Clinician Responsibilities

A mental health assessment gives idea to the clinician or doctor and the overall view of how the patients emotionally feels and how well he remembers, thinks and reason. This is called cognitive functioning.

Responsibilities Of clinicians:

The mental health doctors or clinicians identifies the factors for causing aggressiveness among the patients and use certain tools and techniques for identifying risk factors and assessment of the level of such risks. Such tools help the clinicians to assess the risks and the most important thing is that they provide guidance on how such types of plans should be organized. There is a need of awareness of mental health services about the diversity of cultures like the language barrier and other cultural differences,

The most frequent and common problem of the acute mental illness and disorder is the substance abuse. Along with the mental illness mental retardation might also occur as well as personality disorders may occur including depression and schizophrenia. Those patients who are suffering from schizophrenia also sometimes suffer from anxiety and depression so along with delusions and hallucinations this also needs to be treated. The clinicians must be interested in physical health of their patients. More than 45% outpatients suffer from mental illness and physical illness and this illness goes undiscovered and leads to poor quality of life and causes deaths at early age. Those individuals who are suffering from acute mental illness die earlier than other because of insufficient medical care and poor health behavior. So the issue of physical health must be addressed by the clinicians to provide better medical treatment to patients. The clinicians should learn about their experience with diagnostic interviews and provide improved mental health services to the patient’s

“One of the Research reported by Wallace and Liberman (1985) for schizophrenic patients living with very critical families evaluated the after effects of problem solving skills training and communication. This treatment focused and emphasized training in various modules of communication skills, including how one should attend relevant social cues, process piece of social information to develop appropriate responses and make skilled behavior responses.” This was a 9 week program. The effective use of communication to request and respond was focused by skill training technique. Patients were given proper training on how to solve problems by teaching them to generate different solutions and evaluate alternative solutions to problems and to choose an effective way to respond. At the end of this program very positive outcomes were