Cognitive behavioral therapy

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…

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…

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…

In order to resolve these two objections, I have created a revised psychological continuity theory that builds on the memory theory and on Derek Parfit’s continuity theory. Parfit sees psychological continuity as the chain of person stages at a moment in time. He believes that two person stages are connected if they have enough overlap of psychologies connecting person stage A to person stage B. Therefore, X and Y will be psychologically continuous if Y is the end of a chain of person stages…

7a. What risk factors does M.P. have to develop Reye’s syndrome? (1 pt) M.P. risk factors of developing Reye's syndrome include giving OTC Alka-Seltzer that contains aspirin. In most cases of chicken pox happen in children between the ages of 5 to 9 years of age. Reye's syndrome is often in children between 4 to 12 years of age. Taking the Alka-Seltzer because it contains aspirin, increases the risk of Reye's syndrome. 7b. What symptoms would indicate M.P. was developing Reye’s syndrome?…

The Johari Window Anyssa M. Bravo South Texas College The History of the Johari Window- ‘The Johari window was originally formulated by Joseph (Jo) Luft and Harrington (Hari) Ingham, developed as a model of interpersonal awareness’, (Halpern, Helen, 2009). The Johari Window was also designed to help improve communication skills amongst others and better understand an individual’s awareness. The breakdown of the model shows how a person reveals themselves to others and to how they see…

According to Hockenbury, Clark Hull discovered the drive reduction theory which is a type of motivational theory that motivates one to perform an action in order to reduce one of our physiological needs so we can maintain homeostasis (Hockenbury & Hockenbury). The Drive Reduction theory affects Stuart when he is on his trip looking for Margalo and has to stop by some place so he can buy a drink to quench his thirst. Stuart is driven to find a place that has a drink so he can reduce his desire…

Introduction American Speech and Hearing Association(1982) defined Communication disorder as an impairment in the ability to receive, send, process, and comprehend verbal, nonverbal and graphic symbol systems. As a Speech language pathologist thorough knowledge in the identification of the presence or absence of the problem followed by a detailed assessment to intervene the problem should be carried out with adequate counselling sessions (American Speech and Hearing Association, 2003).…

1 “Overview of Crisis Intervention”, page 14 Everyone experiences trauma differently which can cause a spectrum of reactions to traumatic events. (For each case study, please classify which type of response is experienced: behavioral, physical, spiritual, emotional, or cognitive, response). A Recently, Jillian returned from a long weekend trip with her college friends. When she arrived home, she noticed that the door to her apartment was slightly cracked open. She knew that she had locked her…

addition, aversion therapy also is one of the techniques that based on the behaviorist principle of classical conditioning. If the clients want to change their unwanted behaviors, they can change by using this therapy. It is determined to decrease the frequency of the undesirable behaviors, for example, smoking or over eating, alcoholism, gambling and so on, by teaching the client to match a discomfort stimulus that achieves an undesirable response. There are two types of aversion therapy.…