This is accomplished by the client’s need to resolve frustration of unsettled feelings from incongruences in their lives (Henderson & Thompson, 2011). The counseling process continues with the counselor being genuine, accepting, and empathetic in order to help the client self-examine, understand where they are and where they would like to be, and act towards a goal (Henderson & Thompson,…
What’s factors played significant that can a role to individual verses a group or family treatment pertain to substance abuse? When discovering the debate with SAMHSA and the Advocacy group it brought awareness and insight of the separate services both entities offered. The National Advisory Council implement a resolution endorsing that the SAMHSA inspire a wide range of supporting services to make a dual diagnosis. Being identified as joint entities can offer a more effective treatment to the populace at once.…
Transference can be seen evident in “Fat Lady”. During counseling with Yalom, Betty acted in a way that it did not allow the counseling sessions to flow. In Yalom’s words, Betty was boring. Betty always pretended to be happy and acted in ways that she pretended would entertain the counselor such as mimicking other people while in session. Betty would avoid being open in session, she didn’t want to open up to anyone because she didn’t want to form any relationships to avoid attachment.…
Psychodynamic Case Scenario Question 1 In a clinical situation as the one described in the case study, transference refers to a situation where the client tries to form relationships with the therapist where they unconsciously expect them to behave like important people they have had in their lives in the past. In the interview between Mallory and Dr. Santos, there is a great extent that the behavior exemplified by Mallory is an indication of transference. She exemplifies transference by transferring some of the emotions that she is going through of being bored to Dr. Santos. The transfer happens because the client is bored with her life and work and asserts that the therapist is also bored for listening to such conversations.…
However, her true diagnosis was regarding a type of personality disorder. This made a significant amount of sense to me, as I felt she was seeking empathy throughout our entire interaction. When speaking with patients, it is sometimes difficult to interpret where…
In the end, the counselor took advantage of the client. he abused his power and really did not help her out at all with…
She was able to establish good eye contact and looked happy and relaxed. She displayed good insight and good judgment. She was oriented times four and showed no suicidal or homicidal ideations during the session. …
Jenny (from the film Forrest Gump) is a 37-year old single, Caucasian mother with a six year old boy. She reports feeling distressed and conflicted as to whether she should reach out to the biological father, whom she ran away from and has not seen since their child's conception over six years ago. He does not know about his son. Additionally, the client has recently been experiencing nausea, fatigue, persistent diarrhea, and rapid weight loss. Though doctors do not understand the cause of these symptoms, the client has been informed the prognosis does not look good.…
We should have gone over them together, making sure that the client understood, that if need be the courts could subpoena her records, so she should only share what she felt comfortable telling. I feel that I came off as genuine, and we established an instant rapport. I engaged my client, I asked her what brought her there. My client went on to inform me that she had recently lost her job. Afterwards she paused briefly.…
Counselors respect the diversity of clients, trainees, and research participants and seek training in areas in which they are at risk of imposing…
Journal #1: My Thoughts on Becoming a Mental Health Counselor Tanya Mizell Walden University Journal #1: My Thoughts on Becoming a Mental Health Counselor With great significance, my progression through the Walden University’s mental health counseling program will indeed impact my life both personally and professionally. The impact of my studies and training will assist me in making the changes and enhancements that are necessary for me to be a proficient, commonsensical and open-minded counselor, while putting into practice the variety of methods I am being trained to use when working with clients professionally. I will not only be benefiting my clients, but also myself. I classify this process as a fundamental confrontation that I must face in order to alter my own way of thinking and ultimately flourish as a mental health counselor.…
In 2006, a pluralistic approach to counselling and psychotherapy was developed (McLeod & Cooper 2007) which embraced the concept of pluralism, where a question was deemed as having multiple truths, rather than one specific answer (Cooper, 2015). It is rooted in a pluralistic viewpoint which advocates that mental health issues stem from a number of contributing factors and no one approach works best, but instead, clients need diverse approaches at different times. Pluralistic practice then draws on concepts from varying therapeutic modalities, where therapists and clients engage in collaborative dialogue to determine what the client wants and needs by formulating goals and deciding on how these might by achieved by various tasks and methods…
It is in this session that I helped the client to focus on the wider issues around the problem. This I achieved through challenging the client positively by asking him if he thought whether the situation would still have ended the same way it was if he did things differently. I also inquired whether he thought there were reasons that made the individual behave the way she did. These questions also allowed my client to express his emotions regarding the situation which would be helpful for him since he would be able to release the tension he had concerning the situations. This was through talking about the thoughts and the feelings he had stored in his mind.…
This approach is interesting because it addresses the resiliency of the client and the client can build upon a strength-based foundation to work towards solutions (George, 2008). I feel that this approach can be applied in many different situations to build on the strengths and past successes than to correct the past failures or mistakes. Secondly, in this approach the therapist understands, accepts, and uses the client’s unique worldviews during the process of identifying and amplifying exceptions (George, 2008). Lastly, this approach uses the imagination of client to visualize the future through questioning that can allow for a clear picture of what the solution may look like even when the problem may not be clearly defined. I find one of my strengths through the use of the peer evaluation form shows that I have good techniques to ask the right questions to gain a better understanding of the problem the client is presenting.…
In this assignment I will look at Rogers’ s six conditions and why they are considered necessary and sufficient for therapeutic change. I will also consider the implications of this theory for counsellor education. After a short amount of time studying Person Centred Counselling the understanding of how the six conditions are necessary and sufficient is starting to emerge and become a real part of my conscious actions and way of being. Each of the six conditions come with their own difficulties as a student counsellor and although we may use empathy and listening skills in our day to day life, until we look more closely, we do not appreciate how we are often in life, and our relationships, not actually listening or being empathetic when…