The psychologist, also known as a therapist, helps people in several areas, including depression, anxiety, grief and loss, life transitions, and stress, as well as many other specific disorders such as Attention Deficit Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, among countless others. The age of the person receiving treatment from a psychologist can range from a young child, to an adolescent, to an active adult, to a senior citizen. In her 2016 article “Understanding Therapy”, Amy Green explains that “therapy provides a supportive environment to help people talk openly about their concerns.” Essentially anybody can benefit from any type of therapy at any time in his or her life. Green also suggests that the
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Mindfulness is a type of positive psychology that is based on Buddhist practice and is considered to be a part of the Noble Eightfold Path to spiritual enlightenment (Collard, Avny, & Boniwell, 2008). In my time as an intern, I learned that mindfulness is essentially living in the moment. Focusing on things that are happening right now like sounds, breathing, and physical sensations helps to eliminate distractions and keeps the mind from wandering. The more often a client practices the mindfulness techniques supplied by a therapist, the better she becomes at initiating the process on her own when she needs it. In the 2008 study by Collard, Anvy, and Boniwell, results indicated “that merely coaching people in MBCT on a regular basis can affect an improvement in their level of Mindfulness and focus of awareness and possibly even in their sense of well-being.” In other words, teaching mindfulness to clients can also help a therapist be mindful in his or her own life situations. While coping strategies and mindfulness techniques are certainly helpful, co-parenting strategies are a big part of therapy for …show more content…
Family therapy can include both parents, the children, and other extended family members such as grandparents and aunts or uncles, but it will usually just involve immediate family members. All family members are not necessarily required to attend sessions together; sometimes the therapist will just speak to the children, sometimes just the adults, and sometimes everyone will sit with the therapist together. In an ongoing project conducted by Justine van Lawick and Margreet Visser called “No Kids in the Middle”, a group of therapists works with six families at a time in a type of group therapy. The kids work in a group with two therapists and the adults work another group with two therapists. In the adults’ group, “While helping the other members of the group, they help themselves to navigate similar problems and often become more flexible in their own efforts to negotiate conflict” while the children’s group “aims to give the children a voice and to stimulate their resilience without being caught in the fights of their parents” (Lawick & Visser, 2015). The outcome of these types of therapy sessions have been mostly positive, however there are always some
Mindfulness is a type of positive psychology that is based on Buddhist practice and is considered to be a part of the Noble Eightfold Path to spiritual enlightenment (Collard, Avny, & Boniwell, 2008). In my time as an intern, I learned that mindfulness is essentially living in the moment. Focusing on things that are happening right now like sounds, breathing, and physical sensations helps to eliminate distractions and keeps the mind from wandering. The more often a client practices the mindfulness techniques supplied by a therapist, the better she becomes at initiating the process on her own when she needs it. In the 2008 study by Collard, Anvy, and Boniwell, results indicated “that merely coaching people in MBCT on a regular basis can affect an improvement in their level of Mindfulness and focus of awareness and possibly even in their sense of well-being.” In other words, teaching mindfulness to clients can also help a therapist be mindful in his or her own life situations. While coping strategies and mindfulness techniques are certainly helpful, co-parenting strategies are a big part of therapy for …show more content…
Family therapy can include both parents, the children, and other extended family members such as grandparents and aunts or uncles, but it will usually just involve immediate family members. All family members are not necessarily required to attend sessions together; sometimes the therapist will just speak to the children, sometimes just the adults, and sometimes everyone will sit with the therapist together. In an ongoing project conducted by Justine van Lawick and Margreet Visser called “No Kids in the Middle”, a group of therapists works with six families at a time in a type of group therapy. The kids work in a group with two therapists and the adults work another group with two therapists. In the adults’ group, “While helping the other members of the group, they help themselves to navigate similar problems and often become more flexible in their own efforts to negotiate conflict” while the children’s group “aims to give the children a voice and to stimulate their resilience without being caught in the fights of their parents” (Lawick & Visser, 2015). The outcome of these types of therapy sessions have been mostly positive, however there are always some