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Students and Using Credit Card Uses

a more accepting attitude of debt also indicates that this is resulting in the use of credit cards and higher than ever before cre...

Humanistic Existential Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

review the journal during the first session, engaging Jack in dialog about the incidents and subsequent feelings. Reviewing and ...

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, Transtheoretical Change Model, and Rogers' Person Centered Therapy

Transtheoretical Model - Stages of Change Although change is typically perceived a an event at some specific point in time, it is...

Review of "Outcomes of Therapeutic Massage for Hospitalized Cancer Patients"

Smith, et al. (2002) explain that their purpose "was to investigate the effects of therapeutic massage on selected outcomes relate...

Engagement Process

mark the extent to which this issue is overpowering his ability to cope with it. Coupled with this angst is the uncontrollable ur...

Psychotherapy and Bipolar Disorder

this basis; however, rather than using the Freudian concepts of ego, superego and id, Berne found the concepts of parent, adult an...

Case Study of a Family

is defined as follows: Family Composition: Male/female parental dyad with four school-aged children living at home. Gend...

Therapeutic Significance of Hypnosis and FIRO-B

who is overly controlling, can both be predicted from the use of this the FIRO-B instrument. Schutz created the FIRO-B questionnai...

Different Clients and Different Types of Social Work Practice

many motivated families waiting for help; the resistant families will call back when they finally feel the need; there is no need ...

Person Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavior Therapy

processes (Friedrich, 2006). Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) combines the cognitive and behavioral models of therapy (Grazebrook...

Aspects of Body Dysmorphic Disorder

of their unhappiness caused by the supposed defect. Phillips (1991) comments that "body dysmorphic disorder has been colorfully de...

Case Study on Depression in a Paraplegic

drug abuse is a problem since intoxication can be a facilitating factor in impulsive suicide attempts (Assessment of patients, 200...

The Necessity For Counselors To Work Within The Code Of Ethics And Practice

practitioners. There are no limitations to having such a comprehensive approach to ethics, inasmuch as the industry would cease t...

Breast Cancer Research & Ethics

personal opinion can affect human behavior, and the frequently complicated nature of ethics complications in cancer research. It a...

Nursing Journal Critique Upon Cancer Patient Treatment Through Therapeutic Massage

using similar tests and with mixed variables such as aromatherapy and hypnosis. All of the studies mentioned concluded that massag...

Setting Boundaries in the Therapeutic Relationship

welfare must be protected at a premium. If our definition of boundary violations, however, overlap our standard practices a dilem...

An Analysis of Functional Behavioral

upright for 15 minutes to allow gravity to help Karim keep the food down. It is also important that his head should be held higher...

Use of Lithium Within The Field of Psycho-Pharmacology

notes that another five percent are victims of occasional despondency, with one of every six people succumbing to a "serious, or m...

Overview of Gestalt Therapy

human beings perceive of things far beyond their physical limitations. The law of pragnanz, which asserts that man is "innately d...

Psychology and Carl Rogers', B.F. Skinner's, and Sigmund Freud's Therapeutic Approaches

perspective that is still basically Freudian; others have brought innovations to Freuds techniques (Nye, 2000). Freud relied heavi...

Healing and the Role of Therapeutic Touch

The second definition of pressure point relates to the bodys nervous system. Pressure points under this definition are those loca...

Art Therapy and Considerations of Gender

gender and socioeconomic situation) all position and limit the individual and have a vital role in determining our subjective real...

Addressing Family Concerns

opportunity to concentrate on the task of child rearing. However, as Scwartz and Scott (2003) indicate, this stereotypical ninetee...

Analysis and Critique of Research Studies

In six pages and 2 parts this paper critiques a study done on the positive effects of therapeutic touch and the 2nd part considers...

Advocacy and Caring in Nursing

The link between nurse caring and patient satisfaction has been reported numerous times. For instance, the AORN journal reported a...

The therapeutic alliance in relation to CBT

this criticism is linked to the CBT process and the application of CBT in changing problematic behaviors. CBT focuses on the fact...

Families and Therapeutic Goals Regarding Autism

"syndrome of behavioral deficits and excesses that have a biological basis but are nonetheless amenable to change through carefull...

Effective Counseling Approaches

the therapeutic approach. For example, Freuds psychoanalysis, or the "talking cure," places the therapist in a position of contro...

Questions on the Topic of Counseling

coercive and competitive practices" and power is commonly perceived in this context (Lowery and Mattaini, 2001). Social workers, o...

Small Therapeutic Group Leadership

as a means of understanding both group dynamics and the management of the group. Development of a Group/Session Planning The fir...