This document provides Travis M. Spencer's counseling portfolio, which includes his professional mission statement, affiliations, counseling worldview based on Gestalt therapy, and proposals for counseling projects and interventions. The portfolio demonstrates Spencer's conceptualization of clients and treatment using a Gestalt approach, which focuses on awareness, present experiences, and the client-counselor relationship. It includes proposals for programs incorporating creative expression, mindfulness, and group work to address issues like risky behaviors, career readiness, and community involvement.
Liaison work with regular teachers, parents, administrators, resource room teachers, Group counselling, psycho education with parents, guidance and counselling programs in regular school
Técnicas de intervenciones y protocolos de abordaje terapéuticoricardooberto
Universidad Bicentenaria de Aragua
Facultad de Psicología
Tutor Influencer:
Prof. Psic. Msc. Denis Del Valle Martínez Salazar
Autor:
Lcdo. José Ramón R. Oberto K.
Counselling outcome, issues, trends and professional ethics dr geoffrey wangoDr Wango Geoffrey
The emphasis of counselling as a process requires that the procedure be conducted in a professional way in order to evaluate and assess the outcome of therapy. This presentation brings to life the status quo of counselling psychology practice particularly in Kenya today appreciating the milestones so far achieved, highlighting loopholes and challenges in practice and at the same time suggesting a workable chart forward that will inculcate professionalism. It presents both enlightening and enriching insights into the practice and outcome of counselling and is written to assist all those who engage in counselling psychological services including students, trainers, researchers and supervisors to investigate professional practice in an interpretative way.
Liaison work with regular teachers, parents, administrators, resource room teachers, Group counselling, psycho education with parents, guidance and counselling programs in regular school
Técnicas de intervenciones y protocolos de abordaje terapéuticoricardooberto
Universidad Bicentenaria de Aragua
Facultad de Psicología
Tutor Influencer:
Prof. Psic. Msc. Denis Del Valle Martínez Salazar
Autor:
Lcdo. José Ramón R. Oberto K.
Counselling outcome, issues, trends and professional ethics dr geoffrey wangoDr Wango Geoffrey
The emphasis of counselling as a process requires that the procedure be conducted in a professional way in order to evaluate and assess the outcome of therapy. This presentation brings to life the status quo of counselling psychology practice particularly in Kenya today appreciating the milestones so far achieved, highlighting loopholes and challenges in practice and at the same time suggesting a workable chart forward that will inculcate professionalism. It presents both enlightening and enriching insights into the practice and outcome of counselling and is written to assist all those who engage in counselling psychological services including students, trainers, researchers and supervisors to investigate professional practice in an interpretative way.
Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Class 3John Grady
Professional ID, Interdisciplinary Collaboration, Culturally Responsible Evals & Tx Planning, Crisis Interventions, Career Counseling
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Nursing Leadership
Develop and submit a personal leadership philosophy that reflects what you think are characteristics of a good leader. Use the scholarly resources on leadership you selected to support your philosophy statement. Your personal leadership philosophy should include the following:
The response accurately and thoroughly describes in detail a set of core values.
The response accurately and completely describes in detail a personal mission/vision statement.
The response accurately and completely provides an analysis and detailed summary of the CliftonStrengths Assessment.
The response accurately and thoroughly describes in detail two key behaviors to strengthen.
An accurate, complete, and detailed development plan is provided that thoroughly explains plans to improve upon the two key behaviors selected.
The response includes a comprehensive synthesis of information gleaned from sources that fully support how to achieve a personal vision. Integrates 2 or more credible outside sources, in addition to 2 or 3 course-specific resources to fully support the responses provided.
Nursing Leadership
While raising two adolescent girls, this author is working on her Psychiatric and Mental Health Nurse Practitioner degree (PMHNP).
Psychiatric disorders within these professions are multifaceted and rising at an alarming rate. My most recent project is hosting a website for my non-profit organization, sharing my research and fundraising for mental health therapy for local MP and FRs; my efforts supported by their respective employers. During personal interactions, many have expressed to me that for psychological symptoms, they are directed to contact their respective employee assistance program (EAP). Unfortunately, combined with the already perceived stigma of seeking help, the true reluctance was the absence of an EAP clinician with first-hand experience in these unique occupations. These concerns significantly limit the number of “relatable” practitioners therefore, as a trusted partner, incorporating over 20 years of experience with MP and FRs, I will change this for all of us.
