Therapy

PERSON-CENTERED THERAPY Student’s name Prof’s name Course title Date Person-centered therapy (PCT), also known as person-centered psychotherapy, Rogerian psychotherapy, client-centered therapy or, person-centered counseling. It is a popular treatment that has proven to be effective despite criticism by behaviorists for deficiency of structure. Psychoanalysts too criticize it for its ability to provide conditional relationships. Carl Rogers, a human psychologist who…

The purpose of musical therapy is to cure diseases that frequently do not have a treatment. A method of this therapy is to find a melody that will appeal to the patient to alleviate anything from Alzheimer’s to autism. The many parts of musical therapy include the history, the way it works, and the diseases it can treat. This therapy is far more effective than people may think. Dr. Mindlin and her colleagues, Dr. Rozelle, Dr. Kahn, and Dr. Mitnick have treated over 500 patients with a multitude…

Cognitive therapists believe that it is important to socialize the clients to therapy for educational purposes. This technique teaches the client not only about the cognitive model, but it informs the client about the entire process, reviews past homework and reviews last sessions discussion. By guiding Helen through this process, the therapist reinforces the techniques of cognitive therapy, which she has explained in a previous session. The goal is to have the client understand how the…

softball and volleyball. Always being on “the other side of the stick” I would like to pursue a career in physical therapy. I would like to help people get back to their original state of health, or an even better one, so that they can continue what they love. I have consistently loved sports, and would enjoy staying close to what I love, as well as what peaked my interest in the physical therapy and athletic training field. During softball and volleyball I have had several injuries and both…

disorder. Animal assisted therapy was introduced as a way to help people cope and learn to deal with emotional, physical or mental problems. I would have like to have the opportunity to work with an animal assisted therapist when I was first diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. Some people that I know were able to relax and not stress as much about all that came from having diabetes by being close to the therapy dogs at the hospital. I believe that the use of animal assisted therapy improves a…

theory as a practice technique to assist my client base with addressing their barriers. However, social workers throughout their practice will apply different social work practice techniques to address their client base differing issues. Narrative Therapy is another practice approach that I would utilize because this method presents the consumers as the experts in their own lives. This method empowers the consumer by utilizing their potential skill set, experience and mind frame to reduce the…

communication. Although many believe that medication is the only truly effective way to help Autism I disagree, there have been many cases where music has made a great difference in the patient. Music therapy uses musical experiences to help to alleviate some of the core problems of Autistic patients. Music therapy can make a life altering difference in the life of a person with Autism. Symptoms and behaviors of autism can be expressed in many different ways and vary in severity. Symptoms can…

The frequency of smiling and laughing showed to increase when children were exposed to therapy dogs. This behaviour was directed towards the therapy dogs, as well as, towards the children’s mothers and the therapists. Following this, eye contact also improved, where children made voluntary eye contact with their mothers. Also, some children showed some hesitation, reluctance and anxiety to interact with the therapy dogs, but quickly overcame this towards the end of their sessions, where they…

conducted a scientific experiment that proved that people who owned pets lived longer than people who do not own pets. This study became the main idea for AAT, in which animals can help people physically, socially and psychologically. Animal Assisted Therapy is the use of animals to positively impact and improve a patient’s thinking, emotional and social well being. AAT is used for any age group from infancy to elderly and can be as simple as owning an everyday pet. Many people do not realize…

This paper studies the idea of how interpersonal therapy works with and to improve (reduce) depression. In a number of articles, the response to what this style of therapy is aimed at and how it works will be brought upon with results from studies who have seen the outcomes from trials rooted on this topic. In a few of these articles the way that improvement with interpersonal therapy is measured is through a person’s characteristics, for example a person’s openness to experience or their…