Behavioral enrichment

Daffern and Gilbert discussion of the General Aggression Model (GAM) is an attempt to thoroughly explain the elaborate relationship that exist between violence and personality disorders along with providing a structured systematic method that clinicians can utilize to treat and further investigate the link between the two. The article discusses the history of evidence revolving around individuals with personality disorders (prisoners, psychiatric patients, and etc.) and their relationship with…

Introduction This paper will describe Dasani’s biological, psychological, and psychosocial dimensions that was seen throughout her case assessment. Some of the theories that will be discussed is health and wealth connection, Piaget cognitive theory, social learning theory, and social support and how social support aids coping. The conclusion with consist of a reflection of Dasani case assessment, and what the writer has learned about other people while writing this assessment. Health and…

Since the 1960s cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) has been used to treated multiple disorders, such as, depression and OCD. By using socratic-questioning, questions meant to probe and cause critical thinking, and guided discovery therapists attempt to help their patients make insights into their thought processes. There are not only many different strategies that can be employed to treat different disorders but, CBT is fairly successful with many different disorders. Cognitive-behavioural…

A mental disorder that has been constantly criticized over the years and used as an excuse in many situations. Anxiety is known to have many different off branches and effects a diverse group of individuals all throughout the world. Starting from simple shyness to causing extreme panic disorders, anxiety has become one of the biggest dilemmas of our time to critics and the society we live in. All because of one short and simple yet very complicated question that no one seems to have the correct…

The media has created a false stigma for those living with metal disorders, by regularly portraying characters with mental illness as problematic, uncontrollable and violent. Larger than life negative characters have been repeatedly displayed on the big screen with these stereotypical cliché behaviors, and used as the focal point, or “hero” of the movie. Silver Lining Playbook is not just another one of Hollywood’s inaccurate depictions of mental illness. However, discrepancies are inevitable…

Watching Stan’s therapy sessions has enhanced my learning experiences in more ways than I have thought possible. This is the first time I have observed role played facilitated interventions between a therapist and a client. I must say I am impressed at the level of professionalism. During this voyage, the most important concepts, techniques, principles, ideas and insights I gained from observing the many counseling theories will be discussed. I had more difficulty understanding the therapies…

Having a diagnosis of a mental illness can cause someone to feel confused and scared to speak up. Often times when being diagnosed with a mental health illness children could feel afraid telling someone because it will bring judgment and people will think he is going crazy. Nonetheless, society has created labels for anyone and anything. It has become a norm in society to label the car people drive, the grades given to children, the clubs children are part of, the house people live in, and the…

The main qualities of what makes you who you are, are your actions and emotions. A person’s emotional and physical reactions are what people detect in order to assume your diagnosis. People with Asperger's syndrome are defined as people with a developmental disorder affecting their ability to effectively socialize and communicate. Mark Haddon expresses the many symptoms children with asperger's have in his book “the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.”Christopher is the narrator of…

The novel The Last Song written by Nicholas Sparks takes place in North Carolina, where Ronnie and her brother Jonah are staying with their dad Steve, who left their family three years ago. Nicholas Sparks demonstrates the theme of forgiveness throughout the novel, making it a reoccurring theme. Forgiveness is shown through four main characters Ronnie, Jonah, Steve and Will. Ronnie Miller is a teenager girl who has not spoken to her father since he left three years ago. When Ronnie gets sent to…

In Elaine Elliott and Carol Dweck’s article “Goals: An Approach to Motivation and Achievement” they focus on two very contrasting reactions to failure. They go through and give you extreme detail on what their experiment entailed, interesting findings, and what they ended up concluding at the end of the study. Elliott and Dweck’s center of attention in this experiment was to test their hypothesis that different goals set up the observed helpless and mastery-oriented patterns. They suggest that…