User:Lucy Hollister/sandbox

(This is where I am workshopping my article. Writing in block quote form is the writing taken from the current page to be integrated and adapted in my revisions.)

Community counseling
Practicing life review attendance before receiving community counseling results in a significant reduction of PTSD symptoms.

Lead Section
"Community counseling is a generic term for any kind of professional counseling that occurs outside a hospital setting. This term may also be used to describe a form of counseling that is focused on helping communities who may be struggling with an increased amount of shared psychological problems. These problems may be the result of traumatic events that have taken place recently within the community."

Importance
- Vulnerable populations"A community may involve different people like homeless, widowed, aged, sexually abused, alcoholic, victim of any conflict, physically challenged, mentally challenged, mothers, young people and so on. A community is a very diverse place with different issues and challenges which often demand expert’s involvement. Communities different across the globe, so are their problems. Community counselors may provide its services to different people with different needs within a community. The issues can be like substance abuse, conflict, disease outbreak, natural disaster, mental health, child marriage, relationships etc. A community counselor deals with individuals and groups and shall be holistic in nature. The community counselor may also identify groups which needs advocacy. A community counselor is a professional and comes with leadership skills and relationships skills (which is important to build trust among people).""The community counselor helps people in understanding about their issues and organize the community by hand-holding them. The cycle of problems (for example, substance abuse) can be addressed by the community counselor in groups."

Models
"The RESPECTFUL model of community developed by Michael D’Andrea, Ed. D. and Judy Daniels is a widely used model of community counseling. The model can be described as:""R: Religious- Respecting the religious beliefs and sentiments of a community.""B: Economic background- One shall not be discriminated based of their economic capabilities.""S: Sexual identity- Every individual has the right to hide or reveal their sexual identity, which shall be respected.""P: Psychological maturity/health- One's ability to respond to certain circumstances will be defined by his/her maturity. therefore, one shall understand the ability of other person.""E:Ethnic identity-People belonging to different identity shall not be discriminated and biased based on their realities from where they come.""C: Chronological/developmental challenge- Physical and mental differences affects everyone differently which brings different outcomes.""T: Trauma- Someone can be in trauma due to some reasons, that needs to understood and handled carefully.""F: Family background- Plays a major role in shaping a person and his/her personality.""U: Unique physical characteristics- People belonging to this category may face different challenges in everyday life as compared to others.""L: Location- A person is most often a reflection of the place that he/she belongs to, the differences and realities must be accepted.""The RESPECTFUL model is a holistic approach of understanding the community and its issues better. Counseling can be done individually (for example, Depression) or in groups (for example, during a conflict in community) across all ages and gender."

Peer Review
Hey Lucy! I think you've got a great start. You've got a pretty accurate critique of the article. I would especially agree with the article's referencing issue. Getting references from sites that aren't about the actual career would be helpful. I especially like that you added the "ethical and legal issues" subsection as well as the "training counselors" subsection. I'm not sure if AA is considered community counseling, but if it is, you could provide a link to that page as well as other popular community counseling groups. I'm excited to see where this goes!

-Sheila