The document discusses three therapies that could help counsel a high school girl with issues of self-injury and an unstable home life: Reality Therapy, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, and Adlerian Counseling. Reality Therapy would focus on empowering her choices and locus of control. Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy would challenge her irrational thoughts about her family and home life. Adlerian Counseling would address her underlying social needs, lack of support system, and motivation to find value at home in order to avoid self-injury. The document concludes that Adlerian Counseling seems most appropriate since her main issue is social.
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy Form of couples therapy that is based on the assumption that marital distress results from negative affect and destructive interactional styles. The intervention of EFT attempts to change partners’ problematic interactional styles and emotional responses to establish a stronger and more secure emotional bond.
Steps in conducting EFT
A brief overview of Reality Therapy, a counseling theory. The videos show aspects of who could benefit from reality therapy as well as people affected by PTSD. Please keep in mind there is so much more to this theory and PTSD
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy Form of couples therapy that is based on the assumption that marital distress results from negative affect and destructive interactional styles. The intervention of EFT attempts to change partners’ problematic interactional styles and emotional responses to establish a stronger and more secure emotional bond.
Steps in conducting EFT
A brief overview of Reality Therapy, a counseling theory. The videos show aspects of who could benefit from reality therapy as well as people affected by PTSD. Please keep in mind there is so much more to this theory and PTSD
Accompanying slides for a presentation for college students given Tuesday, December 3, 2019 at Colgate University. The presentation is designed for students looking for validation that their family may be toxic, with strategies listed when no contact is not an available option. A recording and source sheet are available upon request.
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Jack is unwilling association with women is due to his fear to get trapped in their love. This is a result of his mother’s unconditional love. His mother consistently gave him a warm, unconditional love. She constantly attempted to draw Jack under the care of her while securing him. She didn't give Jack time to act naturally and to communicate. Jack was limited to a life with instructions and reliance to his parents. Jack may have built up his character further from the time he began lacking parental control because of his folks' separation. He likewise built up an existence of self-will in his connections with the people around him. Jack lack of self-will made him feel less worth. Several drives might have originated to explain Jack’s view of his life as just an image and nothing more than that. Such drives include a feeling of anger and resentment. He was too reliant on his parent’s instructions thus lacking an opportunity to grow as an independent individual. Jack has chronic worry emanating from ruminative thoughts and an anticipation to failure.
The most probable explanation to his condition is presence of an aggressive drive. Aggression is basically a typical psychological feature in males. The organizing feature in males results from hormones within their body (Parsons & Zhang, 2014). Male species always feel the urge to control and organize issues around them. Jack’s mother did not allow him to experience control thus slow development of anger. Aggression might be resulting from a response to hardships, threats and injuries. Jack developed a hostile aggression that developed from fear, anger, frustrations, feeling of loneliness and pain. He developed a character of unwillingness to become vulnerable to people surrounding him. Jack lacked enough parental care since the divorce withdrew his mother’s unconditional love. The divorce did not stop her from loving him. Explain. These experiences are related to Jack’s current relationship with women. He relates lack of love to all women using his mother as a reference. Jack struggles to be independent since his mother overprotected him.
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Jack describes his father as a controlling and cruel person who had archaic ideas. Jack’s rejection of his father has a number of underlying psychological aspects. The feeling of hate towards his father is apparent and it resurfaces in Jack’s adult life. He deals with sadness, anger and rejection. Jack felt the need to escape from his father’s control thus creating a defense mechanism. He developed a defense mechanism of defiance. At the end, he ended up becoming the exact opposite of what his father wanted him to be. An over controlling father led to anxiety symptoms and thus Jack feels the urge to rebel. There are certain psychological factors and aspects involved in the way Jack rejects his father’s wishes. The .
Schizoid personality disorder is an uncommon condition in which people avoid social activities and consistently shy away from interaction with others. They also have a limited range of emotional expression.
