Counseling Case Study Compiled by Jeannie MacAdams for The Paper Store‚ May‚ 2000 Introduction Marjory Winkler lived the several years of her childhood and adolescence in misery born both of circumstances and her own reaction to them. Her single encounter with a counselor allowed her to discover through the counselor’s skillful maneuvering some realities of not only her own life‚ but that of her mother’s as well. Whether Marjory sought additional counseling after this one session is unclear; it
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Benefits of family counseling Families with children should have to attend family counseling. This is a very arguable statement‚ and there are many reasons for it to be. I believe that the reasons for family counseling completely out weight the reasons why some families shouldn’t participate in it. Family counseling is often looked at as a tool to help families with problems‚ but counseling can be helpful to everyone. Counselors try to help with all scenarios of life‚ work‚ school‚ friends
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to deal with your children issues and understand yourself and how to deal with your family and certain issues. The area of marriage and family counseling/therapy has had an out break over the past decade. The counselors are expected to work effectively with families experiencing a variety of issues and problems. In marriage and family therapy/counseling there are so many different types of techniques that are out there but should be used and looked upon not a cure‚ but a method to help mobilize
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Steps in the Counseling Process 1. Establish a safe‚ trusting environment 2. CLARIFY: Help the person put their concern into words. 3. Active listening: find out the client’s agenda a) paraphrase‚ summarize‚ reflect‚ interpret b) focus on feelings‚ not events 4. Transform problem statements into goal statements. 5. Explore possible approaches to goal 6. Help person choose one way towards goal DEVELOP A PLAN (may involve several steps) 7. Make a contract to fulfill the plan (or to take the
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with people who are culturally identical to ourselves. An intense examination on the way we look at the world and how it affects our assessment and assumptions of others‚ especially those different from ourselves‚ is imperative to provide competent counseling services. Whaley (2001) stated‚ “clinicians must be open to learning from their clients‚ and they must be nonjudgmental about the clients’ cultural perspective‚ including their level of cultural mistrust‚” (p. 560). This discussion brought me to
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History of the Counseling Profession Analyze the evolution of the key philosophies of wellness‚ resilience‚ and prevention. Key philosophies of wellness‚ resilience‚ and prevention is all part of a framework that is a unit that must be used as a core that is unified in a way that can help the client. By using this process‚ it helps keep the resilience and wellness as well as the prevention strategies in a framework that allows the program that a counselor is using to stay within a collaborative
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Personal Ethics Development Paper Personal Ethics Development Paper At birth we are essentially a bare slate. At this time in our lives‚ we have learned nothing. Our only ability is to cry when we require nourishment or the need for individual vigilance and solace arises. Until certain things are compulsory we are content to lie there and watch the world rotate around us. Throughout life we evolve standards founded on what we have learned or experienced as we develop. The aim of evolving
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Psychologist Jean Piaget’s theory describes the cognitive development of children. In Piaget’s view‚ children learn through the four fundamental stages of cognitive development. He believed that the stages need to occur in a particular order‚ as each stage involves and improves the last. (Webb‚ P.K‚ 2001‚ Piaget: Implications for teaching‚ page 1-2). Piaget suggested that development had to come before learning‚ and intelligence is something that grows and develops through a series of stages (Cherry
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Running head: EFFECTS OF CULTURALLY SENSITIVE TREATMENT AND COUNSELING Effects of Culturally Sensitive Treatment and Counseling on Native American Vocational Rehabilitation Consumers ’ Success Table of Contents Page Abstract 3 I. Introduction II. Literature Review
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SOCIAL AND MULTICULTURAL DIVERSITY Counseling Arab Americans Jay C Coleman Amridge University Abstract The belief‚ common among non-Arab Americans‚ that Arabic families are oppressive and dominated by violent fathers who mistreat their wives and children‚ has been documented in numerous sources (e.g. Suleiman‚ 1988‚ Al-Mughni‚ 1993). This is probably not unexpected given the struggle to fit traditional Islam with expanding women’s rights throughout the Muslim world (Al-Mughni‚ 1993). Despite
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