Positive Reflection On Divorce

research that I have done, I expect to find many changes in children both short

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

     With this ring I thee wed…. For better or worse, for richer or poorer…. Traditionally, two people speak these words on their wedding day, the day that two become one, the day that two people begin a life together and share an unbreakable union. This may be so in some cases but not all. Divorce among Americans is rampant. In society today divorces are as common as marriages themselves. Couples meet, date, fall in love, marry, and have children and then one day: Wham! Something is just not right with the relationship anymore, so they opt for the easy way out, the big "D". They get a divorce, is this really the easy way? The legalities and dissolution of the union may be easy and painless,

L.T children resent her because they feel as if it was her fault their father left. According to chapter 6, Personality and Mental Health Old Age depression is one of many mental disorders among older individuals. L.T feels depressed because she cares a lot for her children but they do not understand she was physically abused all the 9 years she was married to their father she needed to put an end to it. Two of her daughters do not constantly keep in touch with her but they do call her once in awhile. It was hurtful to hear what L.T was saying about her son. L.T son no longer talks to her, they have not talked to each other for the last 30 years because he feels she is the only one to blame for her father disowning him and his sisters. After the divorce, L.T son and L.T previous husband would constantly be together because he was very close to his dad but ever since L.T remarried he completely stopped talking to all his children. L.T son is hurt and resents her for something that she had no control over. L.T hopes to talk to her son before she

She did not create any false expectation as to therapy and focused a lot of emotional pain of the client, which is another learning experience. For instance, when the therapist was being realistic about the improbability of changing the past yet possibility of reworking on emotions as a hopeful note:

Circe has warned us about the Sirens, on this part of our journey. They lure sailors with their voices and get them off track and stay there. I asked my men to tie me up to the ship and fill my ears with earwax, so i will not be tempted or lured. My men were very loyal and did not untie me even if I was begging them to. I was just concerned that I would not arrive home if I heard their voices. We finally got past that part of the sea and my men could untie me. I am glad that we stayed on track the whole time.

Reflection is a process that enables practitioners to gain a deeper understanding of their experiences with patients to move towards more mindful and effective practice (Johns 2005).

The first skill I demonstrated was natural empathy at the 3:22 minute mark. De Jong and Berg (2013) discuss that empathy requires “the practitioner to explore and adopt the client’s sense of his or her experience, without ever losing the inner sense that he or she is a separate person from the client (p. 43). When Kelsey was talking about how she feels as though her grandma belittles her, I offered natural empathy after that response. I was trying to understand her story; therefore, I was trying to empathize with her. I wanted Kelsey to know that I understood that she was frustrated. I also engaged in nonverbal responses throughout the process recording, which also can convey empathy (De Jong at el., 2013). I thought I did a good job showing natural empathy.

Introduction: The general topic of this study was about our emotional baseline and how that is affected when a person is married or divorced. Everyone has a baseline for our emotions and over time no matter what we can get back to that baseline. Previous research has shown that we are able to get through any life situation, minus the short time we need to react to an aversive situation. Each person is subjected to different situations. Thus, they react differently also. Past research has shown to be difficult to show how a person would react, since nobody knows when that hard time will come. So, testing is harder to come about. The article states

Large portions of this book still focus on reflection and while reading how to reflect is simple, I am sure that physically reflecting is harder than I may think. Reflecting can be practiced in my everyday life by journaling and practicing mindfulness. These two practices are good starting points for becoming a more efficient reflector through time. In contrast, reflecting with clients seems much more difficult to grasp as I am concerned with getting so caught up in processing what I should say next that I miss what they said. These two chapters talk about the concerns of reflecting as well as, the therapeutic relationship and the foundation, and new skills such as paraphrasing.

Amato, Paul R. "The Consequences of Divorce for Adults and Children." Journal of Marriage and the Family 62.4 (2000): 1269-87.

Thesis statement- There are a variety of factors that prompt the separation of a couple as a consequence carrying a baggage of effects with them.

From past to present people all over the world have determined to live together, or “get married”. Marriage can be a beautiful thing, but some couples are unable to maintain their relationship, because they choose divorce as a solution to cope with the problems between husband and wife. Furthermore divorce is definitely on a rise. The effects of divorce can be detrimental to a family, but the causes of divorce can be just as bad. In this essay we will cover one of the main causes of divorce and one of the main effects.

Women, for instance, undergo enormous pain as a result of divorce. In most cases, law gives divorced women custody. Consequently, they find themselves alone with their children, and hence obliged to look after them in a society where divorced women may be looked in a bad way. Besides, most of divorced women don’t have regular income, as they were financially depending on their husbands before divorce, so they have to work outside home, without neglecting their duties toward their children, and this is very difficult to accomplish especially with the sexual harassment that becomes very common. Emotionally speaking, a divorced woman feels as she was betrayed by her ex-husband .She may also start to hate all men, and this can have direct effects on the way she rises her children.

“DIVORCE” – Just the sound of such word in any married couple or children’s ear can cause great agony that can even become terminal. Research and personal experience, has proven that in today's society, divorce is more common amongst newlyweds. Since 2009 the rate of divorce has increased to approximately forty percent, There are three out of every ten marriage that ends up in divorce before it reaches the stage of maturity, and the most prevalent results are – lack of communication and infidelity.