How the Mental Health Care System Understands Clients with Mental Illness

Event price: £110 per workshop (Group booking discount available)

Booking details: https://www.thelinkcentre.co.uk/courses/models-of-assessment-and-diagnosis-how-the-mental-health-care-system-understands-clients-with-mental-illness/

In order to effectively navigate and support our clients through the mental health care system, it is vital for counsellors and psychotherapists to familiarise themselves with the modes and methods employed in psychiatry to assess and diagnose ‘mental illness’.

This is essential if we are to comprehend the language of psychiatry and collaborate with our mental health colleagues effectively to support our clients. In addition, counsellors and psychotherapists also need to appreciate the philosophical and historical assumptions that inform this medicalised approach, which assess and treat emotional and psychological disturbances as ‘diseases’.

This will enable us to develop a critical appreciation of the narratives that are being used to define our clients’ experiences and thus position ourselves ethically and safely in relation to this.