Life Review Therapy

My personal and educational experiences have influenced my desire in pursuing my degree in Marriage & Family Therapy. My last semester of college, I was interning at Care Fresno. During this time, I lived in a high crime apartment located in southeast Fresno. I was able to reach out and mentor at risk families. This experience has equipped me with skills, such as: be able to empathize, communicate, and lead other effectively. After I graduated with my Bachelor’s degree, I started working as a Drug & Alcohol Counselor at Aegis Treatment Centers. While at Aegis Treatment Centers, I realized how much I enjoy providing empathy, psycho-educating, and teaching individuals how to cope with their emotions.

As a Registered Nurse who knows the duties that his work demands, I have to demonstrate deeper understanding of the Health Directorate's core values of care, excellence, collaboration, and integrity in my professional nursing practice and patient care. To conform to the above mentioned values, I endeavor to appreciate that improving a patient's experience is integral in patient care. This can be achieved by doing away with fear and anxiety that protracts patients' healing process. Enhancement of the communication between my patients and I will also go a long way in hastening their recovery and their self-management.

Hope is evident when a person desires to avoid the feeling of despair and emotion that is associated with an uncertain future. Hope also enables a person to overcome difficult stages of their life; it gives the power of endurance and adaptability. In older adults, the values of past experiences are used to sustain their hope. Before nurses can give hope to their patients, it is important to understand what hope is and how to incorporate it in across the life span. Having a positive mindset alleviates emotional and physical pain and makes the recovery process a much pleasant one.

The nursing fields applies to all areas of Lifespan Development, and nurses work in a setting where they are required to work and interact with other professionals in a effort to bring the best quality of care to their patients. This involves the need for the full understanding how or why a person may behave in any given situation. With the knowledge of psychology nurses will learn to interact with patient all based on different factors such as gender and age. If two patients were undergoing the same procedure, the patient who is younger could be more afraid than the adult (Chron.com). Difficulties in understanding the true meaning of their illness. Nurses must use this broad range of psychological knowledge in order to relate to younger or older patients, improving the nurse-pt relationship; allowing open interaction in communication informing medical professionals

First of all, I recognized that I was dealing with humans, and not just dealing with a disease process and application of the nursing process in the aspect of restoring patient health. I was dealing with emotions, and families, and cultural beliefs that influenced individual’s aspects of care. I started to see that health did not just incorporate healing the disease, but also recognized the importance of making sure patient’s felt that their

For this assignment, the author interviewed an elderly woman who is roughly in her early eighties. Discussion occurred over the phone as Irene lives a relatively far distance from Denver, CO. The first conversation went over well and she was very open to discussing her life further. The author became confident enough to ask more personal questions later in the conversation. The elderly woman agreed to a second interview to continue patient education which will be discussed in detail. For this paper, the individual will be referred to as Irene, so that her privacy is protected. This paper acts as an organizational tool to detail the process and considerations taken, including therapeutic communication skills, to provide Irene with a

Family therapy is a form of psychotherapy employed to assist members of a family in improving communication systems, conflict resolution, and to help the family to deal with certain problems that manifest in the behavior of members. In most cases, deviance in a family member is an indication of underlying family dysfunctions. This paper looks the counselling procedure that can be applied to help the Kline family solve their problems. It answers certain questions including those of the expected challenges during therapy and ways of dealing with the challenges.

Complicated grief is having many difficult dealing with loss. Even though that sometimes the loss has according many time before.according to katherine walsh there have been a history of depression or even anxiety for a person to go through a complicated grief. Complicated grief is when it last a long period of time and you can't just move on it hold on to you very tight. For complicated grief therapy is required. According to phsyo guides 10 percent of people going through a loss going through a complicated grief. There may need family therapy to help them during this period of time. J.william gave 4 way to deal with the loss. The first one is trying to accept that there are gone and there are not coming back. The second one is dealing with

Reminiscence can be therapeutic for the elderly and the caregiver involved in the conversation. This sharing of old time stories is important for self-presentation bring comfort, stimulation and confidence to the elderly patient (Tablonski, 2014). Throughout this discussion post I will discuss the significance of reminiscence to me, my experiences with reminiscence, my thoughts and feelings of the video “See Me, Nurse” and how I would incorporate change within my practice based from this viewing. I will also further discuss difficulties I have encountered with elderly patients from a different background.

As members of the baby boom generation get older and reach retirement age, they present an increasing challenge and opportunity for health care, particularly nursing. The growth in the number of elderly patients from the boomer generation coupled with a loss of boomer-age providers will pressure an already-stressed health care system (Hospitals and Health Networks, 2014). Nursing must take on the responsibility of not only meeting this burden, but improving life for the older American. There are several different ways in which this can be done.

Life review and ordinary remembering are both reviewing our past and having the ability to connect with others and moving forward into our future. Yet, the meanings of both of these words are very different and have been continually to be used interchangeably by researchers and academics. “Reflecting on the past and sharing reminiscences with others serves different psychosocial functions in various settings” (Chen, 2016). Comparing and contrasting the elements between life review and ordinary remembering is focusing on the positive and negative memories that is based on an individual’s life story. When it comes to comparing both of these the similarities that are expected is sharing past experiences, having that therapeutic effect for healing

Great post! This is a very important topic! It is important that we uplift and help each other as nurses because we are a team. It is our duty to take care of our patients and provide the best care possible. I know some new nurses that have experienced some negative experiences from older nurses. We should remember that we were once new nurses as well, and help encourage and teach them so that nurses as a whole are empowered.

I didn’t plan on writing this diary entry neither did I plan on remembering everything that happened before I became a carer. It was my donors that made me look back at my life and maybe I needed that, my past is a part of me. I’m Kathy and “I’m thirty one years old, and I’ve been a carer now for 11 years” (Ishiguro 3). This sounds like a long time I know, but they’ve been pleased with my work. My donors have always ended up doing much better than expected. Their recovery process has been great, even by the end of a few donations. This is the probably because I know when to comfort the donors, when to just listen or just give them some alone time. Ruth was the donor that I had chosen. Although, all our differences ad not gone away they weren’t

More specifically, Freud traces the roots of all adult behaviors back to childhood impulses and showed how conflicts related to the development of sexuality in childhood subsequently results in psychopathology or neuroses. (Good & Beitman)

Therapeutic Communication has a huge impact on patients, whether, we, as nurses, see it or not. It is very important for a nurse to gain a patient’s trust. Many patients are already filled with sadness, nervousness and unsure thoughts of their current situation. Such thoughts may make a person scared to trust or open up to a nurse or doctor. Developing a close rapport with a patient can help to create a safe, warming environment, resulting in a positive experience throughout their time in the hospital or even nursing home. In “Therapeutic Communication”, Anna Lauria opens saying, “What we say or do not say can influence whether a client is able to quiet his mind, relax his body and initiate a healing response” (Lauria). Being a nurse, we automatically have the opportunity to create a strong influence on patients’ lives during, and even after, their hospital experience.