Gestalt therapy

of the things that I find fascinating with family therapy is that (for me) it shares a number of similarities with Gestalt therapy. The most prominent of which is how it views the family in relation to the “field” and conceptualizes each member in the family relative to characteristics of their here and now behavior to form abrupt hypothesis of their conduct and recreate, support or deconstruct it within the context of the family. Family therapy as illustrated in the assigned reading “Enactment”…

throughout my life as an educator, trainer and my profession. As I have been exposed to new theories through observation and practice I have learned the effective application of Structural, Solution Focused, Narrative, Experiential, Collaborative and Gestalt theories as well. While I do use some techniques and interventions from each of these theories in my integrative theoretical approach, my “go to” theories have evolved to include Structural, Solution Focused, Narrative, Experiential,…

Psych 422 November 28, 2017 Existential Psychology and Irvin Yalom Existential therapy focuses on free will, self determination, and the search for meaning. It often centers on the person as a whole rather than on the person’s symptoms. It emphasizes the capacity for self-awareness, striving for identity, relationships to others, anxiety as a condition of living, and awareness of death. While it is similar to Gestalt therapy and has multiple contributors sharing similar perspectives, Irvin…

help the client. Knowing different counseling theories helps the counselor to know how best to help the client. There are various counseling theories to help with different issues presented by different clients with cultural backgrounds. Family therapy would work best for those with family issues. Cognitive…

understanding clients and their problems and developing solutions. There are five broad categories to approaching psychotherapy. First, there’s psychoanalysis and psychodynamic therapies, which focuses on changing problematic behaviors, feelings, and thoughts by learning their unaware senses and motivations. Psychoanalytically oriented therapies are characterized by an intimate operational affiliation between psychoanalyst and patient. Patients learn about themselves by exploring their…

for mobility as well as trained to perform specific task to help people with disabilities and accompany them in almost any location. According to the Division 17 website there are many ways animals are beneficial to humans such as for psychiatric, therapy, companionship, emotional support and so much more. Some of these categories don’t consist of any training while others do. Animals are prescribed by the mental health provider to assist and as crazy as it might sound medication might not be…

al., 2014). Gabriels et al. (2012) did a pilot study to evaluate the effects of equine therapy on self-regulation behaviors, adaptive skills, and motor skills of school age children to adolescents diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. This study had 42 participants that were split up into groups of three to four to participate in the riding lessons. The lessons were focused on the individual’s therapy and their horsemanship. The instructors set individual therapeutic and horsemanship…

I believe that Mr. Rachels would agree with my argument above. In his article titled “Active and Passive Euthanasia,” he explains two scenarios; a case involving a patient with incurable throat cancer, and another involving a baby with Down’s syndrome and a easily treatable intestinal blockage. Though these arguments cover a wide range of cases, they don’t appear to apply to Ms. Reese’s case. Throughout James Rachels’ discussion of the morality of active versus passive euthanasia, he fails to…

assistance of a doctor, the patient is administered to either surgery or physical therapy depending on which option the patient chooses. Both the options in almost all cases do help improve the pain of the patient, but the question is which option is responsible for the most improvement…

Hans Strupp and Lester Luborsky were “examining similar features of treatment process, therapist characteristics, and the role of technique vs. relationship factors in effecting outcome’ (Samstag, 2007, p. 296). Rogers client-centred approach to therapy was in stark contrast to “Freudian psychoanalysis where man was understood as being controlled by unconscious forces that operated outside of awareness” (Samstag, 2007, p. 295) and “Skinner’s radical behaviourism which sought to understand…