Dialectical behavior therapy

on how the relationship was built between the members of the group. You mentioned the therapist/group leader has to have a great deal of self-awareness in how their being observes by the group. Yalom and Leszcz stated "Transference does occur in therapy groups; indeed, it is omnipresent and radically influences the nature of the group discourse. Without an appreciation of transference and its manifestations, the therapist will often not be able to understand…

Essay is all about rehabilitation and how it helps people who struggle with different things. For example, Animal Therapy can help those with high anxiety. Pool Therapy can help people calm down and relax their mind and body. Counselling and Talking can give someone the opportunity to have someone they can trust to talk things over and feel better about themselves and others. Animal therapy is a good thing to do if you have high anxiety or a high level of stress, or a mental illness or other…

Ever been injured playing a sport, we're currently disabled from an accident, or have even broken a bone? Well if so, physical therapy is the place you might go. I chose the topic of “How to become a physical therapist?” because, I was thinking about what I might want to do in the future. I learned a lot about physical therapy throughout this project. I realized how hard yet self rewarding the job can be at times. How much schooling it is going to take me, but most importantly I learned that if…

A counseling approach that incorporates a variety of counseling theories in order to create a treatment program to meet the specific needs of the patient or client is called an eclectic approach. Eclectic counselors do not adhere to just one specific approach; instead counselors apply a range of techniques hoping to establish a foundation for their client or patient personally. It is important to have the appropriate treatment with the right problem and understand that not just one technique…

Color Therapy, or Chromotherapy, is used as an alternative to medicine and is considered to be a type of pseudoscience. Color therapy is a holistic and non-invasive, yet powerful, type of therapy that goes back to thousands of years. Color therapy can be found in India, China and Egypt texts that are ancient. Color is a light of wavelengths and energies used in color therapy. The light affects all living cells. When this light is used correctly, it can have a healing effect on humans, animals…

Having experienced a difficult recovery from orthopedic surgery, I believe I will provide a valuable perspective of patient care to the doctor of physical therapy program at Eastern Washington University. Two weeks prior to my junior year of college, I had ACL reconstructive surgery in my left knee. Due to complications in surgery, my lateral meniscus remained torn in spite of the surgery. This exacerbated an already difficult and demanding recovery. Months into my recovery, I struggled with…

Introduction Within the profession of therapists and other mental health professionals, comes a clientele that have gone through or are experiencing extremely extraneous conditions that negatively impact their life. As the mental health professional, it is their job to help said clients talk about and overcome these issues. However, in doing so this can cause a phenomenon called secondary or vicarious trauma. Vicarious trauma refers to the cumulative effect of working with traumatized clients:…

I have always been involved in some sort of sport activity. So when I was asked the question “ What do you want to do after High School?” I didn’t really know what to say. So, one day I was over visiting my uncle's house and he asked the same question. I said “ I don’t know?”, and so he proposed that I maybe try sports medicine. He said that it would suite me very well and that I would love doing it because I could be working with professional athletes. He also said that usually they get real…

Conducting a therapy session is not only about investigating the patient’s issues and being able to guide them. It is also about building a special bond with the patient, so that the he or she feels comfortable enough to voice out their worries. Having a good relationship…

that make up tendons. ASTYM therapy is a noninvasive modality used to treat tissue dysfunction through the use of tools. The therapist moves the tools over the area, such as the eight year old girls hamstring and achilles tendons, in a pattern that creates a rough, catching sensation as the tools encounter…