Assessment through charting to identify triggers and dissociation episodes

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RESPONSE 1

Respond to at least two colleagues with your thoughts on the skills they suggested, and how they were empowering to the client. Provide specific examples.

Colleague 1: Tiffany

In Jake’s case the therapist used problem-solving skills to address Jake’s anxiety. The therapist taught Jake a technique to slow his breathing to relieve his anxiety. The therapist taught Jake when he feels his anxiety coming on due to his PTSD to put one hand across his chest and the other on his upper stomach, close his eyes and breath in slowly and out. This technique helps to slow his breathing and reduce his anxiety. I would recommend Jake go to group with other members that have PTSD, I would suggest Jake tell his story using the breathing techniques he was taught. I would use strengths perspective and find out who and what are Jake’s strengths in his life. I would suggest he draw a eco-map to indicate his support systems. Jake’s wife would be a support system and I would ask if the both of them could attend the PTSD groups together so she could hear how dramatic PTSD can be. I would encourage Jake to use his story to help others that suffer from PTSD know they are not alone. This could help the negative aspect of Jake’s story turn into something positive by helping others that are suffering from PTSD. It would also help Jake to hear others stories so he will learn he is not alone facing his PTSD. Jake and I would brainstorm together letting him pick the ideas he thinks that would help him heal faster. We both would develop a plan to keep Jake at his baseline. I would also recommend Jake start going to AA meeting in his community to help give him the support he needs to stop self-medicating himself.

References

Plummer, S.-B., Makris, S., & Brocksen, S. M. (Eds.). (2014a). Sessions: case histories. Baltimore, MD: Laureate International Universities Publishing. [Vital Source e-reader].

The Levy Family (pp. 15–16)

Yoder, M., Tuerk, P. W., Price, M., Grubaugh, A., L., Strachan, M., Myrick, H., & Acierno, R. (2012). Prolonged exposure therapy for combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder: Comparing outcomes for veterans of different wars. Psychological Services, 9(1), 16–25.

Colleague 2: Christine

Applied Interventions, Skills and Tools

In the case of Jake Levy there were various interventions, skills, and tools provided to support Jake and the struggles he experienced surrounding his recent diagnosis of PTSD and substance misuse. The one’s that stuck out for me while assessing this case are as follows:

1) One on one therapy

2) Guided meditation

3) Assessment through charting to identify triggers and dissociation episodes

4) Role Playing

5) Support Groups

6) AA Group Meetings

7) Mental Health Connection

8) Couple therapy session with his wife

All of these can imply that Jake and his service provider worked together to formulate his goal planning, safety planning, and add support toward Jake’s insight with this struggles. The service provider clearly displayed empathy for Jake as it was seen in the body language provided in the video. It also appeared the provider involved active listening skills to fully understand Jake and his situation with PTSD and his substance misuse. It was evident that the service provider and Jake formulated solid plans toward overcoming his struggles, while connecting him to almost all possible resources available to move him forward. Jake’s provider also involved his wife, for which I feel is important for those around Jake to become educated in what will trigger Jake and how Jake can be supported through even the darkest times. It appeared the provider allowed Jake to be the driver of his change while empowering him, which was evident that he created some interventions himself. Here, Jake initiated his own goal while attending AA meetings to curb his struggle with his drinking. The provider clearly had strong skills in empathetic listening as it was okay to have those moments of silence while Jake learned new techniques from the provider to guide him through the anxiety.

Additional Skills

Additional skills that a social worker may bring to the table are having a deep understanding of crisis intervention skills allowing to provide familiarity with mental health disorders, specifically in combat. Understanding of the challenges of grief and other factors affecting military personnel and veterans. This will allow for an open mind while trying to harness what someone is going through with the PTSD symptoms, as Jake displayed. Also, I feel having the ability to understand the stigmas and stereotypes surrounding the military. By allowing yourself the open mind to educate and become more informed is a necessary tool to provide accurate care for veterans. This understanding will provide the provider and the client to have a deeper working alliance toward coordinating care. Often times, someone experiencing PTSD will experience feelings of emptiness and lack insight that they indeed have support.

