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NDIS and Psychology

The NDIS Provides Psychosocial Services

Over 4 million Australians live with a handicap. The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) provides cash to assist eligible Australians with impairments in getting the assistance they require. By 2022, more than 500,000 Australians will be receiving NDIS services, according to data. For the first time, support is being provided to more than 300,000 of them.

Psychological problems frequently obstruct people with disabilities. The NDIS classifies this as a psychosocial disability. There are psychosocial disabilities among at least 10% of NDIS members. The NDIS was expressly designed to offer support and help those who have been diagnosed with mental health issues cope and improve their quality of life.

 Psychosocial Services Offered by The NDIS

A psychosocially disabled person need ongoing mental health care. The NDIS provides non-clinical support for long-term healing and functionality. Non-clinical therapies consist of:

Assistance to Work Mental Health Professionals

Mental Health Coaching

Support for Daily Personal Tasks

Transport to Help a Person do Social Activities or Education

Job Seeking support 

Behavior Support Plan Development

Psychologists have been authorized as providers by the NDIS. The NDIS might also pay the expenses depending on financing and if required, of the following non-clinical treatments:

Assessment and Diagnosis service

Counseling

Evidence-based Psychological Management

Early Childhood Interventions

 Eligibility

A person with a mental health issue is not necessarily eligible for the NDIS. Not everyone who experiences mental health issues will also experience psychosocial disabilities. The following are the NDIS's fundamental requirements:

The person must be an Australian citizen and holds a permanent or protected special category visa

The person must be under the age of 65 

The person has a permanent disability or developmental delay

The person’s mental health condition causes impairment

The impairment is permanent

The impairment reduces the person’s ability to do daily activities

A person may select a provider to assist in the design of the NDIS plan after taking the application's approval into consideration. The procedures for obtaining one are as follows:

Meeting Preparation - The setting should be decided whether to have a meeting over a phone call, online, or face-to-face. The people involved in the meeting should also be considered, as well as the communication aids if needed. 

NDIS Plan Management - After the meeting, the decision will be done about the funding. Considering the budget, a person may manage the NDIS plan either with an agency or not.

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Psychologist Glen Waverley NDIS Psychologist  mental health counselling near me couples counselling cranbourne

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Couples Counseling

For married couples looking to resolve issues and improve their relationships, couples counseling is a brief form of counseling. Addressing the issues at hand and examining the effects that juggling obligations has now and in the future are the main objectives. The benefits of couples counseling will be examined in more detail in this article, as well as how it addresses a range of issues.

Types of Couples Counseling

Finding the best strategy is difficult because different situations require different approaches, and communication styles should also be taken into account. According to studies, there are six main techniques to couples therapy.

Behavioral Approach - This method takes into account how a change in the environment influences people's attitudes and actions.

Humanistic Approach - Humanistic counseling focuses on how people's individuality and uniqueness within themselves, as well as how awareness of these things can either be helpful or restrictive, can affect a person.

Cognitive Approach -. The cognitive approach focuses on how people's cognitive limitations can distort reality.

Psychodynamic Approach - The influence of previous relationships and experiences on the current issue is taken into account in psychodynamic counseling.

Constructionist Approach - The constructionist method emphasizes that this knowledge is a "constructed meaning" based on how those actual events were perceived by the people. It follows that this information influences how they will respond.

Systematic Approach - Systematic therapy looks at the thoughts and actions that people have when they are made to fit into a social network.

In addition to adhering to their competency level, counselors use approaches that are most suited to the client's needs. Counselors find alternatives for clients who are not a good fit for them or refer them to other counselors who are more skilled in the approach.

What Are The Reasons Why Couples Seek Counseling?

