Clinical neuropsychology

According to the counseling website , grief is considered a normal reaction to a loss. The loss can be either someone or something you loved and cared about deeply. For example, pets owners often suffer the same amount of grief over losing their pet as they would losing a loved one. Grief can impact a person in a variety of ways. Alon with emotional problems, the patient can experience physical, social and behavioral complications. Grief therapy recognizes that each person experiences a loss…

The clinician should understand what being Muslim and being an immigrant means to the client. What specific stresses they are experiencing such as acculturation stress, ethnic identity stress, or economic stress. The client may be experiencing any number of stresses including ones associated with their religion or spirituality. The clinician should pay particular attention to how the client explains their presenting problems, both verbally and non-verbally. (Ahmed & Reddy, 2007) Some Muslim…

QP provided MY-Kayla with a CBT activity geared towards mood management. QP explained to My-Kayla that the activity will help her to understand negative emotions, help her to identify automatic thoughts that leads to negative emotions and develop ways to counter automatic thoughts and relate negative moods with cognitive and behavioral changes. QP asked My-Kayla to list some negative feelings and thoughts that leads to negative emotions. QP discussed with My-Kayla ways to counteract negative…

My interests in counseling is fuel by hurts and pain of people I observed throughout my lifespan. From the time I could speak, I saw family members, being taunted, by traumatic event that occurred throughout their lifespan. As I watched the hurt and pain of others consume them, I watch them suppressed the pain, in a harmful matter. For the future suppressing the pain, like substance abuse became an unconscious systematic coping method for stressors. Furthermore, as years progressed the hurt and…

Theories of Practice The theory I feel I connect most with in regards to how I will practice counseling clients is Adlerian theory. This theory of practice resonates with me due to the humanistic aspects of its philosophy believing that every individual is striving to achieve their true potential through self -actualization. Adlerian theory is also centered around the fact that as humans we are social beings and that within each individual is a drive to be connected with others; this drive for…

Boundaries of Competence Counsellors help their clients in a variety of ways and there are many different types of counsellors depending on their speciality. For example, there is Marriage and Family counsellor, Guidance and Career counsellor and Mental health counsellor just to name a few. These different types of counsellors require specialized studies in specific courses in order to use their specific techniques although some will overlap. Section A3 of the Canadian Counselling and…

Clinical Psychology is a branch of Psychology in which the psychologist is concerned with the assessment and the treatment of mental illnesses and disabilities. Clinical Psychology, an exciting career for people who are looking for a challenging field, integrates the science of psychology with treatment of complex human problems. The reason I am writing this paper is because I want to be a psychologist and like working to solve problems with the mind. I already tend to be very good at analyzing…

whether bowel sounds were a reliable indication of the end of postoperative ileus after surgery. The method briefly summarized the strategy used to collect data supporting the purpose. The findings contained the data resulting from the randomized clinical trial. The conclusion stated the overall result of the study evaluating the whether the study met the purpose. The level of evidence used for the foundation of the article is a Level II, evidence collected from a randomized controlled trial.…

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is all about changing the thoughts that a person has and their current way of thinking. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a gradual process that helps a person take incremental steps towards a behavior change. There are two steps that are generally used in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. The therapist begins by helping the patient identify the problematic beliefs that they have. This step is important for learning how feelings, situations, and thoughts can attribute to…

Psychology is a unique profession that provides help to those who choose it. In this field, it is typically a therapist who selflessly sits, listens, and advises individuals through life’s struggles. More often than desired, a therapist must deal with individuals who have experienced very traumatic and abusive situations. Even with a great deal of patience, endurance, and training in the art of therapy, therapists are still vulnerable to the effects of trauma and stress during and after sessions…