The document outlines various mental health professions, highlighting the differences between psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, and counseling psychologists. It explains the training and roles of these professionals, including their methods of assessment and types of treatment they provide. Additional roles like clinical social workers, psychotherapists, and school psychologists are also discussed, along with specialized areas like health psychology and rehabilitation psychology.

1. Mental Health Professions
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2. Who is a Mental Health Professionals?

3. • Psychiatrist = MD + 4 years of training in psychiatry.
• Specializes in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention
of mental illnesses.
• Assess both Mental + Physical aspects.
• Psychiatry regards psychopathology as a mental illness
with biologically-based causes.
• Permissions:
• Can order or perform a full range of medical laboratory and
psychological tests.
• Interviews/discussions with patients.
• They may prescribe medication, treat physical ailments, and
give physical examinations.
Psychiatrists

4. Clinical psychologists as compared to psychiatrists:
• Typically receive little training in medicine.
• Receive more extensive training in:
• The psychological principles governing human behavior.
• Formal assessment of psychological functioning.
• Scientific research methods.
• Also receive more extensive training in psychotherapy (“talk” therapy).
• Psychopathology = biological + psychological + social predispositions + experiences.
Clinical Psychologists
What is the difference between a psychologist and a clinical psychologist?
General psychologists focus on healthier people, while clinical psychologists focus on people with more serious
mental health issues.
Mr. Abed Alkareem
Clinical Psychologist

5. • Counseling psychologists work with normal or moderately
maladjusted individuals.
• Group counseling or counseling with individuals.
• Methods of assessment:
• Interview.
• Testing/assessment of abilities, personality, interests, and vocational
aptitude.
• Work in hospitals, rehabilitation centers, mental health clinics,
and industry.
• Services:
• Counseling psychology programs (e.g. schools of education).
• Consultation.
Counseling Psychologists

6. • Clinical Social worker: has master's or doctoral degree in
social work with specialized training in counseling.
• Provides help with social problems, such as family
problems.
• Assist individuals, groups, or communities to restore or
enhance their capacity for social functioning.
• The practice of social work requires knowledge of human
development and behavior, of social, economic and cultural
institutions, and of the interaction of all these factors.
Clinical Social Workers

7. Postgraduate education in clinical psychology.
Psychotherapists can be psychiatrists, psychologists, counselors, or social workers.
Who is a Psychotherapist?

8. • Also called “mental health nursing”.
• Psychiatric nursing: a specialty within the field of nursing
that provides holistic care to individuals with mental disorders
or behavioral problems so as to promote their physical and
psychosocial well-being.
• Play a crucial and sensitive role in fostering an appropriate
therapeutic environment.
• Create a safe, comfortable environment that promotes positive
change.
Psychiatric Nurse

9. • A psychoanalyst is a healthcare provider who specializes in the mental health needs of
adults, and children in some cases.
• Apply techniques developed by Sigmund Freud (Psychoanalytic theory).
• Subconscious and Unconscious Mind.
• Psychiatrists/clinical psychologists + training at a psychoanalytic institute = Psychoanalysts
Psychoanalyst

10. School Psychologists
• School psychologists work with students, educators,
parents, and school administrators to promote the
intellectual, social, and emotional growth of school-age
children and adolescents.
• Services:
• Conduct psychological and educational assessments.
• Develop learning programs and evaluate their effectiveness.
• Consult with teachers, parents, and school officials.

11. Health Psychologists
• Health psychologists are those who,
through their research or practice,
contribute to the promotion and
maintenance of good health.
• They are also involved in the prevention
and treatment of illness.
• They may design, execute, and study
programs to help people stop smoking,
manage stress, lose weight, or stay fit.

12. Rehabilitation Psychologists
• Focus on people who are physically or cognitively disabled.
• They advocate to improve the life conditions for those with disabilities.

13. Religious Counselors
• Help to empower clients by promoting positive mental
health, wellness, and growth.
• Help identify limiting core beliefs, attachment style, and
behavioral response patterns.
• Help promote a positive lifestyle.
Aisha Chaudhry Manara
Mental Health Counselor, MA, RMHCI
A Muslim Therapist
• Issues: (Examples)
• Addiction
• Anger Management
• Polygamy (being second wives)
that brings changes to life
• Relationship Issues
• Peer Relationships
• Self-Harming
• jinn's whispers

14. Others
• Art therapists • Addiction counselors • Recreational therapists
• Occupational therapists, and so on…

15. ANY QUESTION?
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