Existential therapy

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Gemeinschaftsgefuhl – otherwise known as social interest and community feeling – is a particularly important concept in Adlerian therapy. Please share a specific example of how this has applied to your own life, and discuss your examples with your classmates.

How might this be relevant when applied to counseling culturally diverse clients in a community mental health setting?

Part 2

Week 3 Existential therapy

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Choose two of the 6 propositions outlined in Chapter 6 related to the human conditions according to existential therapy and how you would apply these two to counseling an elderly client in her early 70s who has just moved into a retirement community after having recently lost her husband of 50 years.

What concepts of the theory make it the most appropriate for the client in the case study?

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Read the “Case Study Analysis.”

Select one of the following theories that you feel best applies to treating the client in the case study:

  1. Cognitive
  2. Cognitive Behavioral
  3. Reality

Write a 750-1,000-word analysis of the case study using the theory you chose. Include the following in your analysis.

  1. What concepts of the theory make it the most appropriate for the client in the case study?
  2. Why did you choose this theory over the others?
  3. What will be the goals of counseling and what intervention strategies are used to accomplish those goals?
  4. Is the theory designed for short- or long-term counseling?
  5. What will be the counselor’s role with this client?
  6. What is the client’s role in counseling?
  7. For what population(s) is this theory most appropriate? How does this theory address the social and cultural needs of the client?
  8. What additional information might be helpful to know about this case?
  9. What may be a risk in using this approach?

Include at least three scholarly references outside of the course textbook in your paper.

Each response to the assignment prompts should be addressed under a separate heading in your paper. Refer to “APA Headings and Seriation,” located on the Purdue Owl website for help in formatting the headings.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

This assignment meets the following CACREP Standard: 2.F.5.a. Theories and models of counseling.

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CNL-500 Case Study Analysis

Client Name: Ana

Client age: 24

Gender: F

Presenting Problem

Client states, “I recently lost my job and feel hopeless. I can’t sleep and don’t feel like eating.” Client also reports she has lost 10 pounds during the last two months. Client states that she is a solo parent and is worried about becoming homeless. Client states, “I worry all the time. I can’t get my brain to shut off. My husband is in the military and currently serving in an overseas combat zone for the next eight months. I worry about him all the time.”

Behavioral Observations

Client arrived 30 minutes early for her appointment. Client stated that she had never been in counseling before. Client depressed and anxious, as evidenced by shaking hands and tearfulness as she filled out her intake paperwork. Ana made little eye contact as she described what brought her into treatment. Client speech was halting. Client affect flat. Client appeared willing to commit to eight sessions of treatment authorized by her insurance company.

General Background

Client is a 24-year-old first-generation immigrant from Guatemala. Ana was furloughed from her job as a loan officer at local bank three months ago. Client reported that she was from a wealthy family in Guatemala, but does not want to ask for help. Client speaks fluent Spanish.

Education

Client has completed one year of college with a major in business. Client states that she left college after her son was born as she found it difficult to manage a baby, college, and a full-time job.

Family Background

Client is the middle of four siblings. Client has two older brothers and one younger sister. Client’s parents have been married for 27 years. Client states that she has had a “close” relationship with her family, although she states that her father is a “heavy drinker.” Client states that all her brothers and sisters have graduated from college and have professional careers. Client states that her father is a banker and her mother is an educator. Client states that she has not seen her family for 1 year. Client has a 1-year-old son and states that she is sometimes “overwhelmed” by raising him alone.

Major Stressors

· Lack of family and supportive friends

· Financial problems due to job loss

· Husband deployed overseas

· Raising a baby by herself

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Adolescent/Adult Sensory Profile

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Topic: Develop a brief PowerPoint presentation (4–5 slides) that will acquaint your classmates with the test/assessment of your choice. In the Notes section of presentation, include a narrative explaining each slide.

Each slide should contain at least 3 bullet points. Focus on elements of the assessment that you would like to learn more about.

Discuss the relationship between memory and learning, exploring whether one process disproportionately

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The following questions need to be answered in 250 words or more with references for each question.  There is no particular format or font needed to complete this assignment.

1. Increased cue availability in the decision-making process generally leads to better, more accurate decisions being made. Ecological rationality is, in part, grounded by this assertion. Explain the concept of ecological rationality, its accepted limitations, and benefits as a model in decision-making. Share your thoughts on its usefulness to your own decision-making processes.

