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Kristen D. Neff, a psychologist and associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin, published her book Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind To Yourself to teach her readers to let go of self-criticism and its harmful effects and lead more fulfilled lives. As stated in her curriculum vita, her book expresses the results of her ongoing studies in “defining, measuring, researching, and developing an intervention to teach self-compassion” Although her studies come from her…

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…

Life is like a continuous story filled with good and bad, and my life is no different. I am a person who has spent most of her childhood in and out of hospitals. My little sister was a premature baby born with spina bifida, and therefore is permanently disabled and has aVP shunt. During my childhood my little sister had been taken to the hospital many times, and since my parents could not leave me alone at home I was always there with her. I have an older sister, but was not part of my childhood…

Elizabeth Gilbert, famed author of Eat, Pray, Love, once wrote, “You spend a lot of your life having people tell you to follow your passion… passion is hot, it burns. Every day, you can’t access that… instead, follow your curiosity.” After graduating from Terra Nova High School in 2002 I decided to leave my home in the San Francisco Bay Area and move to Las Vegas to pursue better economic opportunities. For the past 13 years I’ve had the opportunity to closely interact with the diverse…

As parents they can prepare themselves by educating themselves on the signs of mental health issues and seek out a clinical therapist. Instead of asking what is going on? A therapist can help the child by having him or her engage in cognitive behavior therapy in order to develop a healthy life style as an adult. In conclusion, having the youth population engage in cognitive…

reflected upon his previous experiences about the traditional medicine that he received for the same condition (When I did that Ayurvedic treatment I got better results). In this aspect encouraging the autonomy of another person, or patient in a clinical context, also a form of acknowledging an equality in the ability to self-reflect and make choices. Encouraging patient autonomy is a way of enhancing the therapeutic relationship and is considered as the core element of patient centred care…

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…

Introduction These are the models of health such as biomedical and meaning of health are models of health conceptual fame work or ways of thinking about health (the way we think or consider about it.) What is bio-medical? Biomedical model of illness and healing takes a look at the biomedical factors which are things you insert into your body. This could be genetics, food- allergies, and the environment. Repudiate psychological, environment and social influences. And the three health languages…

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.…

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…