Consultation, Supervision, and Advocacy Plan

In the evolving environments of practice in society, consultation is essential in health service psychology. In the community, offering consultations can help improve the services provided to the clients, especially those with serious counseling issues. Therefore it is necessary to have agencies offer these consultation services because those referred to the community do not find the strength to re-intergrade back. For the agencies to be successful, consultation, supervision, and advocacy plans are essential to propose strategies to improve the coordinated services.

An example of a population with mental health counseling needs is California, which has about sixteen percent of the adult population, translating to more than four million people having mental care needs (Thornicroft & Henderson, 2016). Providing counseling to such a population will provide the insights and tools to help manage mental health issues, for example, depression. This ultimately means that people should therefore lead a healthy life.

The mental health condition in California has been served in the history of counseling concerning clinical mental health. They identified their shortcomings as a lack of strategic visions required to provide the most advanced care (Thornicroft & Henderson, 2016). Therefore, with fresh attention, they embraced humane ways of solving problems. They have had some key events which necessitated them to have counseling services for their population. This includes in January 2018, during the election...

When they are referred back to the community, they do not get the proper assistance (Thornicroft & Henderson, 2016). The agency, therefore, has the urge to know ways on...…for supervision will be needed by those caring for children with medical needs and high anxiety. Behavioral supervision helps the supervisor identify the problem in a client and select the learning techniques on how to deal with the problem.

There are several advocacy steps to reduce the barriers for the clients. Professionals can adopt these steps at the agencies to reduce the hindrances that reduce equity, success for children with high anxiety and medical needs, and access (Carney & Jefferson, 2014).

The steps include; correcting the people using language that can cause stigmatization, encouraging leaders to make mental health a priority, supporting those who require help, and attending those events that acknowledge mental health awareness. These barriers to mental health, especially stigmatization, can be dealt with. This is by joining support groups, seeking fr help, avoiding isolation, and not allowing yourself to equate to the illness. By doing this, the principles of advocacy will be fulfilled,…