Jonathan Greco : School Probation Officer

2. Discuss William’s situation from the perspective of positive psychology. What information would be most important? What conclusions and recommendations might be made by a psychologist working from the positive psychology model?

By discussing this particular experience in detail, I can begin to understand the specific skills a counsellor may use in many different situations in order to help others (Egan, 2007, p. 13). In this reflective

He urges that leaders recognize lack of knowledge and ask for help from mentors because people genuinely wish to lend a hand. He recalled a conversation in which he told a friend of feelings “not belonging” and had plans to resign his position with an organization. This happened simply because of misinterpreting words. He called it comparing his insides

The Probation Officer and Offender role has been widely examined, specifically in regards to the effective management of risk (McNeill, 2009, NOMS 2010). Within this, it is recognised that the relationship between these individuals is paramount to the effective management of risk and offending behaviour. There have been numerous working practices introduced throughout the years within the Probation Service to identify effective working practices including the Effective Practice Principles and latterly, Skills for Effective Engagement, Development and Supervision known by the acronym SEEDS (Rex & Hosking, 2013). Whilst these have greatly influenced the work being undertaken by Probation practitioners, the management of risk of

When picking the people to allow in I had to think about each member’s attributions. An attribution is “An inference about the cause of a person’s behavior.” (Schacter, p.406) I had made a decision that the man in the wheelchair wouldn’t be able to move around/ help much around in the shelter. So therefore the man in a

The purpose of this memo is to provide a professional biography of the person I interviewed for the expert interview portion of this project. Dr. William Harrar is the person I chose to interview, Dr. Harrar is the Director of Bloomsburg University’s Center for Counseling and Human Development. It will be a concise report, consisting of Dr. Harrar’s education, field experience, and publications. I will highlight items in the aforementioned areas that best reflect Dr. Harrar’s expertise.

The aforementioned client described problems with low self-esteem, feelings of constant failure whilst belittling the reported achievements in his life; and feeling the need to constantly better himself. When we tried to formulate the problem collaboratively, we were able to establish that his thoughts were: negative, discounting success, black and white and following rigid rules. He experienced feelings of low mood and exhaustion and noted that his behaviours involved constant checking, trying to multi task, being over thorough, making lists that were unrealistic to achieve and tendencies to avoid tasks and

Crumbled sense of self-identity is evidenced by the client’s inability to explore his creative life successfully. For instance Lori mentions that a majority of Paul’s professional setbacks have impacted negatively on his creative expression, and hence “his whole sense of self and self-identity has really crumbled” around this primary problem. As a secondary problem, Lori describes Paul’s lack of self-identity as a consequence of his deteriorating self-likeability or lovability, and these elements of his life make her more curious.

In order to achieve that professionals are using variety of counselling skills and theories for support. One of the theories that is being used is Egan’s skilled helping module. Following the theory, professional first explore the reasons of something to occur and the fears that an individual has that prevent him to achieve his goals. This can be used my methods such as

Attributions are the next facet of the four cognitive processes that can be seen in The Whore’s Child. They are defined as “assessments of the cause of an action or behavior,” (Canary 111) and can be both internal and external. Internal meaning that the behavior is attributed to qualities such as

During this initial session, the client stated she is seeking counseling to "help find herself" due to some concerns she is dealing with in her personal life. When asked "to describe what does finding herself mean" the client was unable to answer. The client struggled to provide her view or a meaning to certain issues she identified as concerns. The counselor then assesses the client's family and her interactions with her family to find a correlation in her family interaction and what changes she wants to make in her personal life. Initial impression from the counselor is the client is aware of herself and her family and what she views as a positive and negative interaction which has or could impact the way she views things now. The client

The strengths of the client were acknowledged when I stated that the client is working hard towards reunification by participating in visitation and therapy. In addition, the client identified self-strengths when discussing her employment skills. The client’s support system was identified and discussed along with additional support that can be established in time.

The fundamental attribution error intrigued me while reading the book because I came across the example about Hurricane Katrina. I lived through this experience so I felt it was only right that I talk about my take. The definition of the fundamental attribution error is assuming someone’s personality based on their actions, even when there are powerful outside forces that can be influencing them. Hurricane Katrina was a horrible natural disaster that no one could have predicted would happen but none the less it happened. I remember my family and I watching the news together and coming to the crippling conclusion that we had to leave everything we had behind. Of course, we were used to this because we lived in what they call “the soup bowl” and we were used to emergency evacuations for hurricanes. There was no

Fr. Gregory quotes Katheleen and numerous others in his book to lead the reader towards his overall message. This particular quote speaks volumes to the idea of holding true to a goal no matter what stands in the way. Fr. Gregory states, “Resilience is born by grounding yourself to loveliness, hitting notes you thought were way out of range” (Boyle 94). In the section Fr. Greg emphasizes the importance of familiarizing oneself with the environment in order to have an easier time reaching a goal. Earlier in the book, Fr. Greg talks about a homie named Looney. Looney has had a rough life to say the least, he was born poor, into gangs, and spends most of his days in juvenile detention facilities. Besides all of his faults, Looney doesn’t give up, he made the decision to become a better man and has stuck to it. One day Looney went into Fr. Gregs office and showed him his grades. His grades were well below average, nevertheless Fr. Greg was overjoyed and tells him how great he’s doing, explaining that if he keeps pushing himself one day he too can call himself a success. This idea of never giving up is not only true in one place. It can be used all throughout the world in a number of different

My interview was done with the Dente family. The family is an African family of five; father, mother, two boys and a girl. One of the children has an unspecified learning disability. They have been living in the United States for the past 10 years. They migrated from Ghana. In my paper, I will be discussing about the strength and challenges that the family faces as they take care of their son Jaden. I will also share information about how Jaden’s parent is able to work with other team members to support their son.