Couples may find it challenging to coexist because of unhealthy behaviors. As issues linger, some of them become more challenging to solve. Because of the following common reasons, couples frequently decide to seek relationship assistance early on in the relationship:

1. Constant and Resentful Arguments

2. Financial Matters 

3. Growing Apart 

4. Extramarital Affair

5. Lack of Intimacy 

Benefits of Counseling 

Counseling is beneficial in addressing issues like parenting conflicts, responsibility disputes, anger management, mental health problems, financial hardships, infidelity issues, and other communication problems.

How to seek counseling support?

The initial step in the planning process is to identify the ideal mental health specialist to conduct the counseling. 

The therapist then outlines the couple's session's schedule. In addition to other mental health specialists like psychiatrists, psychologists, or clinical staff, counseling can be provided by licensed counselors. Talking about the problems in their relationships and the causes of their propensity to seek assistance is part of the process. The couple works together to achieve this goal as they receive advice from counselors on how to deal with their issues.

Counseling can assist in establishing a relationship that works for both of them, even though it cannot guarantee that it will last for the duration they desire.

It is difficult to improve a relationship. Couples counseling would be a huge help if you and your partner are going through a tune-up. To obtain the help you require, get in touch with your mental health provider.

SOURCE:

Neukrug, E.S. (Ed.). 2015. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Counseling and Psychotherapy. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.

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Psychologist Glen Waverley,

NDIS Psychologist ,

Mental Health Counselling Near Me,

Couples Counselling Cranbourne.

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Research Participants Recruitment _ Mental Health Workers

Hi everyone!

I am a mental health researcher at the University of Sydney. We invite you to be part of a research study to help us evaluate a set of online resources to help mental health workers to support voice-hearers using an evidence-based voice hearing approach. The resources were co-designed by voice hearers and clinical experts.

You are eligible if you are a mental health worker (e.g., clinician, support worker peer worker, psychiatrist) who works with voice-hearers.

For more information or to volunteer for the study:

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[not-poignant]

so earlier this year a psychologist i'd never met before gave me an autism assessment, diagnosed me with level 2 autism (talking at length about how the levels are mostly just useful for accessing government support) and then strongly advised me to access a national disability insurance scheme (known as NDIS) in australia.

she sent me a 20 page document, detailing all the ways i needed support, and i kind of sat back and cried a little, because something she said really stuck with me, which was basically: 'pia, you would always have been diagnosed with ASD at any age, you were never 'atypical' in presentation, people knew before you were verbal and then went out of their way to make sure you never had the chance to get diagnosed, in case it reflected poorly on them, due to their own stigma.'

it's true. my dad was diagnosed with autism and hid it from me. from all of us. he was the most strongly opposed to any behaviour in me that was not neurotypical, or his version of it, which frankly was still pretty fucking autistic. i lived with his abuse until he left us.

but i look back and think, i should've had an education assistant in school and at university. i should've had people around me helping me all along, if i wanted as much access to equality as most neurotypical people have. and now in early october, i'll be meeting with a support service and we'll start talking about the support staff i'll likely need for the rest of my life.

a lifetime of chronic illness and constant burnout (both from illness and from autistic burnout) was recontextualised. a lot of things about the way i live my life made sense.

but it's scary to have these sorts of meetings when you've spent your entire life being threatened with severe consequences if you behave certain ways, or ask for help.

i write the stories i write for rather obvious reasons, basically, and life has been unafraid of making 2024 a rather challenging year.

not just for me, i know, but for many of us.

i'm wishing you all some comfort and kindness, and hoping i can find a bit more myself, in the next few months.

shit's been hard lol

[the-sappho-of-lesbos]

I’m so stressed and worried about my brother’s education and what’s going to happen. The school has already booked a meeting with my mum to talk about his low attendance.

I know part of it has to do with his anxiety and autism but also he just genuinely hates going to school. He’s not being bullied and he has friends he really enjoys. He would just rather not be there. He wants to do things he is interested in and he thinks all the teachers are stupid.

