Occupational therapy emphasizes the importance of therapist interactions with client and client’s family. The term therapeutic use of self is ordinarily used to refer to therapists’ conscious efforts to optimize their interactions with clients. As occupational therapy is client centered it is important for the therapist to address all needs of the client and the client’s family. To utilize therapeutic use of self, the therapist will empathize with the parents during their hard times, address all of Jaylene…
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communicate with their patients, consequently they are then able to begin to develop a therapeutic relationship. In order to gain a better understanding of therapeutic communication and relationships, Johns Model of Reflection was used to analyze a video that showed a nurse-patient interaction. Many different terms, such as caring, helpful or purposeful, have been used to describe what a therapeutic relationship between a nurse and a patient should look and feel like (Kiteley & Vaitekunas, 2006).…
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the use of attachment concepts and how important they are to the therapeutic relationship. Research has found that the worker can play an important role at establishing positive internal working models that the client can use later to respond to other relationships (Parpottas, 2012). Furthermore, attachment theory also states that “early life experiences can be activated by any close relationship, including the therapeutic relationship” (Skourteli & Lennie, 2011 pg. 21). In addition, research has also…
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and has mothered two children as a result. The client has also contracted HIV from her father and was repeatedly re-infected by her mother due to the performance of sexual favors. For years, the client has never told anybody about the incestuous relationships she had with her parents. The client currently attends, Each One Teach One, which is a program for girls who suffer from illiteracy and is working on finding a place to live to support her and her two children. The client is severely overweight…
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Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Counselling Psychodynamic therapy (or Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy as it is sometimes called) is a general name for therapeutic approaches which try to get the patient to bring to the surface their true feelings, so that they can experience them and understand them. Like Psychoanalysis, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy uses the basic assumption that everyone has an unconscious mind (this is sometimes called the subconscious), and that feelings held in the unconscious mind…
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Matthew Weill General Psychology Professor Garnett 107239219 Topic- Therapeutic Approaches “Participation-Engagement: A Philosophically based heuristic for prioritizing clinical interventions in the treatment of comorbid, complex, and chronic psychiatric conditions”- Golan Shahar and Larry Davidson (main library, bound periodicals. RC321) Shahar and Davidson proposed a heuristic for prioritizing interventions in psychiatric conditions. They came to their thesis by looking at the sociologist…
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Early in her career, Orem gained experienced as a staff nurse in a variety of hospitalclinical settings. While serving as director of nursing service at a Detroit hospital, she recallsthat she was asked a substantive question and didn’t have an answer because she “had noconceptualization of nursing” (McLaughlin-Renpenning & Taylor, 2002, p. xii).Orem goes on to say while working at Indiana University where her goal was to upgradethe quality of nursing in general hospitals throughout the state, she…
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I was the group facilitator during this meeting. My role as a facilitator was to help each other through mutual aid. In the interdepence/differentation stage, I participated just like the other group members because it was now a parallel process. As the facilitator, I considered the I-We-It-Globe before the session began. I assessed the needs of the group during the session by tuning into the I’s, by considering the autonomy of the group as they made statements and not questions. I tuned into the…
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based on the assumption that ‘the relationship is the therapy’ (Mearns and Thorne 2000), which emphasises that it is the quality of the relationship between counsellor and client that is key to a positive outcome of the counselling process. I believe that using this approach the client can be trusted to find their own way forward, accompanied by a counsellor who is capable of encouraging a relationship where the client can begin to feel safe. This relationship can facilitate the client to experience…
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However, prior to a family conference two separate meeting should occur—one with the social worker and one with the care team (physicians and nurses). Meeting privately with the parents, the social worker could educate the parents on end-of-life (EOL) experiences and the importance of facilitating communication to support a dying patient’s needs (Matzo…
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