Counselor's Role in Interagency Collaboration and Consultation
What are the different roles that a counselor can take on in dealing with other mental health or medical personnel?
One-on-One Consultant, Team member on a team addressing certain issues with a client, or the sole expert.
What are some of the responsibilities of a therapist within an integrated behavioral health care system?
Provide brief intervention with clients at the recommendation of a physician.
Provide consultation for medical personnel.
Providing assessment for patients.
Provide client's who do not have a primary care physician with a primary care physician.
Support patients in their recovery and their overall well-being and health.
What is the primary obligation of a clinical mental health counselor's no matter what role they have within an agency?
If a client comes in with liver failure due to alchoholism to an integrated Behavioral Health Care System what kind of help could a therapist provide?
The therapist could provide alcohol and substance addiction counseling to the patient while they are healing from their physical injuries.
Hamberger, Oxide and Weiner identified four areas of differences that could present challenges in the collaboration process between mental health practitioners and medical professionals?
(a) emphasis on different theories (b) ways of learning expectations for collaboration and consultation, (c) methods of approaching problems, and (d) professional expectations for collaboration and consultation.
Where would we often find an integrated behavioral health care system in place?
What is a treatment team?
A treatment team is designed to provide a complete and conceptualization of client issues that can allow for interventions for clients who have intensive services or are in partial psychiatric hospital programs, inpatient psychiatric programs and day treatment programs.
primary care physicians or the practicing doctor who is currently charged with the patient.
What are some challenges that counselor's face when establishing a consultation with a family.
The families have the last say on what is and is not going to be implemented, and the power struggles that will be faced,
What types of disorders would be typically seen in an Integrated Behavioral Healthcare System? (commonly seen but not limited to).
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder(s), Anxiety Disorder(s), Depression, Alcohol and Substance Abuse.