Behaviour therapy

Biases and assumptions. A career counselor should understand how biases and assumptions can affect the counseling process. The counselor may have a more difficult time connecting with the client. For example, the counselor should make sure that one does not display microaggressions that could offend her. The career counselor may also have a problem understanding the client’s worldview. This may send make Taneka believe that she is not understood. It would be less likely that she would…

Memory loss is a very stressful thing to face. While the brain in struggling to remember lost memories of family and friends, a person with dementia can become angry, sad, or even depressed. This is why music therapy is so helpful to them. Music is known to calm the brain from stresses. According to the Alzheimer's Foundation of America, the best music to play for a person with dementia is music from they listened to from the ages eighteen to twenty-five. In-addition to familiar music, music…

Hypnosis is defined as a state of focused concentration whereby a person less aware of their surroundings. As such, therapists involved in mind-body medicine use hypnotherapy to treat psychological and physical conditions with the individual whom the therapy is conducted on accepting suggestions that may help change their behavior. Hypnotherapy is geared toward helping a person to solve their own problems although it does not work for everyone since no one can be hypnotized unwillingly. Hypnosis…

Effective Referrals for Clients with Co-Occurring Disorders Working with clients who have a co-occurring disorder can be a rewarding experience especially when the client makes progress in their recovery. However, there are more things to take into consideration with clients with co-occurring disorders. One of them is to provide services that address the client’s mental and substance use disorders. The other is to provide effective referrals to clients with co-occurring disorders. This last one…

The philosophical perspective regarding human nature that I chose to explain was Holism. The theory states that parts of a whole are interconnected, in such a way that they cannot exist independently of the whole. The Holistic approach borrows ideals from dualism and materialism, but branches from each quite a bit. A Holist believes that a person is mind and body, but that they are not completely separate entities. The mind and body act together in all actions and aspects of life, and every…

disabilities due to stroke or spinal cord injury. They have the ability to assist the person with mobility in a therapy setting through gait training. Unfortunately, there aren’t enough advancements in technology to help people with impaired mobility make full recovery, however, the use of exoskeletons has been the optimal treatment used in helping individuals regain some motor abilities. Upright gait therapy aids in neuromuscular retraining and is a method used to preserve muscle mass and…

Tutor children and teens in your area. Particularly if they don’t live in a great area and do not have access to helpful tutors or they do not have heaps amount of money. It would most likely be best to do it free or without charging too much. Sometimes kids need an extra push, and an outside hand may help with the process. Volunteer at a nursing home. You can either serve food or clean for the elderly or even spend a day with them. It may be lonely for some of them, and having someone either…

As counselors, our responsibility is to follow the ACA Code of Ethics. Counselors should only practice in the area of their education and training. Counselors should continue their education by attending workshops and seeking supervision to acquire awareness in their field. They must be trained to work with individuals, families, and groups in treating mental problems and disorders. Counselors should notify their supervision of personal issues that may affect their ability to do their job…

twenty plus years when many alleged repressed memories were reported causing many criminal ramifications. Many articles have been published and numerous studies done across cultural paradigms with one common denominator, therapy. Whether it is psychological or counseling therapy it has proven a great influence over the ability of people accessing repressed memories over a long period of time. Most often therapist focus on memories, mainly because of the emotions memories elicit in people. It…

As an aspiring clinical mental health counselor, I have already begun forming basic beliefs, concepts, ideas and attitudes toward my own personal philosophy of the counseling profession. Professionalism is individualized or personalized; a counselor controls their own identity as a professional. (VanZandt, 243) Possessing self-awareness is a useful skill to be able to recognize how your own attitude, values and feelings can affect you as a counselor. With self-awareness it is important for a…