Community Protection

Community Protection
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Community Protection
According to Jennifer Berton, a community comprises the profession, neighborhood, group, agency, and other groups, and every member must protect it and facilitate its survival (Berton, 2014). One way to strengthen the profession and safeguard the community is by maintaining a health counseling relationship and a positive therapeutic alliance between the client and physician.
Developing a successful alliance between the client and healthcare provider enables the former to perceive the relationship as therapeutic and crucial regardless of treatment intervention. In particular, providing proper education and awareness to the community is the most significant thing to overcome the drug or alcohol addiction problem (Best et al., 2016). Therapists can bolster their profession by educating the community about the adverse consequences of misusing drugs. That way, the community would become empowered and self-determined to avoid alcohol and other drugs.
The community can be protected by sharing the right information to help people avoid the effects of drugs and alcohol. Based on a study conducted in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, adolescents aged from 13 to 18 years were found to have used different types of drugs, such as alcohol, marijuana, and tobacco products, since no one cautioned them about the consequences (Alhyas et al., 20...