Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) for Clinical Mental Health Counseling

Running head: CLINICAL MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING
CLINICAL MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING
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CLINICAL MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING1
Introduction
Mental health of an individual includes their mental, emotional, and social welfare. It
controls the ability and way an individual feel, thinks and reacts to anything. Metal disorder,
or also known as mental illness is defined as mental health problems faced by an individual
due to a various number of factor affecting their way of functioning normally. There are
various types of mental health problems which includes anxiety disorders, eating disorders
schizophrenia, depression, and other addictive behaviors (Grob, 2019).
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is a type of evidenced-based practice which
provides individual with rehabilitation, treatment and provision services by the means of
recovery-based approach and the person-centred treatment method specifically to the people
who have been suffering and identified with severe mental health condition (Bond & Drake,
2015). The assignment focuses on the use of the Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)
approach for developing resilience into individuals with mental health difficulties.
Discussion
The Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) was proposed in order to provide care
and treatment to patients witnessing sever and persistent condition of mental health
difficulties to better function in the community and their life. it has been proved to provide
effective care and treatment to individuals suffering from various mental health disorder such
as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression (Nugter et al., 2016).
The Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) approach focuses on the use of a
multidisciplinary team to provide care and treatment also with maintaining the patient-staff
ratio. These multidisciplinary teams are prepared with professionals with the specialization in
the field of psychiatry, substance abuse care and treatment, nursing staffs, health care
technicians and counsellors (Lamberti et al., 2017).

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The Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) works on following principles which
help them deliver better care and treatment:
Primary provider of health care services: The Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)
teams are arranged with specialists with the knowledge in the field of substance abuse care,
psychiatry, and treatment, health care technicians, nursing staffs, and counsellors.
 Out-of-setting treatment: they provide treatment and care by visiting the patients at
their homes, streets and community health care settings and also by conducting
campaigns.
 Personalized treatment: The Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) teams focuses
on the individuality of the patient and their personal needs and requirements and
prepare plan and treatment to provide care according to their needs and state of health
condition (Drummond et al., 2016).
 Long term service: The Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) multidisciplinary
team serves by providing the patients by developing a long-term therapeutic
relationship with the individual in order to ensure complete recovery from their health
condition.
 Vocational expectation: The Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) functions by
involving the professionals with the skills of developing confidence and vocational
skills in the patient by teaching them will help them grow and get better in their
economic life.
 Psychoeducational service: patients are educated with detailed information regarding
the mental health condition they are dealing with and thus it helps them to cope up
with the professionals in their treatment process (Rollins et al., 2016).
 Family and peer support: families play a major role in the recovery process of an
individual. The professionals provide education and idea about the health condition