Personality Theory At Work In Popular Media

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Prior to beginning work on this discussion, please read the required Churchill and Mruk (2014), Hayes (2012), and Waterman (2013) articles, and review the APA’s Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and Chapters 14 through 17 in your textbook.

For this discussion, you will choose a person who has an important presence in popular media today. This person might be a political, business, human rights, education, or entertainment figure. Examine the major theoretical approaches studied in the class so far (psychodynamic, behavioral, learning, trait and type, and humanistic). Briefly describe your chosen figure’s personality from the point of view of each of these five approaches. Evaluate and describe any cultural considerations which may affect the personality assessment within each of the given approaches. Analyze the ethical implications of basing your personality assessment on the information available through the popular media. Select the theoretical approach you think best describes the person and elaborate on his or her personality using this approach.

What does your chosen theorist say about the role of culture in shaping human behavior?

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Unit 2 has discussed how sociologists identify cultures and subcultures, and how both have unique components—language, values, norms (behaviors), and food. For this Discussion Board, you will dive deeper into culture by completing the following:  1.Using the textbook located on your Bookshelf, define each of the four components of culture—language, values, norms (behaviors), and food. Be sure to paraphrase and cite your sources; do not copy and paste from the textbook.  2.Next, choose a popular television show (examples include The Simpsons, The Big Bang Theory, The Goldbergs, and Orange is the New Black) or a movie you have enjoyed.   ◦For your chosen show or movie, provide specific examples for each component of culture (language, values, norms, and food) found within your show or movie. For example, in The Simpsons, language can be seen with the word “D’oh” and the phrase, “Don’t have a cow, man!”   ◦Each TV show could be said to represent a subculture of mainstream society. How are each of the four components of culture (language, values, norms, and food) identified above different from or similar to what you would expect to see in mainstream American culture?    3.Finally, choose 1 of the following theorists: Durkheim, Marx, or Cooley. What does your chosen theorist say about the role of culture in shaping human behavior?

Discuss messages about gender you have received from your family or cultural group.

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Many marketing efforts perpetuate the gender stereotypes that are steeped in our culture. Two examples at attempts to maintain these stereotypes through advertising are the Bic Critsal For Her and the Easy Bake Oven. These two conceivably innocuous items triggered a flood of articles, petitions, and videos, denouncing their perceived underlying messages.

The first controversy that erupted surrounded the Bic Cristal For Her pen. This pen was created and packaged specifically for women to use. Several groups lashed out at Bic, calling their attempt to target women with “lady pens” sexist and demeaning. Its detractors felt the campaign was degrading and fed into stereotypes by highlighting the thin design and the use of pastel colors. The negative press was overwhelming, although the pens have remained on the market.

Consumers also targeted those responsible for marketing the Easy Bake Oven by sending a petition asking its parent company Hasbro to make the ovens in colors other than pink and purple. Thousands of individuals signed the petition asking for alternative oven colors after a teenage girl from New Jersey was angered that her younger brother would have no other option but to use an oven in the colors that are considered stereotypically female. It was argued that the colors supported the stereotypical view that only young girls would want to bake. The signers of the petition felt that young boys who might want to use the toy would be more likely to practice their baking skills if the color of the oven was gender neutral.

Consider these two stories and think about your own reactions to the responses to the advertising and merchandising of these items.

To prepare: the assigned resources and reflect on your experience with gender.

Submit a 2- to 4- page paper, in which you:

  • Identify specific messages about gender presented in the mass media.
  • Discuss messages about gender you have received from your family or cultural group.
  • Analyze how these messages have influenced your experience with gender.
  • Explain how you might address issues related to sexism in the mass media and diverse cultural beliefs about gender and gender roles in your social work practice.