Play therapy

Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) is a treatment that is very limited on time which stimulates the patient to gain control of what mood they are functioning and it typically lasts about 12-16 weeks (Frank, J.1971). This type of therapy was developed in the 1970’s. Its focus was only on relief of the patients symptoms due to depression which now days, its treated as a medical illness. It has the ability to combine a persons interpersonal events and their moods. IPT structures on the foundation in…

The goal for cognitive therapy is to change the patient’s patterns in order to change their responses to difficult situations. It can also be used to treat personality disorders. If I were a cognitive behavioral therapist, I would first use verbal techniques to elicit Betty’s automatic…

“It's being able to help people, heal them, and getting them back doing what they love. And I love that.” ( Phil Johnson) Sports/Physical Therapy is an aspect of healthcare that is focuses on the prevention of injury and the rehabilitation of the patient back to health so they are able to get back to physical training and sports. It use the principles of sport and exercise sciences incorporating physiological and pathological processes to help the participant for training, competition and work.…

In “The Development and Evolution of Person-Centered Expressive Art Therapy: A Conversation with Natalie Rogers,” author John Sommers-Flanagan explores the life and work of Natalie Rogers, who is a registered art therapist and well-known author. John Sommers-Flanagan conducted a detailed interview with Ms. Rogers about applying her creative touch to person-centered expressive art therapy. Ms. Rogers reflects on her own experiences growing up with the infamous Carl Rogers as her father. According…

Good Things Come Back to You At the end of the documentary, “Undefeated”, Coach Bill tells “Money” that if you keep doing good things, good things will come back to you. I believe this is very true; maybe not immediately, but eventually! I have many reasons why I think this is true. In the documentary, there is a football team called Manassas that hasn’t went to playoffs ever since the schools was founded. Except one year that all changed with the high school football team. They went to…

very important part of a childhood professional. This gives us information on the child development, learning, the child’s behavior and what they are achieving academically. It also shows what they child needs are if they need occupational therapy, or speech therapy and it shows if they are making progress in decision making. This will help me as teacher to know the outcomes and be able to plan and how to teach the child productively. It will give me something to share with that parent and…

to play and listen to music, and this helps them with rehabilitation. The career’s education requires at minimum a bachelor's degree in music therapy and a certification by passing an exam. Classes required for people that don’t have background in music therapy must first take Introduction to Music Therapy, Therapy and Observation Skills for Music Therapy, Music Therapy Practicum I, Methods and Materials in Music Therapy, Music Therapy Practicum II, Music Therapy with Children, Music Therapy…

therapeutic modality could be for clients and clinicians. The earliest conceptualizations of utilizing therapeutic sandtrays date back to the early play therapy work of Margaret Lowenfeld, Sigmund and Anna Freud, Hermine Hug-Hellmuth, Melanie Klein, and Dana Kalff (Homeyer and Sweeney, 2017, pp. 9-10). Linda Homeyer and Daniel Sweeney name their method sandtray therapy (Perryman, Moss, and Anderson, 2016, pp. 186-187). There is strong evidence that…

In chapter 5, a lot of new things happen to Walter, one day while Walter was with his friends at a church in the basement they were playing round and did something shocking it even the pastor. Walter and his friends tried to hang Richard a weak, frail boy, the pastor come in and was shocked at what he was seeing. Walter was a unique boy, just in the first grade he could read at a second grade level, but when he had to speak in front of people he could fell something wrong. The other kids would…

discussed at the beginning of the session (Hill, 2014). One of the ethical issues in the current role-play was that I did not discuss the confidentiality, its limits and the client’s informed consent at the beginning of our session. The helper needs to make sure to address issues such as the general confidentiality limits pertaining safety issues for the client and others, the purpose of the role-play, the role of the observer, recording, transcribing the session and sharing it with the paper…