Psychodynamic psychotherapy

According to Brakemeier and Frase states in their study “interpersonal psychotherapy as an effective short-term treatment strategy in major depression. In IPT, a reciprocal relationship between interpersonal problems and depressive symptoms is regarded as important in the onset and as a maintaining factor of depressive disorders…

Interviewing Gemma Eaton, CDP, LICSW, of Helping Hand Connection for her excellence and effectiveness is leadership that have brought success to the organization and individuals in her area. Through her dedication, she has helped to inspire hope and support life altering changes for individuals affected by mental health conditions and substance use disorders. Eaton is more than a popular counselor at Helping Hand Connection, her achievements have inspired other women within the organization and…

Summary: James Petersons book, Why Don’t We Listen Better? is a deeply pointed guide to a healthy and practical evolution of human thought concerning interpersonal communication. He uses technique after technique to bring home the many different facets that go into connecting or disconnecting with a person. He starts with the reader taking responsibility for our communication failures, being careful to point out that even though there may be truth to our communication styles being passed down…

Bowen family systems therapy is based on Murray Bowen's family systems theory which conceptualizes the family as "an emotional unit, a network of interlocking relationships, best understood when analyzed within a multigenerational or historical framework" (Goldenberg, Stanton & Goldenberg, 2017, p. 191). Bowen believed that individuals are inseparable from their network of family relations. He also believed that generations of family functioning impact and explain current family functions. The…

John Bowlby One of the most classic theories of attachment was provided by John Bowbly in the 1950s. He suggested that there was a link between children's mental health and later outcomes in life and children's needs to be with their parents. During the Second World War, him and other doctors wrote a letter to protest against children under five being evacuated and being separated from their families. He published a book called 'Maternal Care and Mental Health' in which he showed how important…

In counselling, relationships are very important. These relationships between the counsellor and the client are determined by the time and effort we put into developing and maintaining this relationship. In a way, a counsellor is a friend, but a friend who has the experience and the ability to apply different skills to assist people to solve their own problem instead of providing them with a solution. Self-evaluation is very useful to identify the strengths and weaknesses of these skills. The…

1. Choose two techniques or approaches often employed in family/couple therapy and compare them. Your answer must include differences between the two interventions you chose in terms of “the focus of intervention” and “how to treat.” • Unbalancing  Unbalancing is when the therapist deliberately sides with a less powerful member or sub-system of the family, thereby unbalancing the family. This forces the family to restructure. Places emphasis on the realignment of relationships in subsystems.…

TEST RESULTS THE BECK ANXIETY INVENTORY this diagnostic device is designed to assess anxiety symptoms in the adult population. Janine completed The Beck Anxiety Inventory. She had a total raw score of 6, which places her in the non-clinical symptom range for clinical anxiety based on The Beck Anxiety Inventory. Scores from 0 to 7 are considered in the non-clinical symptom range for anxiety, based on The Beck Anxiety Inventory. Janine is reporting moderate symptoms of indigestion. She reports…

For Cowie, process of identification through fantasy is not a form of distortion but expressions of deep wishes. It is from two students of Jacques Lacan- Jean Laplanche and Jean-Bertrand Pontalis (Laplanche and Pontalis, 1986) that Cowie got the inspiration for her formulation on ‘fantasy’. Fantasies do not entail the subject to obtain the desired object but through imagination puts oneself in a situation, a scene where the subject can chart out the possibilities of pleasure. Cowie depends…

In a world full of trial and affliction, where one will experience the sentiments of sorrow, anger, worry and confusion, having a companion who has the capability of imparting understanding would render great support to a person in distress. In the book The Chosen, Chaim Potok uses the characters of Reuven, Mr Malter and Reb Saunders to portray the attributes of sympathy and understanding. Throughout the storyline, these three characters display their kindness and compassion towards people by…