Session 4
Calmly Jo arrived on time sporting a new bracelet. Cheerfully complementing her on the bracelet resulted in a confident smile, she conveyed this was her new pattern. Expressively admiration for her talent was disclosed. Supportively, questions were asked about how her week went. Jo stated that it was a bit of a roller coaster. Giving reports that some days she was tired and that some nights she had trouble going to sleep. She reported feeling teary-eyed. Discussions occurred that this is normal after disclosing trauma and that the effect is usually temporary providing treatment is continued. Sleep strategies were provided. Jo was asked if there were similarities in times when she felt teary eyed? She replied that it happened a lot in
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Jo disclosed that she was now eating more than before. Education that this was being used as a coping method was given. Validation was given that she found a coping skill, followed by education that she would need to learn some new ones so that we could change the unwanted behavior. Information was provided that it will take time, but the more replacement skills we learn, the greater success she could achieve. Handouts were provided for coping strategies. Inquiries into the journal were made. Sheepishly, Jo said that she had been writing in it, but she didn’t really know what to write. Acknowledgment was given in attempting the task and a recommendation that when she felt a powerful emotion to pay attention to it and write about what emotion it was or draw an image that comes to mind. An emotion wheel was provided for her to take home and practiced using it to increase her understanding of how she felt. Coming to the conclusion of session Jo was asked if she felt safe and supported. She replied that she did. Encouragement and self-care were reinforced and validation of her courage and dedication to work through the abuse she endured. During the session, Jo appeared to want to stay on the surface level dealing
There are many challenges and ethical dilemmas that can arise when working in the behavioral field, the present paper reviews different ethical dilemmas that a Behavioral Analyst can encounter when working with clients and how according to the BCBA guidelines these dilemmas can be solved. Legal and socio-cultural aspects have being included in this paper.
In a business or a workplace, it is essential for the organization, which consists of the employers, the managers, and their employees, to work towards reward programs within the human resources in order to create a healthy and cordial work environment and most importantly, to efficiently achieve business’ goals. In Carol Patton’s (2013) article, Rewarding Best Behaviors, she explains the importance of several companies that are beginning to recognize their employees, not just for the end-results, but for reflecting good behaviors towards the business’ values, such as demonstrating creativity on certain projects, problem solving towards certain issues, and also collaborating with fellow co-workers. Patton stresses that these reward programs could help suffice the overall being of a company as long as the rewarded behaviors correlate with the corporate strategy. Patton expresses that some things human resources must comprehend include “how its company creates success, what drives its business strategy and what behaviors are needed from employees to achieve that success” (Patton, 2013 para. 15). Moreover, the employee would be reflected as a role model for others and perhaps influence them to demonstrate comparable behaviors.
The lecture discussed a single case study of sixteen-year-old girl who was dealing with anorexia. The speaker, Fisher, stated that he spoke to her parents only twice over the span of four and a half years that he worked with the girl. The initial meeting was to get some background information before the sessions started and the other was further into the sessions. During the only face to face meeting with the parents, he found that there were no outstanding issues in the family that could have caused the eating disorder, anorexia. In the first sixteen years of her life, she was a good daughter who seemed to be almost too good. She was obedient and kind and never got in trouble. She was an honor roll student who was in clubs that were considered
While working with Ana, she disclosed that her father had gotten extremely mad at her for getting a bad grade on her last math test; he hit her across the face, grabbed her arm, and yanked Ana to her room. Ana felt that she deserved it because it was her fault that she did not ask her teacher for extra time on her test. This disclosure brings about an ethical dilemma for the counselor of reporting the abuse or not reporting the abuse.
Gazing upon my sister, it was as though she had been replaced by her complete opposite. Where once her face had been covered with smiles all of the time, her face was now contorted with grief, and it looked like she would never smile again. Her look could only be described as a small child who has lost a toy in the sand box.
Even when he tried to stay optimistic, fear and anxiety set in often in Schwartz’s mind. He experienced fear and anxiety related to impending death. Worries of missing out on his son growing up and not experiencing romantic moments with his wife ever again filled him with both terror and grief. He expressed this fear to his psychiatrist and his concern that he might be depressed. Dr Cassem assured him that crying was a sign of acknowledgment of his love for his family. He also worried if there was anything he could do t...
In addition, in a later scene, Ellen says to her therapist, how Ellen knew Megan’s baby “was never going to make it,” making a negative remark towards Megan’s pregnancy. Moreover, the main focus of a person who suffers from an eating disorder relies upon what they eat, how they look, and what the scale says. According to an article in a journal on “Emotion in Eating Disorders,” emotions have been a form of neglect when it comes to the serious topic of eating disorders. This neglect represents the lack of emotions and attachment styles shown by those with an eating disorder and how it contributes to their
Presenting problem: Client walked into therapy without a defined presenting problem. As our session progressed, she realized that she has been dealing with some stress in various aspects of her life that include school, fitness and diet, and interpersonal relationships. The client has agreed that she could benefit from learning new ways to cope with the stress produced when things have a different outcome than the one she expected.
