A perfectionist is a person who plans out every step and works accordingly. They pay attention to every minor detail. Most of the things they do either turn out amazing or a big mess. A non-perfectionist will work at a comfortable pace and will include an essential part but it may not look the best. As a non-perfectionist, I achieve everything that needs to be done in a timely manner. Even though my work might not look the best, it will include all the necessary parts. For all my projects,…
Endangerment of Italian Language in Villages A study was performed in two villages in Italy that was conducted by an experimenter by the name of Naomi Nagy. This experiment measured how much of the native language was and was not spoken in two main Italian villages. Nagy first took a survey through the two villages (only one family of six opted out of taking the survey because they were not originally from the village). This survey was made up of three questions, and Nagy did not allow the…
In lord of the flies, I think the "beast" is just the children's self conscious and that they are scared and confused of the truth that they are lost and alone during a war. And that their plane may have been shot down and they may be being hunted by a military force. It is them finding a way to get control of their situation and still have someone superior to them and be able to give them rules and be able to give them rules and supervision and enforce the rules. Fear is a huge reason that…
Did you know that the most appealing number to the eye is 1.618? This number is known as the Golden Ratio. In fact, our brains are seemingly hard-wired to prefer objects and images that use the Golden Ratio. The Golden Ratio is the limit of the ratios of successive terms of the Fibonacci sequence. The Fibonacci ratio is very close to the Golden ratio. The mathematical ideas the Fibonacci Sequence leads to, the Golden Ratio, and the Golden Spirals. As the number increases, the ratio becomes…
In lord of the flies the survivors of a plane crash are convinced that there is a “beast” among them, as their trying to survive for their lives… first they think that it is a pig head and then they think that is a dead piolet… and eventually they kill their own kind because of it. I believe that the beast is them themselves because they have been on the island so long that they have become savages and lost their minds! Here’s some things to back my evidence. First we are going to talk about…
general focus on the following goals with their clients. Cognitive behavior therapists focus on: undermining clients’ faulty assumptions; increasing clients’ awareness of their negative automatic thoughts; replacing clients’ irrational beliefs with rational ones; and on assisting clients to seek out their rigid beliefs in an attempt to minimize…
Albert Ellis is the founder of the first cognitive behavior therapy rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT). This form of therapy has a lot in common with other forms of therapies that are oriented towards cognitive and behavior approaches in that it stresses thinking, judging, deciding, analyzing, and doing. The underlying…
Client has come to therapy to discuss her current romantic relationship. Her parents love her boyfriend, he has a great job at a young age, looks good on paper, but he is not the man she wants him to be. Client and her current partner are not communicating effectively, or as much as she wants. She says they only talk on the phone once or twice a week due to his heavy workload, working with UCLA athletics. Traveling all over the country doesn’t leave enough time for them to spend together. Client…
This paper is a critical review of Dr. Sophia F. Dziegielewski and Pamela Wolfe article, “Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) as a Time-Limited Treatment Intervention for Body Image Disturbance and Self-Esteem: A Single Subject Case Study Design”. The article was first published in the first volume third edition of the Journal of Psychotherapy in Independent Practice in 2000. The purpose of the article was to provide evidence that eye movement desensitization and reprocessing…
Treatment #1 Treatment Method: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (E.M.D.R.) School of Thought/Perspective: Cognitive-Behavioral Application: Phase 1: Evaluate the client’s aptness to therapy and identify potential targets for E.M.D.R. Including but not limited to: distressing memories; current situations that produce emotional distress; similar events from the past. Stress is put on the growth of explicit skills and behaviors that will be required future situations; Goal: for…