The first meeting with a client(s) is incredibly important it’s the time that the counsellor can start to decide on the best treatment approach for a client(s). This is referred to as the initial assessment and should be focused on engagement and active listening in order to understand how the client sees their problems and to gain a time line of existing issues also the clients thoughts‚ feelings and identify what triggers these thoughts‚ feelings and behaviors. The initial assessment is also important
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In 2006‚ American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA)’s children and youth Ad Hoc Committee delineate one of the goals of AOTA’s Centennial Vision for pediatric occupational therapy as‚ “Studies that examine the emotional and social cost of occupational deprivation and occupational injustice for children and youth such as depression‚ alcohol and substance
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Project report Abstract Introduction: Many young children in their school years struggle to figure out who they are as individuals and what values and morals they hold. There are many other difficulties they face in their journey from childhood to young adulthood such as ineffective communication skills and low self-esteem or self-worth. Being able to communicate feelings effectively with friends and family can have a positive influence on the person a student becomes. Children are more likely
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Overview of Structural Family Therapy Overview of Structural Family Therapy Structural family therapy was constructed as a result of the life work of Salvador Minuchin. Within Minuchin’s work‚ he builds his treatment upon the traditional structural family therapy: brief strategic family therapy and ecosystemic structural family therapy. (Becvar‚Becvar pg.125) The therapist begins the session by looking into the family’s structure their boundaries‚ Structural family therapy allows the therapist to
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PSY F370 Drugs and Behavior Fall 2013 November 9‚ 2013 Opioid Replacement Therapy Medications used for opiate addiction work as agonists‚ antagonists or utilize a combination of both actions. By definition‚ agonists cause a chemical action by binding to cell receptors and mimicking the action of naturally occurring substances such as neurochemicals. Antagonists also attach to cell receptor sites but instead of causing an action‚ they block the receptor from being stimulated by a target substance
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Couples therapy has long been centered around treating the relationship rather than the individual(s) in the relationship. Those who most generally present to couples therapy are people who are in a dissatisfactory relationship but are none the less “normal‚” meaning they have no psychological disorders. But what happens when one (or both) of the individuals in therapy presents to couples therapy but also has a psychological disorder? Could couples therapy help alleviate individual problems within
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Medical imaging has led to improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of numerous medical conditions in children and adults. There are many types - or modalities - of medical imaging procedures‚ each of which uses different technologies and techniques. Computed tomography (CT)‚ fluoroscopy‚ and radiography ("conventional X-ray" including mammography) all use ionizing radiation to generate images of the body. Ionizing radiation is a form of radiation that has enough energy to potentially cause damage
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Occupational therapy (OT) helps people function in environments‚ such as home‚ work‚ school‚ or within his or her community‚ by addressing the physical‚ psychological‚ and cognitive needs of his or her well-being through engagement in everyday activities. In short‚ occupational therapy helps those live life to its fullest no matter their health or disabilities. Occupational therapists typically provide interventions to clients in the settings where they will likely engage in daily activities the
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Gene Therapy; Is it Beneficial to Society Over the years medicine has evolved drastically‚ reaping extreme advantages for more than half the world’s population. One form of medicine is gene therapy‚ a technique first developed in 1972 and one that has grown into a promising treatment option for many genetic mutations‚ diseases‚ or syndromes. The more time passes‚ the stronger gene therapy gets in being a promising solution treatment option. The ultimate goal is to present information that explains
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entirety. This type of psychotherapy was created by a researcher name Salvador Minuchin‚ from New York. The primary strategy of this therapy is to develop a bond between the family members that are having problems within their family. The therapist ’s goal in this theory is to develop a bond with every member of the family so he or she can figure what the problem is and how to solve it. The structural family theory also brings in a biblical perspective to psychology. This therapy will help shed a new
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