Individual and psychological factors Psychological Factors such as social stigma, self-disclosure and anticipated utility and risk, etc. all play an important role in people considering pharmacist counseling over the physician counseling. • Social stigma is the fear that people well judge an individual if he/she sought help for a personal problem. This could be due to the negative public approach for people who suffer from mental illness mainly. In addition, other researchers have seen that people with ‘former hospital patient’ label caused them social rejection compared to other individuals with no such label. • Self-disclosure is one of the reasons that individuals avoid physician counseling services; this is due to discomfort in sharing …show more content…
Is an issue when certain family members fear that the individual seeking of physician counseling or even counseling in general will affect the family in a negative/undesired way. It has been reports of lowered self-esteem among family members due to negative societal reception towards this family. So in this case, the counselor needs to understand the beliefs of the people around the certain individual. In this case a pharmacist is a better and easier choice for people who are affected by social norms. • Self-Esteem. Maintaining a positive self-image is vital in the everyday aspects for majority of people. So it is understandable in that sense that people might avoid seeking help/counseling if he/she believes that this well affect their self-esteem. So it is understood from some researches that self-esteem is considered as significant psychological barrier between individual and counseling in general. In some people prospective, seeking help from someone means that he/she cannot deal with this issue/problem on his own. Thus the individual may not seek counseling in order to keep a positive self-image. Furthermore, research found out that help seeking was found to be less with individual who feel uncomfortable/embarrassed to ask for help. And self-esteem was found to be directly associated with the help
Practitioners are likely to concentrate on the mental health issues rather than the overall issues that prevent the well-being of an individual. For instance, an individual could have other medical issues that need attention but the need could be ignored because a psychiatrist specialises in mental health needs. The previous negative experience of a service user and lack of insight could result in the service user not requesting the support they
The expectation in the practitioner/client relationship is that any information disclosed will not be shared with others. Confidentiality is emphasized to provide the client with a safe haven in which to share traumatic events or embarrassing personal information about themselves (Krase, 2013). Disclosing this type of sensitive information...
Finally, it may be valuable for some clients to have Suzie’s phone number; however, she should use discretion when providing it. Suzie’s personal therapy style, including providing her phone number, may promote client dependency (Roth & Worthington, 2011, 361). Moreover, it is not Suzie’s responsibility to solve the client’s issues (Roth & Worthington, 2011, 361). If a client has Suzie’s phone number, he or she may be tempted to call when problems arise. Roth & Worthington (2011) assert: “The clinician’s role is to assist clients in assuming responsibility for their own behavior and decisions” (p. 365). In conclusion, proper boundaries play a crucial role in maintaining an appropriate client/clinician relationship (Roth & Worthington, 2011, 361).
The question of whether self- esteem has significance with real world- consequences is a valid concern. Ulrich Orth and Richard W. Robins provide the answer, with evidence contributed by researched studies, in their article The Development of Self- Esteem that self- esteem, in fact, does influence societal significance. With the determination on self- esteem trajectory from adolescence to old age, self- esteem stability, and the relationship between levels of self-esteem and predictions of success and failure, one can conclude that self- esteem influences life outcomes; moreover, people can participate to involvements focused at positively influencing the development of self- esteem.
Self-disclosure: Important aspects psychologists, therapists and counsellors should keep in mind when disclosing personal information.
The Social Determinants of health are what people experience in terms of birth, living, work and age all of which can contribute to the overall well being of individuals. This essay will focus on the social determinants of housing, which will examine the issue of income, poverty, overcrowding, the difference between social and private housing, unsatisfactory living arrangements, and green spaces; all of which can go on to affect the individual and their family’s physical health and mental health state.
Self-esteem involves evaluations of self-worth. People with high self-esteem tend to think well of others and expect to be accepted them.
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According to The World Health Organisation (WHO) a Social Determinant of Health “Are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age” Social determinates of health (The World Health Organisation, 2017). (Charted institute of Environmental Health, 2015) says that poor housing can lead to poor health and intensify existing health conditions meaning housing is a key determinant of health as it affects people from birth to older age. Throughout this essay the physical mental health needs of individuals, families and communities will be shown and how housing may affect this.
Bogo also adds to the uncertainty to state that self-disclosure is a controversial subject matter (2006, p.101). In general, it seems like self-disclosure has a lot to do with the specific client and the strength of the relationship at hand. The exact same self-disclosure can evoke two opposite reactions for clients. For example, when a social worker shared the date of her birthday one client felt as though this increased the therapeutic alliance while the other client felt as though the social worker was taking the spotlight away from her and focusing it on herself (Goldstein, 1994). This shows how unique our clients are and that what works with one client may not work for the other.
214)”. Indeed this offers further opportunity to exist in the here and now with clients in the group, however, the motivation for such opaqueness warrants consideration. By using greater transparency Yalom asserts, “…you gain considerable role flexibility and maneuverability and may…directly attend to group maintenance, to shaping of the group norms…(2005, p. 218)”. In addition to activating the here-and-now, Yalom hypothesizes that therapist openness decentralizes the therapist position furthering the development of group autonomy and cohesion. (2005, p. 218) He even considers collaborative evidence from individual therapy suggesting that therapist transparency offers a supportive and normalizing experience for the client. (Yalom, 2005) Janine Roberts offers significant insight into the complexities of transparency in family therapy. The parallel between group work and family work deems relevant. Roberts’s research contemplates, “Within a family or couple, one person might experience the disclosure as helpful, and another as a boundary violation (2005, p .52)”. So for some clients or group members it may feel normalizing, while for others it may be experienced as a dismissal of their concerns. Every therapist evidences his or her own unique style, the same emphasizes for therapist transparency. The reason for disclosure exerts significance prior to transparency. “Therapists may self-disclose to facilitate transference resolution; or to model therapeutic norms; or to assist the interpersonal learning of the members who wanted to work on their relationship with the group leader; or to support ad accept members by saying in effect, “I value and respect you and demonstrate this by giving of myself (Yalom, 2005, p. 221)”. This concern cannot be stated
Due to self-depreciating attitudes and beliefs, the individual tends to have a low internal self-esteem. The individual perceives the physical and cultural characteristics identified
...confidential information is shared without their permission, this situation can be detrimental to the client. The client may stop treatment or be passive-aggressive towards the therapist by being late of cancelling appointments with the clinician.
This lack of information can cause a person to feel they are ignored, and accept the diagnosis that was given to them (M). Diagnosing a patient places a person
will act to maintain his or her self-image regardless of whether it is high or low.” (Greene & Frandsen, 1979, p. 124) Self-esteem is important in social situations; it can help a person have