Behavioural therapy

The use of group intervention by occupational therapists under a cognitive behavioural framework. Haggedorn (2005) defines group work as any activity that involves three or more individuals. The use of therapeutic groups has been a popular intervention technique in Occupational Therapy practice since the 1920’s (Duncan, 2008). Over time and with the influence of varying health care requirements, the nature of group intervention has evolved from activity-focused programmes to groups that implement

Therapy can be a difficult, and even a painful process, wherein the client explores the good, the bad and the ugly within themselves, perhaps for the very first time in their lives. Their issues and personality may in fact shape the line of therapy provided to them by their therapist or in fact when they choose the therapist. Therapies that will be compared and contrasted in this essay will be person centred therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy and existential therapy. Each therapy style

The Article, “Art Therapy Strategies to Raise Self-Esteem in Female Juvenile Offenders: A Comparison of Art Psychotherapy and Art as Therapy Approaches” by Liz Hartz, & Lynette Thick seeks to find the benefits of Art as therapy and Art psychotherapy methods during artistic experience. The research problem is to analyse the differences between these two art therapy approaches administered over female Juvenile offenders, with self-esteem, peer-relations, behavioural conduct and social acceptance as

Contemporary psychodynamic authors define defenses as unconscious mental processes that function to defend against extreme anxiety (e.g. Valliant, 1994). Moreover, defenses are observed as being both protectors against unconscious feelings and relational and cognitive behaviours that protect the self (Cooper, 1998). Currently there is no consensus as to the number of defenses that exist however, in ‘The Ego and the mechanisms of Defense’ Ana Freud (1936/1986) discusses ten. However, subsequently

Animal-assisted therapy was created in 1792 to help patients in mental asylums to be able to interact with animals in peaceful environments and opportunities that otherwise they would not see. This was created by Dr. Levinson when he first saw a dog and boy that he had been treating interact with one another. This soon began to spread throughout the countries. It first arrived in the U.S. in 1944 through 1945 at a Hospital north of New York City, the hospital called Pawling army air force convalescent

correlation of the engagement of the therapeutic relationship; and 2. Change of the client’s subjective experience is crucial in the early stages of therapy and is a predictor for matching the right client and therapist or client and treatment plan, (Duncan, Miller, & Sparks, 2004) evidence of clients using real-time feedback concerning the process and outcome of therapy produced higher progress rates (Miller, Duncan, Brown, Sorrell, & Chalk, 2006). In relation to assisting the client’s direct issues CDOI has

The European Society of Animal-Assisted Therapy (ESAAT) defines Canine Assisted Therapy (C.A.T) as deliberately planned pedagogic, psychological and socially integrative intervention with animals for children, youths, adults and senior citizens with cognitive, social-emotional and motoric disabilities, and behavioural problems, and for focused support. It also includes health-promoting, preventive and rehabilitative measures. C.A.T takes place individually and within a group setting e.g. in therapeutic

Australians have been reported as having a mental or behavioural condition. SANE Australia says that 45% of Australians will experience a mental health issue in their life. It was also noted that young adults and older adolescents had higher reports than other age groups. For men the ages where 16 – 34 years and for women it was 16 – 24. The Australian Bureau of Statistics also states that females more than males had co-existing long-term mental and behavioural and physical health conditions. Many people

Rogers’s person centred theory and aspects of its practice have been subjected to quite some criticism over the years. Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (2012), In his book ‘against therapy’ confronts the core conditions of person centred therapy by arguing that a therapist is only able to superficially suspend his judgement because the session is limited to a certain time duration. He, further suggests that in this manner, the therapist is not truly himself with the client or else he would judge the client

Rogers’s person centred theory and aspects of its practice have been subjected to quite some criticism over the years. Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (2012), In his book ‘against therapy’ confronts the core conditions of person centred therapy by arguing that a therapist is only able to superficially suspend his judgement because the session is limited to a certain time duration. He, further suggests that in this manner, the therapist is not truly himself with the client or else he would judge the client