Running Head: Culturally Sensitive Counseling for Native Americans Culturally Sensitive Counseling for Native Americans Catherine D. Dunn PSYD 8180 OL‚ SYSTEMS OF PSYCHPTHERAPHY Course Instructor: Denise Scatena‚ Ph.D May 21‚ 2010 ABSTRACT Historical trauma is defined as an aggregate of emotional and psychological wounding over the lifespan and across generations‚ emanating from massive group trauma and continues to impacts the group (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_trauma)
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their lives. Another component of cognitive theory is automatic thoughts. Automatic thoughts are ideas that happen without thought‚ as the name suggests‚ and can lead to emotional responses which can be either good or bad. The key to this type of therapy is to know how to challenge the beliefs that a client has to be able to change the
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understanding of how to better treat a child for the disorders. Through these tests‚ strengths and weaknesses are pointed out to determine which treatment is best for the juvenile. The first treatment option available to youth is multisystemic therapy. This treatment available is a family and community based approach that concentrates on the influences that are affected by our youth. The interventions also focus on the relationships between the young adults and significant people in their life
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Play Therapy Play therapy is a type of mental health‚ educational‚ or developmental intervention that is designed to help children grow up as happy and well-adjusted as possible. It involves the use of play to communicate with children and to help children learn to solve problems and change their negative behaviors. The Association for Play Therapy defines play therapy as “the systematic use of a theoretical model to establish an interpersonal process wherein trained
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Humanistic Therapy Gregg D Black Psychology as a science is not thought of as being integrated. The schools of thought are wide and varied each with their own perceptions. The Humanistic approach to therapy is one that I believe has merit when applied to specific disorders. Humanistic therapy directs the patient to center their attention on their; motivations‚ values‚ emotions and meanings behind their thoughts and actions. The belief is this will bring about a desired change both consciously and
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The client may well want to change‚ and probably has tried a number of different approaches in efforts to change. One truth of counseling a client‚ though‚ is the recognition that the client’s best efforts have failed in the past‚ and they are searching for a solution to a problem that has previously eluded them. In the true sense of MI‚ the client has a goal‚ an objective‚ but requires
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Ecosystemic Crisis Intervention and the Multicultural Imperative Rapidly Changing Events and Environments The ecological model of crisis intervention has emerged due to accelerating events in dynamically changing cultures. Some events that have made it necessary for the training of crisis interventionist to shift focus‚ and shift into "high gear" are listed below. Nationally‚ crises such as September 11th ‚ Oklahoma City Bombing‚ School attacks in Littleton‚ Colorado; Springfield‚ Oregon; and
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A. Individual Therapy Individual therapy refers to therapy sessions with one client and the social worker. Individual sessions with a Social worker average about 45 minutes to one hour long. Therapy provides a confidential‚ safe and nurturing space to look at yourself and your personal issues. It serves as a type of mirror which provides a spectator position onto one’s own life‚ helping one to make sense of how things fit together. Within this experience the client and therapist work together
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CNPS 365 Assignment 1 September 29th‚ 2012 Michael Kim (71754097) Question 1: In their professional life‚ counselors are always considering moral‚ ethical‚ and legal implications of their daily activities. Briefly distinguish among those three kinds of implications and specify to what degree they follow more or less clear-cut‚ unambiguous standards or requirements? There is an incredibly ambiguous line between moral and ethical grounds. First‚ morality would be based on the personal beliefs that
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Types of Therapy Amy N. Johnson Liberty University Abstract This report contains information discussing the different types of therapy and a brief description of each. Professional literature and journals were chosen for research based on their content and relevance. The four main types of therapy were chosen for discussion: psychodynamic‚ behavioral‚ humanistic‚ and existential. A brief history of therapy is given and the main contributors to each type of therapy are also mentioned
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