Brittany utilizes her supports: partial hospital staff, group and individual therapy, case management and her fellow group members. She has phone numbers of local crisis hotlines/services in her area, and has utilized calling her friends for support on the weekend. The therapeutic alliance is strong in both group and individual therapy sessions.…
Sleeping is something we spend doing approximately one third of our human life cycle and can vary in quality from one night to another and have a tremendous impact on our daily performance when we awake the next morning by either having a lousy day or having a productive day. “Some 70 million people in the United States have a sleep problem. About 40 million adults suffer from a chronic sleep disorder; an additional 20 – 30 million have intermittent sleep-related…
Nichols, M. P. (2012). Family therapy: Concepts and methods. (10th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ.: Pearson Education Inc.…
Becoming a social worker, counselor, or therapist is a tuff task for any human service professional. Helping people deal with certain situations and helping him or her overcome those problems can require hard work, responsibility to your client, and honesty . To become a human service worker for me is a way of making a difference in others lives and giving them hope to better his or her lives. We are fortunate to have researchers in the field of psychology that have researched, worked hard, and used different experiments to test the various theories in this field. Thanks to…
This theory provides the theoretical basis for interpersonal psychotherapy to treat patients with depression and schizophrenia. Interpersonal theory proposes that, most often, depression develops in the context of adverse events. Particularly, it develops in instances of interpersonal loss. The theory also addresses techniques and approaches on psychiatric interviews.…
Interpersonal and Social Rhythm Therapy, also known as IPSRT, is a form of psychotherapy that was developed to assist people who have bipolar disorder. IPSRT is used to address the problematic areas in bipolar disorder that frequently reoccur, such as stressful life events, not taking prescribed medications, and disruptions in social rhythm. This type of therapy is designed to help individuals enhance their moods by understanding and adapting to their biological and social rhythms. ISPRT teaches clients self help skills with the hope that these learned skills will assist in preventing future psychotic episodes.…
In our society there are several forms of behavioral and social development concerns. To help people cope with these psychological concerns there are a wide range of therapies, techniques and approaches, such as psychotherapy. Psychotherapy is a systematic interaction between a therapist and someone who is suffering from mental or emotional issues, with the goal of providing support or relief to overcome their psychological disorder (Rathus, 2012). There are several therapeutic methods that can be used by therapists, but ultimately the situation and the client will dictate which one is appropriate. Psychoanalytic therapy, Humanistic therapy, Behavior therapy, Cognitive therapy, Group therapy, and Biological therapy are all effective therapeutic methods of helping clients cope with their psychological disorder.…
In my self-directed behavioral change project, I encountered a lot of difficult challenges and obstacles in reaching my ultimate goal: a better night’s sleep. My goals for this behavioral change project were to establish a proper sleep and bedtime regimen, getting a full-night’s rest and ultimately feeling more alert and energetic through the day. My main goals were to improve my sleep cycle/regimen by getting the necessary eight hours of sleep I need every night and waking up in the morning feeling fully rested and not sleepy, tired, or groggy at all. This is what I set out to do and I recorded all the times I went to bed, times I’d fall asleep, times I’d wake up in the middle of the night, and times I’d wake up next morning. I recorded all of my observations and occurrences for two weeks and noticed some positive change in my bed-time pattern. I was able to get the necessary eight hours of sleep every night and felt a difference the next day.…
The theory that best applies to my behavior change, is the self determination theory. The self determination theory looks at motivation and personality and combines aspects of behavioral self regulation as well as personality development (Ryan & Deci, 2000). It takes into account the psychological needs of the person, and also looks at a combination of these factors in order to determine the type of motivation a person has. According to Ryan and Deci, there are three needs that need to be met for a person to feel a sense of wellbeing, growth and development (Ryan & Deci, 2000). Those needs are: a need for autonomy, a need for competence and a need for relatedness. I felt that the self determination theory best applied to my behavior change because in order for me to change my sleeping habits, I first had to identify what my motivation was and why I was making the change. I also had to make sure that the three psychological needs were met with my behavior change or the change would be unlikely to happen.…
Baars, E. W., Van der Hart, O., Nijenhuis, E. R. S., Chu, J. A., Glas, G., and…
There are “roughly 64 million insomniacs in the United States” (Chamberlin, 2008). People who suffer with insomnia often have a hard time “falling asleep, staying asleep, and/or waking up too early” (Dowdell & Huffman, 2014, p. 162). There are, however, ways to treat this disorder so the people who suffer with it can rest a little bit better at night. Jack Edinger, psychologist at Duke University, uses cognitive behavioral therapy as his main way to help treat his patients and get them back to sleeping normally. Through this therapy, he helps patients understand how much sleep they need and how they can become calm before going to sleep.…
In this essay I will discuss and evaluate “The relationship is the theory” Judgements are based on personal knowledge & experience as well as written material composed by others. The basic principle being “the therapy is the relationship”, does this imply engaging a therapist equates to therapy or does it propose more?…
Through these studies, we have seen that IRT appears to be at least as effective as other treatment modalities and can be a viable option for clinicians helping clients reduce trauma-related nightmares (Casement & Swanson, 2012; Krakow et al., 2001; Lu et al., 2009; Seda et al., 2015). Imagery Rehearsal Therapy is a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy intervention which several of the researchers sought to compare to other treatment modalities. Casement and Swanson (2009) compared the effects of IRT alone against a combination of CBTI and IRT. Unsurprisingly, the combination of CBTI and IRT was found to be more effective than IRT alone. Since CBTI and IRT combined would have the ability to address a wider variety of sleep symptoms, the combination…
Corsini, G. Wedding, D. Current Psychotherapies. Chapter 7, Behavior therapy, Pg, 205. F.E Peacock, 2000.…
Parents have the right to genetically engineer their children before birth. There are two areas of this technology one that modifies and enhances the natural human capacity while the other is therapeutic and heals. To be able to genetically change genes for therapy reasons should not be arguable. Therapeutic reasons consist of cancer, obesity, and depression. All these issues can be fixed by genetically controlling genes that may be the cause of them. It is important to continue research for this. Other countries would also see the advantage of this groundbreaking technology. “With knowledge comes power. If we understand the genetic causes of obesity, for example, we can intervene by means of embryo selection to produce a child with a reduced…