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Counselors who are well are more likely to be helpful to their clients (Lawson & Myers, 2011; Venart, Vassos, & Pitcher-Heft, 2007), and counselors' mental health and wellness impacts the quality of services clients receive (Roach & Young, 2007).
By understanding barriers to school-based mental health counseling services and strategies for increasing family enrollment and retention, mental health counselors can help increase students' academic readiness and the integration of mental health services into the structure of the nation's schools.
Related to the issue of growth and development, mental health counselors also aim to facilitate client wellness (Myers, Sweeney, & Witmer, 2001), rather than simply eliminate pathology.
The group counseling intervention offered in the PCAF clinics may have considerable mental health benefits over time.
Medicare reimbursement for counselors would expand older adults' access to mental health services and increase counselors' professional opportunities.
These counselors would benefit from knowing what other mental health professionals consider to be best practices for preventing and treating posttraumatic stress disorders (PTSDs).
Benefits included ways to deal with stigma, reducing isolation, and “differentness,” as well as the pursuit of mental health services if needed.
Taking up the framework within the everyday practice of mental healthcare offers several benefits for clients, clinicians and mental health.
Interventions yielded significant short-term benefits in terms of formal help-seeking, self-help, as well as mental health literacy and personal stigma.
Moreover, even if working in independent practice, mental health counselors are likely to treat less affluent clients than psychologists or psychiatrists.