INTRAPERSONAL EXPERIMENTS Magic X-Ray Machine This experiment is designed to help further emotional processing and help participants explore what is happening beneath the surface. It can be framed as follows: You’re walking down a path when you come across an old wizard who tells you he has an x-ray machine for you to try. It doesn’t see bones or anything physical but instead sees thoughts, feelings and emotions that are important to you. This experiment can be completed as guided imagery, an…
The process of integrative group therapy comes from the recognition that no single theory on its own can be effectively in group counseling to benefit each individual participating in the group. Therefore, group counseling must include a combination of cognitive and behavioral techniques because I believe that no single theory has all the answers. An Integrative approach to group counseling can be a necessary advantage for a leader to relate to each person with in the group. Norcross and Beutler…
Description of Group When an examination was done at a Christian denominational church in a Sunday school class, there were many particular findings. In this group members meet every Sunday morning for an hour and a half and are presented with a structured lesson. This gathering consists of roughly fifteen participants but attendance occasionally varies. This is largely due to the fact that anyone is welcome to join or leave the discussion at any time. The group contains a mixture of dissimilar…
Introduction to Maya Deren Maya Deren is one of the prominent figures in American experimental filmmaking, who is celebrated as a ‘legend’ and the “Mother of Avant-Garde” (Hornung 2005, p. 280; Pramaggiore 1997, p. 17). Maya Deren was born Eleanora Derenkowsky into a family of prominent educated Russian Jews in 1917, in Kiev, during the birth of the Revolution (Doneson n.d., p. 327; Fabe 1996, p. 146; McPherson 2005, p. 8). She was the only child of Solomon David Derenkowsky, a psychiatrist…
Introduction Mary Sibande was born in Mpumalanga in 1982, and currently lives and works in the city of Johannesburg. She is a fine arts graduate from the University of Johannesburg and received her B-Tech degree in fine art in 2009 . Gaining inspiration from South African Colonial and apartheid history Sibnade creates unique mixed media life size installations (13). She has a love for fashion and originally wanted to pursue a career in fashion design, which is evident I her elaborate costume…
The scope and benefits of Experiential Family Therapy Experiential therapy can help build intimacy. Families should generally be already relatively stable in order to benefit from experiential family therapy. Overview Experiential family therapy examines how family interactions cause problems for individual family members. Experiential family therapy may be used in addition to one-on-one sessions. Experiential family therapy is a school of family psychotherapy developed by Carl Whitaker in…
Review of the Empirical Evidence of Behaviour Transtheoretical Model Transtheoretical Model (TTM) is a stage-based model that provides a conceptual basis that can be used to develop interventions to help people with addiction issues, such as smoking, to change their unhealthy behaviour (Prochaska, DiClemente, & Norcross, 1992). According to Prochaska et al (1992), the use of ‘stage of membership,’ as well as ‘stage of change,’ helps categorize the subject’s level of readiness to make a…
Country of Cats” etc.). One senses the problem of tension in the relationship between lesser self and the superior or visionary self, because the poet appears to align himself more with the superior self than with the inferior self. Instead of a psychodrama, the imbalance between two voices turns some poems into caricatures for the ordinary self. In “Egg-Head”, for instance, Hughes’ goal is to show how this lesser self works. The Egg-Head swells with pride for having reduced all of sensual life…
Deployment related PTSD and CBT This paper will explain, discuss and support Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and the treatment of modality Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to alleviate symptoms of PTSD. The researchers chosen for this paper, demonstrate that the use of CBT has been beneficial to those who are experiencing cognitive deficits due to deployment related PTSD. The scope of this study is to comprise scholarly research articles that demonstrate the successful outcomes for veteran…