Critical Thinking Case Conceptualization

Such a dialogue, said Jung, would foster the “mutual commitment and care that occurs between healer and the healed” as the client explores unknown parts of self in his or her attempt to heal the soul.” Analytical therapy uses techniques that allow the client to make leaps towards self-actualization and recognition of occurrences that cause setback’s in the clients life.”

Thus, it is evident that solution focused therapy is focused on the future wellbeing and hopes of the client rather than their past or present situation.

Brief therapy helps people by focusing on solutions, instead of problems. The therapist asks questions thereby facilitates the client by helping formulates solutions. The client leads the meeting by actively formulating ideas in which he/she can serve to improve the client's negative circumstances. This is contrary to cognitive therapy, which focuses on a client's cognitive processes (how he or she thinks about people/places/things). The therapist collaborates with the client to help the client develop alternative solutions.

This is why it is important for both the client and the therapist to be open and honest with each other from the very start when discussing the initial problems/issues.

Psychodynamic therapy – geared to limted objectives than to restructuring personality. Therapist lesss likely to use couch, fewer sessions per week, frequent use of supportive interventions, more self disclosure by therapist, focus more on pressing practical concerns than on fantasy material.

This is implemented by the therapist engaging the client in a conversation about the things that the client has tried to make better and the strategies the client has used. Then the client and therapist examine whether or not the current tactics have been successful. This will lead the client to realize that, from his previous experiences, what he has been doing does not work and is likely to not work in the future. Furthermore, the client is likely to not know what to do next and may anticipate new possibilities. Therefore, the he is in the creative hopelessness phase. During this time, there is room for new strategies to be developed without previous thoughts interfering. This will ultimately allow the client to begin trusting his own experiences and engaging in new behaviors instead of believing his thoughts and blaming himself for not being able to ease the situation (Hayes et al.,

Therapist plans to meet with individual on Friday, March 11, 2016 between 9-11 AM to work on focusing and attentive skills using therapeutic worksheets

of the talking at the prompting of the therapist. This method allows patients the opportunity to

There are many possible ways to look at an issue such as anxiety. A behavioralist might say that anxiety is genetic and thus would have revealed itself around this age even without additional stressors. They would say that the chemistry of the brain is the source and that the best way to overcome it would be to take medication to make the brain act more normally so that Jake could get his bearings and overcome his illness.

FOCUS OF PRESENT SESSION: During this session, client and therapist took a moment to talk about how she was feeling and how her week was going. The client began the session by checking in, she reported that she was feeling “good” and her week was going “well.” The client presented for therapy in a euthymic mood with congruent affect. The client and therapist focused on discussing her last day in session with therapist and coping skills.

Understanding the counseling session from the client’s perspective is a very important aspect in the development of a therapeutic relationship. A clinician must be an excellent listener, while being to pay attention to the client’s body language, affect and tone. The dynamics in the counseling session that is beneficial to the client include the recognition of the pain that the client is feeling. The detrimental part of this includes a misunderstanding of the real issues, a lack of consideration of the cultural aspects of the client, and a lack of clinical experience or listening skills. In this presentation, we will discuss the positive and negative aspects of the counseling session from the client’s perspective which

Solution-focused brief therapy was developed by Steve de Shazer, Insoo Berg, Eve Lipcheck and Michele Weiner Davis in the 1980” s. Coming from the postmodern approach whereby the therapist dismissed the notion that examine the past was a necessary began to focuses on the future. Social constructions have also influenced the solution –focused approach, by the therapist should take a not knowing stance.

It’s important to evoke information from the client before moving on to the other process is because as the counselor you are able to focus and guide the client towards a particular goal that has been identified in the focusing process. As the counselor we evoke a person’s own internal motivations for change, and to reinforce it to help build their motivation for change around the focused

In the therapy interaction, these misconceptions must be heard by the therapist and given ample time in counseling to talk about and “unpacked,” for further qualification. This may take time and patients to hear these feelings and to process with the client.

The focus is on the person’s past. Deals with healing emotional pain or conflict within an individual or in a relationship between two people. Some forms of therapy e.g., Brief Solution Focused and CBT focus on the future.