1. What was my overall reaction to the assigned reading? I really enjoyed this reading in Chapter 9. I related this reading to the work I do in my field practicum as it relates to the cognitive and moral development of human beings and human behaviors. As you already know, I work for Stella Maris, a drug and alcohol treatment facility. We talk a lot about cognitive development and the concerns we have with our clients as it relates to their disease of addiction. We need to know what changes in intellectual abilities, mental activities, and behaviors through which knowledge of the world is attained. This requires an understanding of us as counselors, to know what the variety of factors are including, biological, social, environmental, …show more content…
Cognitive therapy rests on the premise that cognitions are the major determinants of how we feel and act.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy combines two very effective kinds of psychotherapy: Cognitive Therapy, and Behavioral Therapy. Behavior Therapy helps the client to weaken the connections between troublesome situations and their habitual reactions to them. An example of this could be in breaking the addictive cycle present in drug use or dependency. It is helpful in dealing with reactions such as fear, depression, rage, and self-defeating and self-damaging behavior. It also teaches you how to calm your mind and body, so you can feel better, think more clearly, and make better decisions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy teaches how certain thinking patterns which are causing client symptoms can be mediated and it is helpful in that it gives clients insight as to how that distorted picture of what’s going on in your life makes you feel anxious, depressed or angry for no good reason, or provoking you into ill-chosen actions. When combined into CBT, both Cognitive Therapy and Behavioral Therapy provide social workers and clinicians with very powerful tools for stopping client’s symptoms and helping them to get their lives to get back on track. CBT requires that the client/patient receives a thorough workup at the beginning of treatment, and that the client’s needs and problems have been identified as well as possible. The client must have an explicit,
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a mixture of both Cognitive Therapy (CT), which deals with a person’s thoughts and Behavioral Therapy (BT), which concentrates on an individual’s overt or outside personality. According to Barbara P. Early and Melissa D. Grady, CT specializes in the mental process that can affect an individual’s feelings and behavior, while BT is focusing on the external environment that can cause the behaviors, such as a stimulus (Early & Grady, 2016). The use of the two therapies together allows the
Cognitive therapy is one of the few theories that have been extensively scientifically tested and found to be highly effective in over 300 clinical trials. It focuses on the immediate or automatic thoughts the client has and how these thoughts affect their feelings and behaviors. The goal of cognitive therapy is to identify these thoughts that are poorly affecting the client. Then teach the client how to identify these automatic thoughts and how they can effectively change them. Through the very structured sessions of cognitive therapy, a client should essentially learn the tools to be their own cognitive therapist for future problems they may encounter. The therapy session will not make them an expert but they will be better prepared to
The foundation of cognitive therapy is that thoughts have the ability to influence individual's feelings. One's emotional
The solutions to the ongoing issue of racism is that if people were not ignorant of other cultures, and races , people could actually live in a world together in harmony, without racism. Until people can learn to respect on anther and not condemn them for their appearance or culture, a world of racism cannot die . The reason being Racism stems from ignorance that is present in the mind of people. racism is not something that is inherited , it is taught. the ignorance that was created many years ago have traveled from generation to generation, people have honestly just become ore accepting to it. if we can teach future generations to refrain from the ignorance and racist tendencies of older generations, one day we can reduce racism . Not
Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, has been slowly rising as the empirically based choice for community mental health centers and insurance companies. The idea behind cognitive behavioral therapy lies within thoughts, behaviors, and emotions or feelings and how they interact with one another and the individual in their life (Beck, 2011 & Beck Institute, 2015). Practicing clinicians draw attention to the client’s dysfunctional thinking patterns and are focused on the present instead of the past or future. Cognitive behavioral therapy tends to be problem or solution focused and structured to where the client can be helped within a short time frame. Clients learn skills and techniques to help them in their everyday lives during counseling.
In today’s society, racism is generally less of an issue than in the past. However, there are still some who believe otherwise. Just because a person is ‘black’ it does not mean they should be treated as a different person. Everyone should be treated equally no matter what their background is. Joe Bloe reports…
In the early 1940’s my father, a Greek National was forced to move to the United States as a World War II political refugee. He served as a lieutenant and was recognized as an officer and part of the gorilla forces in the Greek Navy. Greece eventually was occupied by Germany and it was then that he was smuggled into England by allied forces. A couple years later he moved to the United States and made his way to San Francisco where he met his wife, a Greek Sicilian woman from Modesto. They made their home in San Francisco in a predominantly Anglo-Saxon neighborhood. It was there in the city of diversity that he and my mother first experienced racism.
