...Darrell Woodfork BSHS/311- Models of Effective Helping Instructor: Michael Phillips Date: 8/5/2013 Site Visit Essay Paper Site Visit Essay Paper Cognitive behavioral techniques are used during a counseling session in a hospital or office setting by therapist. Although I was unable to do a current Site visit to a human service department of a company to write my report, I do know from my own experience some things pertaining to programs that employ behavioral or genitive intervention and or models. In this paper I will attempt to explore some areas within a cognitive intervention such as: • What population participates in the program? • Who presents the program? • How the effectiveness of the intervention is measured • How do they determine a need for the program? • Do they have plans for other programs that use behavioral models and techniques? • What other models and theories are represented in their programs. As we look into the population of participants, it ranges based on the type of behavior being addressed, intervention and motivation strategies. Last year, when I attended my counseling session, it was held in a group session with different people of all ages. This particular group session addressed issues of anxiety and depression. I quickly learned that many people have issues with anxiety and depression, yet they are hesitant to get counseling to change the behavior. Although...
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...focuses on unconscious processes as they are manifested in a person’s present behavior. (Haggerty, 2014) Also known as insight-oriented therapy, the goals of psychodynamic therapy are a client’s self-awareness and understanding of the influence of the past on present behavior. In its brief form, a psychodynamic approach enables the client to examine unresolved conflicts and symptoms that arise from past dysfunctional relationships and manifest themselves in the need and desire to abuse substances. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on examining the relationships between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. By exploring patterns of thinking that lead to self-destructive actions and the beliefs that direct these thoughts, people with mental illness can modify their patterns of thinking to improve coping. CBT is a type of psychotherapy that is different from traditional psychodynamic psychotherapy in that the therapist and the patient will actively work together to help the patient recover from their mental illness. CBT is problem-focused, and goal-directed in addressing the challenging symptoms of mental illnesses. Because CBT is an active intervention, one can also expect to do...
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...completely different person in a different situation, and even how individuals fall in and out of love (Myers, 2010). Clinical Psychology Social psychology is very similar to other psychologies, such as clinical psychology and sociology, but has distinctions of its own. For instance, one contrast between social psychology and clinical psychology is social psychology tends to focus on situational influences of “normal” behavior, whereas clinical psychology focuses on particular behaviors mainly intra-psychic influences of “abnormal” behavior. Clinical psychology is an expansive field of research within the sphere of psychology that applies psychological principles to rehabilitation, prevention, assessment, amelioration, or psychological dysfunctional behavior, distress, and disability, in the hope of improving psychological and physical well-being (Clinical Psychology, n.d.). General Psychology General psychology means the study of the mind and behavior, therefore general psychology is a study of the human persona. Naturally, however, different perspectives bring about different opinions on the subject. The term “psychology” stems from the Greek...
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...own life and the counsellor is “a guest within the client’s world of experience.” The counsellor will use the core conditions of empathy, congruence and unconditional positive regard to enter into the client’s internal frame of reference. The belief with this therapy is that the relationship is all that is needed to effect change and if clients are being accepted unconditionally, they can learn to accept who they are and reconnect with their true selves. Cognitive Therapy (CT) developed by Aaron Beck in the 1960s is based on the model which states that thoughts, feelings and behavior are all connected and that individuals can move toward overcoming difficulties and meeting their goals by identifying and changing unhelpful or inaccurate thinking, problematic behavior, and distressing emotional responses. (J. Beck, 2011). CT is a directive form of therapy where the counsellor is the...
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...because it provides me with insight on how family dynamics and psychological vulnerabilities influence the development of anxiety disorders. Secondly, as a marriage, couple and family therapist in training, it is helpful to have knowledge of family systems and how these systems may affect the individual. Cognitive Theory The first theory that I will be applying in the case formulation of Kasey is cognitive therapy, developed by Aaron Beck. The cognitive therapy is structured, short-term, present-centered, problem-orientated, collaborative, directed at solving current problems and most importantly modifying dysfunctional thinking and behavior (Beck, 2011 & Corey, 2009). Cognitive therapy identifies psychological problems originating from natural courses such as faulty thinking, and failing to differentiate between reality and fantasy (Corey, 2009). It is an insight-orientated therapy, focusing on...
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...CRM - Customer Relationship Management System www.xincrm.com Customer relationship management (CRM) is a widely-implemented strategy for managing a company’s interactions with customers, clients and sales prospects. It involves using technology to organize, automate, and synchronize business processes—principally sales activities, but also those for marketing, customer service, and technical support. The overall goals are to find, attract, and win new clients, nurture and retain those the company already has, entice former clients back into the fold, and reduce the costs of marketing and client service. Customer relationship management describes a company-wide business strategy including customer-interface departments as well as other departments. phases The three phases in which CRM support the relationship between a business and its customers are to: Acquire: CRM can help a business acquire new customers through contact management, selling, and fulfillment. Enhance: web-enabled CRM combined with customer service tools offers customers service from a team of sales and service specialists, which offers customers the convenience of one-stop shopping. Retain: CRM software and databases enable a business to identify and reward its loyal customers and further develop its targeted marketing and relationship marketing initiatives. Benefits of CRM The use of a CRM system will confer several advantages to a company: Quality and efficiency Decreased costs Decision support Enterprise...