If you have schizoid personality disorder, you may be seen as a loner or dismissive of others, and you may lack the desire or skill to form close personal relationships. Because you don't tend to show emotion, you may appear as though you don't care about others or what's going on around you.
The cause of schizoid personality disorder is unknown. Talk therapy, and in some cases medications, can help.
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High School Troubles;
How Different Therapies Counsel Youth
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High School Troubles;
How Different Therapies Counsel Youth
Introduction
The girl from the vignette has a successful academic life but lacks the stability at home,
as well as self injurious behavior. The three most likely methods of therapy to be used would be
Reality Therapy, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, and Alderian Counseling. RT would focus
on strengthening thoughts of choice and rational thought, REBT would focus on strategies of
stabilizing her thoughts in order to better regulate her emotions, while Alderian would
concentrate on her social needs at home and school in order to motivate her into better actions.
All these could assist the girl in better dealing with her issues at home, and each of these should
attempt to contact her parents and have them involved in the process.
Reality Therapy (RT)
Reality Therapy’s primary goal would be to get her to recognize the choices she can
make in each of her decisions towards herself and towards others (Gladding, 2006, p. 231). With
this focus, and building upon her successful work in school, the counselor can show her to the
ability to be successful in more difficult avenues of her life such as the home. Once she realizes
that she has power over any of her environments (to different extents) she has the power to
overcome her need to cut by finding alternatives to this action. Reality therapy removes the
excuse of her actions and empowers her to change her behavior which will lead to more positive
results in her life (Gladding, 2006). Changing her focus towards an inward locus of control will
make do positive actions instead of focusing on the bad. Reality therapy would also assist her by
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having the therapist build a positive relationship she has not previously interacted with
(Gladding, 2006).
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy would directly attack the thoughts of her instability
at her home life. It is likely that the reason she is cutting herself is because there are a few
underlying absolute expectations she demands at the home but is not receiving (Yankura &
Dryden, 1997, p. 107). REBT would likely discover she thinks that her home life needs to be
more normal, she is embarrassed with the situation, or she is mad at one of the parents. By
investigating what she thinks must occur at the house the therapist can challenge those irrational
thoughts and replace them with better ones. No longer is it a must that her family is perfect but
the therapist will normalize flaws in family, and give her behavior strategies to improve her life
at home.
Alderian Therapy
The main issue with the girl is social. The vignette never makes mention of friends and
the family is seemingly dysfunctional. Because of these factors the girl lacks the social support
necessary to function properly. Alderian therapy looks at social needs as motivators and objects
of primary concern when dealing with people (Gladding, 2006). This girl must feel involved in
her family and a valuable contributor in the home in order to avoid cutting. Her goals of
perfection are seen in her academics but there is some factor at home preventing her from
gaining value from that social system. A few strategies an Alderian therapist might use would be,
acting as if the situation is changed in order to see how the conjecture of the girl regarding her
“dismal state” is inaccurate, or making the client aware of the self-destructive behavior and
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getting her to a point where she can keep herself from it on her own (Gladding, 2006). Having
her see that life is not so bad or that the feeling of cutting can be overcome by a focus on positive
thinking will enable the girl to have an upward spiral of recover. The social needs she is feeling,
as they begin to be fulfilled will stabilize her life at home and perhaps help her make more
friends at school. Social support and positive thinking, according to Alder are key needs that all
humans have.
Discussion
While each of these models focuses on a slightly different aspect and are all shown to be
successful, Alderian therapy would seem most appropriate to use in the case since her main
underlying issues is social. With the Reality therapy, it would be good to motivate her at first but
I foresee difficulties when changes don’t happen immediately at home. In any of the models
rationality is necessary, but with REBT, telling a fifteen year to think clearly may be more
difficult to accomplish than creating a network of support to stabilize her life.
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References
Gladding, S.T. (2006). Counseling: A comprehensive profession. New Jersey: Pearson
Publishing Inc.
Yankura, J. & Dryden, W. (1997). Special applications of REBT: A therapist’s casebook. New
York: Springer Publishing Company.
