Mental health professional
Health care practitioner or social and human services provider who offers services for the purpose of improving an individual's mental health or to treat mental disorders.
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Clinical psychology
Integration of social science, theory, and clinical knowledge for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and personal development.
Integration of social science, theory, and clinical knowledge for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and personal development.
In many countries, clinical psychology is a regulated mental health profession.
Psychotherapy
Use of psychological methods, particularly when based on regular personal interaction, to help a person change behavior, increase happiness, and overcome problems.
Use of psychological methods, particularly when based on regular personal interaction, to help a person change behavior, increase happiness, and overcome problems.
Psychotherapists may be mental health professionals such as psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health nurses, clinical social workers, marriage and family therapists, or professional counselors.
Mental disorder
Behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning.
Behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning.
Such disorders may be diagnosed by a mental health professional, usually a clinical psychologist or psychiatrist.
Mental health
Mental health encompasses emotional, psychological, and social well-being.
Mental health encompasses emotional, psychological, and social well-being.
Many mental health professionals are beginning to, or already understand, the importance of competency in religious diversity and spirituality.
Mental health counselor
Person who works with individuals and groups to promote optimum mental and emotional health.
Person who works with individuals and groups to promote optimum mental and emotional health.
MHCs often work closely with other mental health specialists, such as psychiatrists, psychologists, clinical social workers, psychiatric nurses, and school counselors.
Mental Health Act 2007
Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Redefining professional roles: broadening the range of mental health professionals who can be responsible for the treatment of patients without their consent.
Approved mental health professional
Created in the 2007 amendment of the Mental Health Act 1983 to replace the role of approved social worker (ASW).
Created in the 2007 amendment of the Mental Health Act 1983 to replace the role of approved social worker (ASW).
The reason why some specialist mental health professionals are eligible to undertake this role is broadly to avoid excessive medicalisation of the assessment and treatment for individuals living with a mental disorder, as defined by section 1 of the Mental Health Act 1983.
Joe Viterelli
American actor, best remembered for playing Italian-American mobsters.
American actor, best remembered for playing Italian-American mobsters.
When he described Viterelli's Jelly character patiently padding about "trying to deal with the disturbing news that his boss is cracking up and seeing a shrink," critic Roger Ebert wrote, "He lends a subtle dimension to the movie; he gives [De Niro's mob boss] a context, and someone who understands him. The comedy here isn't all on the surface, and Viterelli is one reason why."
Roger E. Moore
Designer of role-playing games.
Designer of role-playing games.
After he graduated from college he entered the U.S. Army as a mental health counsellor.
Advance healthcare directive
Legal document in which a person specifies what actions should be taken for their health if they are no longer able to make decisions for themselves because of illness or incapacity.
Legal document in which a person specifies what actions should be taken for their health if they are no longer able to make decisions for themselves because of illness or incapacity.
A PAD can inform others about what treatment they want or don't want from psychiatrists or other mental health professionals, and it can identify a person to whom they have given the authority to make decisions on their behalf.