For this assignment, imagine you have been contacted by anagency in your community to provide consultation on how they mightimprove their services to clients. The agency is concerned thatclients with serious counseling issues are \"falling between thecracks\" when they are referred to others in the community forintensive treatment. Furthermore, the brief aftercare they provideis not accessible enough to sufficiently support clients as theyre-integrate into the community.
1) Identify a population with mental health counseling needs aswell as other needs, for example:
- People experiencing chronic or severe mental illnesses whoalso experience homelessness.
- Children with medical needs who also experience highanxiety.
- Elderly individuals who are socially isolated anddepressed.
- Chemically dependent persons with recurring mental healthcrises.
2)Evaluate how the group you identified has been served in thehistory of clinical mental health counseling.