I want to help but he doesn’t seem very receptive to it. I keep telling my mum we need to get him back into therapy because it might be able to help with him finding strategies to deal with this. But she just gets angry when I bring it up because she says she can’t take him (since her MS has gotten to the point where she can’t drive ) and I’m like I’ll take him I don’t care. I can use a driving service via my NDIS plan or I can take the bus.

But he is also extremely stubborn and angry at times when asked to do things he doesn’t want to so he probably wouldn’t even go half the time. I’m just at such a massive loss.

He would be able to drop out of school next year if he got a trade but he isn’t interested in that either.

I’m so sure this is a manifestation of his mental health which is also why I want him in therapy because if he can’t go to school or work because of his mental state he needs to go on the DSP so he isn’t without any financial means. But I’m on the dsp and I got it young. And I know I was able to get it young because I consistent record of seeing psychologists - otherwise it’s rather hard for young people to get the DSP. If that’s going to be an option for him he needs to go back into therapy - it’ll either help him get the recourses and strategies he needs to cope with this or give him the foundation he needs to get extra help in the near future.

I’m just at a loss. I genuinely don’t know what to do. I feel so helpless as his big sister because he just doesn’t seem very receptive to my help. He comes to me a lot for emotional help when he wants ti talk about his feelings or what’s happening, but when it comes to this stuff he tends to not listen to anyone.

I’m scared for his future. I’m scared for his well being. I’m angry at myself that I’m limited in what I can do. I want him to be well and happy for whatever that looks like for him, but at the moment it seems like there is no direction and I don’t know what to do.

[comorbidityqueen]

Over a year and a half ago i was lucky enough to be part of an upper spasticity trial to have 5 weeks of intense hand therapy every weekday for 2-3 hours a day. it helped my arm, shoulder, and wrist. I saw immense improvements and actually had the best ever results recorded from the study at that time.

I think back and think to myself "it didn't work". I couldn't move my fingers by the end, and what is wrong with me. I had feelings of shame, guilt and hated myself for trying so hard and not getting the results i wanted.

I had my physiotherapist tell me recently that the problem wasn't in the joint, limb, ect itself, it was in my brain. Not long after that session I had my new psychologist tell me that my brain injury was a trauma in itself. two things i couldn't wrap my head around, because i thought the problem was with me and i just wasn't trying hard enough over the last 18 years to erase this huge part of me that i hated about myself.

Internalised ableism is something that has defined much of my life, and i didn't cause it, i was taught it. Ableism is defined as discrimination against disabled people and/or having a favour for able-bodied people. Internalised ableism is when you're disabled and have that belief about yourself. A short time after my stroke i went back to school a few days a week in a wheelchair where i was relentless bullied for being disabled. This was also a pivotal point in my life when self worth was being developed at the start of adolescence. It was taken away from me because i had the chance to form it like others my age. I was taught to hate myself and struggled coming to terms with what had happened to me, and i still do. I still whole heartedly believe that im living proof bullying can kill you; because it almost did. I spent over a decade of my life struggling with self harm, substance abuse and countless suicide attempts after that trauma, and now in recovery from drugs and alcohol, i can understand just how much that time of my life impacted me.

It's believed that damage to the basal ganglia in stroke victims can be reversed with neuroplascisity (rewiring your brain), yet i have to come to terms with the fact that wasn't a reality for me to a full extent. I am grateful to be able to walk without assistance (although my spatial awareness and coordination is poor), i can talk (with some disordered speech when fatigued and chronic dysphagia), and have somehow perfect vision aside from occasional nystagmus. I have dystonia, spascisity and high tone in my left arm/hand, and despite working endlessly hard on it, remains rigid and paralysed. I have myoclonic seizures on a daily basis and struggle to do some daily tasks, i do everything on my own yet do them slowly. I am very grateful to have a supportive family who cook for me, and ndis services to access the community. I am grateful for the progress i have made and one day hope to understand why this happened to me much like others with lifelong disabilities. After decades of being on pharmaceuticals i am so grateful to be living a holistic life full of amazing natural remedies that help me. This includes castor oil, magnesium oil, a clean diet and of course physiotherapy stretches and exercise.