2.  Discuss the relationship between memory and learning, exploring whether one process disproportionately affects the other or if these two processes have reciprocal influences on each other. Share a few methods or techniques that might be applied to enhance or improve the affected process or processes in this relationship, ultimately resulting in better memory or improved learning capabilities.

3.  Define and discuss the concept of intelligence. Considering the types of intelligence presented in the course materials, which conceptualization do you believe most comprehensively represents human intelligence? Provide your rationale for your selection. (I HAVE ATTACHED THE LESSON FOR THIS QUESTION)

Intelligence and Creativity Comprehension

Lesson Topics:

· Examining Intelligence

· Creativity

· Batey’s View of Creativity

INTRODUCTION

Intelligence is the capability to gain information through experience, face challenges, and apply knowledge by acclimating to change. Intelligence is one of the most controversial topics in the field of psychology because intelligence is so complex (American Psychological Association [APA], 2017).

Examining Intelligence

 

Measuring intelligence is comprised of two approaches: psychometric and factor analysis (Blume & Zembar, 2010). Psychometric focuses on people’s proficiency in performing on standardized tests, which evaluates the competence to learned skills and retained knowledge. Factor analysis categorizes the items that calculate a shared skill or proficiency (Blume & Zembar, 2010).

 

Think about when you have completed an intelligence test or an IQ test. During the test, you were probably asked to identify similarities and specific information, solve problems, explain terminology, decode schemes, assemble items in a specific order, or evaluate behavior in a given situation. A proficiency test that emphasizes particular mental aptitudes and capabilities is a statistical approach called g factor (IQ-Brain, 2013). Mental age (MA) is a mental development on the capability for a targeted age. Intelligence quotient (IQ) measures knowledge by a person’s mental age versus the person’s genetic age and multiplying the results by 100 (Nugent, 2013).

 

Another type of intelligence that many people are familiar with is emotional intelligence (EI). Emotional intelligence measures a person’s ability to recognize not only their own emotions but also the emotions of others precisely. This allows people to be able to communicate and control emotions (Emotional Intelligence). How do you manage your emotions so that you have control of any given situation? How do you convey the importance of manage emotions positively when you are communicating with others?

 

To learn more about EI, explore the following article by Dr. John Mayer as he dispels so common myths about EI.

 

 

Creativity (Variance in Approach)

Creativity is associating components of a problem and discovering an unforeseen bond. People who convey creativity articulate divergent thinking, allowing people to establish a hypothesis, envision other perceptions, and observe associations that are not instantly evident (Creativity).

Creativity and intelligence do not always go hand-in-hand as people who are creative don’t always have a high intelligence quotient (IQ) (Nugent, 2013). Personality characteristics identify an individual as these qualities play a role in:

· Creativity

· Nonconformity

· Curiosity

· Persistence

People who tend to be creative are not typically influenced by other people’s opinions. Creativity allows people to be open to new ideas and to participate in new experiences. Persistent people tend to push forward no matter how challenging or time-consuming the task may be. Creativity prospers when intrinsic motivation is inspired. To help people be more creative, one must expand their qualities, talents, interest, and discipline (Pappas, 2017).

 

 

Cultural Acceptance

 

Another difficulty in defining and measuring creativity exists as it relates to cultural acceptance of the concept. Most notably, the cultural divide in defining creativity between Eastern and Western cultural perspectives. As Batey (2012) notes, the Western view of creativity has dominated the research literature, as the ideas of novelty and utility, with creativity leaning on the product of human creation being an ever-present theme. To the contrary, Eastern views of creativity have been rooted in the idea of personal truth and self-growth (Batey, 2012).

 

Batey’s View of Creativity

 

Among the many definitions introduced in his work, Batey (2012) leaned on a structure introduced by Rhodes (1961, 1987) in which four pillars, so to speak, of the definition of creativity, was provided. The four areas that definitions of creativity should include are:

 

Conclusion

Comprehension is being able to interpret both spoken and written communication, and being able to decipher and correlate memory. Think about the things you remember; how do they play into your ability to comprehend information? Has your ability to comprehend information changed from childhood to adulthood? Comprehension fosters interactions that coincide with long-term memory and creates a connection to specific groups of one’s memory (Wang & Gafurov, 2003). Memory impacts each of us. Memory is our complex ability to retain, retrieve, and use information obtained from stimuli, images, events, ideas, and skills, even once the original information is no longer present. Refer to the discussions of memory from Week 2, reviewing the lessons and materials from the week to be reminded of the complex memory processes.

Please review the source for additional information.

Crash Course. (2014). Controversy of intelligence: Crash course psychology #23.