Melody has come for counselling to deal with the death of her husband. You have been counselling her for four weeks and in that time Melody has reported that she feels “depressed”. In addition, she complains of being constantly tired and lacking motivation to do simple tasks such as showering and cooking for herself.<\/p>\n
As you have no formal qualifications or training to diagnose or treat psychological disorders such as depression, you encourage Melody to visit a GP to have her symptoms assessed. In the next session, Melody reported that her GP had not given her a diagnosis; however he had prescribed an eight week course of anti-depressant medication.<\/p>\n
Given this outcome, would you continue to counsel Melody?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Melody has come for counselling to deal with the death of her husband. You have been counselling her for four weeks and in that time Melody has reported that she feels “depressed”. In addition, she complains of being constantly tired and lacking motivation to do simple tasks such as showering and cooking for herself. As […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,9,67],"tags":[295,24,475],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clinical","category-counselling-dilemmas","category-stress-management","tag-counselling-dilemma","tag-depression","tag-referral"],"yoast_head":"\n