Mental Health Organizations, Essay Help

Introduction

Mental health has become a major issue in many parts of the world. In order to create awareness and provide treatment, mental health organizations have come up with websites that will help create more awareness. The first website is the American Psychological association. The second one is the American Counseling Association. The third website is International Association of Counselors & Therapists.

  • What are common themes found among each of the professional organizations represented in the websites?

The three websites have a common theme, creating awareness on mental health. There are people who do not know what mental health is and how to face it when they or one of their friends or relatives has mental health. The websites help such people to understand mental health. The second theme is offering treatment advice. Each website has its own treatment designation but they all offer the same type of treatment facilities. The third theme is membership. Each of these organizations to patients or any other people willing to join them so that they can learn more on mental health care (ACA, 2016).

  • What are the distinctive themes for each organization?

Each of these there websites has a distinguishing theme from the others. American Counseling Association offers career advice for people who would like to work in the mental health department. The second theme is that it gives updates from the government on mental health. In the second website, American Psychological association offers continuing education to nurses who would like to major on mental health. The third website, International Association of Counselors & Therapists offers regular conferences that people can attend and learn more on mental health. Form here, they can make up their mind on how to help people with mental health issues or learn more about it since it is becoming common (APA, 2016).

  • How might a professional from each of the disciplines represented in the websites you selected answer the following question “How would a professional in your organization contribute to the treatment of depression?”

Depression is a mental health disorder. For a person suffering from depression, a professional from the International Association of Counselors & Therapists, would offer care treatment following a number of steps. The first one would be to rule out the cause of depression. This will help the professional understand how to go about with helping the patient. The second step would be to offer therapy. There are cases where during therapy a patient will be required to take antidepressant medication to help them relaxation treatment like yoga and massage would also help a patient. Once depression is completely cured, it is important for the patient to visit a therapist thereafter in order to avoid going back to the same condition (IACT, 2016).

References

ACA (2016) American Counseling Association Retrieved from: https://www.counseling.org/

APA (2016) American Psychological association Retrieved from: http://www.psych.org

IACT (2016) International Association of Counselors & Therapists Retrieved from: http://www.iact.org

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HERE’S THE QUESTION…………

Hi Tamica,

Nice work on the discussion of the common and distinctive themes for the organizations you selected.

RE: How might a professional from each of the disciplines represented in the websites you selected answer the following question “How would a professional in your organization contribute to the treatment of depression?”–You did not answer this question for all three professions.

Based on what you read, if a relative of yours who was considering therapy asked you, “Would you recommend a psychologist or counselor and what’s the difference?”, how would you answer your friend?