Racism is something something we 've all witnessed. Many people fail to believe that race isn’t a biological category, but an artificial classification of people with no scientifically variable facts. In other words, the distinction we make between races has nothing to do with genetic characteristics. Race was created socially, primarily by how people perceive ideas and faces we are not quite used to. The definition of race all depends on where and when the word is being used. In U.S. history, the meaning of the label “white” has changed over time, eventually adding groups like the Italians, Irish and Jews. Other groups, mainly African, Latino, American Indian, Pacific Islander, and Asian descendants, have found the path for worldwide
Racial discrimination existed in ancient times, but its modern form is from the beginning of the period of primitive accumulation of capital, so far, in the world of racial discrimination still exists in certain areas. Racial has always been a matter of concern in the Europe and the United States. Because the vast majority of black people were deprived of equal treatment rights due to their skin color. Of course includes Indians, indigenous peoples of Oceania, Europe's former colonial immigrants, ethnic minorities and foreign workers in Asia "tribal people" and caste group, are victims of racial discrimination past and present. Racial discrimination insults to human dignity, so it repeatedly condemned by the international media and
Cognitive therapy is according to the idea of certain ways of thinking that can fuel or trigger certain mental health problems such as phobias, depression and anxiety. The therapist will help you to understand your current thought patterns to identify any false, unhelpful and harmful attitudes or ideas which you have that makes you feel anxious. The purpose of it is to change your ways of thinking to avoid these attitudes and ideas. In addition, it is also to help your thought patterns to be more helpful and realistic (Lawson,
Jackie Robinson, Joe Louis, and Hank Greenberg all faced some sort of racism during their lives and their professional careers. Racism was found in every sport between the 1930s and the 1950s. Some sports hid the racism better than the others did. The role of racism and ethnicity in American sport did not change significantly between the 1930s and the 1950s.
The legal system was extremely racially biased even after the Civil War. It was said that all men were created equal, while this may not be true as people could be created unequally, there is one place they should be equal, the court. However, after the Civil War, racial prejudices still lived and juries were often biased, leading to an unfair legal system. This was proven multiple times during this time period, such as the Jim Crow laws and the Plessy vs Ferguson case. The Jim Crow laws and the Plessy vs Ferguson case showed that life was hard for blacks after the Civil War and exemplified the racial bias in the legal system during the 1930s.
“That’s racist!” Today’s youth say that phrase frequently, mostly as a joke, but should it be a joke? Is it true that white Americans are more privileged than the other races in America? It shouldn’t be a joke and it is definitely true that whites have an advantage in society. Some of the ways that whites are privileged are simple and some are not. For example, something such as band-aids, as simple as this is, are only sold in a beige color in most stores. While the fact that not all people have beige colored skin. Also, even though African Americans have been legally free to run for office since 1870, America has only had one black president and that wasn’t until 2008 when Obama was elected. From 1870 to 2008, that’s a long time, yet everyone is “equal” according to the Constitution. Everyone may have the same legal rights, but that doesn’t mean that they are treated like they do. This can be shown with the products that are sold, education and profession opportunities, and the overall thought of the minorities in America. With all of that one can understand that whites are unquestionably more privileged.
Dak Prescott, Lebron James, and Andrew McCutchen; three major league sports professionals that are black. Not only are they black, but they also are extensive contributors to the sports that they play and in the community that pay to watch them. What happens when these three men are cut down or criticised just for the color of their skin? More specifically, what happens when sports reporters broadcast their free, uncensored thoughts to the public? Specifically looking at these reporters thoughts, it can be seen that they are biased and are giving these athletes a stereotypical face. These men are claiming themselves as not racist, but in their comments, it can be viewed as otherwise. These sports reviewers, and people in America, are considered racist due to their bias and their stereotypical comments.
“They hate you not because of what you have done but because of who you are; you are different from who they are, and you are occupying the ground they want for themselves.” (Bangambiki Habyarimana). Jim Crow law was any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the South between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950s. Even though slavery in 1865, the white people in America tried everything in their power in order to prevent the black community to be integrated with the white. Blacks were considered less because of their darker complexion so white people thought they had no place in their community. The government had thought of separate “separate but equal” in order to separate. How this worked was there was places like schools and things like water fountain only whites were able to used vice versa for black people. Real estate agents use the method of blockbusting in order to persuading white residents to sell their property cheaply because of the fear of black people moving into the neighborhood, and thus profiting by reselling at a higher price for the black people. The housing committees used redlining blocked the incoming blacks from coming into the white neighborhood and incoming white people into black neighborhood. These were all in effort to keep segregation going in America. Segregation influenced the relations and stereotypes of races in Boston because it caused a bigger divide in races,