...I have always been very anxious and shy. As a kid, I often had to leave sleepovers and birthday parties because my anxiety would take over and make me physically get sick. I don’t know what I was afraid of, it was never anything rational. Basically, whenever I didn’t know exactly how the night was going to go, I would panic and have to go home. My anxiety also affected me in the classroom. For the most part, I was a normal, happy-go-lucky student. I received good grades, and school came easily to me. And I enjoyed it. I enjoyed learning and participating in class. Then things changed a little. In middle school, it was more common to read aloud to the rest of the class. Not only that, but I was required to take a semester of speech! I remember one night, I was lying in bed, crying, trying to figure out how the heck I was going to give a speech that was due the next day....
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...Everyone experiences anxiety. It is a natural reaction to fearful situations, because we are all scared of something. I just happen to be scared of everything. When I was 10, I wiped my hands every time I touched someone because I believed their germs would infect me with a disastrous disease. I had my first panic attack when I was 13; I thought that I had stopped breathing for about 20 minutes, which would have been impressive if I was underwater, but I never learned to swim after the death of my sister’s friend-- she drowned in a lake. After my parents were in a car accident, I could not get into a car without the thought of death hovering over my mind. Whenever someone holds my hand, I have to tell them to be aware of my sweaty hands. It took me a while to realize that these weren’t just quirky qualities that I had inherited throughout my childhood-- it was an anxiety disorder. I began to recognize that my anxiety was a barrier in my life the day I broke down crying while taking a test in my...
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...Anxiety: “an abnormal and overwhelming sense of apprehension and fear, by doubt concerning the reality and nature of the threat, and by self-doubt about one's capacity to cope with it, painful or apprehensive uneasiness of mind, fearful concern or interest or nervousness about what might happen.” (Merriam Webster Dictionary). I have anxiety. From the outside it is very easy to think that I have everything figured out. Because my hair is curled and my cheeks are intentionally flushed, I must not have a care in the world. People assume that if you can’t see it, then it’s not really there, as if all of my my problems are supposed to be worn like a scarlet letter pinned on my chest. For so long I learned how to smile, how to grin, and how to bare it because nobody like to talk about the tough stuff. I don’t like to talk about the tough stuff....
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...My anxiety started when I was in the fourth grade. I would sit in class with my heart beating and my hands sweating for no reason, and I didn’t understand why. I began obsessing over whether my homework was done, my mother was driving safely or what my friends thought about me. In the beginning, it almost made me a better person because procrastination could not happen with all the worries running through my mind. I always did my homework, put my things away and I was never late. However, my worries and anxiousness followed me throughout elementary school and into middle school. My parents brought me to doctors and counselors, but by high school my anxiety was controlling my life. There was no longer a positive side, it always made me doubt...
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...Due to my anxiety I tend to worry a lot, although the things I worry about differ from everyday fears. Many people, who suffer from anxiety, worry about their greatest fear, and from that I realized my greatest fear is to see others unhappy. I never could wrap my mind around the fact that I couldn’t always make someone happy, although one day I tried. The winter of 2010 when I turned ten, my grandmother decided to take my sister, cousin, and I to Chicago. I had traveled to Chicago before when I was much younger, and recollected not appreciating the streets of the Windy City. They breamed with business men and women, smiling tourists, and effervescent street performers. Although in the nooks and crannies stood homeless people begging for food and shelter. Since we were going to be traveling at Christmas time, temperatures were below freezing and snow would quickly accumulate on the ground. So before departing we made Holiday gift bags for the homeless we saw. We stuffed the bags chalk full of scarfs, mittens, food, money, and books and went on our way to the big city. My eyes filled with bliss when I witnessed our finished products....
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...Personal Theory Exploration Sarah Haeck Bowling Green State University Growing Awareness “Knowledge is power.” -Sir Francis Bacon Knowledge is indeed powerful. It allows one to see things in more comprehensive ways. Knowledge doesn’t let one settle. It molds and evolves within someone. Knowledge pushes one to betterment. It can come from outside sources but always is processed and implemented within. As a counselor, knowledge is vital to the wellness and development of the client. Knowing who we are, where we come from, what influences us, and what makes us who we are, these are just some of the questions that help us discover ourselves. I have spent a great deal of time and effort understanding who I am and what goes into that. As well as how the situations and people around me have made impressions on my life. Then beginning to dealing with the issues that have come up because of these things. At the end of the day, I believe a few things to be true: relationships mold our existence, our spiritual lives affect us, and a holistic view and self-awareness are keys to growth. As I have traced the steps of several theories, one sticks out as primary to who I am – Existential-Humanistic Theory. Taking the essence of this theory and combining it with aspects of Developmental Counseling Theory and Family Therapy, I hope to have a comprehensive fit to my personality as a budding counselor. Adaptable and Practical Being highly spiritual makes Existential-Humanistic...
