Behavioral enrichment

Punishment Goals Paper By Whitney Burgett There are two punishment goals I decided to write about after learning about them in week three’s reading materials, one of those being Incapacitation and the other being Deterrence. The first one I would like to discuss is Incapacitation. Incapacitate means you are not capable of doing the things you would normally do or choose to do. Incapacitation is one out of several forms of punishment that can be handed down from the court system. The…

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Gestalt Therapy: Similarities As Yontef and Jacobs (2011) note, initially, it was fairly simple to compare Gestalt to other systems of therapy, largely due to the fact that Gestalt could clearly distinguish itself as the system that upheld existential and humanistic characteristics. Over time, however, the distinction between the fields has become more and more narrow. Following are the similarities between Gestalt boundary differences and psychodynamic defence…

The mind is a fortress keeping the living organism stable from psychological stress; however, when overwhelmed, the normal state of consciousness deteriorates causing the mind to endure severe distress. As demonstrated in various psychology experiments such as the Stanford Prison Experiment, enduring such distress can dissect the mind, causing an individual to hallucinate and even endure physical demands. An unfamiliar tedious journey can invoke psychological stresses worrying about…

The book Competent to Counsel: Introduction to Nouthetic Counseling is a great read for people studying counseling and how to counsel others. It was published in 1970 and it was written by Jay E. Adams. Whilst reading the book, readers will understand the difference between nouthetic counseling and secular counseling. Nouthetic counseling means biblical counseling. The word nouthetic means to admonish, to rebuke or to warn in Greek. Worldly counseling is based on evolution and secular thinking.…

A virtue of life that is difficult to gain, but very easily lost, is trust. Many people tend to have internal conflict when coming into contact with a stranger. The conflict people face is in deciding if the stranger is an enemy or a friend. Throughout the story, the reader sees use of this very concept by the author. “A White Heron”, by Sarah Jewett, takes place in the twentieth century, and shows how a young girl named Sylvia faces trust issues and the challenges that coincide. She is faced…

William Glasser (May 11, 1925 – August 23, 2013), a renowned American psychologist and psychiatrist, developed Reality Therapy in 1965 - a method of counselling and psychotherapy. In this his disagreement with the Freudian (Sigmund Freud: 06/05/1856- 23/09/1939) theory of mental illness was openly noted, which found great support from a teacher and psychiatrist G. L. Harrington in 1965, an anti-Freudian whom Glasser credits as being his ‘mentor’. Validated by research studies, this theoretical…

Kopp and Craw’s (1998) seven-step protocol and Sims and Whynot’s (1997) seven-stage model are two protocols that outline stages to be taken by counsellors in working with clients metaphors. Both protocols highlight the positive aspects of staying with and developing clients metaphors as they arise. Kopp and Craw (1998) suggest that clients metaphors represent deep metaphoric knowledge that can be directly explored and transformed in therapy. Noting that traditional counselling methods did not…

Better known as Sybil Dorsett, Shirley Ardell Mason is famous for being the ‘standards’ for Dissociative Identity Disorder, DID, during the 1970’s, when DID had not been popular and many people didn’t know it existed. Although the controversies that follow this story make it harder to believe, Sybil was believed to have 16 different personalities, some were even male. With that, Dorsett had fractured into these varying personas because of the physical and sexual abuse that she had received from…

Counseling for Justine’s Loss One of the most traumatic events that a couple can suffer is the death of a child. This loss disrupts the entire dynamic of the family. It leaves the parents feelings ripped apart and puts a great amount of tension and stress on a marriage. If you think about it, burying a child goes against the natural order of things. A parent hopes that after a long and fruitful life, his/her child will be putting their cadaver to rest, not laying their young child to rest…

Another type of treatment for stress is cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) which is a talking therapy which can help manage your problems and change the way individuals think or behave about the situation. It is a combination of cognitive and behavioural therapy which is based on your thoughts and feelings. CBT aims to deal with the issues in a more positive way by breaking them down into smaller segments. It is dealing with the negative thoughts and changing them into positive thoughts to…