Comparative Models of Counselling‚ Assignment Two A report that reflects on Person Centred Therapy and considers how this model could be incorporated alongside the core model of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in my current Counselling Practice. I reflected on Person-centred Therapy (PCT) as the comparative model because of the conflict that exists between this and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). The conflict is historical‚ political and from personal experience. In therapy
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man vs. man conflict. Melinda‚ the main character‚ overcomes the evil that is Andy Evans‚ her rapist‚ by telling him no and to stop. Later‚ when Evans tries to rape her again‚ she screams and the lacrosse team finds them in the closet. Another evil that Melinda experiences is Heather using their friendship for her own benefit. The literary element used here is character. One prime example of this is when Heather asks Melinda to help decorate the staff room for Thanksgiving. Melinda helps her just
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Melinda Sordino was raped by Andy Evans at a party during summer in August. She called the police but she was too shocked and scared from the event that she couldn’t say anything to the woman on the phone. Someone from the party found out she called the police and told everyone. The police came and arrested some of the students‚ but by that time Melinda has already left and gone home. Ever since then none of Melinda’s friends have talked to her. They ignore her and blame her for ruining the party
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treat Melinda the same way. These simple actions against Melinda eventually lead to a new‚ changed identity in Melinda’s life. Melinda perfectly defined her new self in 3 words: “I am Outcast” (4). The other deep carver of Melinda’s life has been Andy Evans. Andy was the beginning of this entire change‚ as he was perpetrator/aggressor in Melinda’s rape. He (referred to as it) continues to treat her with the same attitude and plays the innocent around her‚ creating clear confrontation and misery in Melinda’s
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Friendship is a bond between two people. Friendships can change over. Their similarities and differences affect this bond. In the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson‚ Melinda and Heather had changes in their friendship because of their personalities and other things happening around them. The personalities of Melinda and heather have things in common but also have differences.
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by Heather‚ Melinda’s “friend”. Heather friend-dumps Melinda so she can fit in more with the Marthas‚ a popular group‚ but at the end of the year regrets it and comes bellycrawling back to Melinda for help. They have one last conversation in Melinda’s room when Heather asks for Melinda’s help decorating the venue for prom‚ where these words are said: “... she hates being a Marthadrone... ‘This whole year has been horrible- I hated every single day’” (Anderson 177). She is Heather‚ and Heather is
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friend‚ Heather. Rachel stopped being friends with her after Melinda had called the police at an end of the summer party‚ but not for the reasons many would expect. She expressed her feelings sadness towards Rachel and how she felt like she couldn’t tell anyone about what really happened at the party. We then talked about Heather‚ Melinda’s friend that she made this year who also left her to be alone. Heather was a new student this year and Melinda was the first person she had met‚ so Heather instantly
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changed her physically and mentally. | 3. Pg. 5 “When the pep rally ends‚ I am accidently knocked down 3 rows of bleachers” | I don’t understand why kids are so mean to Melinda. Mean kids at the pep rally push Melinda down the bleachers. Heather and the others contribute by not helping. This is an assault. | 4. Rachel Bruin | Rachel is Melinda’s best friend since grade school. She is very important to Melinda throughout the story. But Rachel turns on Melinda and believes that Melinda
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She has entered high school being disesteem by the majority of her old friends and much of the school’s population because at a party she called the cops. She only called the cops because she had too much to drink and was raped by a boy named Andy Evans a senior at her high school who is described as a “Greek God”. So after all this happens she starts battling with depression‚ but she is fighting it with a twig she allows her depression to get the best of her and her parents are too busy to care or
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understand how to make that creative. She asked to switch but her teacher wouldn’t let her. Later on‚ she meets a girl named Heather in one of her classes‚ although they are completely different people‚ they start to hang out. Heather really wants to become popular and would like Melinda to help her. She couldn’t care less about popularity but continues to nod and agree with Heather. A couple weeks later‚ she discovers an old janitor closet that no one uses; she decides to make this her hideaway. She
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