase individual strengths and decrease individual limitations. 2. counselors must increase social support and decrease social stress.
