Purpose & Values

Our Purpose

• To inspire and support people to experience the powerful benefits of increased care for their health, by themselves and others.
• To provide state-of-the-art online tools for mental health professionals, raising client care to its highest possible level.
• To be at the forefront of investigating behavioral sciences that will prevent disease and restore optimal mental health.
• To significantly increase the status of psychotherapeutic and behavioral interventions as ways of improving people’s health.

Core Values

• That all people, regardless of status, deserve support to live a life free from disease and to enjoy emotional, physical, social, spiritual, and mental health.
• That the best practices from psychological/psychiatric health and medical science should be understood and incorporated for the benefit of all people.
• That we respect the intrinsic value of each person, empowering their strengths toward optimal mental health
• That in providing mental health care to an individual, the best interests of the client should always supersede capitalistic or personal gain.

Vision

• To help mental health professionals improve their practice management along with the effectiveness and efficiency of the psychotherapy, psychiatric help, and other forms of treatment and health care they provide to clients.
• To continue leading in the development of innovative online mental health and wellness support tools.
• To see that the pursuit of emotional, physical, social, spiritual, and mental health ascends to the top of our societal values system.

Mental Health Pro's Product Development Approach

Our wellness and mental health tools reflect the combined expertise of our team of health experts. They hail from a diverse range of disciplines, including:

• Mental health professionals: A team of full-time therapists in private practice, with extensive knowledge of the needs of professional therapists and their clientele.
  
• Research: Information-gathering on health sciences, the understanding of behavior, and its relation to caring for one's health.
  
• Health publishing: Twenty-eight years of learning how to effectively communicate healthy living in inspiring ways.
  
• Management and leadership consulting: An intimate understanding of the realities of day-to-day business environments and cultures.
  
• Web-deployed interactive education: Harnessing the power of advanced technologies to create efficiencies and connect people with mental experts.

Our Products

The team seeks out highly innovative technologies (web portals, webinars, Automatic Voice Recording, health trackers, teleconferences, streaming video, online payment and scheduling). The team collaborates in using these technologies to create a variety of products specifically designed to meet the needs of clients seeking help for mental health problems, and the therapists who assist them. The products are designed for ease of client use in learning about and contacting and registering with therapists, completing assessments, learning about how to improve their health (text, video, workshops, teleconferences), and resolving negative thoughts, emotions, or behavior patterns (journaling, worksheets, workshops). The team also creates products to help therapists register clients confidentially, assign homework (text to read, videos, teleconferences) follow up with clients (automated reminders, email) and track client progress (assessments, journals, health trackers). The products also help therapists maintain contact with clients after therapy is finished (e-zines, newsletters) and help therapists to increase referrals through education in marketing, practice and product development, and professional education.

Our Standards

Before prospective authors can join our team, they submit a number of writing samples and then perform a trial assignment for evaluation. Reviewed by our Editorial Team and Chief Medical Editor for accuracy, thoroughness, comprehension, clarity and objectivity, the very best are then chosen for the final qualification process.

After articles are written, the information presented goes through a strict process of verification for scientific accuracy, consistency of style, objectivity and balance. Scientific references are included so interested readers can review source materials. Mental Health Pros gives preference to double-blind, placebo-controlled trials in humans. When this standard of evidence is unavailable, Mental Health Pros occasionally refers to animal or test-tube studies. Weak studies are noted, as are studies with only preliminary results.