Therapist's Communication Theory

Intervention: MHS reintroduced herself to the client as him counselor. MHS facilitated a family session in the home. MHS explained her role, the purpose of the program, and allowed the client to speak freely about things he wants help with. MHS allowed the client discuss some of his behavioral issues. The client reports that he fights a lot with his siblings. The client shared why he fights with his sibling, the client said they take his things and they are not nice to him. The client and his sibling began to yell and blame each other for all the fighting in the home. MHS asked the mother to shared with the MHS some concerns she has with the client behavior.

Counselor facilitated an individual session with the client to address hostile, defiant behavior, and temper tantrums.

Intervention: MHP asks Taliana and MHS for a summary of Taliana’s behaviors for the past two weeks. MHP, Taliana and MHP discuss reasons for redirection and display of verbal aggression. MHP challenge Taliana’s thought about communicating with biological father. MHP and Taliana process triggers to verbal aggression. MHP and Taliana discuss using a disrespectful. MHP, Taliana and MHS discuss using coping skills used in the past two weeks. MHP demonstrated active listening skills and requested Taliana to practice the active listening skill. MHP encouraged Taliana to acknowledge the negative behaviors and process the behaviors for better outcomes.

Intervention: CSP, MHS and Deonte discussed the youth’s recent behavior in school. CSP and Deonte process the incident of hitting a peer in music class. CSP and Deonte reviewed how a good and bad day look for him to compare his behaviors on each day. CSP and Deonte practiced different ways the youth could respond to peers and teacher when redirected. CSP, Deonte and MHS reviewed IPOC goals and possible activities for the youth.

Communications Theory is a therapeutic modality that can be used as an intervention in family therapy settings. Developed by the well-respected family therapist, Virginia Satir, the concepts and techniques behind Communications Theory have earned much respect amongst therapists worldwide. Satir focused on the importance of establishing and maintaining clear channels of communication to improve the lives of families who struggle with myriad challenges. She believed that families needed to be given ways to see hope more clearly. She also professed that the presenting problems may not be as important as the way in which people cope with the problems. More clearly, her focus was more on helping people gain hope through better communications skills which lead to more effective coping mechanisms (…).

To help identify and interrupt harmful interaction patterns within a family, I would start with the assessment and diagnosis process, here the therapist will see tedious patterns of each member. As counselor, I will center on what is being stated by the family members, discussing the family’s history, physiognomies and nature of the interaction that have taken place within the family, and what they have attempted to do in order eliminating the issues.

There are many families who decide that therapy is a beneficial way to help improve the family dynamic. In this case conceptualization, Jeremy is a fifteen-year-old, who is living with his mother, Jane; step-father, A; and, occasionally, his daughter Jessica. He is consistently in after-school detention and is currently serving an out-of-school suspension for his behavior. The reason for the referral from the juvenile office is because Jeremy and Al got into an altercation after Jeremy threatened to harm his parents and destroy some furniture.

Astrid was observed to comply with one-step instructions (i.e. “Give me red marker” “Draw a girl”, etc.) in regards to drawing activity given by clinical team four out of six times. Conversation was probed. Astrid engaged an eye contact when communicating with family, however when she communicated with clinical team she engaged three out of six times. She was observed to engage in a three exchange conversational dialogue. Astrid preferred to talk about preferred topics. Sit and attend was probed. Astrid could sit and attend for a preferred activity for one hour and 20 minutes. Astrid was observed to talk in four word sentences, recall information, and respond to personal questions(all probed). Astrid could recall what she did earlier and answer personal questions. Astrid had difficulty with some social questions. She can tell her favorite movie and things she likes to

I enjoyed reading your informative and insightful ideas! On the topic of Aaron’s mother, you suggest that “She also needs to learn to play with Aaron. I would sit her down for a private talk about her importance in Aaron’s therapy”. Interestingly, Reality Therapy (Glasser, 1965 in Seligman & Reichenberg, 2014) as a tool for a counselor in per se, family therapy may propose that Aaron’s mother joins a therapy session. Nonetheless, RT recommends that a counselor should not infringe upon Aaron’s mother’s rights or those rights of others (Glasser, 1989) to accomplish Aaron’s wants. For that reason, a counselor’s encouragement to a family member may suggest that they may perhaps become less judgmental toward Aaron. As a result, his mother may

Therapist plans to meet with individual on Wednesday, December 16, 2015 between 8-10 AM to work on anger control and conflict-resolution skills through role-play.

All health professional need to establish and maintain the appropriate therapeutical relationship with the patients and make ensure, safe, effective and ethical care. The establishment and maintenances of therapeutical relationship is fundamental to maintaining trust within the relationship allowing for the delivery of equality care and achievement of solid treatments outcomes. If every factor addressed between the nurse and patients’ relations will have positive outcomes eventually. After doing the case study of Vincent Romero regarding the use of therapeutical relationship can be success if the nurses express sincere warm-hearted caring, empathy understanding, show the compassions, being non-judgemental, unconditional acceptance of the clients authentic communications and experiential states which help the client to develop the trust, emotional security, and insightful self-understanding, which contributes to the healing of emotional pain and inner conflict, as well as enhancing psychological well-being and constructive functioning. To establish empathy with the Vincent nurse need to be able to create a mutual understanding and need to understand what respect look like in his perception. Additionally,

The family checked-in as being “okay” and week was “good.” The family presented in a euthymic mood and it was congruent with affect. During this session, the therapist and family focused on treatment goals accomplished and completion of the therapeutic process. The youth’s mother was asked to identify what was the most difficult challenge she experienced during the therapeutic process. The mother reported it was difficult to handle a teenager with anger management problems while leaning how to adjust to an alternative way of disciplining. She indicated Denae’s attitude is not perfect, but she and her husband has learned how to punish without having to use physical force. The youth reported her greatest challenge was controlling her behavior and anger.

Therapeutic communication is considered the heart of family nursing practice (Deane, & Fain, 2016). Knowing the different types of communication is vital for nurses, as it delivers an effective relationship between nurse-client affiliation. Effective therapeutic communication is the main key to success.

Most college graduates have learned various aspects in their profession. College teaches you the information that you need, but it is up to you to enforce the information that you have learned. Many new graduates don’t know how to enforce the information they have been taught and it usually leads to difficulty in their profession. Specifically, in physical therapy, new therapist has to apply information to an everyday scenario. To better enforce this information, one must have strong soft skills. These soft skills can range from observation skills to recognizing one’s body language. Having strong fundamentals in these skills can help many physical therapists become better at their job.

I believe that the most important type of listening is empathetic listening. This style of listening is characterized by identifying with the storyteller, as they tell their story, identifying with the emotional responses of the storyteller, listening attentively to the story and then paraphrasing the