Treatment Summary Background and presenting problem The client, a 33 year old Caucasian female, received treatment at an outpatient Psychology Training Clinic over the course of 5 months. Developmentally, the client was from a low SES family of 6 and her parents were separated when she was very young. The client described a pattern of inconsistent employment history throughout adulthood. At the time of treatment, the client had started her graduate studies in performance arts and had a graduate…
What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder? “According to the American Psychiatric Association, Post-traumatic stress disorder is known to be an anxiety disorder that resulted from a particular tragic or terrifying incident stimulating major stress. Individual with PTSD normally have constant frightening thoughts & memories of their past encounters, this makes them emotionally numb to their close relatives or friends. PTSD knows no age limit or barrier, it can happen at any age. This disorder…
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success In Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, Dr. Carol Dweck, Ph.D. did a phenomenal job of theorizing the correlation between success and an individual’s mindset. She started off with the main theme and theory of the book which was an individual’s mindset plays a large factor in their successes. Dr. Dweck categorized the two mindsets into “fixed” mindset and “growth” mindset. The ultimate theme of this book was that an individual’s mindset could determine…
psychologist Ben Martin (2016), “a child with ADHD is four times as likely to have had a relative who was also diagnosed with ADHD”. However, on the flip side there are reports, which suggest other causes. A study published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry found that both inherited and noninherited factors contribute to the cause of ADHD (Thapar, Cooper, Eyre, Langley, 2012). They were not able to find a definitive cause of ADHD genetic or…
is our family dynamic and ultimately what occurred within your family has the ability to impact your future. How can we ensure that parents or guardians are making the right choices when it comes to the best way to raise a child? For decades in psychology one topic that has always sparked an interest with researchers are the inner workings of the family dynamic. As a result of that interest a significant amount of research has been done. From this research psychologists figured out the best…
them because they have no idea where you are coming from. Honestly, I cannot comprehend psychology without God! For me, the two go hand in hand! At CCU I will be able to start at square one and move all the way up through my Master’s degree. One school definitely helps lessen the anxiety over any upcoming moves. After I obtain my Master’s, I plan to get a certification in Cognitive Behavioral…
myself and tried it, it made me change my perspective. So I get when people think why should I try medication it’s not what I’m used to. The second most effective and common method of Psychological Treatment is Psychotherapy. Specifically, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy which is when you talk to a therapist or psychiatrist, depending on your disorder and learn specific skills used to overcome problems that are psychically and emotionally affecting you. Cognitive therapy is based on the idea that…
As a preamble I am going to use the following argument. As I am professional increasingly more involved in mental health in the community of Waukesha. In this capacity I am witnessing the crippling effects that Anxiety followed by depression has on people in varying stages of their lives. Secondly I have a house member who is diagnosed with general anxiety with an emphasis on social anxiety resulting in depression. Anxiety; is according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental…
several age groups in order to determine whether its development proceeds linearly or in a nonlinear fashion. Cognitive reappraisal in the study of psychology is an emotion regulation strategy used by us humans that involves changing the direction of an emotional response by reinterpreting the meaning of the emotional stimulus or incentive.…
Melisa Solis Psychology 3317 Cognitive behavior therapy has been part of my life, because three years ago my sister was diagnosed with social anxiety. She become a mother at a young age, she isolated herself in her room. She knew that her anxiety, thoughts and fears where irrational and unfounded. She realize that it is angst and terror that she was experiencing. But despite this logical knowledge and sense, she still continued to feel and believe differently, thus, thoughts and symptoms…