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What is Mental Health Counseling?

Counseling can be defined as a relatively short-term, interpersonal, theory-based process of helping persons who are fundamentally psychologically healthy resolve developmental and situational issues.

Reasons & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Reasons # of patients Major Moderate Slight None Can’t tell # of patients evaluated by
Dealing with my life issues 4 1
Depression 3 1
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder PTSD 2 0
Bi-polar 2 0
General mood issue 2 0
An event 1 1

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Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
0 0%
Moderate
0 0%
Mild
1 100%
None
0 0%

Most commonly reported side effects

emotional outbursts after session
1 100%
  • Mild
  • Moderate
  • Severe

Schedules

  1 other every other week 60 min monthly 100 min monthly 120 min monthly 45 min weekly 50 min weekly 60 min weekly
  1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 2 Number of Patients: 2 2 Number of Patients: 2 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 4 Number of Patients: 4  

Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

How Long Current Patients Have Been In Mental Health Counseling

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
1
3
1
1
2
3

Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Always
1 100%
Usually
0 0%
Sometimes
0 0%
Never
0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Very
0 0%
Somewhat
0 0%
A little
0 0%
Not at all
1 100%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

$200+
0 0%
$100-199
0 0%
$50-99
0 0%
$25-49
0 0%
< $25
0 0%

Report created on November 22, 2009.