Mental Health Counseling
Running head: MENTAL HEALTH AND COMMUNITY COUNSELING
Mental Health and Community Counseling
COUN 501
Abstract: Counseling is within the reach of anyone in today’s society. The fields of mental health and community counseling allow services to be rendered to anyone that may need these services while in the past these service were only accessible for a person of a higher social standing in essence the rich. Mental health and community counseling had its beginnings several centuries ago. The services received from mental health and community counseling have helped those with personality development and emotional problems that are unable to pay for services in private practice and therefore if not for these services these clients would fall through the cracks. Mental health and community counseling use a blended technique spectrum in order to reach solutions with their clients. While there is mounting evidence of the impact of spirituality on mental well-being many counselors still do not incorporate spirituality as part of their therapy.
Mental Health and Community Counseling Mental health and community counseling has been an important part of the field of psychology since these branches have emerged. Both of these sectors of counseling provided services to people who would otherwise not be able to obtain these services. Both of mental health counseling and community counseling have a rich history that can be traced back to psychology. The following will provide a look at how these branches emerged from humble beginnings in psychology and the avenues of techniques used within both forms of this type of counseling.
Psychology did not emerge as a separate discipline until the late 1800’s; this discipline can be traced back to its earliest history of the early Greeks (Kendra). During the 17th century Rene Descartes, a French Philosopher, introduced the idea of dualism, which asserted that the mind and the body were two separate entities that interact to
Mental Health and Community Counseling
COUN 501
Abstract: Counseling is within the reach of anyone in today’s society. The fields of mental health and community counseling allow services to be rendered to anyone that may need these services while in the past these service were only accessible for a person of a higher social standing in essence the rich. Mental health and community counseling had its beginnings several centuries ago. The services received from mental health and community counseling have helped those with personality development and emotional problems that are unable to pay for services in private practice and therefore if not for these services these clients would fall through the cracks. Mental health and community counseling use a blended technique spectrum in order to reach solutions with their clients. While there is mounting evidence of the impact of spirituality on mental well-being many counselors still do not incorporate spirituality as part of their therapy.
Mental Health and Community Counseling Mental health and community counseling has been an important part of the field of psychology since these branches have emerged. Both of these sectors of counseling provided services to people who would otherwise not be able to obtain these services. Both of mental health counseling and community counseling have a rich history that can be traced back to psychology. The following will provide a look at how these branches emerged from humble beginnings in psychology and the avenues of techniques used within both forms of this type of counseling.
Psychology did not emerge as a separate discipline until the late 1800’s; this discipline can be traced back to its earliest history of the early Greeks (Kendra). During the 17th century Rene Descartes, a French Philosopher, introduced the idea of dualism, which asserted that the mind and the body were two separate entities that interact to
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