with their vain attempts to seek help when the trauma originated.
with their vain attempts to seek help when the trauma originated.
The purpose of this paper is to match the disorders in Appendix H to the appropriate case studies according to the DSM-IV. I will also discuss possible causes and treatments of the disorders that I successfully matched. There were five case studies and seven disorders so therefore there were two that were not used. The psychological disorders that were used were schizoid, narcissistic, somatoform, dissociative, and schizophrenia.…
vIn his book On Being a Therapist, Kottler (as cited in Wicks, 2008, pg. 29) stated “Never mind that we catch our clients’ colds and flus, what about their pessimism, negativity…. Words creep back to haunt us. Those silence screams remain deafening.” While present and creating space for healing, social workers and other workers in helping fields can become present to pessimism and negativity as well as woes and traumatic stories. To better understand the impact that being present to client’s difficulties impacts social workers; we will examine the impact of the following constructs on the clinician and the therapeutic relationship: countertransference, burnout, secondary trauma, vicarious trauma, and compassion fatigue…
In this chapter we are going to learn about therapy, treating psychological disorders, evaluating psychotherapies, the biomedical therapies, and preventing psychological disorders. You have three ways on how to treat disorders. They are psychotherapy, biomedical therapy, and eclectic approach. Psychotherapy is treatment involving psychological techniques consisting of interactions between some seeking to overcome difficulties and a trained therapist. Biomedical therapy is prescribed medicine that acts differently on every person's physiology. Lastly eclectic approach is an approach on the client's problems which uses various forms of therapy. Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis was the first of the therapies to be formed. The techniques that we have are resistance, interpretation, and transferring. Interpretation is noting supposed dream meaning's and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight. We have psychodynamic therapies which is a tradition that views on individuals when they respond to unconscious forces and childhood experiences. There are three psychotherapy skeptics which are people often need therapy when they are in crisis, clients need to believe that doing therapy will eventually help them with their problems, and clients need to speak kindly to their therapist and to respect what they have to say. Many studies are digested by what they call meta-analysis. Various therapies which have three benefits. These benefits are hope for demoralized people, a new perspective of the way we look at things, and a trusting, caring, empathetic relationship. The emotion between the client and his/her therapist is called therapeutic alliance which is a key concept to being a therapist. In our world we have antipsychotic drugs, antidepressant drugs, and mod-stabilizing medications. Antipsychotic drugs are drugs used to schizophrenia and other severe disorders. While antidepressant drugs are used to treat depression and…
Originally Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) was called Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), but was changed to (DID) because (MPD) made it sound like there were multiple people living in one body. The name change corrected this theory. One controversy surrounding this disorder is that the person suffering may be faking the illness to avoid stress. It is difficult to answer this question because people with this problem may seem or act questionable because the therapist may ask certain leading questions either during therapy or while the client is being hypnotized. Some cases have also shown that therapists can plant false memories in clients. The client actually believes the incident that happened…
During treatment, the therapist attends to the interactions and influences between themselves and the client. According to Linehan (1993), DBT focuses on acceptance. Clients are expected to accept themselves and their current life situations in the moment. The therapist is expected to accept the client in the moment and they are both expected to accept the therapeutic relationship. Within these expectations, an expectation for change must also exist. Change is the client’s responsibility, the therapist is not supposed to protect the client from the aftermath of change, instead attempt to help promote healthy coping tools.…
Nichols, M. P. (2012). Family therapy: Concepts and methods. (10th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ.: Pearson Education Inc.…
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Rogers, C.R. (1957/1992). The necessary and sufficient conditions of therapeutic personality change. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 60, 827-832.…
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Another controversial factor is professionals cueing their clients, then claiming they have the disorder. This causes the client to act out, thus the professional giving them more attention. In order to please the professional, the client will behave as if they had DID to make their clinician happy. Even with the disorder existence in question, it is for certain that those who are diagnosed suffer from deep behavioral and emotional issues. Those who suffer from DID are at a great risk for attempted suicide. Many of them attempt multiple times. In a Canadian study, 72% of DID patients had tried to commit suicide and 2% had completed (205).…
Individual therapy is a key component in addiction treatment. Many rehabs already offer group therapy and addiction education. To get a greater benefit from treatment, patients need individualized treatment. Every person is different, so each patient needs a treatment that is tailored to their unique needs.…
In this article, Muller (1998) examines the observation of a patient who suffers from dissociative identity disorder.…
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?…
Dissociative Identity Disorder, or more commonly known as multiple personality disorder, is thought of to be a result of severe trauma. When a person has this disorder, they feel somewhat of a cessation to their mind. A person cannot properly connect to their personal feelings or sensations. They may not know who they are. It is thought that people who suffer traumatic situations in their childhood will suffer from this disorder. The actual cause of this disorder is still unknown. Although we do not know the cause, we do know that the majority of people who have suffered from this have dealt with a past disturbance. Either they were neglected as a child, or maybe even raped.…
I do not have any personal experiences with ending professional relationships, other than leaving one place of employment to go to another, and I cannot say for certain how ending relationships with my clients will affect me. I like to think that I will not be negatively affected if ending a therapeutic relationship proves to be in the best interest of the client. I warm to people quickly and I have no doubt that in some cases I will be saddened by a client's leaving. Young (2017, p. 287) states that at times helpers can become deeply involved with their client's and their lives and may postpone termination due to this attachment and I hope that I would not go so far as to postpone termination for my own sake…