Milieu Therapy Paper

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.

Gestalt therapy is a therapeutic approach in psychology that helped foster the humanistic theories of the 1950s and 1960s and that was, in turn, influenced by them. In Gestalt philosophy, the patient is seen as having better insight into himself or herself than the therapist does. Thus, the therapist guides the person on a self-directed path to awareness and refrains from interpreting the patient’s behaviors. Awareness comprises recognition of one’s responsibility for choices, self-knowledge, and ability to solve problems.

This intervention focuses on helping to provide the client who has suffered a complex trauma with an attachment style intervention that focuses on the various subsystems in the client’s life (Foroughe & Muller, 2014). TBRI can be applied not just in a clinical setting but in any environment. This intervention would help Sarah to continue to make bonds with people and be aware of how these systems affect her. Also Sarah would receive support for her separation anxiety disorder as well. The individual sessions would also allow for interventions that assess how Sarah is adjusting to her new life, and the outlook of her new family.

Fisher and Harrison (2009), explain that inpatient treatment is positive for social interactions and decreased isolation. When touring the facility the patients were spending time together showing decreased isolation between them. The patients frequently have outings to activities such as a ropes course or attending community AA or NA meetings. Lakeside Milam has 24 hour care for its patients which make it less likely that the patients will use a substance while in treatment (Fisher & Harrison, 2009).

A sixteen year old teenager refuses to leave home and the therapist must review the situation from a MRI therapeutic approach. First, the MRI approach would not focus on the problem or how it developed but rather what efforts have the parent made to reach a resolution. MRI stems from the premise that families use practical attempts at resolving their situation but the attempts are ill-advised. MRI’s main focus is aimed at dilemma driven solutions; there is no advantage in long term change or what capacity the problem serves within the family.

Expanding from 6 to 24 programs over four years, Kentucky correctional system created a corrections-based modified therapeutic community treatment program. Corrections-based treatment program proves to reduce drug use and recidivism. Kentucky correctional compared offenders of none participants of the therapeutic community and program dropouts, graduates, and graduates who attended aftercare, “treatment groups were 15-20 times more likely to remain drug-free at 12-month follow-up” (Staton-Tindall, McNees, Leukefeld, Walker, Thompson, Pangburn, & Oser, 2009, 712). counselors used Personal digital assistants (PDAs) to input clinical assessment data. A university research team conducts a 12-month post release interviews for former inmates who used the services of the (CJKTOS) counselors. 700 offenders participated in

book Cathy mention therapy for Kelly but it did not start out well. The first Therapist is a bad fit and neither Cathy nor Kelly like her. Cathy gets Kelly a different Therapist but Kelly still wants to quit therapy. There isn’t any detail about whether she does quit or not. If she was my child I would have asked Kelly to give therapy a try at least for a few more months, to see if it could help her to have a person outside of the current situation to talk things through with. I feel this is so important that I would have changed therapists weekly if need be. I would find somebody that Kelly would be comfortable talking to, if that was possible at this point.

Chapter One: In this chapter talks about the history of many decades where the different therapist is treating family members separated from the family and eventually when one member of the family sought help and got better another one seems to be affected. These different observations lead to begging the family therapy movement (Nichols, M. 2017).

Family therapy is a technique that has many alternative approaches to every aspect of treatment which Nichols (2014), states may present a challenge when describing a basic technique. The two models of family therapy in which I feel that I would be most effective and comfortable with would be, experiential family therapy and solution-focused brief therapy. I feel most comfortable with these models because, I adapt to the role of the therapist of both therapies naturally. According to Nichols (2014), when families seek therapy they are stuck in a life-cycle transition, sometimes they are obvious and sometimes they are not obvious. I’ve found that during the first session an excellent question is to ask the client why now so that they can

Treatment is at the discretion of the client, should a client feel it is time to terminate services, it is their right to do so unless therapy is court-ordered. Therapy can be a vulnerable experience for an individual. A client has the right to be treated ethically without abuse, exploitation, and percipience. Regardless of a client’s orientation, culture, religion, socioeconomic status or education they are to be treated with respect and grandeur. Also, should a client be dissatisfied during treatment they are allowed to report a grievance if they feel their needs are not being met or any other concern that arises that a client feels their therapist is not acknowledging. Furthermore, if at any time a client requests their records, a therapist is obligated to provide what has been documented during sessions and given to the client.

Barbara Bloom, there is not just a high likelihood that they had a substance abuse problem, but also a history of physical and/or sexual abuse. This can be one of the most important aspects to consider before interacting with the inmate, simply because these past events in their lives could trigger an episode once behind bars. Women who had a history of abuse may become scared or frightened in certain situation behind bars such as strip searches, seclusion, and restraints (Bloom & Covington,2006,p.7). Women need to feel as though they are safe wherever and whenever they become involved in rehabilitative treatments. Many women participate in what is called “therapeutic milieu” which is a “carefully arranged environment that is designed to

therapy aims to improve family relations, and the family is encouraged to become a type of

     Today many people seek professional therapy or counseling for a limited amount of time in order to deal with different life crises. Others seek professional help for the majority of their lives in order to deal with a psychological disorder. After reading this chapter on Therapy, I learned that this was not always the case, and that the way our society views therapy, and the meaning of therapy, has changed dramatically of the years. This chapter not only explains the evolution of therapy, it explores the different therapeutic approaches.

Approaches to Family Therapy: Minuchin, Haley, Bowen, & Whitaker Treating families in therapy can be a complex undertaking for a therapist, as they are dealing not only with a group of individuals but also with an overall system. Throughout history several key theorists have attempted to demystify the challenges families face and construct approaches to treatment. However, there have been key similarities and differences among the theoretical orientations along the way. While some have simply broadened or expanded from existing theories, others have stood in stark

Therefore, this therapy can be used to help families with schizophrenic members, violent temperaments, uncontrolled substance or alcohol abuse, chronic problems (that affect all members), and those who want to improve relationship skills. Its goal is to build a supportive collaboration between counselor and the family and teaches skill-building techniques to help families gain control over their circumstances. Strength and resiliency are taught to families dealing with chronic problems (Goldenberg & Goldenberg, 2013, p.415). Psychoeducation does follow some of the techniques used by traditional treatments, such as cooperating with the family, acquiring the trust of its members, remaining unbiased, and figuring out the best methods to have positive conclusions. In summary, the program helps families learn problem-solving approaches that will help them have prosperous marital or parent-child relationships (Goldenberg & Goldenberg, 2013, p.416).