After having spring break and Easter weekend with my family, the change project has caused us to become much closer. I had the opportunity to spend a lot of time with them and continue to grow out out relationships. My mom is a medical case manager and guardian for clients with all kinds of disabilities. Her clients have all kinds of physical, mental, psychological disorders as well. Anyways, I was brainstorming different topics for my paper with her and she proposed a question that she has always wondered, especially with her clients that have constant psychiatric needs. She has always wondered if different moon phases have an effect of people’s moods and personalities. She has had some very difficult clients and I can always remember her
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I like that fact that it focuses on experiencing situations rather than just talking about them. I also really like the idea of the empty chair technique because it gives people a chance to speak their mind without being afraid that the person will come back at them. Also, I do like the ideas that it has about dreams. It says that dreams are random firing of the brain put into logic. I understood this very well because dreams are very weird and difficult to understand, but when reading this, I realized that they can all just be random things put into a logical “story” called a dream. Role playing is also very important because it gives a chance to say things that you want to say. It also gives the therapist an idea of how you act in certain situations, which can then give them an idea on where to start. It is not one of my favorite theories,however, there are still some important ideas that I can take away from …show more content…
The fact that everyone has their own theory of things, like the apple during class, is amazing because we were all seeing the exact same thing, but people all had different opinions about it. The implicit theory is very important with this specific topic as well. During class, we did a short test of how optimistic we were. I scored a 19 and the median score is 21. I have always thought of myself as an optimistic person, but certain situations that life has thrown at me have made me less optimistic. I do believe that people who are more optimistic are happier because they focus on the things that could go right instead of focusing on what could go wrong. The only time that I repeatedly notice that I am less optimistic is when I have experienced failure, therefore, if I do the same task sometime in the future, I do not expect the outcome to be much different than the first time. I tend to learn best from my own
I like that fact that it focuses on experiencing situations rather than just talking about them. I also really like the idea of the empty chair technique because it gives people a chance to speak their mind without being afraid that the person will come back at them. Also, I do like the ideas that it has about dreams. It says that dreams are random firing of the brain put into logic. I understood this very well because dreams are very weird and difficult to understand, but when reading this, I realized that they can all just be random things put into a logical “story” called a dream. Role playing is also very important because it gives a chance to say things that you want to say. It also gives the therapist an idea of how you act in certain situations, which can then give them an idea on where to start. It is not one of my favorite theories,however, there are still some important ideas that I can take away from …show more content…
The fact that everyone has their own theory of things, like the apple during class, is amazing because we were all seeing the exact same thing, but people all had different opinions about it. The implicit theory is very important with this specific topic as well. During class, we did a short test of how optimistic we were. I scored a 19 and the median score is 21. I have always thought of myself as an optimistic person, but certain situations that life has thrown at me have made me less optimistic. I do believe that people who are more optimistic are happier because they focus on the things that could go right instead of focusing on what could go wrong. The only time that I repeatedly notice that I am less optimistic is when I have experienced failure, therefore, if I do the same task sometime in the future, I do not expect the outcome to be much different than the first time. I tend to learn best from my own