Clinical psychology

Technology is increasingly becoming a significant part of life for adolescents and adults in our current society. Social networks, such as Twitter and Facebook, are used across the world, and these networks connect individuals, young and old, in a quick and easily accessible way. While many proponents of social networks believe that the Internet provides users with a sense of confidence in a new environment, along with the opportunity to connect with others, research suggests that increased…

Psychological Testing and Clinical Diagnosis It is vital that for counselors who conduct psychological tests and determine clinical diagnoses ensure that the process is done in an ethical and appropriate way. To ensure this occurs, a counselor must fully understand the diagnosis, including the symptoms, prevalence, and development of the disorder, as well as be knowledgeable of tools and psychological test that support the diagnosis. It is also important that the tests being used to help…

Cornelia Witthauer, employee of the Department of Psychology, in the Division of Clinical Psychology and Epidemiology, University of Basel, in Basel, Switzerland wrote an article titled, Associations of specific phobia and its subtypes with physical diseases: an adult community study, found that, “From these analyses etiological…

significant improvement in student attitudes, behavior, and academic performance. Working directly with the under-resourced preschool students at Jumpstart allowed me to observe the value of social and emotional learning (SEL) in early education in a clinical setting at a practical…

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) provides a plethora of disorders that can be critiqued. However, in this paper I will discuss body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) along with a focus on Muscle Dysphoria (MD). The DSM-V publication defines body dysmorphic disorder in the same fashion as the previous DSM- IV edition. However, delusional variants of the disorder are no longer coded as both delusional disorder, somatic type, and body dysmorphic disorder; in the DSM-V…

Intervention Process: The major concepts of my chosen theory help guide me in the intervention process for both CBT and Narrative Therapy because of my clients and the issues they bring forward. The concepts also guided me through the intervention process because; it allowed me to concentrate on the issue at hand for my client and helped me learn a lot about the therapies and techniques. It also allowed me to see how both of these theories, CBT and Narrative gave me the opportunity to ask…

Another goal is to encourage the client (s) to examine their preferred answers to their problems that they are going through. Since, clients possess strengths; the goal of this therapy is to use those strengths to solve their problem. (Gehart, 2014). The goal of Narrative Therapy is to use the client’s language to find out what is going well in the client’s lives to enable the client to anticipate a positive change in their life (Gehart, 2014). The goal of Narrative Therapy is to assist clients…

How do you think legal and ethical requirements might come into conflict with each other when counseling minor clients? Clients who are minors have a moral right to privacy within the alliance between the client and the counselor. Moreover, according to the text, (Remley & Herlihy, 2015) counselors how obligations to the minor as well as the parent or guardian which may come into confliction. Accordingly, an obligation exists legally to the parents and an ethically and morally obligation is…

The movie Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is a movie that contains many things that relate to psychological disorders, including: Autism Spectrum Disorder, Mental Trauma, and phobias. I will be discussing the plot of the movie, and then I will explain how the psychological disorders relate to the characters of the movie. The story’s main character is a nine year old boy named Oskar Schell, who is very close to his father. When his father is killed in the 9-11 terrorist attacks on the…

The first video I viewed was Carl Rogers and Client Centered Therapy. In Client Centered Therapy, according to Rogers, the therapist needs to be genuine and congruent while displaying a nothing hidden attitude (1965). Prior to his session with Gloria, he said, “realness in me equals realness in her” (1965). It is important in Client Centered Therapy for the therapist to display attending skills by actively listening to what the client is saying; thus allowing them to explore deep within…