I know like anyone that has suffered significant trauma in their lives, forging meaning and identity can be hard. Despite every obstacle i have come across in life i still work hard on my daily mobility. I hope one day to show others living with brain injuries and trauma that they too can have meaningful, impactful lives.

[im-traumatised]

How do you sleep when theirs so much stupid shit needing to be addressed?

The anniversary of my abusive father's death is in less then a week followed by fathers day a weekish later.

My landlord wants to increase my rent so much I can't afford it but I also don't have the money or phsyical capability to move so I've about 2 weeks till my lease ends to decide wtf to do or go homeless... Again...

I've been denied ndis, which is an important disability support, for the 4th time and applying again could now take months.

I have no psychologist or support worker.

I have my sister waiting for me to reply to her about some will bullshit where she's acting shady.

All my mental illnesses are acting up like crazy, I haven't left my apartment on my own in over a month again, I hate my body. I want to relapse on everything.

I'm so utterly self loathing about my sexuality and I can't make peace with it that it makes the future look hopeless.

... Lmfao

I have not slept for well over 24 hours...

[soggypotatoes]

Ive always felt so guilty over my parents having money, giving me access to things like stable housing and fun things and seeing my therapist 5x a week for months

they actually grew up really poor, my dad on a sugarcane farm the youngest of 8 and my mum.. idk her childhood much lol but I know her family didn't have money.. theyve ended up with a lot though, that they use to support me and my brother

I still struggle with money sometimes bc I rely on them as little as I can, i mostly just live off Centrelink with certain things paid for me by my parents/the NDIS like various therapies and stuff

I give money away when I can, donate and give gifts and pay for friends' food and stuff.. I can't always fully afford it but I know I have a security blanket under me and ill be fine, so I don't really mind.. but still, I feel bad about how I have access to so much that no one else has and I don't know what to do with that feeling!

like!! Ive never even heard of anyone seeing their therapist 5x a week. it's extremely good, I have a lot of shit to work through and everything can change for me really really fast, it's doing a lot for me, and I appreciate my psychologist so much for giving me so much time. I just wish other people could do this, but I can't do shit, I don't personally have the money to help my friends get the help they need and I wish I did. i want everyone to be ok 😔

[megpie71]

Getting Started with the NDIS, Part III

Finished the appointment with the NDIS Local Area Coordinator, who gave me a bit of a breakdown of what the various items in the various categories for my plan are.

Under "core supports" I get 4 hours a week of domestic support (housework, gardening, cooking, cleaning etc).  I also get 5 hours a week of social support,  which means if I need someone to come along and be my buddy at a social Thing, that's where the money comes from.  This means now I need to find some social Things to need a buddy for.  Yeep.  I think the first few hours are going to be things like "clothes shopping" and "getting my eyes tested" and other such long-overdue tasks that I’ve been putting off due to dislike of crowds.  There's a budget for consumables (bits and pieces recommended by allied health professionals as necessary for this and that - examples given were things like non-slip bath mats, or particular kitchen appliances).  The transport money is getting paid directly to my bank account on a fortnightly basis - it's essentially petrol money, which means yeah, the NDIA is paying for 2/3 of each tank of fuel I buy - which means I can afford to do other things to the car with the money I’m putting aside for it each fortnight, like paying for some well-overdue new tyres.  

