Gestalt Psychology Reflection Stephanie Becker PSY/310 January 26‚ 2015 Dr. Andrews Gestalt psychology is known as the school of thought that evaluates the human mind and behaviors as a whole‚ and was founded by Wolfgang Kohler (1887-1967). Gestalt psychology embraced the usefulness of consciousness‚ in the mean time‚ criticizing the attempt to reduce it to atoms or elements. The Gestalt psychologists held firm that when sensory elements are combined‚ the elements will form a new design
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1.1 Person centered practice is providing care and needs which centers on the client. Its a way of caring for person as an individual and putting them and their families at the heart of all decisions. They are recognized as individuals with their own personality‚ likes and dislikes who has individual beliefs and preferences. Person centered practice put value to the independence‚ privacy‚ partnership‚ choice‚ dignity‚ respect and rights of the client 1.2 There are several different approaches or
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first articles in psychiatry in the 1950s‚ and two among those articles are seminal for cognitive therapy. When he was already 31 years old in 1952‚ he was able to publish his first psychiatric article‚ a case study about treatment of schizophrenic delusion. It was the first of numerous publications he made that were later on recognized as significant precursor to the development in cognitive therapy. In the mid-1950s‚ his publications declined as he played an active role as a parent to his young
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1) Which theory is most attractive to you and why? I thought the most attractive theory was the Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT). I think CBT is beneficial for our clients because it challenges some of those deep rooted beliefs and negative thought patterns that can initially hinder treatment progress. Dr. Snipes‚ Executive Director (ALLCEUS.COM) asserts these negative thought patterns “develop over time from early childhood.” Dr. Snipes uses the example of a child being told they are “good for nothing”
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Explain the historical development of one major therapeutic model‚ including the people influential in its development Person centred counselling came around in the 1940-1950’s by a psychologist called Carl Rogers‚ Rogers and Abraham Maslow held meetings to discuss the future of the humanistic approach‚ they later went on to establish the American association for humanistic psychology. Person centred counselling came about due to their only being two other therapeutic models‚ psychoanalysis and behaviourism
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in a session. The way of thinking for an adult and a child are different in so many ways. The adult brain in adults is fully developed and they are set in their ways that can be hard for a counselor to change. It is hard to transform an adult person when they have gone their whole dealing with issues in a way that may be harmful to themselves or others. Adults have gone their whole life learning who they can trust and who they cannot trust which makes it difficult for the counselor to gain that
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sometimes our mind focus so much in one image that can see the other one. This image is a great example‚ where you can see batman and joker. The Law of Simplicity This law is about that a content of what you see must be simple‚ otherwise the person that is seeing the image‚ ads or a website get tired of looking the important information on it. Example of a good usage‚ advertisement from WWF The law of proximity This law says that the items that are the belong together must stay that way
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The purpose of this paper is to find the appropriate theory for the client in the case study. The counselor will work with solution-focused because it is a brief treatment. The client will use their personal strength to accomplish their goal. The counselor will support the client while in treatment and provide techniques to the client to use. Solution- focused theory makes it the most appropriate for the client in the case study because it will use the client personal strengths to find solutions
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Part A: summary of Cognitive therapy theory of behaviour. Cognitive therapy of behaviour also considered CBT is ‘term used to describe therapeutic interventions based on cognitive‚ behavioural and problem solving approaches’ (Stallard in Graham ‚&Reynolds‚ 2013). CBT focuses on the epistemology of a person (DiGiusepp 1990). This means that the focus lies on the knowledge and beliefs of a person. However‚ those beliefs might be irrational and/or negatively or positively influencing someone’s behaviour
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The theory I found in the text was structural family therapy. Family structure “refers to the way a family is organized into subsystems whose interactions are regulated by interpersonal boundaries”‚ (Nichols‚ 2013‚ pg. 124). How structural family therapy is applied is when the subsystems have unclear boundaries. Those unclear boundaries force the family member to become isolated
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