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Core Values
Prior to this course, this author always felt that through life, open-mindedness, perseverance, compassion, education, and innovation, were her core values. Remaining open-minded about different individuals or situations has afforded this author the gift of seeing people and things from a different perspective than her own. The ability to persevere despite challenges from nearly every ACE factor and still maintain compassion for others is a core value that this author has been able to maintain through life and currently teach to her children. Education and innovation have been the foundation of this perseverance in finding not only why people think the way they do but also how to help good people out of bad situations. When this author engaged in the Gallop survey presented, the results were very similar with strengths a rel ...
Case StudyBecoming a forensic psychologist after graduating from.docxtidwellveronique
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Becoming a forensic psychologist after graduating from Ashford with a psychology degree will be an exciting part of my life. Graduating from the psychology program at Ashford means I have the skills necessary to move forward in my career goals. I am now able to read and think critically and creatively, communicate effectively through my speech, writings, and through the use of technology. I now understand the various forms of diversity, the interdependence among living beings, and the environment and humanly-created systems. I am able to direct service of meeting the needs of others, develop the skills and abilities that provide for lifelong learning, as well as I now have the ability to draw information from different fields of study to make informed decisions (Ashford University, 2014). Having a psychology degree means I can analyze human behavior and their mental processes, as well as analyze theories of continuing education in psychology and related fields. I can evaluate theories of personality development and psychology research methods. I can now demonstrate communication behaviors that are consistent with the study and practice of psychology, as well as have and use skills and concepts that are fundamental to the ethical application of psychology (Ashford University, 2014).
I as a bartender deal with personal challenges all the time when I hear people tell me their problems and I want to try to give them advice. Many times I get told things regarding my brother and his girlfriends’ issues at home and I want to help but it’s an ethical struggle for me. The reason for the struggle is that I work with my brothers’ girlfriend and my advice could be biased. From my point of view the problem is that my brother and his girlfriend don’t have good communication. The problem from what they can tell is the other person doesn’t listen or doesn’t care to listen. The options I see it as they can either try to sit down with an unbiased person to help them communicate effectively or they can end their relationship. The risks and consequences are that they may end up expressing feelings that are not ready to be dealt with, or they could end up with a really strong relationship. The other risk and consequence could be that they end up in a huge fight and the relationship is over. The only evidence I have to assist me is what they both tell me about the situation and what I have personally seen.
With this case I would be able to think critically and creatively, I can analyze their behavior and their mental processing, as well as demonstrate communication behaviors. I will look at how they are trying to communicate now and think of other ways they can try to communicate such as text or email. Maybe even writing each other letters. I will analyze their behaviors as to how they perceive the other person and the way the other person comes across while speaking. Through better communication skills the couple will be able to better discuss their i ...
Environmental design in support of trauma recoverykarenatskw
The current paper presents the concepts behind the design of a homelike facility on a secluded campus for long-term
residential care for exploited adolescents, specifically females ages 11-17, who have been victims of commercial sexual
exploitation. The treatment model is innovative in that it is a long-term treatment and housing solution with no pre-defined
maximum length of stay. Integral to the model is the assumption that the built environment has direct and indirect effects
on mental health.(1) This paper presents the research behind the design thinking and specific design elements to create
a homelike environment. Research indicates the positive effects of a familiar homelike environment. to be: support of a
healthy, coherent life view; lowering of resident and staff stress levels and restoration from fatigue; facilitating personal
control; and supporting socially supportive relationships. The result is that residents are more trusting and accepting of
treatment. Research on the direct correlation between the homelike character and specific residential design elements to
the success of treatment will be forthcoming when the model site, Courage House Northern California is operational.
2. Table of Contents
Introduction 3
Professional Mission Statement 3
Professional Organizations and Affiliations 3
Counseling Worldview 4
Projects and Proposals 6
Random Acts of Expression (RAE) Grant Proposal 6
Wandering Traveler Intervention 8
Photography, Poetry, and Prose Therapy (3PT) 9
The UJIMA Group 10
Expandable Database Solution 12
Bibliography 13
Counseling Portfolio
4. Counseling Worldview
My fundamental approach to clients and group therapy is Gestalt Therapy.
Gestalt closely aligns to my personal philosophies about personal understanding,
acceptance, and growth. Additionally, Gestalt Therapy provides and supports my desire to
create and incorporate holistic treatment systems to individuals and groups.