Under capacity building, I get 30 hours of psychology time, which is essentially 26 fortnightly psychologist visits a year, and an extra four hours of crises, report writing, or whatever.  Even if I knock that down to "one hour of direct service generates one hour of indirect report writing" (which is probably a pretty fair estimate, given what the NDIS requires by way of reporting from the people they're paying money to) that's fifteen psych visits a year, which is one a month plus three spares for crises.  Meanwhile, Medicare will cover a total of 10 psych visits per year (which is about one every six weeks - it's a maintenance schedule, not an improvement schedule; admittedly, Medicare doesn't demand the same level of reporting back and forth).  I also get 10 hours of designated physiotherapy time (at least some of that is going to be for the initial assessment, to tell them - and me - what needs fixing and what I need help with), plus another 20 hours of flexible therapy time (10 hours of which is allocated to an OT for a Functional Capacity Assessment) which can be allocated wherever is necessary.  

Now, as with all government grants (which is what NDIS money is) there's a catch: you have to use it all up in order to get the same amount of funding next year.  The government wants this money to get out and about in the community and make friends with lots of people (I pay it to the allied health people; they use it to pay their bills or their salary; it then gets paid on to someone else, etc, etc) rather than sit huddled in a silo feeling sorry for itself because it's all lonely.  This presents its own problems for me at the moment - I have no idea about what kinds of services are available, how I'd go about accessing them and so on.  

This is where the support coordination side of things comes into play.  A support coordinator is the person who connects the person with the money (me) with the people who can provide the services they need (PTs, OTs, support workers and so on) and who essentially has a list of "these are the good ones, these are the ones to steer clear of" and so on at their fingertips.  I've made an outreach to one of the organisations near me which provides NDIS support coordination, and I'm hoping they'll be able to get back to me before the new year (so I can get the ball rolling with this plan as soon as possible) and give me a hand with support coordination.  Fortunately, I have some money set aside in my "capacity building" funds for that as well.  

We shall see how my life changes (hopefully all for the better) as things go along.

[megpie71]

In Australia most of these are covered by various government schemes, although often it’s for certain groups of people.

Glasses, you need to have a health care card (which means you’re either on government benefits or on a provably low income) and what it means it you’ll get single vision lenses in cut-price frames for a lower cost than usual.

Hearing aids - again, you need to have a health care card, but you can get a hearing aid fitted and prescribed for free.  The batteries, however, are not covered by government subsidy, and they’re expensive little whatsits.

Mobility aids - Need to be on the NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme) if you’re under 65; if you’re over 65, I think the Aged Care system will help subsidise it.

AAC devices - again, NDIS if you’re under 65.  Don’t know whether they’re available to people over 65 or not.

Prescription medications - this is where the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme Safety Net comes into play.  For all Australian citizens (or all people who have a Medicare card number - same effective difference), once you have paid a certain amount for PBS-registered prescription medications (which are already subsidised by the government) in the course of a calendar year, the price paid for each prescription drops to a much lower rate, and once you pass a second threshold, the price drops again (to nothing).  For people who are on a low income (health care card, again) they get the lower price to start with, and when they reach the first threshold, their prescription cost drops to zero.  (The trick with this one is that it runs by household - so everyone in the household needs to be listed on the same overall Medicare card number, but with different individual identifiers). 

Therapy - mostly if you need a lot of physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech pathology, dietician assistance, etc, you need to be either paying for private health insurance ancillary health cover, or you need to be on the NDIS if you’re under 65, or registered with the Aged Care system if you’re over 65.  The NDIS will tend to fund a certain level of therapy hours with each plan, and often they’ll specify how many of which hours you’re allowed to spend their money on (for example, my plan for autism includes a lot of psychology hours, but not much PT or OT).  If you’re needing mental health care, it is possible to get a Mental Health Plan, which will allow you a grand total of 10 psychologist visits at the Medicare bulk billing rate (if you can find a psychologist who firstly, bulk bills, and secondly, has the capacity to take on new clients) per year.  This is basically a maintenance schedule - you hopefully won’t get any worse than when you started, but you certainly won’t be getting any better. 

Things that should be 100% covered by the government, period:

Glasses

Hearing aids

Mobility aids

AAC devices

Prescription medications

Literally all forms of therapy

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