01/09/2025
💭What might healthcare be like if instead of focusing on treating sickness and disease, it focused primarily on preventing both physical and mental illnesses across the population as a whole?…
🧘🏾♀️ Health is best defined as the soundness of mind, body, and spirit, health is not simply the absence of disease.
🧠 Sadly, persons struggling with mental health disorders generally receive less preventative healthcare, face difficulties accessing quality care, and have increased morbidity as an outcome of illness (Drugs, Roseniheck, Desai, & Berlin, 2002).
💭 Utilization of a wellness model is vital in mental health counseling because it focuses on striving for optimal functioning. Clinicians can work alongside clients in improving their lifestyle and changing habits for wellness.
🧠Perhaps the keys to adding more life to our years and years to our lives involves consideration of each dimension of wellness including spiritual, mental, emotional, physical, and social factors.
🚴🏼♀️Self care, lifestyle choices, relationships can combat disease, dysfunctional living and premature death.
🙏🏾I look forward to further exploring such topics as they relate to mental health counseling and emotional wellness more in 2025, stay tuned! 🙋🏾♀️