Gestalt investigates neurosis through the inclusion of significant social and
environmental affects of an organism; additionally, Gestalt alternative treatment plans
and wellness strategies provide a variation to psychodynamic treatment applications
(Perls, Hefferline, & Goodman, 1951).
Gestalt offers a freeform stage for collaborative work and understanding for both
the client and therapist; furthermore, Gestalt does not restrict the therapeutic relationship
through regression, transference or countertransference. Psychoanalysis considers
regression, transference or countertransference as its fundamental components (Perls,
Hefferline, & Goodman, 1951).
GESTALT THERAPY IN LOW SOCIOECONOMIC AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), mental health risk for
African Americans is more likely than with their European American counterparts;
additionally, African Americans are less likely to seek treatment (OMHD/AMH/
Factsheet/Mental Health, 2007). Drug usage and abuse in low socioeconomic African
American communities (LSAAC) exist in part to self-medication because of mental
illness and trauma. My goal as a therapist is to promote mental health care in the low
socioeconomic African American Communities. Poor mental health care directly links to
drugs, domestic violence, and self-destructive behaviors.
African American youths/LSAAC (organism/environment) experience turmoil
and blockage causing neurosis, and their neurosis prevent the assimilation, change, and
growth (Perls, Hefferline, & Goodman, 1951). Assimilation does not refer to the
incorporation of the dominant culture’s values, traditions or morals, but in this context,
assimilation is the ability to grow through creative adjustment. Gestalt suggests that
contact produces creative adjustment with the environment; therefore, an organism/
environment survives and maintains a healthy state of being through a creative response
to contact (Perls, Hefferline, & Goodman, 1951). When an organism’s creative
adjustment is impeded, inhibited, or disrupted neurosis occurs (Perls, Hefferline, &
Goodman, 1951).
Gestalt Therapy helps clients rediscover balance and move toward self-
actualization, thus moving focus to what is necessary to achieve or maintain balance and
drive self-actualization. Clients rediscover balance by discovering present maladaptive
behaviors and stressors. Recognizing, accepting, and cultivating personal awareness
fosters self-actualization and growth.
Gestalt Therapy assists the discovery and cultivation of personal awareness
(Halbur & Halbur, 2011, p. 66). Additionally, Gestalt Therapy brings awareness to
possible mistrust and other perceptions produced by stressors or trauma. Growth begins
with awareness. For instance, Jack becomes injured as he walks from school. A signal
Counseling Portfolio
6. Projects and Proposals
Random Acts of Expression (RAE) Grant Proposal
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND- College Park, Maryland: Counseling and Group
Facilitator; 2013- 2014
The transition from childhood to adulthood is one of the most significant periods in the
human lifespan, and the University of Maryland Pre-College Programs supports many
students during this critical developmental period. Frank Parsons, a pioneer of career
development and academics for students, states, “We guide our boys and girls to some
extent through school, then drop them into this complex world to sink or swim as the
case may be. There is no part of life where the need for guidance is more emphatic than
in the transition from school to work—the choice of a vocation, adequate preparation for
it, and the attain-ment of efficiency and success (Wood & Kaszubowski, 2008).”
Pre-College Programs creates and offers diverse college and career awareness and
readiness programming to foster academic achievement and positive psychosocial
development. Additionally, Pre-College Programs thrives on remaining relevant to
students needs through creative programing. The Random Acts of Expression (RAE)
Program signifies an addition to Pre-College Programs' special programming, and the
University of Maryland's strategic plan to attract the world's best academic talents.
Additionally, the University of Maryland strategic plans includes transforming the
surrounding community into an economically, socially, and culturally vibrant community.
The Random Acts of Expression (RAE) Program supports the University of Maryland’s
strategic plan to attract the world’s best academic talents and to transform the
surrounding community into an economically, socially, and culturally vibrant community.
Additionally, RAE supports the University of Maryland’s strategic plan by providing an
opportunity for local first generation college-bound high school students to participate in
Pre-College Programs career exploration, academic studies and artistic expression (The
University of Maryland, 2008). RAE support the University of Maryland by preparing
the high school students for possible college careers at the University of Maryland and
exploring future careers in marketing, sound engineering and music production, writing,
public relations, and event planning. Students participating in RAE may add or eliminate
career choices; additionally,
Random Acts of Expression (RAE) occurs during the six-week summer residency
program for first generation college-bound students actively enrolled in Pre-College
Programs. A cohort of 10-15 students creates and performs audio art for the Pre-College
Community. Any recorded artistic expression represents audio art. For instance, audio art
includes spoken word, poetry, vocal performances, and instrumental art. Under the
supervision of an academic advisor/ instructor, student participants collaborate, organize,
plan, market and host a listening party. Typically, a listening party is an event for local,
national, or international artists to showcase their latest music compositions for a small
group of fans; however, RAE listening party will host an intimate gathering of students,
Counseling Portfolio
8. Wandering Traveler Intervention
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND- College Park, Maryland: Counseling Intern,
Counselor, Group Facilitator; 2013.
