Foundations
Roles of CMHC
Suicide/Crises/Disaster
EAP's, Managed Care, Private Practice
Agencies, Medical Settings, Other Specialized Clinical Settings
100
Founded in 1976, united mental health counselors into a professional organization in which they defined their roles and goals.
What is American Mental Health Counselors Association.
100
Refers to structure in counseling, this is referring to a counselor-client understanding about the conditions, procedures, and nature of counseling. It helps provide direction and verify obligations of both parties.
What is role induction.
100
this is the best single predictor of a future completed suicide.
What is a previous attempt.
100
a third party that oversees healthcare delivery in order to limit costs and monitor and influence services. The term refers to any HMO or managed behavioral care entity.
What is managed care organization.
100
# of billable hours a clinician generates.
What is productivity.
200
Passed in 1938, congress passed it and it created the vocational education division of the us office of education and an occupational information and guidance service.
What is the George Dean Act
200
this refers to having mixed feelings about a proposed change.
What is ambivalence.
200
a state of being incapable of changing or coping in response to different moods, feelings, emotions, needs, and influences; being unable to adapt to the immediate physical and social world.
What is immobility.
200
an organization that provides comprehensive health care to its members in return for a fixed monthly membership fee. Health services are coordinated by a primary care physican who serves as the gatekeeper and makes all decisions regarding referral for specialty examinations and services.
What is HMO.
200
this is a complex, progressive behavior pattern that is biological, psychological, sociological, and behavioral. It is a persistent and intensive involvement with and stress upon a single behavior pattern, with a minimization or even exclusion of other behaviors, both personal and interpersonal.
What is addiction.
300
Passed in 1946, authorized funds for research and training to prevent and treat mental health disorders.
What is National Mental Health Act
300
this newer way of helping a reluctant/resistant client encourages the client to role with resistance rather than confront it.
What is motivational interviewing.
300
defining the problem, ensuring client safety, providing support, examining alternatives, making plans, obtaining commitment.
What is the six-step model of crisis intervention.
300
the separation, or carving out, of specific type of health care from the overall benefit package. For example, the mental health and substance abuse portion of healthcare benefits may be "carved out" of the overall package and separately contracted with managed behavioral care organizations.
What is carve-out.
400
o Developed with the soviet union’s first launching, was developed in 1958 to identify scientifically and academically talented students and promote their development.
What is the National Defense Education Act
400
this model is characterized by 5 levels used to indicated level of readiness for change: precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance.
What is transtheoretical model
500
this is one way to get clients to take initiative in change, and involves pointing out discrepancies in beliefs, actions, words, or nonverbal behaviors.
What is therapeutic confrontation.
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