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My name is Mari Herron and I am in the Mental Health and Wellness Counseling program.

I am a Texas native and a frequent traveler to Mediterranean Europe. I love to learn and grow through movement and exposure to new environments and people.

I intend to use the knowledge and skills I gain in this program to become a holistic practitioner supporting people on their journeys to self-love and union with self. Personally, I hope to become a greater master over my own self as well through my time as a student in this program.

I want to leave this course better equipped to identify and effectively address the impacts of trauma.

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Reflection: Introduction and Assessment of Prior Knowledge

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Reflection: Introduction and Assessment of Prior Knowledge

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This assignment was a great way to discover and collaborate with fellow colleagues. Each of us is participating in this program to help and facilitate wellness, and also because we understand the value and need for mental health.

What I appreciated most about this assignment was the information from the quizzes and, specifically, the reminder to pay attention to the body and brain connection and the way this relates to anxiety and stress.

As a future holistic practitioner, it will be incredibly useful to incorporate knowledge about the gut-brain connection as part of any cognitive and emotional wellness tools or practices that could be effective for clients.

The Channel Kindness quiz encouraged me to reflect on mental health stigma and its impact on the way people perceive themselves and whether or not they seek support. It also provided insight into how community attitudes of kindness and decreased stigma create a space for young people to develop more mentally healthily (Mahmood, 2018).

https://www.cdc.gov/mentalhealth/quiz/index.htm

https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/the-gut-brain-connection

https://www.channelkindness.org/mental-health-awareness-quiz/

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The Mental Health Reference Guide provides at least a baseline knowledge of some of the most common mental health disorders and their subtypes.

As I do not intend to focus my future work exclusively on psychology-based or medical-based treatment, I find this guide to be incredibly useful. It provides a well-rounded concept of each mental health disorder and allows me to identify most symptoms of each disorder. From researching and gathering resources, I also realize I have access to a plethora of resources and treatment options that I can refer clients to, dependent on the specific disorder subtype or symptoms the individual may be experiencing.

https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/find-help

https://www.mentalhealthfirstaid.org/mental-health-resources/

https://www.youtube.com/user/katimorton

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This series is filled with so many different types and layers of trauma that it makes the perfect resource for students who are learning about and studying trauma. I found myself identifying in this series almost every category of trauma we learned about in the course this week.

More than just providing examples of primary trauma, secondary trauma, and organizational trauma, this series gives the audience a real sense of what young people today battle mentally, physically, emotionally, and socially in school settings.

I left the series with many critical reflections about school responses to bullying and how professionals and caretakes can recognize the signs of trauma and disturbance in teens.

What stood out for me as equally important to trauma resources and trauma-informed approaches is the community response and attitude toward suicide, bullying, and sexual abuse. This series was a strong, potent reminder that community support, safety, and openness can easily improve, and change, the outcome in many cases of teen trauma.

https://www.mentalhealthjournal.org/articles/commentary-thirteen-reasons-why:-the-impact-of-suicide-portrayal-on-adolescents-mental-health.html

https://rossieronline.usc.edu/blog/bullying-prevention-lesson-plans/

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The Psychological First Aide resource teaches effective responding in moments of crisis that one may witness in public or within a community. It lays out clear goals and guidelines for offering short-term, immediate support for victims of crisis.

It also provides information about the different types of appropriate external resources for psychological and emotional support and when and how to collaborate with them.

I intend for my practice to provide holistic treatment for personal development issues that fall under the scope of coaching and that are typically non-clinical issues or non-crisis issues. in cases were I come into contact with clients in crisis and need a prevention plan, assessment, or protocol, this will be a helpful resource.

https://learn.nctsn.org/course/view.php?id=596

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This assignment was incredibly useful and eye-opening as it helped give me a more solid concept of a crisis prevention plan, threat assessment, and protocol.

While I do not anticipate working with clients in crisis, I know that this is always a possibility. Now, I have a better understanding of the available agencies I may collaborate with or refer to for certain types of trauma and crisis. I am also knowledgeable on how to build a crisis prevention plan and protocol.

https://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/19958/urlt/8-3.pdf

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4386573/, https://doi.org/10.1097/pec.0b013e31828575d7

https://cyberbullying.org/category/resources

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Crisis Prevention Plan and Threat Assessment_ Cyberbullying (1)

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American Counseling Association Code of Ethics

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American Counseling Association Code of Ethics

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The code of ethics provides counselors with a framework for the legal and ethical obligations of helping through counseling.

This framework provides guidelines for several areas, including the counselor-client relationship, confidentiality and privacy, the professional responsibility of counselors, relationships with other professionals, evaluation, assessment, and interpretation, supervision and counselor training, counselors in academia, online counseling, and resolving ethical issues.

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The ABC Crisis Intervention Model provides clear steps and techniques of support for establishing trusting, safe, and healthy therapist-client relationships.

I found this model to offer clear guidelines for useful engagement with clients throughout the therapy process and for organizing and getting to the root of presenting client issues.

I intend to use parts of this model (paraphrasing, clarification, reflection, summarization) if I provide CBT therapy or more traditional therapy to clients. I will practice other parts of the model, such as attending behavior, with all of my clients.

https://dustinkmacdonald.com/abc-model-of-crisis-intervention/

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Mahmood, A. (2018, May 29). How Much Do You Really Know About Mental Health? Channel Kindness

https://www.cdc.gov/mentalhealth/quiz/index.htm

https://www.channelkindness.org/mental-health-awareness-quiz/

https://www.counseling.org/resources/aca-code-of-ethics.pdf

https://cyberbullying.org/category/resources

https://dustinkmacdonald.com/abc-model-of-crisis-intervention/

https://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/19958/urlt/8-3.pdf

https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/the-gut-brain-connection

https://www.mentalhealthfirstaid.org/mental-health-resources/

https://www.mentalhealthjournal.org/articles/commentary-thirteen-reasons-why:-the-impact-of-suicide-portrayal-on-adolescents-mental-health.

https://learn.nctsn.org/course/view.php?id=596

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4386573/, https://doi.org/10.1097/pec.0b013e31828575d7

https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/find-help

https://rossieronline.usc.edu/blog/bullying-prevention-lesson-plans/

https://www.youtube.com/user/katimorton