Mental health nurse ’started relationship with former patient over Facebook’
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A mental health nurse started a relationship with a former patient through Facebook just two weeks after she left his care, a disciplinary hearing heard.
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September 7, 2010
September 5, 2010
Kitsap Mental Health offers first aid training
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A two-day mental health first aid course will be offered to the public Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 by Kitsap Mental Health Services. Mental Health First Aiders learn how to respond to signs of mental health concerns, such a panic att
September 4, 2010
Several events planned for Mental Health week
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Raising Mental Health Awareness happens in Chilliwack this week with events taking place through May 9. The week is sponsored by the Chilliwack Mental Health Advisory Committee, Fraser Health Authority and supported by Shaw TV, Star 98.3 and the Chilliwack Mood Disorders Group.
September 2, 2010
A Look at What Counselling Is and How it Helps People
By Billlly Jones
Counselling takes place when a counsellor has a session and sees a client in a confidential and private setting in order to explore a difficulty the client is facing, distress they may be experiencing or perhaps their unhappiness with life, or possibly a loss of a sense of direction and purpose. No-one can really be sent for counselling, it always has to be at the request of the client.
Counselling can help with:
Personal development issues
Addressing and resolving particular difficulties
Making decisions
Coping with crises
Making sense of complex and possibly conflicting feelings
Improving relationships with others
Counselling is not only there to help you to understand your situation, but is also there to help you review options for a positive change and to allow you to make the best decisions about any actions that need to be made in the future. People usually find that knowing they have a preprepared plan they have considered carefully from all angles improves self-confidence and optimism for the future.
Counselling is there to provide you with a supportive, confidential and non judgmental environment to explore any emotional, psychological or study problems you may be encountering in your life.
Throughout the counselling process a client will be encouraged, supported and empowered in order to look at themselves from a different angle. The aim of this is not just to help them cope with a current issue or crisis, but to do so in a way that produces learning for the future, so the client can feel more in charge of their life. Taking responsibility is a very important part of this commitment.
The essentials for the counsellor relationship must be an aspect of acceptance and respect for the client as the relationship develops, so does trust between the counsellor and client. This enables the client to look at many aspects of their own life, as well as their relationships and a look at themselves which they may not have considered or been able to face before. The counsellor may help the client to examine the behaviour or situations which are proving troublesome in great detail and to find any areas where it would be possible to initiate some change as a start. The counsellor will most likely help the client to look at the options open to them and help them to decide the best for them.
By listening patiently and attentively the counsellor can begin to perceive the difficulties from the client’s point of view and can then move on to help them to see things more a little more clearly, usually from a different perspective or angle, which helps to address the problem. Counselling is a way of enabling choice or change or of reducing confusion. It does not involve giving advice or directing a client to take a particular course of action. Counsellors do not judge or exploit their clients in any way.
Counselling can assist a client to identify their own personal resources and capabilities, which are sometimes lost or buried in times of confusion and anxiety. This may enable a client to see their circumstances afresh and with clarity so that they can make the necessary changes in their life that will help them at their particular stage of life. Counsellors will not make decisions for a client or impose their opinions on a client, but will respect their individual needs.
If you or a loved one needs counselling you should look for one in your local area like counselling in surrey or the counselling surrey to begin your journey.