Purpose
This eight-week intervention promotes mindfulness and critical-thinking skills and
focuses students on their personal and collective goals. This program’s namesake
is Wandering Traveler Intervention (WTI). A Wandering Traveler(s) is a nomadic
individual or group with no social roots or commitment to a community.
• Type: Psycho-educational Group
• Targeted Audience: at-risk 15-19 years old male/female students
• Session length: 8- 45 minute sessions
• Assessments: No pre or post assessment
Objectives
The Wandering Traveler Intervention mitigates maladaptive behaviors by promoting
critical thinking, self-expression, empowerment, and introspection. WTI provides:
• An introduction to meditation and mindfulness through
o Silence and breathing
o Music and movement
o The examination of current events.
• Psycho-educational classes that examine the immediate and long-term
repercussions of
o Limited education
o Goal setting
o No vocational or academic skills set.
• A safe forum for students to express opinions, ideas, and collaborative
solutions by
o Promoting critical thinking skills relating to short-term and long-term
goals.
o Acknowledging and supporting the student’s “real-world issues;”
subsequently, this intervention builds rapport and trust.
Approach
WTI incorporates Gestalt philosophy and a free flow therapeutic approach. Gestalt
philosophy states that the whole individual must be considered for growth. This includes
all direct or indirect elements. A gestalt is a structure created by an individual to interact
with the world. An individual’s gestalts (structures) directly contribute to behaviors,
perception, emotions and mentality (Perls, M.D., Hefferline, Ph.D., & Goodman, Ph.D.,
1951).
Counseling Portfolio
10. The UJIMA Group
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Malcolm X Elementary School, Washington DC: Educational Aide; 2010-2013.
Purpose
The UJIMA (OO- gee- ma) Group (UG) is an intervention group that fosters positive
psychosocial development; specifically UG supports positive self-concept, creates and
strengthens self- efficacy, and encourages interpersonal collaboration.
Elementary students are six to eleven years old and according to Erikson Developmental
Theory, elementary students are in Industry versus Inferiority stage. During this stage,
Erikson’s theory states that children develop self- competencies, and learn cooperative
skills; however inferiority develops as a result of negative behaviors at home, school, or
with peers. (Berk, 2007, p. 17).
UJIMA means communalism in Swahili and its core meaning is collective work and
responsibility. Communalism will create the positive self-efficacy necessary to mitigate
maladaptive behaviors in students. The mission of the organization UJIMA Group is to
support Malcolm X Elementary School. UJIMA GROUP supports Malcolm X
Elementary School by (1) assisting teachers and staff, (2) supporting students and
community efforts, (3) promoting academic achievement, and (4) developing positive
lifestyle attributes.
• Type: Psycho-educational group/ organization
• Targeted Audience: Children ages 6-11 years-old
• Session length: on-going
• Assessments:
o Parents/ guardian permission
o No pre or post assessment
Counseling Portfolio
12. Expandable Database Solution
The Life Therapists Therapist Incorporated (LTTI) software support therapists/
organizations serving low-socioeconomic communities; specifically, therapists/
organizations serving families systems in low socioeconomic communities.
The design and construction of this relational database began in 2013 at the University of
Maryland. As an intern for University of Maryland Pre-College Program, I designed the
inventory database and a rudimentary database to support the counseling efforts of
serviced students. My software solutions support my current and future practice and
clients.
• Individual Therapy Solutions: is an expandable database solution to organize
and maintain consumer wellness programing and services data for individual
therapist.
• Organizational Therapy Solutions: is an expandable multi-user database
solution to organize and maintain an mental health servicing organization.
• Cohort/Community Network Solutions: is an expandable multiple-user/
organizational database to organize and maintain consumer wellness
programing, team collaboration, education and servicing data. This database
allows counselors to maintain intake and session notes in one place for easy
access and review. This database works on a laptop or tablet.
Counseling Portfolio