GENERAL PSYCHIATRIC COUNSELLING
Counselling psychiatry helps people with physical, emotional and mental health issues improve their sense of well‐being, alleviate feelings of distress and resolve crises. It also provides assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of more severe psychological symptoms.
The problems that Dr. Sammy can help you with, are addressed from developmental, environmental and cultural perspectives.
They include, but are not limited to:
– School and career/work adjustment concerns.
– Relationship difficulties‐including marital and family difficulties.
– Stress management and coping with negative life events.
– The development of one’s identity.
COUNSELLING PROCESS
The procedures and techniques used within counselling psychiatry include, but are not limited to:
– Individual, family and group counseling and psychotherapy.
– Crisis intervention, disaster and trauma management.
– Assessment techniques for the diagnosis of psychological disorders.
– Consulting with organizations.
– Program evaluation and treatment outcome (e.g., client progress).
– Training.
– Clinical supervision.
– Test construction and validation.