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...Introduction In this essay, I will discuss my experience of interviewing a family and constructing a genogram guided by their narrative. For this task, I purposely chose a family that is very different from my family of origin in terms of their cultural heritage. I will reflect on differences and similarities between our families as well as my prejudices and hypothesis that I inevitably constructed before and during the process. To identify this family, I had to approach some colleagues proposing to them to participate in the interview. Fortunately, one of them introduced me to her friend. Francesca had an interest in psychology, and since she was free and not much committed, I did welcome her with a cup of coffee to share more about the interview. After I formally introduced myself to her, I laid down to her the framework of the interview, and she agreed to participate with her husband, Matteo. Family context The family I interviewed comes from Italy, but they moved to the UK 3 years ago. I noticed that knowing these few details I was already constructing hypothesis based on stereotypes. I was dreading the interview because I was expecting to have difficulty in stopping them talking since I was concerned about getting enough information to construct the genogram. I also hypothesized whether being new to the UK makes them consider participating in projects like mine to increase a sense of belonging. Another hypothesis where I imagined them to have very firmly attachments to...
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...arguments usually question or celebrate the transgressive potentials of the book (Giroux; Mendieta), or address issues of masculinity brought into the fore by their literary and cinematic representations emergent in the same decade (Tuss; Friday). However, few, if any, have addressed the literary aspirations of the text and its author. Although none of the approaches to the thematic concerns of Fight Club are unjustified, in the argument that follows I will suggest that conclusions drawn and critical judgments passed have been hasty, and not only failed to take into account the formal aspects of story-telling, but that the narrative features of Palahniuk’s text have largely went unexplored, and constitute a blind spot of the reception. Critics condemning or acclaiming the novel, and, indeed, many a cultic reader of Palahniuk ignored Fight Club as a literary narrative, and have inadvertently been repeating the catchphrases of the text, either reinforcing or trying to undermine what they have understood as their meaning. I see the significance of Palahniuk’s fiction and the literary event of Fight Club’s publication in somewhat different terms. Palahniuk’s emphasis and continued insistence on minimalism suggest that his fiction is properly understood as belonging to a literary tradition whose evaluation remains troubled and, for a large part, unsettled. Nevertheless,...
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...My service learning project was at a seventy six year old woman’s home, throughout four weeks with one visit a week at an hour and a half per visit. I had originally discussed with R.T. about what she would like to have her occupational outcome to be (long term goal), she told me that she would like to visit family more but was worried about leaving home, afraid something would happen when she was away. Some of my strengths and skill/talents that I felt I exhibited during the visits were good verbal/non-verbal communication, asked open ended and non-open ended questions, teach back method, research and therapeutic use of self. Therapeutic use of self (TUS) as defined by AOTA allows occupational therapy practitioners to develop and manage their therapeutic relationship with clients by using narrative and clinical reasoning; empathy; and a client-centered, collaborative approach to service delivery. One of the limitations I had with my client R.T. was that I couldn’t travel with...
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...children and supporting parents. Parents seek me out for my highly specialized knowledge and skill working with children and their caregivers. I bring my extensive knowledge of child development coupled with my family systemic approach to parent-child challenges, children struggling with school related challenges like bullying, learning challenges, children with anxiety, OCD, Autism, and general developmental challenges. I work to understand the unique skills and abilities that each person possesses. The process of counselling helps to uncover these abilities for a child and parent. Treatment of a child can comprise of parental consultations, family therapy and individual therapy. In my counselling with children I may use talk, art and play to help your child learn new ways of copying. Kids love coming to see Bruce. I’d like to think it is just because kids feel comfortable with me, but it might also have something to do with the volume of child focussed activities in my office, from Lego to Egg chairs! I also offer an extensive set of resources for parents to help them support their children....
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...Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy by Gerald Corey Brooks/Cole, a division of Cengage Learning Theory Students: The following is an outline form of powerpoints produced by Gerald Corey, the textbook author, designed to accompany the textbook. Please note that the author is Gerald Corey and this work is produced by Cengage Learning, a division of Brooks/Cole Publishing Company. This work is copyrighted and can be reproduced and used only with the permission of the textbook company. The Therapeutic Relationship • The therapeutic relationship is an important component of effective counseling • The therapist as a person is a key part of the effectiveness of therapeutic treatments • Research shows that both the therapy relationship and the therapy used contribute to treatment outcome Theories of Counseling • Gerald Corey’s Perspective of Theories of Counseling: • No single model can explain all the facets of human experience o Eleven approaches to counseling and psychotherapy are discussed • Your textbook book assumes: o Students can begin to acquire a counseling style tailored to their own personality ▪ The process will take years ▪ Different theories are not “right” or “wrong” ▪ The Effective Counselor from the perspective of Gerald Corey • The most important instrument you have is YOU ▪ Your...
