Psychotherapy

A person with Generalist practices many roles, to offer resources that meet the needs of families, individuals, groups, and community. Social workers work to promote helping clients’ well-being, whether it is for their rights, financial situation, or their safety needs. By making sure to advocate for the client, seeing and hearing their problems/issues and never giving up on them if it is not going the right way. It also means that the social worker needs to acquire the core values, skills,…

In this article, Springer (2016) discusses the ethical and legal dilemmas when school counselors are presented with a delicate situation. School counselors may be fronted with issues of which the next step needs justification or permission from the law and code of ethics. School counselors are trained individuals that are responsible for decisions and prevention efforts that could better the lives of students within the school community. It is also important for school counselors to abide by the…

Chapter 3: Searching for the Ideal Match for Empaths An empath is a people pleaser, natural nurturer, friend, counselor, and healer. He/she is soft spoken, gentle, and caring. Moreover, an empath can give unselfishly, even if he/she suffers from it. If you are an empath, you are hypersensitive and observant to the desires, needs, and wants of other people. You try to use mediation to avoid conflict. Yet, aside from these behaviors, empaths also have low self-esteem. Thus, they are prone to…

Milgram proposed that people operate on two levels. First, they operate as autonomous individuals, where they act according to their own values and beliefs. Second, they act on an agentic level where they see themselves as agents, acting on behalf of somebody else and not responsible for their own actions. He asserted that it is possible to move from an autonomous state into an agentic state; this is referred to as an agentic shift (Milgram, 1963). A consequence of this shift is that an…

Psychology first became interesting to me when I started noticing how various social roles could affect a person's attitude towards someone. Initially this fascination started with gender roles and seeing how society as a whole would change its attitude toward someone based solely on their gender. This led to an increased eagerness to learn about how individuals are affected by the pressures of society and how we handle those pressures, including addictive behaviours such as eating disorders and…

How does performing arts affect your mental state? Imagine if you had something to look forward to after school or work, a place where you can meet people and bond with them? Performing arts can affect you in many different ways. According to Juilette Siverstine, there are 5 different ways performing arts can benefit your child. In the article she talks about how performing arts can help your child to earn higher academic achievement, confidence and self representation skills, a medium for self…

In addition, aversion therapy also is one of the techniques that based on the behaviorist principle of classical conditioning. If the clients want to change their unwanted behaviors, they can change by using this therapy. It is determined to decrease the frequency of the undesirable behaviors, for example, smoking or over eating, alcoholism, gambling and so on, by teaching the client to match a discomfort stimulus that achieves an undesirable response. There are two types of aversion therapy.…

Psychoanalysis: Freud and the Neo-Freudians Psychoanalysis is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques related to the study of the unconscious mind, which together form a method of treatment for mental-health disorders. The discipline of psychoanalysis was established in the early 1890s by Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud. Precursors for Freuds psychoanalysis include Leibniz with his monadology, which showed levels of awareness ranging by perception; Goethe and his views and descriptions…

Self-compassion Scale short form What is self –compassion? Compassion is “the sensitivity to the experience of suffering, coupled with a deep desire to alleviate that suffering”.(K. Neff, 2011). Further Self-compassion can be operationalized as “simply compassion directed inward, relating to ourselves as the object of care and concern when faced with the experience of suffering” (K. D. Neff, 2011) Studies on the importance of self-compassion Self-compassion has numerous relation to human…

James Henggeler Mrs. Rhodes Pre-AP English 10 18 October 2017 “On Compassion” A clear perspective was described in “On Compassion” by Ascher Lazear Ascher. This perspective by Ascher is no one is born with compassion, rather people learn through experiences in their life. Throughout the article Ascher enforces this perspective using descriptive scenarios, compelling questions, and the institution of similes are used to help the reader better understand her outlook on Compassion. Ascher's…