Challenging Automatic Thoughts (Cognitive)

The aforementioned client described problems with low self-esteem, feelings of constant failure whilst belittling the reported achievements in his life; and feeling the need to constantly better himself. When we tried to formulate the problem collaboratively, we were able to establish that his thoughts were: negative, discounting success, black and white and following rigid rules. He experienced feelings of low mood and exhaustion and noted that his behaviours involved constant checking, trying to multi task, being over thorough, making lists that were unrealistic to achieve and tendencies to avoid tasks and

In order to achieve that professionals are using variety of counselling skills and theories for support. One of the theories that is being used is Egan’s skilled helping module. Following the theory, professional first explore the reasons of something to occur and the fears that an individual has that prevent him to achieve his goals. This can be used my methods such as

I am currently a Behavior Health Technician (BHT) at Children Hospital of the King’s Daughters (CHKD). My role is to provide guidance and support patients with acute mental health and suicide ideation. I relatively enjoy my job and often find it very easy to build strong client-worker relationships. Before a recent event as well as other current life experiences, I was very confident of myself. Even though I did not always apply what I was under the assumption was intrinsic self -confidence. I have always believed in my heart; “I can accomplish anything I put my mind to.” However, recently indicative of several challenging experiences my philosophy was put to the test. In this paper, I will be discussing a particular event that made me reevaluate my impartial subjective thinking and its potential fallacy.

By bringing out a client’s positive traits and then moving toward showing the client the components of psychology/counseling as the counselor did in this video. The counselor used ancient wisdom via a quote to make the client reflect on her strengths and this meaning of the quote was that her greatest strength could also be her greatest weakness (helps her to look deeper). He then goes on to let the client think about her future plans by asking her about the lessons learned from her past

Therapeutic Intervention: Aid the client in identifying advantages to his current life circumstance. Teach the client problem-resolution skills.

Mindfulness is another way of meditation. Meditation was used to seek to improve one’s psychological or physical health, or spiritual growth. (Brantley, 2007). The history of Mindfulness comes from Buddhism and his search for enlightenment and a foundation of the four noble truths. The Buddha teaching focus on the four noble truths which consist of knowing suffering exists, there is a cause of suffering, there is cessation of suffering and there is a path that leads to the cessation of suffering. (Van Gordon, 2015). The four noble truths were not only there to represent the Buddha’s experiential understanding of suffering, but also to express the truth (Van Gordon, 2015). Studies of Buddhism and the Four Noble Truths teach us that there is always going to be suffering in our life but to find ways to overcome suffering (Tsering, 2005).

Jonathan was making an uncontrollable attribution for his non-success. He did not feel he could influence the factors he felt attributed to his limited success and didn’t believe there was a contingency he could help his clients. Jonathan also lacked a sense of competence (or self-efficacy) in his ability to support his clients.

When you are guiding your team member or client through a mindfulness session, there are a few things you can provide which will enhance the experience and ensure both you and your client is well prepared mentally and physically.

This therapeutic modality induces deep states of relaxation and concentration in clients through the guidance of a trained professional. In this way the mind becomes more susceptible to alternative, new and healthier suggestions that increase awareness. To be effective, it requires that clients are motivated to change and agree to the therapist's suggestions.

Once thinking processes are determined and being handled, behavioral therapy begins. It involves implementing cognitive techniques to everyday and real-life situations. It often entails client "homework" assignments in which the client visualizes real situations and applies learned techniques to conquer whatever is causing problems. Other "homework" may include practicing positive cognitive techniques several times daily. Once the mind shifts from the negative to the positive, a new technique is practiced and the cycle continues until negative thinking and behaviors are gone.

As a Human Services professional, your daily task will consume of assessing client needs and mainly helping the client reach their goals. From reading the article, From tragedy to triumph: counselor as companion on the hero’s journey Counselor & Values. It explains the different milestones the counselor does to help Steve, and it also analyze how Steve has changed the counselor. Throughout this paper, I will be explaining the changes the counselor has learned and what the counselor has learned from Steve’s journey. With the help of a counselor or human services professional, building a relationship with a client will gain trust and reaching a successful goal towards the end.

For this research we will explore the power of meditation relaxation and the effects it has on treating college students suffering from depression. Two groups will be randomly assigned to one of two conditions: meditation-relaxation technique training or pseudo-relaxation training. Our independent variable is one of the two conditions and our dependent variable will be scores received from the Beck Depression Inventory. Based on past research with similar studies, it is hypothesized that the group receiving meditation-relaxation technique training will report lower rates of depression than the group receiving

Another important skill I have learnt is reflective responding. It is a back and forth process between a client and counsellor; which simply aids to clarify meanings, summarise and to help the client to delve deeper into the issue (Egan, 2010). I illustrated this virtuosity during a conversation with Nathan were I respond with “Correct me if I am wrong but are you saying that there is no point to life if you do not have someone”? Responding reflectively allowed him to clarify my understanding of his original statement; and also confide in more depth about his worries. Equally important, Egan has confirmed (2010) that “effective helping is a mixture of support and challenge”, and one with out the other can seem harsh and counterproductive (p. 211). In saying this I felt there was a need to challenge; to test the reality of one

Relaxation has never been easy, but it has been proven to occur when one’s mental processes and muscles have been relaxed. It is a very safe method and can be practiced through many different techniques. It has remained side by side to help with areas of therapy and has been very beneficial to countless of people worldwide.

Before taking the class, and before really understanding the benefits of mindfulness, I must admit, I did not really take mindfulness exercises seriously. I tried a few exercises, led by a phone application, but I constantly wondered what these exercises were supposed to achieve. I always thought to myself, “I know what happens around me, being mindful is great, but specific exercises for this seemed exaggerated.”