When Mental Health Helps Mental Health: The features of an Effective counselor

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When Mental Health Helps Mental Health: The features of an Effective counselor

Introduction
It is known that Therapeutic counseling is an important tool for the treatment, prevention and promotion of mental health. The psychotherapeutic method contains variables that influence the progress of the emotional state of an individual. Although the techniques and methods are components of the treatment, yet there still not a robot or machine to execute the interventions, as is found on the medical field, for example. Instead, the treatment is performed by counselors, who are mental health professionals. They are trained to establish a working relationship with the individual in need of help. Even though, they need to be well equipped, they are still human. Subsequently, is visible that in counseling therapy, a human helps another human, and therefore, a mental health helps another mental health. Does it mean that one have to be stable to help the non-stable? Does it mean that one have to be mentally healthy to help the mentally ill? For that reason, is important to understand what composes a suitable profile of a counselor. This article aim to study based on research literature, some information by researchers regarding the effective profile of a counselor.
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Therapeutic Presence
While is easy to find a massive amount of studies that will involve the multiple facets of theories, tools, techniques and methods for affective counseling; studies on the relevance of the counselor’s characteristics and that influence of that to the therapy is still lacking.
Ampbell, J. C., Christopher, J. C. (2012) brings an interesting point regarding the issue of human helping human in a therapeutic setting. that even though the target of many Ampbe...

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Campbell, J. C., & Christopher, J. C. (2012, July). Teaching mindfulness to create effective counselors. Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 34(3), 213+. Retrieved from http://go.galegroup.com.ezproxy.liberty.edu:2048/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA297915507&v=2.1&u=vic_liberty&it=r&p=AONE&sw=w&asid=dc53ce42d985ee78066b8600c33ca82c

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