The truth is that no one enjoys being abused, no matter what kind of emotional state or self-image they may have. Some of the emotions that I experienced in this kind of relationship are isolation, paranoia, shame and embarrassment. As a victim of abuse, I, like many victims, didn’t rea...
Then she said the words and I broke, “Are you alright?” Her face a portrait of concern, the bedroom somehow exploding, then everything snapped. I sagged onto the tiles, every vestige of strength sapped from my watery muscles. My lungs began shallowly pumping air. Distantly I watched Tracy edge across the floor, wary and concerned. Some detached part of me noticed that she’d slept in her uniform again, why hadn’t I noticed that? She rested her hand gently upon my shaking shoulder and knelt.
Over the past few decades, studying organizational behavior has become an important thing that needs to be understood by many people, organizations, and even companies. It has become very important, since organizational behavior can bring so many benefits for people and companies to achieve their goals well and organize it better. For example, organizational behavior can help companies to learn about how to deal with many people, cope with globalization, manages the companies wisely, and may increase performance and productivity of the employees (Usman, 2010). One of the examples of organizational behavior lesson that has become very important, especially for organizations and companies, is the study of personality and behavior. Personality
it seems that they are supposed to discuss the severity of the abuse both during and after the experience. In that case, it will be better if they also discuss what happens while the abuse is going on. For example, what impact might emotional abuse have on the victim’s self-esteem when the abuse initially starts? What will happen to the victim’s self-esteem as the abuse continues? They could explain that, and they can also consider what can happen to the victim’s relationships, independence, health, etc. as the abuse is ongoing. Discuss the severity that emotional abuse has on victims during the experience.
Equity Theory of Motivation Introduction: Robbins & Judge (2007, p.186) defines Motivation “as the processes that account for an individual’s intensity, direction, and persistence of effort towards attaining a goal”. Equity theory comes under process theory which gives the perception whether the individual is going to work hard or not depending upon the rewards and possible outcomes. This paper discusses and describes the equity theory of motivation, with its implications for managers, in the light of a real organizational example. Analysis: What is the difference between John Stacey Adams, a workplace and behavioural psychologist,” articulated a construct of equity theory on job motivation and job satisfaction in 1965” (Okpara, 2006, p.226).
I arrived at my office today at 10:00am, armed with a Starbucks cappuccino, a Fiji water bottle, and my laptop. I am greeted with a sweet smell of vanilla initiating from a glade plug-in. I look out the window and see massive buildings, hundreds of tiny cars whoosh in all directions, and I see people that are dashing among the busy sidewalks of New York. Above it all is a perfect clear and sunny sky that just happened to brighten my mood just by looking at it. . I sip on my cappuccino while thinking about today‘s appointments. I think of the patients I am going to see today and what procedures will be done to help them progress with their conflicts. I start wishful thinking and imagine if I were to help any of them make a breakthrough today and how happy I would be to feel the sense of accomplishment knowing that I helped someone completely overcome an issue. I was suddenly determined to take my career to a new level of accomplishment. I notice that I finished my cappuccino and have been sipping on air for the past five minutes. I laugh at myself and toss the empty cup in the trash. Then I fall back into my thoughts and thoroughly think over how I am going to help one of my patients that has experienced a difficult tragedy in their life and cannot stop dwelling on that incident. They have been my patient for quite some time and regardless of what advice and treatment I apply to them, they seem to just stay stuck feeling remorse for themselves. Her name is Ava and the main conflict that is keeping her from making a breakthrough is that she does not understand why such a horrible situation would occur in her life. She cannot correlate a reason as to why this occurrence would happen to her of all people. I went about my day and treat...
The workshop started off as any other the speaker introduced herself as “Louisa” and explained that what she will talk about might hit some people 's nerves. Then, she shot my idea down that she was going to talk about partners. She said that she would talk about male to female partner abuse, but since that is commonly talked about she wanted to focus more on all relationships you have in life. From that point on she went through a slide show while telling her stories. Louisa showed us a bunch of slides about unhealthy and healthy relationships. I had also expected that she was only going to talk about verbal and physical abuse; however, I was wrong about that too. She talked to us about six different types of abuse: “verbal/emotional abuse, stalking, physical abuse, digital abuse, sexual abuse and even financial abuse.” She explained that abusers use “possession, isolation, demands, and stalking” to instill “self-doubt and shame/guilt” in their victims. She brought up a slide where it described actions that are both healthy and unhealthy. The list consisted of “boundaries, love, jealousy, anger and silence.” Then Louisa explained that these can be both because...