Play therapy

2002). During therapy sessions with children and adolescents, the…

topic when one needs cheering up. The bond that animals and humans share is a particularly special one. Animals give a sense of comfort, love, and companionship to people. Humans grow a positive emotional attachment to their pets, which is why pets play such an important role of support and companionship. Animal companionship is also an important support because it is extraordinarily different than the companionship from another person. Animals are just different, which is why…

intricate part of becoming a counselor. They allow for students to work with a specific theory that may possibly stay with them through their entire career. Here is a case conceptualization from the rehabilitation case study; I have applied Gestalt therapy to help the client. II. Client Overview The client is a 38-year-old, divorced Mexican female, with two children; presenting with anxiety and depression symptoms. She has a successful, good paying career in upper-level management at a thriving…

transition to independent living. Although difficult to manage time I am really enjoying learning and working, I find all aspects very interesting and the challenges I am facing both motivating and empowering. I hope that studying occupational therapy will give me a greater understanding of problems individuals have, their causes, their solutions and the impacts these have while allowing me to obtain the skills I require to be successful in my chosen career path. My first encounter into how…

in all of the theories that we have reviewed, I found myself relating most to the theory of Person-Centered therapy, Adlerian Theory, and Relational-Cultural Theory (RCT). According to Parsons & Zhang (2014), “For Rogers, the more the client can trust his or her own experience as a guide for living, the better an intuitive scientist he or she becomes,” (p. 180). In Person-Centered therapy the counselor does not set goals for the client but supports the goals of the client, the counselor is…

Tomaino worked hard to create numerous music therapy programs for patients who suffered from aphasia, Alzheimer’s, and continued broadening the Parkinsonian program. With the help of Sacks and a few others, Tomaino worked to provide objective tests of motor, language, cognitive function, and EEGs which were taken before, during, and after music therapy sessions. An EEG test is used to evaluate the electrical activity in the brain (CITE HEALTHLINE)…

deep down the field. “They fight and fight Ernest Davis, and Lohan Wicker, and they jump it’s an interception it’s going the other way. Running full speed back he dodges two defenders and now he’s hit out of bounce. Ernest Davis with the big defensive play”. The announcer makes it sound so spectacular, and I was receiving it all. Talking trash bragging and really just putting the pressure on the other team when I should be showing good sportsmanship. Careless and I was a ticking bomb I expressed…

thing to face. While the brain in struggling to remember lost memories of family and friends, a person with dementia can become angry, sad, or even depressed. This is why music therapy is so helpful to them. Music is known to calm the brain from stresses. According to the Alzheimer's Foundation of America, the best music to play for a person with dementia is music from they listened to from the ages eighteen to twenty-five. In-addition to familiar music, music from movie’s like The Sound of…

Therapies are often developed to treat a specific disorder or specific populations. The needs of the client are taken into account when these treatments are developed. All treatments are based off of theories of pathology from various perspectives such as the behavioral or cognitive perspectives. Cognitive theories argue that it is not just the reward and punishment of conditioning, like in behavioral models, but our cognition shapes our behavior and emotions. In the cognitive model it is…

I play soccer. Anyone who knows me, knows this. In high school, I have often been labelled as an athlete only. Some see me as a goofy, arrogant, jock; however, I do not believe a student-athlete who achieves a 3.75 GPA can be defined so narrowly. My identity, interests, and talents are heavily influenced by soccer, but I am much more than a central midfielder. As a result of my confidence, especially on the soccer field, I am often misunderstood and seen as having it all together. Some see me as…