For this week’s discussion, outline the counseling you would do during a woman’s health maintenance visit of one of the age groups listed below. Be sure to provide rationale for the counseling that you have identified, and support your recommendations with evidence from the literature.

For this week’s discussion, outline the counseling you would do during a woman’s health maintenance visit of one of the age groups listed below. Be sure to provide rationale for the counseling that you have identified, and support your recommendations with evidence from the literature.

For this week’s discussion, outline the counseling you would do during a woman’s health maintenance visit of one of the age groups listed below. Be sure to provide rationale for the counseling that you have identified, and support your recommendations with evidence from the literature.

Health care professionals meet different people with varying health needs and knowledge. In response, they use different approaches to promote positive behavior change and impart knowledge, among other outcomes. Young women (teens) are a vulnerable population group that requires a lot of guidance to make rational decisions about their health. Counseling to promote behavior change and optimize health is an effective strategy.

Counseling can be psychodynamic, humanistic, or behavioral. I would opt for behavioral counseling for women aged 13-18 years. Typical in cognitive behavioral therapy, behavioral counseling follows the tenet that people’s response to situations results from past learning (Halder & Mahato, 2019). In this case, most behaviors are reactions to what was reinforced in the past, whether right or wrong. With this belief, behavioral counseling focuses on what was learned in the past and how it can be unlearned, particularly when it does not benefit the individual. Clients are taught to modify unwanted behaviors and adopt the desired behavior.

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Behavioral counseling would be suitable when educating young women about appropriate immunizations. Such immunizations include influenza and meningococcal disease vaccines (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2020). The Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine is also appropriate for teenage girls to protect against cervical cancer. The counselor should examine learned behaviors against immunizations among the clients during the counseling process and develop strategies to change them. For instance, myths about vaccines causing autism and immunization as an infringement of people’s rights deter people from vaccination (Hussain et al., 2018). Young women should learn what is appropriate for their health and embrace it positively.

All women require adequate and accurate information about their health. Counseling offers an interactive opportunity where the counselor and the client engage each other. Behavioral counseling is appropriate for young women (13-18 years) to modify undesired behaviors learned in the past.

References

CDC. (2020).Vaccines at 13 to 18 years. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/parents/by-age/years-13-18.html

Halder, S., & Mahato, A. K. (2019). Cognitive behavior therapy for children and adolescents: Challenges and gaps in practice. Indian Journal Of Psychological Medicine, 41(3), 279–283. https://doi.org/10.4103/IJPSYM.IJPSYM_470_18

Hussain, A., Ali, S., Ahmed, M., & Hussain, S. (2018). The anti-vaccination movement: A regression in modern medicine. Cureus, 10(7), e2919. https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2919

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For this weeks discussion, outline the counseling you would do during a woman’s health maintenance visit of one of the age groups listed below. Be sure to provide rationale for the counseling that you have identified, and support your recommendations with evidence from the literature.
Select ONE of the following age groups: 13-18, 19-36, 37-44, 45-64, 65 or older.
Be sure to include education on appropriate immunizations for the age group.
References must be less than five years old.