Community Counseling

Perspectives of Linkage to Care Among People Diagnosed With HIV

“…However, grief responses can also be associated with the diagnosis of a chronic illness because the person perceives a loss of being able to fully return to his/her formal lifestyle or function (Sidell, 1997). A crisis is a temporary alteration or disruption in a person's normal ways of coping and can be experienced as a result of receiving bad news such as an HIV diagnosis (Lewis & Lewis, 1989). A grief response to an HIV diagnosis can be similar to the crisis response and can lead to a feeling of threat or disruption to normal function.…”

Best Practice Guidelines on Prevention Practice, Research, Training, and Social Advocacy for Psychologists

“…Multicultural competence, group facilitation, ethics, research and program evaluation, and the personal attributes of the psychologist are as important to the practice of prevention as they are to remedial counseling practice. In addition, a number of specific domains have been identified as particularly important to prevention (Conyne, 1994(Conyne, , 1997(Conyne, , 2004Commission on Positive Youth Development, 2005;Durlak, 2003;Felner, Felner, & Silverman, 2000;Lewis & Lewis, 1981;Lewis, Lewis, Daniels, & D'Andrea, 2003;Romano & Hage, 2000b). These domains include understanding the difference between a prevention perspective and a remedial perspective, developing and conducting educational programming, assessing community needs and designing programming to address them, implementing systemic intervention, taking an ecological orientation, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and grassroots community organizations, developing marketing and grant-writing campaigns employing strategies for reduction of risk and promotion of strengths, paying attention to positive psychology and positive youth development, empowering individuals and their communities, and assessing the implications of local and national policy trends, as well as political influences.…”

Collaborative Consultant: A New Role for Counselors Serving At‐Risk Youths

“…The Community Mental Health Center Act of 1963 provided the impetus for establishing community mental health centers dedicated to offering accessible and comprehensive services (inpatient, outpatient, emergency, and partial hospitalization) that would be coordinated with other agencies, provide for a continuity of care, and emphasize prevention through consultation and education (Lewis & Lewis, 1989). In practice, however, ensuing changes in public policy prevented community mental health centers from obtaining the support necessary to fully implement the proposed consultation and education plans (Werner & Tyler, 1993).…”

“…This resulted in many community counselors providing direct counseling services for a majority of the time. Nevertheless, precedents exist for community counselors to act as consultants with individuals, organizations, and communities (Lewis & Lewis, 1989).…”