Interpersonal Therapy: Overcoming Negativity, Loneliness, and Conflicts Interpersonal Therapy is a therapy that focuses on social roles and relationships. The goal of this kind of treatment is to improve relations, help with life changes, and teach a client how to handle themselves in certain situations. This therapy aids with depression, because depression typically occurs in interpersonal context and affects relationships. Depression is a medical illness that changes the way a person acts, thinks and feels. This kind of therapy is extremely beneficial in helping a person move past their depression and live a positive life.…
References Benjamin J Pfeifer, D. R. (2015). A Primer on Psychotherapy Process Research: A Review of Cognitive Therapy of Depression. Australian Psychological Society, 411-415. Cramer, A. J. (2016). Major Depression as a Complex Dynamic System.…
Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) is an aptly named evidence-based intervention that does exactly as it’s name suggests: it is intense, for both the administering therapist and the client; it is generally short-term; it is dynamic in that it ranges from emotion to emotion and setting to setting, changing constantly depending on the client’s present state; and it is an intervention rooted in psychotherapy with classic psychoanalytical elements (Abbass, 2016). ISTDP shares the same primary goal of psychoanalysis, which, stated as simply as possible, is to access the unconscious mind, but has one key difference – time. Whereas traditional psychoanalysis requires between 250 and 600 hours of therapy, ISTDP can comprehensively treat…
The Recovery Model: I can see how the recovery model would work with Solution Focused Brief Therapy. “The recovery model aims to help people with mental health problems to look beyond mere survival and existence. It encourages them to move forward, set new goals and do things and develop relationships that give their lives meaning”. ("Mental Health foundation," SFBT is an approach that focuses on how clients change, rather than one which focuses on diagnosing and treating problems. For Tonya, she is recovering from a substance addiction, child and adult abuse, AIDS, and has addiction to sex, and mental health problems.…
Humanistic Theory and Therapies Schneider and Krug (2015) report that therapeutic outcome studies are finding that the therapeutic environment, the relationship, and the personal styles of the therapist and client are essential features for all therapeutic modalities. These salient therapeutic features are parallel to the central qualities of humanistic therapy, including empathy, therapeutic alliance, enhancing and deepening emotions, the self of the therapist, and the therapeutic relationship (Angus, Watson, Elliot, Schneider, & Timulak, 2015). Moreover, research is demonstrating that it is not the theories and techniques that heal, but the human dimensions of therapy, like the relationship, which promote healing (Schneider & Krug, 2015).…
Ordinary People is a 1980 film about Conrad and his family. Their family lost the eldest son in a boating accident and their relationship with each other becomes strained after Conrad attempts suicide. The relationship between Conrad and his mother is distant and disconnected. The relationship between Conrad and his father is more open in comparison. After Conrad returns home from the hospital he starts therapy with Dr. Berger.…
As an elementary school counselor some of the approaches I would use include solution-focused therapy and play therapy. However, I would also use other strategies or theories in order to fit the needs of the student or situation. Solution-focused therapy can be very beneficial for a school counselor because it provides supportive services to students in a short amount of time (Dollarhide & Saginak, 2012). School counselors often have more than the recommended student to counselor ratio and have many tasks put on them that make it difficult to provide the students with the needed amount of direct services (American School Counselor Association, 2012). Therefore, solution-focused therapy is useful because it can provide brief counseling that…
The first is that the patient must have symptoms affecting voluntary motor or sensory function that suggest a medical condition. Secondly, any psychological factors must be taken into account since the symptoms of this disorder are caused by psychological stressors or conflict. After deciding that the symptoms are caused by psychological stressors, it needs to be decided if the symptoms are being caused intentionally and if they can be stopped voluntarily. If they cannot be stopped voluntarily, then investigations should be done to confirm that the symptoms shown cannot be explained by general medical conditions, use of substances, or culturally sanctioned behavior or experience.…
According to our text, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is defined as; Interventions that directly or indirectly change clients’ cognitions that are maintaining their problem behavior. (Frew & Spiegler 2013). CBT includes several types of therapies that focus on the impact of an individual’s thinking as it relates to spoken behaviors. Some of those particular treatments are behavior therapy, cognitive therapy, mindfulness-…
Thus far, I have learned many important aspects of becoming an effective therapist. One of the major parts of training involves evaluation and feedback from supervisors or peers. I think evaluations are an important part of training because it provides feedback to areas, which you are doing well in, and areas in which you will need improvement. I believe that without evaluations, we as therapist cannot grow into effective therapist. To date I cannot think of any job or career that does not use “end of the year evaluations”.…
4. Existential Therapy Unlike Adlerian Therapy, or Psychoanalysis, Existentialism was not founded by any person or group. Instead, the concept is a cornucopia of different ideas which contribute to a universal theory of existence (Corey, 2013, p. 140). World War II devastated Europe and left those that participated, or that were victims of the war, struggling with isolation and meaninglessness. The search for understanding and freedom within the confines of the Nazi oppression lead philosophers and psychologists alike to rethink the concept of freedom and the meaning of life.…
Existentialism holds a very optimistic view of human nature. Emphasis is placed on responsibility and self-actualization. It focuses on interpersonal relationships and on the here and now of the client/therapist relationship and does not take into account the client’s past history during treatment. It can also be blind to other constraints like environmental factors (Jones-Smith, 2015). As a philosophical therapy it focuses less on active problem solving and treatment can be long term (Corey G. , 2009).…
My life is known to be a bumpy road full of curves and hills. I believe we all have our own unique and different road that we are on. We all have a path that God has predestine us on and we have some choosing on how we construct and live our life. I believe that I am a different person know than how I was in the past. In the hurt and no purpose in the world, I was lost and frustrated at everybody and myself.…
Laura, is a forty-seven year old female, who is seeking therapy. Laura’s doctor recently referred her for treatment of depression. During Laura’s first session, she revealed that she is currently living with her common-law partner, of 15 years. She admitted to having a good relationship with her partner, however, stated that she keeps her distance and has trouble sharing her feelings with him. In addition, Laura acknowledged that she infrequently discloses private woes, and vexations with her partner and her friends, in fear that she will be seen as a “complainer”.…
Journal Reflection Who we are personally and professional are entwined together. Our personal life impacts our professional life and vice versa. As professional counselors, we have to find that balance with managing personal and professional boundaries and how our values and beliefs affect what we do professionally. The challenge of balancing life roles are essential in any career, as counselors we are asked to look honestly at ourselves and choose how we want to change. It is important that we are open, as we ask of our clients to be.…