History
This dude “put consultation on the human services landscape” and is often credited with “discovering” the usefulness of mental health consultation.
Who is Gerald Caplan?
These are the 4 Types of Mental Health Consultation.
What are:
client-centered case consultation
consultee-centered case consultation
program-centered administrative consultation
consultee-centered administrative consultation?
The ultimate aim of mental health consultation is actually this, even though a successful consultation may also have the secondary effect of being therapeutic to consultees.
What is an improvement to consultees' job performance?
If this is not very high in the consultee, then collaboration might be in order. This way the consultee can be trained and the human service professional can take part in the treatment process.
What is skill level?
The original Caplanian model used this approach to consultation.
What is Psychodynamic?
Parents, teachers, and paraprofessionals can be referred to as these.
What are mental health consultees?
A school counselor working with a teacher who is having trouble with a student who is stealing performs this type of mental health consultation and determines that the behavior is probably due to a need for security and attention. The counselor then makes a diagnosis of the problem and a behavioral recommendation to the teacher based on their professional opinion.
What is client-centered case consultation?
Mental health collaboration can be particularly helpful for these individuals.
Who are school-based professionals AND/OR mental health professionals who are internal to the organization?
Mental health consultation began during the "war years" with the passing of this law that created the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).
What is the federal Mental Health Act of 1946?
The basic relationship between the consultant and the consultee is this, so there's no built-in hierarchy or authority-subordinate tension. Whew!
What is coordinate?
The mental health unit of a university medical center was asked to conduct an assessment of a mental health program for at-risk children and adolescents in a rural county. The consultant most likely possessed these essential program-centered skills (3).
What are data-collecting, action planning, communication skills?
Collaboration does not take away from consultation but adds to it. The difference is that collaboration is marked by these characteristics:
What are:
the mental health practitioner determines which cases to discuss, takes responsibility for the mental health outcomes of the case, and typically joins in the treatment of the client?
This has always been an important element in mental health consultation, most likely due to Caplan’s background in psychiatry and public health.
What is Prevention?
Mental Health Consultation allows human service professionals to work at this level.
What is a systems level?
In a consultee-centered case consultation, a consultee reveals that he feels overwhelmed with uncertainty and insecurities about his job performance. Instead of reassuring him, his consultant does these two things, which are in line with his goals as a consultant.
What are
1) Provide support and encouragement by fostering hope, confidence, and courage by affirming the consultee’s strengths and capabilities & 2) Help the consultee find a peer support group within the consultee institution?
Consultee acceptance of suggestions in mental health collaboration is often second to this.
What is the collaborator's expertise in a specialty area?
During his time in Israel, Caplan observed that consultees were affected by these three perceptual dangers, which affected their ability to remain objective.
What are distortions, stereotypes, and personal issues?
This effect refers to the concept that what is learned in one situation should be usable in similar, future situations, which is central to the Caplanian model.
What is the Transfer of Effect?
A group of clinicians was provided with a consultation opportunity to discuss the difficulties they'd encountered while delivering CBT in their individual settings. For example, a critical component of CBT for child anxiety is exposure tasks, where youth face their fears. However, some clinicians reported that this would not be allowed in their agency as it might present as a liability or confidentiality issue. In response, the consultant might have done 1 or more of the following things. (roundabout answers will be accepted)
What are:
- discuss information on feelings clinicians might have around organizational limitations while remaining neutral
- study clinicians' particular organization system and assist in extending clinician knowledge about different ways to complete CBT tasks that still align with structure of organization
- follow up at a later time to determine which suggestions were helpful and which weren't, determine consultees' satisfaction
Mental health consultation and collaboration might be seen as desirable by disenfranchised groups because it sets the stage for this.