Wellness Model Of Multidisciplinary Family Counseling

Counseling Specializations and Multidisciplinary Teams

The impact of counseling specializations and multidisciplinary teams can serve for the benefit of clients. It has the potential to fuse together wellness models that preserves or enhances a client’s wellness while also providing various perspectives that can motivate them toward achieving wellness. In this paper, there will be an exploration of a particular wellness model, as well as the histories and benefits of a multidisciplinary team between mental health counselors and marriage and family therapists. Finally, there will be an application of how this collaboration to a particular case will benefit the client.

Impact of a Wellness Model A particular wellness model that will be discussed

The early stages of counseling grew out of the industrial age. Key individuals, like Jane Addams and Frank Parsons, provided counseling by way of career and vocation exploration (Aubrey, 1977). Carl Rodgers (Aubrey, 1977) later ushered in client-centered counseling and the counseling profession became more defined over time. Counseling organizations established their professional identities, codes of ethics, standardized education and licensure requirements, as well as multicultural competencies (Kaplan, 2002). Counseling also began to focus on the development of the whole person (Aubrey,

Unlike clinical psychology and psychiatry, mental health counseling focuses on developmental, preventive, educational, as well as the traditional aspects of care for clients. The field evolved out of a need to treat clients morally and humane; and, over time, the National Mental Health Association was created (Smith & Robinson, 1995). Mental health counseling went on to establish the American Mental Health Counseling Association and define their identity and view of the client. In essence, mental health counseling, as a profession, considers its work as processes and approaches that are holistic, interdisciplinary and multifaceted; and the client is viewed as a person who exists within a familial, societal, and cultural contexts while also being an “emotional, physical, social, vocational, and spiritual being” (Pistole & Roberts, 2002,