Talk:Mental health counselor

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5.21.08 This page is currently undergoing a revision by founders and former presidents of the American Mental Health Counselors Association and others who became aware that the material presented here was not entirely accurate or factual. This will be an independent offering and not part of any official organizational offering. We regret any misrepresentations of the field of mental health counseling. For further information, contact, Dr. Edward Beck at edward.beck@waldenu.edu.

William J. Weikel, Past President AMHCA, Founding Editor, AMHCA Journal, now Journal of Mental Health Counseling,

Howard Smith, Past President, American Mental Health Counseling Association and form Professional Affairs Officer, American Counseling Association

James J. Messina, Co-Founder and Past President, American Mental Health Counselors Association, and Co-Founder and Past Chair, National Academy of Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselors

Edward S. Beck, Past President American Mental Health Association, Past AMHCA Representative to the Council for the Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs

William Krieger, Past Chair, National Academy of Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselors and Past President, AMHCA

Jonah Steinhaus, Past Chair National Academy of Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselors

Richard Wilmarth, Past President, American Mental Health Counselors Association and Past Chair, National Academy of Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselors —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.248.108.147 (talk • contribs)
 * Hello. I just deleted all the content about this organization. Thanks.  Blue Rasberry   (talk)  15:36, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Concise in line reference
There is a new article that details the scope of practice of mental health counselors in the United States. The article citation is:

Kassirer, S. J,. Delaney, N. M., Goldstein, L. M., Taylor, M. E., Dobmeier, R. A., & Hernandez, T. J. (2013)  Scope of practice impact on employability in New York State:  Director and counselor views. Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 35:4 360-378.

I hope this can improve in text references to this article.

Steven J. Kassirer JD MS Primary Author — Preceding unsigned comment added by SteveKassirer (talk • contribs) 03:54, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

Globalise
Either change it to xxx in USA or it needs a complete re-write for hopeless bias. Also a very distinct clarification need to be made for the project tagging and identity as to whether medical/psychiatry, or psychology,  or  counseling models -  conflation does a disservice to wikipedia

satusuro 04:31, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

Made Some Fixes
The previous definition was a tautology: "mental health counselors counsel people in a mental health-y way" (well, it wasn't THAT bad). I changed it to be more informative. It could use some work: I want to include both the psychotherapeutic aspect and the holistic aspect, but I haven't yet figured out a way of saying something Gregory Bateson-like about people "not being sick, but stuck," that works as a definition. Nor have I found an external definition that isn't either wrong or incomprehensible to anyone who doesn't already know what a counselor does, so I didn't cut out and paste down someone else's. (Definitions are like haiku.)

I condensed a compare-and-contrast of medical model and other viewpoints, adding links to the relevant pages for readers who want more information.

I added a section for "United States" for licensing, etc., though no other countries are represented. Please, folks, add more!

Not many new references -- most statements are basically repetitions of definitions given on other pages. I referenced more such pages. RobertPlamondon (talk) 16:35, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

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contributing to this article
I would like to help contribute to this article. Would using the Journal of Mental Health Counseling be an adequate source to use as a citation? Or would a book such as Ethics in Psychology and the Mental Health Professions: Standards and Cases by Gerald P. Koocher, Patricia Keith-Spiegel, would this be a good way to gather relevant information from.Ru31982 (talk) 07:05, 5 February 2018 (UTC)