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...The Gender Politics of Narrative Modes I want to challenge two linked assumptions that most historians and critics of the English novel share. The first is that the burgeoning of capitalism and the ascension of the middle classes were mainly responsible for the development of the novel. The second is that realism represents the novel's dominant tradition. [note 1] I want to propose instead that, as surely as it marked a response to developing class relations, the novel came into being as a response to the sex-gender system that emerged in England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. [note 2] My thesis is that from its inception, the novel has been structured not by one but by two mutually defining traditions: the fantastic and the realistic. [note 3] The constitutive coexistence of these two impulses within a single, evolving form is in no sense accidental: their dynamic interaction was precisely the means by which the novel, from the eighteenth century on, sought to manage the strains and contradictions that the sex-gender system imposed on individual subjectivities. For this reason, to recover the centrality of sex and gender as the novel's defining concern is also to recover the dynamism of its bimodal complexity. Conversely, to explore the interplay of realist and fantastic narratives within the novelistic tradition is to explore the indeterminacy of subjectivities engaged in the task of imposing and rebelling against the constraining order of gender difference. ...
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...therefore be the cause of his/her own isolation. In both Margaret Atwood’s poem collection Journals of Susanna Moodie and Maria Campbell’s narrative poem, “Jacob,” protagonists Susanna Moodie and Jacob struggle as outsiders in their respective Canadian environments. Both protagonists are outsiders as Moodie is an outsider to the wildlife environment of the Bush and Jacob is an outsider to his Indigenous community; however, Moodie’s outsider status is a result of her personal fear of the unfamiliar, while external societal forces create Jacob’s outsider identity. Both outsider identities, while differing in causation, illustrate the negative impact Western ideology has on the new settler and Indigenous populations as the former’s preconditioned Western beliefs turn Canada’s natural environment into an adversary and the latter is pressed to abandon its unique cultural traditions. Through strategic word choice, both Susanna Moodie and Jacob are established as outsiders in their respective natural and social environments; however Moodie’s personal barriers cause her outsider identity, while Jacob’s outsider status is forced upon him by societal factors, providing a commentary on the destructive impact of Western ideologies. Atwood manipulates words to situate Moodie as an outsider to nature as she writes, “The moving water will not show me/ my reflection./ The rocks ignore” (“DAQ”16-18). Atwood uses negative descriptors such as “ignore” to personify nature as unwelcoming, setting...
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...homes or schools. Overall, Susan Cain's Quiet illustrates the unique perception introverts have of the world and the value they hold in it. Narrative (1st Person) A story or written account of events The novel is frequently interspersed with first-person narrative, where the author accounts for her own personal journeys. The use of this thematic element broadens the message in allowing for more emotional appeal and casual prose. It separates itself from a more informative, textbook-like feel and reiterates the fact that this book, at its core, is about humanity. Quiet mentions the idea that introversion and human experience are not black and white; the first-person narrative brings this principle to the forefront by letting perspective shape the writing. "I've paid $895 in exchange, according to the promotional materials, for learning how to be more energetic, gain momentum in my life, and conquer my fears. But the truth is that I'm not here to unleash the power within me (though I'm always happy to pick up a few pointers); I'm here because this seminar is the first stop on my journey to understand the Extrovert Ideal" (Cain 35). The author, Susan Cain, writes about her experience going to a seminar. Rather than describing events like this in objective detail, she tells her own personal tale. The writing includes personal touches and feelings. It welcomes (even urges) the reader to see the world through an introvert's eyes and consider her point of view. In describing...
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...there is always a story to be found within. The authors of these scripts are able to capture readers with the utilization of characterization, rhythm, or a fairytale setting throughout their narrative. It is imagination that sanctions the reader of these literary forms to be able to mentally visualize what the author would like the reader to visually perceive by use of symbolism or descriptive wording. In the poem “The Road Not Taken” or short stories “A Worn Path” or “Used To Live Here Once” – There is a prevalent theme. No matter what solitary journey we find ourselves on, ‘we’ determine how the journey ends. The solitary journey that each of these literary pieces share is presented differently in each inditing. Robert Frost designed “The Road Not Taken” with specific designs in the narrative that revealed for me as the reader that there was a forthcoming journey. Frost also utilized the word “I” many times, which sanctioned me to imagine him alone. Comparative to this example let us compare “A Worn Path” where Welty utilized the word “she” throughout the writing piece. The linguistic choice inspired my imagination to visualize a woman walking alone. This visualization was reinforced in other places of the writing when the character spoke to animals to get out of her way: “Out of my way, all you foxes, owls, and beetles”. When Welty posed this conversation in the story, it gave me a sense of solitude. The submission that the woman also was walking a uphill path provided...
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