Mental Health Consultation Supervision 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 of a new governor, Gavin Newson, who laid out his concerns who raised the issue of lack of leadership and strategic vision necessary to have forms of care in their state.

The agency requesting consultation in my community wants tips on providing services to clients who have severe issues in counseling. 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 how to help such clients. They provide some services like brief aftercare, which is in most cases not sufficient for their clients to re-integrate back to society. Their services fit within the children who have medical needs and experience high anxiety in the community. This is according to the services they provide, which cannot cater to severe cases.

Some professionals can handle the case of children with medical needs and high anxiety. If the provider does not find other physical illnesses, these children can be referred to a psychiatrist. This will help them be diagnosed and treated for their condition (Carney & Jefferson, 2014). These health professionals can diagnose the issue of anxiety and provide the necessary counseling. The coordinated care to be provided to such clients include partial hospitalization and in-patient treatment. The program on partial hospitalization runs for some hours every day; it is recommended in a psychiatric hospital for such children. This goes hand in hand with the in-patient treatment in a hospital setting.

For this particular agency to improve its services, there are various strategies that it should put into practice. The agency should adopt a consulting plan which involves both visible and invisible inputs. This also puts the implementation and development of vision into practice, which is effective in the mental health sector (Carney & Jefferson, 2014).

The consultation models the collaborative dependent or the mental health collaboration where two professionals work together to help in solving the mental health issues. In the collaborative dependent model, each party possesses unique qualities hence developing a partnership to develop a plan. The strategy I would propose to help improve the coordinated services for the clients with needs is adopting the model to always keep in touch with professional consultants who will handle various issues. The professionals identify the problems and work together with the agency counselors to identify the clients\\\\\\\' problems.

Another strategy is the supervision plan since supervision is purposeful, and three models emerge from this plan. The orientation-specific models, developmental models, and integrated models. From the developmental model perspective, it helps in noting that maximizing and identifying growth is required in the future (Carney & Jefferson, 2014). Maintaining the ethics and consistency of the clients is enhanced through the orientation of specific models.

There is a belief that to get the best supervision; then there should be an analysis of adherence to therapy. Specific opportunities 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.