Preventative Intervention

Medical Crisis Counseling in Health Maintenance Organizations

Best Practices in Intervention

Medical Crisis Counseling in a Health Maintenance Organization

Best Practices in Intervention

Preventive intervention measures provide helpful coping skills for medical crises sufferers and presents challenges to therapists to take on a myriad of roles to reduce client distress . Those who were recently diagnosed with cancer , adult-onset diabetes , and first time heart attacks were found by Koocher , Curtiss , Pollin Patton to report significant positive attributions to healthcare providers and more support from families after being part of a medical

crisis counseling study . The researchers concluded that the psychopathology perspective did not properly take medical concerns into account and that a better preventative therapy model would also be cost effective in deterring medical crisis patients from later , costlier counseling . More importantly this research illustrated that the study 's steps taken within stages of treatment helped sufferers to more positively respond to healthcare providers and others in their support system (i .e family . Increasing social activity for these clients while improving perceptions of helpfulness and care by others toward the client is the most important intervention outcome , as it will improve quality of life for clients while helping to unburden the medical and psychological community due to implementation of these simple , short term steps

This short term approach aimed to help client 's avoid the stigma that is many times associated with mental health issues by focusing on medical issues and reactions . This type of approach required that the therapist not...