Mental Health Professionals Questions & Answers

Who are Mental Health Pros?

Mental Health Pros encompasses a vast range of talents. We are social workers, therapists, medical doctors, naturopathic doctors, psychologists, nurses, lifestyle coaches, nutritionists, administrators, researchers, animators, artists, writers, researchers, and software programmers.

Everyone on our team is experiencing first-hand the benefits of good mental health. Many of us have always enjoyed good mental health; others have worked hard to achieve and sustain it. We are all passionate, empathetic people using various skill sets to inspire and instruct people to avoid illness and enjoy optimal mental health.

What motivates Mental Health Pros?

A passion to help mental health professionals help clients.

How does Mental Health Pros define optimal mental health?

Optimal mental health is feeling good, both emotionally and physically, being free from disease and having the ability to function in all your everyday roles.

How does Mental Health Pros believe people can experience optimal mental health?

By learning to develop and practice lifestyle skills that ward off mental illness and foster good mental health. For many, this will require psychotherapy, psychiatric help, or other forms of treatment, along with long-term support to achieve their desired outcomes.

Why does Mental Health Pros deploy its health tools through Web, telephone, and email?

Integrating online mental health care into your psychotherapy or psychiatric practice is simply the next best step towards improving the level of treatment you provide clients. Furthermore, by offering them online mental health, wellness and life-skills education, you brand your practice as one that cares by going the extra mile.

Google registers 42 million searches a day on health-related issues. Not only are your clients increasingly turning to the Web for information, but as a medium, the Internet also represents an unprecedented opportunity to provide them with long-term support. Research clearly indicates that sustained change comes from ongoing training programs that support incremental growth. Mental Health Pros enables you to give your clients and their family members 24/7 access to expert-facilitated forums, personalized health-care advice, mental-health assessments, a vast library of health information, and many other health tools from home, work, or school.

How does Mental Health Pros develop and build health tools?

Our team consists of mental health professionals, as well as experts in health care, disease prevention, and communications. Our ideas come from being connected to mental health professionals like you, understanding your challenges, and seeking to support you to improve your practice as well as the effectiveness and efficiency of the therapy and treatments you deliver. Initial concepts go from the incubator into development and then focus-group testing. We always strive to make health tools that are easy, fun, engaging, and rewarding to use.

How do mental health professionals and their clients use Mental Health Pros’ tools?
They receive a passcode that allows 24/7 access from home, work, or school to a personalized website with numerous health tools and their own personal health-care records. Built by mental-health and other health-care experts, these tools come in three categories:

1. Human Interactive Tools: Access to mental-health and other health-care professionals via phone, email, question-and-answer sessions and group discussions.
2. Web Interactive Tools: Clients can take assessments to check for symptoms of mental illness such as depression, write in a confidential online journal, and use the calorie/nutrition counter and meal planner to support healthy dietary practices. Mental health professionals can view a confidential therapist dashboard of all client files, assessment scores, journaling, and homework assignments in one easy location.
3. Topical Search Engines: Up-to-date topical information on everything from disease prevention to psychoanalysis.

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