Why Therapy Is Important

For the timeline assignment, I found trying to figure out what was significant and what wasn’t was extremely tough. I did leave out several parts because I felt that they were more relevant to another person’s timeline, as in they didn’t happen to me I just witnessed it. I feel that this course was very therapeutic for me to be able to put labels on my thoughts and emotions concerning the events and traumas in my life. I will in this paper try to define these emotions and how I think certain techniques of therapy has impacted me. I also want to explain the events on my timeline and how I think they have impacted me today.

I would not conduct the child custody evaluation for him because this would be a dual role or multiple relationship. Since I have already been counseling this client, and already have a relationship and opinion (that he is a good person who loves his kids) with him, this may make it hard to remain objective if I were to conduct the child custody evaluation. Also, there are two sides to every story, thus even though the client seems nice and loving while in therapy, that may not be the case outside of therapy. Also, entering into a multiple relationship is against the American Psychological Association (APA) (2010) Ethical Principles. Ethical code 3.05 states that therapists should avoid multiple relationships because being in one can impair their competence, effectiveness, objectivity and can put the client at risk for harm or exploitation. The APA ethical principle of avoiding harm also applies to this scenario (APA, 2010). If I was to do the custody evaluation for my client, and find that he should not have custody, this would ruin our therapeutic alliance and greatly harm the client. Although some therapists may belief that they would be competent and objective enough to conduct the child custody evaluation for their current client, they should stay on the side of caution, not take the risk and refer the client to a different professional who is competent in these evaluations.

At the heart of the client’s and counsellor relationship is empathy. I will look at the importance of empathy being applied within the therapeutic relationship.

Decide what the main causes of the issue are, historical context, ideology, cultural context, prevalence, statistics, causes and consequences of problem.

The main focus of a therapist is to unbiased, a therapist needs to show the client that they are open and understanding about their problems and feelings. When a person is going into therapy they are trained to have keep their personal needs and thoughts to their selves. Thinking of the client and how one can help them can focus the therapist mind to what is important. One of the things I believe can better the relationship with the client is to have “confidentiality”. Reminding the client that whatever is said in the session will not be spoken, can help form better bonds and in turn form trust. In turn, a counselor can be of help when a client is looking for guidance or clarity of a matter.

One crucial element to establishing a therapeutic relationship is listening; listening without judgment, with acceptance, and with receptivity. A therapist should not be judgmental, and listening should

The therapist is very important part of the recovery process. Each therapist has their own way of doing their job. For example, art therapy can be approached in many different ways. If a therapist is bad at doing their job then the patient will be affected differently compared to another patient who was helped by a different therapist. Depending on the traumatic event, the process to recovering will be different and the result will too be different. For instance, a mother whose son just committed suicide will have a much different traumatic experience compared to a victim of sexual assault. Each of those patients needs to be treated in a different way, and so a different outcome will be reached.

When your are an Adolescent many people with struggle with a variety of problems whether it be navigating peer relationships or struggling with depression and/or anxiety. This brings up the question why should someone go to therapy?

There are many different forms of therapy, one of which is writing therapy. Writing therapy is a form of expressive arts therapy and is becoming a popular technique among trained therapists and can be used to treat many different problems. It has many different forms, including journal therapy, poetry therapy, memoir writing and many more.

One main problem in a therapeutic setting is creating and maintaining an ethical relationship between a therapist and a client. Like mentioned at the beginning trust is rarely ever gifted to someone and at most times must be earned. In settings there can be times when clients are often forced to seek therapeutic help. In most cases, children are forced by parents or guardians to attend therapeutic sessions in which they are often opposed to. This can make it that more challenging for the therapist to make a bond with the patient.

I do not know even to this day what the therapists who spoke with me thought they had accomplished. They may have felt satisfied they had accomplished something. However, they never made that clear to me. For the sake of young people, we must not be oblivious to their pain. To do this, those of us who are able to see our youth who act out inappropriately, they might be simply trying to get our attention.

Behavior Progress: During this review period, Kevin has participated fully in the program with some difficulty. Kevin received 6 sanctions this review period for not following instructions (4/12,4/24,4/25), horseplay (4/25), profanity (4/18), and inappropriate comment (4/24). It’s important to note that Kevin received an early bed room restriction on April 24, 2017 and April 25, 2017 as an additional consequence for receiving 2 sanctions in one day as a Level II resident of the program.

The feelings of rejection and withdrawal are heightened that builds a complex dynamic between couples. I found normalizing and supporting subsystems through compartmentalizing very challenging to implement as a therapist. Children have low level of threshold to stress and may be struggling with their personal developmental issues; therefore, creating a structure of acceptance and empathy may involve many demanding therapeutic sessions. Metaphorically, as also discussed in the classroom, this scenario is like an undercurrent that may sweep off the therapist with clients. Consequently, the structure of a treatment may fall apart, and therapy may be

You raise a great point about the client-therapist relationship and that it requires time to evolve. In a perfect world we would probably hope that rapport, and trust, would be an immediate process. However, this is not the case. I think it is import to realize that while we as the therapist or counselor are working on developing a therapeutic alliance with our client, the client is also assessing us as their therapist. It is a work in progress. You mentioned that as counselors build a good rapport with their client, the level of trust will increase along with a willingness to disclose more information (Jacobs and Schimmel, 2012).

-The main challenges for my therapist was probably speaking to the patient without insulting them, or getting them agitated. They also had trouble trying to get the patient to confide in them. The patient was very reserved, and did not respond well to any of the therapist’s questions.