Repairing Relationships

The goals and visions behind my reconciliation action plan was to bring the two sides of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians together in equality and harmony. Since the colonisation of Australia there has been a vast divide between the two sides that has caused many serious outcomes for Aboriginal people. My way of contributing to this is to create a better understanding, restore trust and eradicate racism as a positive way to help close the gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australia’s.

In this essay, I am going to give a structured reflective account on the development of a therapeutic relationship with a client on one of my clinical placements as part of my training as a student nurse. I will be using a reflective model which explores the processes involved in developing and maintaining such relationships bearing in mind theoretical knowledge and how it applies to this clinical experience. Jasper (2003) describes reflective practice as one of the ways that professionals learn from experience in order to understand and develop their practice. As a trainee health care professional, I have learnt the importance of reflection in

As a relationally-oriented therapist, I approach therapy with the general goal of helping you better understand yourself, what matters to you, and how you exist in the world. Based on what you want to accomplish, together we can uncover your true self so you can lead a more fulfilling and meaningful life. This process often involves a combination of making sense of earlier experiences, working with ongoing patterns, and re-evaluating future expectations or assumptions. By applying complementary therapy approaches and techniques, we will focus on issues and perceptions that may be holding you back or keeping you stuck.

This particular Reconciliation Action Plan is aimed at reducing the discrimination shown towards the younger generation of Indigenous Australians within the schooling system. This document “is framed by two key principals” (Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership, 2014) which focus on bridging the gap between the way in which the Indigenous students and their families are positioned amongst other cultures. It isn’t enough that they are within the classroom, but rather given equal opportunities to develop into “successful, confident and creative individuals” (Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership, 2014). These skills are important as they are gained during the childhood and adolescent stages of life

Step three: Change the course of your relationship. To restore love you must change your negative attitude. It's time to bury the hatchet and start over. Leave bad feelings behind and start fresh.

Relationships of all sorts are important to a healthy lifestyle. Whether it is close friends, family, or a significant other, humans physically need the benefits of a relationship to survive. All relationships are different and unique, but in order to have a successful and rewarding relationship, it must be a healthy one. Throughout the duration of Psychology of Close Relationship class and outside research, I have gathered what a good relationship consists of and how to improve within that relationship. Luckily, I have a great boyfriend and believe we have an excellent relationship, but of course there is always room for improvement.

Everyone must have had a pet before, even if it was as small as a fish or as big as an elephant. We’ve all had that one pet, that we will forever remember. The loving relationship between a dog and a person is so unexplainable but very special in its own way. I’ve had a dog when I was born and it would always be there from my first time to talk to being with me my sophomore year. I had a Chinese Shar-Pei, whose name was Kane. He was the most precious pet to me and not one other pet can replace his 1,000 rolls or the two different colored eyes. Everyone thought he was ugly but he’s beautiful to me. The relationship we had was unique. In this relationship it contained us both knowing what we thought and getting in trouble together. The loving

One of the strongest bonds formed in a lifetime, is often between a child and their primary caregiver. Parents bond with their baby from the moment of conception. Infants are helpless from birth, and need consistent, loving responses to their needs for food, sleep and comfort. Thus, I believe that healthy attachment is the basis for forming healthy adult relationships. There are several personal experiences that support my point of view of forming healthy attachments for instance, from the moment I was born to the day I began kindergarten I had been attached to my caregivers, in particular my mother. Most of my childhood days were spent with my mother, I spent every single moment with her the only time I would be alone was when I slept. On

As a conclusion, in searching for your right partner or assessing your current life partnership is important to remember that every relationship is flawed and you probably would not end up in something that gets an A in every one of the above items and bullet points but you should hope to do well on most of them, since each one plays a large part in your lifelong

Mental health and its relevance to different relational settings has become a more widely discussed topic in recent times, especially so in American culture. Collectively, as a society, we have slowly begun to acknowledge that even the “everyday” factors in life, such as school, work, and family, create some amount of stress that could affect an individual’s mental health in a multitude of ways. The mental health of an individual affects not only the self, but the relationships formed with all those who come in contact with said individual. For example, an individual with “good” mental health might experience less tumultuous relationships with family, friends, and significant others, while an individual with “poor” mental health might struggle

In the book, The Relationship Cure, by John Gottman, the author presents a five step analysis of how emotional bids contribute to the interactions that individuals have with one another. The author expressed in step three that these emotional bids are formed from infancy through interactions with the primary caregiver. Attachment theory supports this analysis of relationships, in which the caregiver instructs the infant how the environment will respond to crying, hunger, and emotional stimuli (Bowlby, 2005). When the infant obtains a nurturing response to stimuli, the infant’s attachments are secure, and unhealthy responses develop negative or insecure attachments (Bowlby, 2005). Gottman suggest that all individuals seek healthy emotional connections such as to be included, a sense of control, and to be like.

The dysfunctional relationship between sethe and her family, resembles the chaos that slavery have caused. This is stated as throughout the whole book, bad memories and past plays as a motif as it is repeated that Sethe’s 2 sons ran away and that she killed her own baby. This motif is used to convey the theme of inescapable suffering even after they were released from being oppressed slaves. Moreover slavery have caused a major turbulence in the familial love as sethe states “i did it, so she doesn’t have to go through what I went through”. This was Sethe’s reasoning to killing her own baby daughter during slavery times. Hence this is what caused the house of 124 to be haunted by this child’s soul. Furthermore Toni Morrison uses a brutal

Whenever I find myself in a therapeutic situation where the client attempts to force me to take lead, I hear the words of a dear colleague of mine who once suggested that I say to the client “I am not the expert of your life, you are.” Do you know who this colleague was? It was you my dear Heather. I often still use this words with one client in particular who often puts me in the driver’s seat and wants me to take more responsibility than he is willing to take. The push and pull of encouraging him to take the driver’s seat, has been quite a journey. I assume that whatever words and advice I have for you, you have most likely already considered and attempted. With that said, here are a few things I would try.

I found that this relationship analysis was a bit tricker than the rest. It could go one of two ways. One, this social experiment could go perfect and all of our issues would be fixed or in the process repair. Or two, it could cause more issues than before depending on how I approached it. Knowing that I needed to proceed with caution. After reading techniques and strategies on how to approach situations like these I had come up with a plan to resolve some of the complications had that arose. Before I share my plan and results let me give you little background information about the relationship I have with my boyfriend.

In therapeutic relationships across cultures it will remain important to maintain an open stance on learning and accepting aspects of the culture within the counseling relationship. Culture and cultural differences can appear as awkward or uncomfortable to address, however, I believe the client may meet the counselor asking with openness and appreciation, they may see how their counselor wants to truly understand them and their culture to enhance the therapeutic relationship. However, if a counselor assumes something about a client’s culture and voices the assumption, I can see and understand how it may insult the client greatly. Resulting in a conflict within the therapeutic relationship, where the client may view the counselor as someone