Reality Therapy Video Analysis

this video has impacted me and what I will take away from this video. Also, what will be

This video was very surprising, instructive, informative, depressing and occasionally infuriating. I have always known that there were a lot of factors that influence ones health, but I had never really expected it to be this disturbing reality. The video presents a lot of surprising information with any luck individuals will ask themselves serious questions like I did. Optimistically, after seen the video people can account to the things that need to be addressed in order to eliminate this factors and not be eager to judge a set of group of individuals.

What can I take away from the experience of observing this video that will help me build knowledge and Self-Awareness in Therapeutic Communication?

The video is to show us how we make bad decisions. In the video it shows how a scenario can change and you see how bad a decision was. For example, in the video when Mr. Gilbert talked about losing a movie ticket verses losing $20.00 when going to the movies. If a person does not want to replace the ticket because they do not want to spend more money it is the same as losing money and still spending more money once you get to the

Other than techniques, there are many concepts of this therapy style that fit my understanding of human nature. I really like how this therapy stresses the importance of becoming a fully functioning person. This best can be described as someone who is willing to open themselves up to new experiences and challenges (Allen 1994). A person who is fully functioning is not afraid to take risks, and is willing to fail along the way. These types of people are also highly motivated and resilient to the external world around them. They are autonomous and find their strength from within, instead of depending and relying on others for strength. It would seem like only a

The video resonated with me the most. Even though dissociative and hyperarousal was described in the video for children reaction to threats, this concept reminds me of my defensive mechanism from when I was in an abusive relationship. As I was listening, I began to have flashbacks that replayed in my head of the dissociative phase. I remember when I was put into uncomfortable situations where I would prepare my mind of the hurt that was soon to come from my boyfriend range and anger. Yes, I was older, but I felt like such a weak young girl due to not having the backbone to flee or fight. I was so afraid. I appreciate reading and listening to videos that are congruent to life itself. This helps me understand how individuals process fear from all aspects.

It is a type of therapy I would like to further educate myself on. The video does a great job at describing and effectively showing how this type of therapy works. I could be wrong, but it seems that this type of therapy is more client driven and that the therapist is guiding the client to answers and decisions that the client may already be aware of. It is a very interesting type of therapy. I envision myself using this type of therapy with my LGBTQ clients. I am drawn to the way the therapy embraces a positive, understanding, nonjudgmental and welcoming views of the LGBTQ

First, I thought the videos were very fascinating but also very hard to watch and very disheartening. It’s amazing to see how the treatment of those suffering from mental illnesses has improved in recent years, but it’s also unbelievable that some treatments were ever used. I am not a doctor and do not have any medical training, but it’s hard to believe that making people have seizures and go into a coma was a beneficial way to treat mental illnesses. It’s also hard to wrap my mind around the fact that someone would ever intentionally put something into someone’s brain to lessen the brain’s

The video educated on how often abuse is taking place and it not something that an individual can turn off and on at the drop of a dime. In addition, it implicates all levels of abuse from physical to neglect. For instance, the little girl that underwent interfamilial sexual abuse, I can only empathize with how she must have felt wanting to escape from the pain, especially from someone who is supposed to love and protect her from situations such as the one she is facing. Many parents that abuse their child have some form of substance abuse problem to the point they blame their children for the financial hardships they endure and the lack of social stability (hanging out with friends), failing to realize that the child never asked to be born in the situation.

The critical intervention video I chose was the birth to three years old. The video focused on soothing or calming a child that has difficult temperament. The video shows how to manage stress, upset, or arousal. Children from the age of 0-3 years old have very unbalanced nervous systems. They need caregivers to respond to their emotional distress with compassion. Babies need healthy attachment to their caregivers; this requires them to be seen, soothed, safe, and stimulated. It is difficult to do these things with children with difficult temperament because their nervous system is unbalanced. The way to resolve that is by balancing their emotional distress with active calming and soothing. If I were to intervene in a family environment when

The video, I find most interesting is the Existential-Humanistic Psychotherapy. This theory/approach is one I find to be very appropriate in many situations with middle aged adults, families and single parent females, most of all women. In this counseling session James F. Bugental presented his perceptions and ideas of what Existential-Humanistic Psychotherapy looks like to 11 experts(Psychotherapy.net, 2008). Dr. James F. Bugental, applies this therapy with a client(Gina), who is going through a divorce, and apparently needs to come to the realization of self-reflection. In the session with ¬¬¬¬Gina, he discovers Gina, is a person who thrives on perfection and being in control of every situation: life with her husband, boys, family, friends,

This video presents a basic interpersonal approach to a difficult patient. The kind and caring approach of the student nurse Leah, facilitated a good nursing care. As well as relieved the patient and other staff members involved in his medical care. The difficult patient Scott suffers from a chronic condition that keeps him from living a normal life; consequently, he develops behaviors that interfere with effective nursing care and affect his health condition, his relationship with his mother and the staff involved in his medical care. This video exemplifies step by step, the impact on patient outcome of the application of the nursing process; assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation. The student nurse, used her critical thinking knowledge and abilities to gather sufficient physical, psychological and family data to implement her nursing interventions. She was able to manage and improve the complex health condition of her patient Scott.

These videos discuss how OT’s work with individuals who have mental illnesses. In the first video, Matt Ward talked about the experience he had with an OT practitioner. His journey to OT began when he realized he was suicidal. After he told his father that he was feeling this way, Matt was sent to a mental health unit. It was there that Matt he met his OT. The OT at the mental health unit helped to diagnosis him with Bipolar disorder and help him the piece his life back together. Matt said, “all these smalls [that the practitioner did] have ended up into one big”. It was because of OT that Matt could return to his work as an actor/director. From this video, I learned that practitioners enable their clients to return to work three months earlier than standard psychiatric interventions. The video also stated that 50% of the clients still have their jobs 42 months after rehabilitation. Overall, this video helped me to understand that OT’s provide cost effective and helpful

The videos “Therapeutic Communication”, “Effective Listening”, and “Nonverbal Communication” created by Indiana University have the agreement that interviewers need to possess effective communication skill needed to conduct a proper interview. In order to have effective therapeutic communication the interviewer has to be aware of the different types of communication. The videos begins with an interview being conducted of a small group of students and experts on the matter giving concreate information and patient-based experience to answer questions.

What I really liked about this documentary is that some of the points brought up are things that most people never talk about. For example, it mentioned that the most prescribed medication in the world is Lipitor, which is a diabetes medication. However, since the introduction of Lipitor to the public, the incidence of diabetes has not decreased, in fact the amount of people who suffer from diabetes has actually increased. This just shows that the way we are trying to solve the problem is not working. It seemed so strange to me that we spend so much money on the development of medications, yet the most used form of treatment doesn’t really help those who need it. Treating the symptoms is not a cure it is only a short term fix for a long term problem. Not are the people being cured, they are now going to be spending the rest of their lives dependent on medication, and we are yet to understand the long term effects of long term medication use. This also raises the question, if the medication is not helping what can? The documentary proposed that a complete change in diet was the answer. The documentary used a study that was done with people who had diabetes their whole lives and switched them to a whole foods plant based diet, and their health improved drastically. It was mind blowing