Behavioral enrichment

Question 4: Chapter 1 “Overview of Crisis Intervention”, page 14 Everyone experiences trauma differently which can cause a spectrum of reactions to traumatic events. (For each case study, please classify which type of response is experienced: behavioral, physical, spiritual, emotional, or cognitive, response). A Recently, Jillian returned from a long weekend trip with her college friends. When she arrived home, she noticed that the door to her apartment was slightly cracked open. She knew…

In addition, aversion therapy also is one of the techniques that based on the behaviorist principle of classical conditioning. If the clients want to change their unwanted behaviors, they can change by using this therapy. It is determined to decrease the frequency of the undesirable behaviors, for example, smoking or over eating, alcoholism, gambling and so on, by teaching the client to match a discomfort stimulus that achieves an undesirable response. There are two types of aversion therapy.…

Michelle has exhibited symptoms of acute stress disorder after her automobile accident. Michelle has not reported any prior issues leading to the accident. She has experienced issues currently lasting 2 months, such as anxiety and repressed memories. According to the DSM-IV-TR checklist for posttraumatic stress disorder (Pg. 157), she had experienced an automobile accident involving serious injury to herself, which resulted in temporary hospitalization. After the incident, the patient states…

symptoms that will show the therapist how the client may view events and situations that bring out unhealthy behaviors or thoughts. An example of this is a client that is dealing with depression. When I become a therapist, I would use cognitive and behavioral therapy that will allow me to touch base on prior conditions from any environment or trauma that will not allow the client to control unhealthy behaviors through rational thoughts. Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) plays a big…

health of the patient and give someone the opportunity to be more mentally healthy than ever before. Also, understanding what kind of therapy to take could be very important to the improvement of the patient 's health. According to an article, “Behavioral therapy concentrates on your actions; cognitive therapy focuses on your thoughts; and interpersonal therapy looks at your relationships with others” (“Psychotherapy” 1). There are many different types of therapies that all focus on different…

There are wide variety factors that’s believed to contribute to the onset of depression. “Most likely, depression is caused by a combination of genetic, biological, environmental, and psychological factors.”- "Depression." NIMH RSS. Web. 28 Nov. 2015. The utmost importance factor certainly lies in the brain, which scientifically wheels emotions, despite the prevalent lore has it that emotions resides in the heart. Levels of brain chemicals, as well as the functioning of nerve cells, and nerve…

Today I would like to reflect on my first client experience in therapy and how it has helped me to discover my standpoint for the profession. At the beginning of the semester I came to the realization that I need to go to see a counselor – I wanted to become more aware of myself, to experience the process from a client’s perspective, and to sort out some stuff that bothered me unconsciously for a couple of years. Our theory class helped me a lot with realizing whom I want to see; however, since…

After the client has been desensitized, installation (phase five) takes place. During installation, the client learns to think with positive cognition (McGuire, Lee & Drummond, 2014). Although the client has encountered and learned to think positively during the desensitization phase, he/she needs to understand the importance of positive cognition. Statements like “I did the best I could” are typically seen during this phase. Following this is the body scan phase, which shows the progress of the…

Part I: Personal Reaction Of the numerous therapeutic approaches that we have been exposed to this semester, the Behavior Therapy is most preferred. Due to my background in ABA I could relate and grasp the behavior therapy techniques and procedures. Miltenberger (2012) and Wilson (2011),state that the procedures are used in the fields of developmental disabilities, mental illness, education and special education, community psychology, clinical psychology, rehabilitation, business,…

PTSD is one of the most horrific disorders known to man. PTSD is a mental disorder that affects people that have been through a traumatic experience in their lives. It is very common with veterans. Around 30% of all veterans that have been exposed to combat will suffer from PTSD. Since the government is so willing to send soldiers to war, they should also be willing to take care of the ones that get PTSD. The normal suicide rate for males in the United States is 19.4 per 100,000. For veterans,…