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...Strategy | Strengths | Weaknesses | Forming: Cross-Functional with Common Plan and PurposeIdentify team members, analyze work, develop goals to achieve mission success, and generate strategies to achieve goals (Robbins & Judge, 2013). | High level of communication promotes clearly defined purpose. Proper planning enhances climate of trust and allows common purpose to provide guidance for overcoming barriers (Robbins & Judge, 2013). Enhanced tendency to attain synergy and achieve goals (Wienclaw, 2015). | Personal agendas weaken the common purpose and reduce cohesiveness. Infrequent strategy reviews encourages team confusion (Robbins & Judge, 2013). | Storming: Team Member Commitment | Create structure and processes. Reduced dysfunctional conflict and build trust and cohesiveness (Robbins & Judge, 2013). | Challenges to authority. Some participants may struggle with the limits the team levies on individualism. | Norming: Determine Leadership Hierarchy and Performance Metrics | Clearly defined chain of command promotes normalcy and respect. Clearly communicated performance metrics enhances normalcy (Robbins & Judge, 2013). | New task assignments may cause some members to revert to Storming phase. | Performing: Coach to Goals | Team Manager is able to distribute tasks and delegate authority when necessary. High emphasis on member development and process improvement. | Overall team function is challenged by individual ambition. | Adjourning: Wrap-up | Determine...
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...The Conflict Game In 1960, the Milton Bradley Company created the Game of Life. This board game sends players on an adventure through life. The player has options throughout the game and sometimes is sent down a risky road where fortunes are won or lost. During the course of the game, if a player lands on all spaces that give money and the player has the highest salary amount possible, they could earn a maximum of $3,115,000 and be deemed the “game master”. In efforts play this game the players have to determine if they are going to be “game players” or “game masters”. Players in the real game of life must also make similar decisions and face similar consequences for their actions. Also, just like the board game, players get their feathers ruffled and conflict is created when course of life takes a different route from the original plan. This can generate high emotions and increase the stakes of the game. In efforts to succeed in both the game and in daily life, the players have to recognize the game playing is an essential part of managing conflict. (Hasbro, 2013). Relationships can often be viewed as games because each relationship has a set of rules worked out between both parties. When the rules are followed, things go well. When the rules are stretched or disregarded, conflict arises. It is one thing to “play the game” but quite another to “master the game”. A game master knows how to play the game and why such game should be played. A game master is stable in good situations...
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...Summarized by: Nada Mohamed Hassan El-Egeimy 45 C- Heliopolis Summarized by: Nada Mohamed Hassan El-Egeimy 45 C- Heliopolis PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES: REFLEXION AND REFLECTION IN STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT Abstract In recent years, there has been a move to identify the behavioral foundations underpinning the evolutionary and economic fitness of the enterprise. Indeed, the dynamic capabilities project now occupies center stage in the field of strategic management. Yet the accounts developed thus far—like much of the field’s theory and research more generally—are predicated upon a cold cognition logic that downplays the significance of emotional/affective and nonconscious cognitive processes for strategic adaptation. In this article, we rectify this imbalance by drawing upon contemporary advances in social cognitive neuroscience and neuroeconomics to develop a series of countervailing insights and new prescriptions for the development of dynamic capabilities. Using Teece’s (2007) influential framework to organize and illustrate our arguments, we demonstrate how the fundamental capabilities of sensing, seizing, and transforming each require firms to harness the cognitive and emotional capacities of individuals and groups to blend effortful forms of analysis with the skilled utilization of less deliberative, intuitive processes. Introduction Over the past two decades, a growing body of work has sought to incorporate the insights of human psychology to...
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...interventions. It is an in depth look into interventions too help assist the victims suffering from stroke and adolescent issues. The paper includes an introduction, in depth analysis of backgrounds and interventions associated with stroke and adolescent behavior, intervention questions, and the conclusion. Cognitive Restructuring Definition The cognitive restructuring theory holds that your own unrealistic beliefs are directly responsible for generating dysfunctional emotions and their resultant behaviors, like stress, depression, anxiety, and social withdrawal, and that we humans can be rid of such emotions and their effects by dismantling the beliefs that give them life. Thought challenging–also known as cognitive restructuring–is a process in which you challenge the negative thinking patterns that contribute to your anxiety, replacing them with more positive, realistic thoughts. The cognitive restructuring model is a proven model in addressing behavioral issues concerning stroke victims and adolescents. Our focus will be addressing the insights into these interventions. Cognitive Interventions for Stroke Victims As most of us know behavioral changes are difficult. But for a stroke victim it can be even more difficult due to cognitive impairments after a stroke. These changes are not only hard to accept, but create a challenge due to physical, cognitive and emotional impairments that often follow a stroke. After a stroke, the ability to return to...
