Personal Narrative: Group Therapy

Decent Essays
Oscar,

I have to say that I chuckled when I read, "I've done everything in the mental health field except prescribe medication; you name it: case manager, psychotherapist, administrator, clinical supervisor." You are quite an interesting person Oscar. winking I have to say your previous employment was quite a surprise to me. I'm a little taken back. I'm usually a perceptive person, but you really got me this time. (he, he.) By no means am I saying that you wouldn't be the best of therapists. It just really caught me off guard, but in a good way. I look forward to learning more. Well, it will be nice having a therapist in our group (LOL). What kind of group therapy should we try?

I'm sorry that you are feeling lonely tonight and I

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Since I was first accepted into the graduate clinical mental health counseling program, I highly anticipated my first experience of actual counseling. I never expected the difficulties I would face upon my first encounter counseling a client. With my client unaware of the reason for being referred to me, asking “what brings you in here today?” turned out to be the wrong question to ask. The more appropriate way initiating a counseling relationship begins with introductions and obtaining background information from the client increasing the trust level between client and the counselor. During the session, I detected my “machine gun questions” meaning I never provided my client adequate time to respond before I asked another question; as a result,…

    • 313 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    To all the doctors, teachers, peers, and family members who didn’t believe I would amount to greatness, thank you. When I was young, I didn’t understand why school seemed more challenging for me than it did for everyone else. I couldn’t discern why I was unable to distinguish my right from my left no matter how many times my teacher sighed and told me it was simple or why I could complete math problems perfectly then copy my answer wrong between the work area and the answer line.…

    • 606 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Seated on the plane to Beijing, I was thinking all the way on what I did through the past year. My mind went back to the time when my friends and I worked together for Chinese orphans by creating a club. With 100 dollars from donation, I asked several classmates to help me set up a club called ‘Bring Me Hope Club’ to cooperate with a global NGO: Bring Me Hope, to raise money for Chinese orphans and build long-term personal one-to-one relationships with them.…

    • 641 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    During and after the group project I got a better understanding of NAVAL and a better understanding of my group. For example, Lexi is the leader of the group and Camille is the worker bee meaning that she is the one to go to for the information about the presentation. There were many high points in the group such as when we completed are power point early and when we researched the information. I had a blast working with them. A low point was when the video couldn’t load and we had to start from scratch again.…

    • 467 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    As a child growing up in Rhode Island, the smallest state in the Union, the idea of a vast planet brimming with civilization and culture was more like something out of a fairy tale than it was reality. So, when my father announced that we would be leaving the country to go to Scotland, the home of his and my ancestors, my world began to expand at a rapid pace. This trip could not have been timed more perfectly. The summer of 2007 marked the end of fourth grade, my first year at Saint Mary Academy Bay View.…

    • 863 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The pain began slowly, pricking me with its sharp needles only while doing barre in ballet once a week. I ignored it, believing it to be normal, common discomfort that would soon go away, typical thoughts of a dancer whose entire sport is centered around “good pain”. Six months later, it had escalated to the degree that every step I took felt like an arrow to my knee. Dancing had become impossible, and it was determined that I should be taken to the orthopedist. The bland, brown and beige lobby became extraordinarily familiar as I waited two hours to be examined.…

    • 992 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Narrative therapy is essentially a collaborative approach to facilitating therapeutic change. However, skillful expert therapists like Michael White in certain instances seem to be quite directive in the leading questions that they ask and appear to contribute more than 50% to the re-authoring of clients lives and their scripts about how to manage problems. This discrepancy between the avowed collaborative non-directive therapeutic positioning of the therapists on the one hand and the skillful leading approach to therapeutic questioning on the other deserves some clarification.…

    • 84 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    A few years ago, I have decided to go to my health professional and have my numbers checked. Although my numbers still fall in the "normal" range, they're still low for someone my age. If my memory serves me right, it was around 260 or so. I knew that something has to be done, my low testosterone level doesn't only affect my sexual life, but my life in general. I always feel tired, anxious, and unsatisfied of my body.…

    • 509 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    For two years, I volunteered as a I worked closely After all of the volunteering I have completed, my communication skills and teamwork skill My interest was confirmed by Most of all, however, my great passion for Occupational Therapy comes from the experience of my uncle. This experience left me with the impression I have always had a desire to help others…

    • 62 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Narrative Therapy Paper

    • 184 Words
    • 1 Pages

    The main aim of narrative therapy is to re-examine these stories and begin to question different aspects of the narrative in order to widen its perspective and integrate different realities. The narrative therapist looks for exceptions to the client’s narrative and highlights the moments that are in conflict with the client’s prevailing discourse (Corey, 2009). Posing questions is a central method of prompting the client to look for aberrations from the overriding narrative in order to examine the circumstances surrounding those particular moments. Drawing attention to the exceptions to the client’s storyline might include the emotions, thoughts, and details surrounding that specific instance (Payne, 2006). According the narrative approach, adding context and exceptions to the story combined with creating a new narrative allows the client to open up new life options and ways of living (Richert, 2010).…

    • 184 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I went back to therapy the next day. “Scot, I think you might be ready to work in group therapy. I know you don't really like people, but it might be good for you." And that is why I would be meeting five more people. Against my will.…

    • 1641 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    This week I have completed my personal activities. I had 3 activities to complete one being Random Act of Kindness, The second being Nurturing Relationships, and the last Taking care of your body. I was glad to see the scores I got, it gave me activities I am passionate about, but also need to work on to better myself. The first activity I had was Nurturing Relationship.…

    • 360 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Great Essays

    Goals Of Narrative Therapy

    • 1237 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Another goal is to encourage the client (s) to examine their preferred answers to their problems that they are going through. Since, clients possess strengths; the goal of this therapy is to use those strengths to solve their problem. (Gehart, 2014). The goal of Narrative Therapy is to use the client’s language to find out what is going well in the client’s lives to enable the client to anticipate a positive change in their life (Gehart, 2014).…

    • 1237 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The sickness that I live with is one that some would find excessively appalling, making it impossible to talk about; so I kept it to a whisper. This sickness I thought was to embarrassing to talk about, making it impossible to seek help, left me feeling alone in the dark. This sickness ruined friendships, without me realizing it. This sickness that made getting out of bed a struggle for me. This sickness made it impossible for me to see a positive future, until the day I stopped calling myself “crazy” and began to grow from what we all call, depression.…

    • 1228 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    All the concepts and theories that I have learned in social psychology have thought me very well the understanding of human behavior. From the way they communicate to the way that they react. Humans are very complicated species yet very easy to put two and two together as to why and how they act the way they act. When thinking of all the theories I have learned so far in social psychology class, I can defiantly say that I can connect to them all in a way. The main components, that I found to be interesting and also very relatable to me is, the components that are dealing with attraction, social influence, and also stereotyping.…

    • 1068 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays