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2. Mental health professional - Wikipedia

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   A mental health professional is a health care practitioner or social and human services provider who offers services for the purpose of improving an individual's mental health or to treat mental disorders. This broad category was developed as a name for community personnel who worked in the new community mental health agencies begun in the ...

3. Unlicensed assistive personnel - Wikipedia

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   Personal support worker (PSW) is the title for a similar type of health worker in Canada. Personal support work is unique among health care professions in that the scope of a PSW's duties does not extend beyond what the client could do him/herself if the client were physically and cognitively able. [ 20 ]

4. Case management (mental health) - Wikipedia

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   Case management is the coordination of community-based services by a professional or team to provide quality mental health care customized accordingly to individual patients' setbacks or persistent challenges and aid them to their recovery.

5. Direct support professional - Wikipedia

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   [3] The United States Department of Labor lists DSP duties as supporting engagement with the community, using creative thinking for accommodations to help people with disabilities be more independent, providing caregiving and support with activities of daily living, working with the people they support to advocate for rights and services, and ...

6. Peer support specialist - Wikipedia

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   A peer support specialist is a person with "lived experience" who has been trained to support those who struggle with mental health, psychological trauma, or substance use. Their personal experience of these challenges provide peer support specialists with expertise that professional training cannot replicate.

7. Caregiver - Wikipedia

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   A caregiver, carer or support worker is a paid or unpaid person who helps an individual with activities of daily living. Caregivers who are members of a care recipient's family or social network , and who may have no specific professional training, are often described as informal caregivers.

8. Approved mental health professional - Wikipedia

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   The role of approved mental health professional (AMHP) in the United Kingdom was created in the 2007 amendment of the Mental Health Act 1983 to replace the role of approved social worker (ASW). [1] The role is broadly similar to the role of the approved social worker but is distinguished in no longer being the exclusive preserve of social workers.

9. Psychiatric rehabilitation - Wikipedia

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   These services, which have roots in education, psychology and mental health (and community services) administration, were basic funded services of new community mental health agencies offering community living and professionalized community support since the 1970s. Mental health service agencies or multi-service agencies in the non-profit and ...