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...three main perspectives in sociology and indicate their usefulness in contemporary society. The essay will first start with the definition of the term sociology and the term perspective. Later the essay will identify the three main sociological perspectives which are the key concepts of this essay. And a conclusion will be drawn at the end of this essay. The term sociology can be dated back in 1840. It was a word introduced by the French philosopher and the father of positivism (the use of scientific method in observing and studying social behavior). Auguste Comte (1789-1857) is considered to be the founder of the term sociology used to describe a new way of looking at the society. Therefore sociology can be defined as a scientific way of thinking about society and its influence on human groups (Taylor 2011). Perspectives in sociology provides us with different mindset in which we feel and see the world for example, a musician in America would rather sing about our great and wonderful the Lord is than sing about poverty and genocide, this is because the social world in America has never yet introduced extreme poverty and genocide. This might be slight different from a musician born and raised from a country engulfed with extreme poverty and genocide, for instance Rwanda to sing about God miraculous deeds....
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...details. The two theories used the most with clients are psychodynamic and gestalt. These come from two different schools of thought, but can be used together to help the client understand their unconscious drives and have knowledge of any patterns that keeping them from being whole unit. Psychodynamic theory was developed by Sigmund Freud and is based off psychoanalytic theory. The theory is distinct from psychoanalytic since there is no emphasize on dream anaylsis or the psychosexual theories, but conveying awareness to the individual progression in childhood with the use of free association. In using this theory the individual can see and understand their inner struggles. The intention of this theory is "exposing the cause of the dysfunctional behavior, a retroactive reaction to earlier life experiences, thereby resolving anxious or...
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...L.M Personal Model of Helping BSHS/312 January 30, 2012 Personal Model of Helping Entering into the helping professional there were many things that I considered, my main consideration was placed on which theoretical orientation I would use in order to help those whom I would work to assist. In my opinion this was the most important factor regarding my success with a patient/client. I have chosen to put into practice the study of CBT, Motivational Interviewing along with other models of helping which include: the study of creative theory, and the study of multicultural issues. Choosing CBT was an easy task for me for I believe in both the behavioral and cognitive approach/technique, and when combined this form of therapy is successful. Working from an MI perspective will allow me as a future professional to have the knowledge it takes to determine my client(s) ability to change, I will know from using this approach whether or not my clients are ready, willing or able to change, using this approach will permit me to effectively help my clients move gradually towards change, not pushing them but meeting them where they are and helping them to help themselves to where they want to be. Creative Therapy, is a technique used to help individuals or families express what they cannot verbally, these techniques are remarkable in promoting change as well as placing emphasis on having and finding a deeper meaning of self. Studying Multicultural Issues, in my opinion is very...
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...“Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?” In the movie “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner”, Johanna (Joey) and John boarded an airplane from Hawaii to San Francisco. Joanna comes from a background of a Caucasian wealthy family and John comes from a background of an African –American working class family. Joanna is a classy, sophisticated colleague who met Dr. John Prentice who was holding a lecture at Hawaii University and was attending a party at the Deans. At the beginning of the movie, Johanna and John arrives at the San Francisco airport, check their luggage out with the bagger, and began talking amongst each other. At this point, both characters are building rapport. Next, they caught a taxi, from the airport and rode within the city of San Francisco talking to each and was trying to make a decision of how were John was going to stay. Immediately, Joana insisted that John would stay over and meet her parents, but John seemed sort of uneasy of this situation due to Joanna not informing her parents that John was coming with her and that he was African American. Later, they stopped in at the gallery where her mother works and she is trying to find her. Johanna couldn’t find her mother, so she sees the owner, Mrs. Hilary St. George and introduces Dr. John Prentice to her. There seemed to be a signal of prejudice, as Mrs. St. George is speaking to Dr. Prentice, falsely smiles at him, but sort of rejects his greeting in return by continuing to speak with Joanna over his conversation...
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...Reinventing Organizational Behavior: Recommendations to Improve Communication at DSW Jessica Detwiler Keller Graduate School of Management Jessica.m.detwiler@gmail.com GM591 – Leadership and Organizational Behavior Dr. Arnold Witchel 14 April 2012 Author Note Thank you to my colleagues whom allow me to pick their brains regarding our organization. I appreciate your honest feedback and candid conversation, which has allowed me to remain objective. I hope to have put our organization in the best possible light, while still being able to make valid recommendations to improve our organizational culture. Abstract This manuscript details research performed on identifying organizational behavior problems at a specific federal facility. Topics discussed include identifying key issues and providing potential solutions to improve the effectiveness of the company. There is also a section that analyzes the root cause of the identified problem areas. Finally, there is a reflection section that details lessons learned throughout the course. Reinventing Organizational Behavior: Recommendations to Improve Communication at DSW The Desert Southwest Region (DSW) of the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) is a federal service region that “markets hydroelectricity power to nearly 70 municipalities, cooperatives, federal and state agencies, and irrigation districts.” (About, 2012) The DSW regional office “maintains and operates more than 40 substations and 3,100 miles...
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