Beacon Behavioral Health is a freestanding community mental health center located at 3200 Ridge Lake Dr. Suite 100 in Metairie‚ Louisiana. The CEO is P. Sean Wendell. The interview was conducted with Gail Boylan‚ LMSW. Centers also exist in Baton Rouge‚ Houma‚ Northshore‚ and Lutcher. Beacon Behavioral Hospital also owns 2 freestanding hospitals‚ one in New Orleans and one in Lutcher. Beacon’s mission statement is “to provide unsurpassed patient care in a compassionate‚ cost effective and ethical
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What exactly is Human Services? Human services is defined as “uniquely approaching the objective of meeting human needs through an interdisciplinary knowledge base‚ focusing on prevention as well as remediation of problems.”(National Organization of Human Services [NOHS]‚ n.d) Ever since I was in my sophomore year of high school I knew that after college I wanted to work with human services in some sort of way. But being a naive sophomore‚ I knew nothing about the careers and the information that
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Human service is a profession implemented to helping people and the community that it services. The goal of Human Services is to make sure that people can become self-sufficient. During the early 1600s human services was developed when the English set a law that was focused on helping the poor. The intervention and strategies use is to help people meet their needs and fall short of their goal to succeed. The ethical consideration that a human service professional must have is to view every client
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Laura: 5 Things Mental Health Social Workers Have Learned Over the Years There are important things that mental health social workers have learned over the years. Some of these involve academic standards‚ career choices‚ social problems and much needed policy reforms. Below introduces some of the most important things that mental health social workers should know before they start their careers after graduation. Education Matters The traditional academic requirement for most entry-level positions
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Article from MIND better mental health Histort of mental health factsheets: You are welcome to print and photocopy this page of Mind’s website. Organisations are free to distribute copies to service users and colleagues‚ but must ensure they always use the latest version‚ as available on the website‚ at the time of distribution. 1601 The Poor Law was introduced and clearly defined the responsibility of every parish to support those who were incapable of looking after themselves. This responsibility
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The career that I chose is Mental Health Specialist. My initial career was becoming a Social Worker. When I graduate college I would only have a Bachelors in Psychology. To do become a Social worker I would need a Master’s degree. I want to become a Mental Health Specialist so that I can help people and be a good influence. “Mental health specialists can be employed at a variety of healthcare facilities to assist patients who have mental illnesses or other problems that might be aided by professional
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The role of the health and social care worker HSC025 ALL OUTCOMES IN RED ARE OBSERVATIONS TO BE CARRIED OUT BY YOUR ASSESSOR. THE INFORMATION GIVEN INDICATES THE TYPES OF THINGS YOUR ASSESSOR WILL BE LOOKING FOR Understand working relationships in health and social care OUTCOME 1 1. Explain how a working relationship is different from a personal relationship A working relationship is where you are placed with other people and work as part of a team where each individual is working
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INTRODUCTION Gangsterism is an ever-growing crisis‚ which affects all youth involved as well as the entire community in a specific country in which it has taken claim. Children are growing up within communities where gang violence becomes so rife that in the end perceived as the norm. Gangs have been in these children’s environment from day one; therefore‚ imprinted behaviors leave little or no choice of role models. The subculture of gang violence has become a most feared phenomenon in many poverty-stricken
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Community mental health is a vast concept with various initiatives and programmes under its umbrella. The area chosen for the purpose of the assignment is to address community mental health initiative addressing psychosocial needs of the people who have experienced massive forced displacement and/or identify as refugees. People migrate due to economic crisis‚ natural disasters‚ construction of dams and various others reasons that lead them into search for other opportunities‚ away from conflict and
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Amber Weaver Everglades University HSC3102 The Meaning of Health Dr. Linda Abbott The Mental Health Benefits of Marriage 3/18/14 Abstract Over the past few years‚ there have been numerous studies conducted on the positive health benefits of a healthy marriage‚ and its physical effects on individual health. A recent study‚ found in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior‚ took a look at whether a healthy marriage benefited those who suffered with depression prior to getting married
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