Integrative psychotherapy

The article “School counselor consultation: Enhancing teacher performance through rational emotive-social behavioral consultation,” Jeffrey Warren and Stanley Baker, discusses the viability of the Rational Emotive-Social Behavioral Consultation (RE-SBC) model for use by school counselors in support of teachers and students alike, which are experiencing social-emotional issues. They also provide an overview of theory and concepts that can be applied during a consultation, as well as case examples…

Techniques Rogers did not believe in using a set of techniques to deal with a client. Although Rogerians consider the therapist’s attitude as more vital than any technique, two main techniques that can be utilized with Ruth are reflection and motivational interviewing. Reflection is restating what the client says rather than interpreting those statements. For instance, Ruth reports that she “took a role on caring for her younger siblings, largely in the hope of winning the approval of her…

1. Where am I in relation to the learning goal(s) I established for myself for this course? The three main learning goals I established for this course was to gain self-awareness and examine ethical issues that arises in mental health practice, learn interventions and evidenced-based practices that I can incorporate when engaging my clients, and to heighten my knowledge of cultural disparities in mental health. Ultimately, I wanted to feel and identify professional and personal growth after…

Watching Stan’s therapy sessions has enhanced my learning experiences in more ways than I have thought possible. This is the first time I have observed role played facilitated interventions between a therapist and a client. I must say I am impressed at the level of professionalism. During this voyage, the most important concepts, techniques, principles, ideas and insights I gained from observing the many counseling theories will be discussed. I had more difficulty understanding the therapies…

Chapter Five Five Strategies to Combat Compassion Fatigue The fifth chapter is the final presentation of the thesis projects conveying five approaches to combat the negative symptoms and signs of compassion fatigue. The action steps are suggestive tools to slow down or counteract the process of stress or burning out in spiritual leaders and persons who provide care. The strategies will seek to provide a framework for both understanding and, optimistically, inoculating against potential stress…

In the above conversation, the question ‘when you exactly got the chicken-gunya’ was usually supposed to probe at the time of patient’s assessment by the therapist; however, in this situation, it had been asked to the patient at the time of treatment session. So, the intention of that may be to encourage the patient to share the narrative. In addition to that the act of ‘nodding head like listening’ was also considered as the way of encouraging the patient to share his past medical history.…

The main qualities of what makes you who you are, are your actions and emotions. A person’s emotional and physical reactions are what people detect in order to assume your diagnosis. People with Asperger's syndrome are defined as people with a developmental disorder affecting their ability to effectively socialize and communicate. Mark Haddon expresses the many symptoms children with asperger's have in his book “the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.”Christopher is the narrator of…

In the book, Why Am I Afraid to Tell You Who I Am?, John Powell proposes a solution to obtaining good communication skills and authentic self-love. The solution is learning to communicate and interact with others, which will result in the development of being one’s true self. He indicates that to have personal growth people must be willing to have self-awareness and be more emotionally open. He explains that people are frightened to tell others who they are because they are afraid that they will…

Hortense Powdermaker’s book, Stranger and Friend, chronicles her experiences doing fieldwork throughout her career. In it, she discusses culture as shared meaning, where context and history give different components of a society social value. Through this process, essential qualities of a culture develop. The theory with which Powdermaker views culture, cultural essentialism, is one which uses these essential qualities as means of identification to form groups of people. This differs from…

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…