Ms. Kathleen Ransom completed an anger management intake with Journey Counseling. Journey Counseling is a certified agency to provide anger management, domestic violence, and drug and alcohol treatment. Furthermore, I am a Colorado certified addictions counselor, senior level, and hold a Masters in social work. I am also a state approved domestic violence treatment provider.
Pratt reported he received mental health treatment at Delta Counseling in 1988 for depression, anxiety, and grief counseling. Pratt stated his uncle died and it was difficult for him to handle. He advised he has taken Paxil in the past. He stated he is currently taking Losartan, Simvastatin, Meloxicam, Omeprazole, Lasix, and potassium. Pratt advised he has high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
McMinn 4-MAT Review: Psychology, Theology and Spirituality Toya V Mitchell Liberty University Review The text Psychology, Theology and Spirituality in Christian Counseling written by Dr. Mark McMinn brings psychology, theology and spirituality together within the counseling office. Throughout the book McMinn presents several challenges that counselors face within their profession, spiritual relationship and personal self (McMinn, 2011). These challenges include areas of competence, blurred personal-professional distinctions, training difficulties, dominant views of mental health, lack of scientific foundations and ethical standards.
The Dr. Larry Crabb book “Effective Biblical Counseling” is a great work for the Christian community. He explores four different approaches to integrate the Bible and counseling strategies to bring believers closer to God. Dr. Crabb has ordained the local church as a ground to have God’s people ministered to through scripture. The church must assure that all leaders are trained to a certain degree in the area of counseling.
Sonia Greenidge and Martyn Baker’s article, Why do Committed Christians Seek Counselling with Christian Therapists, issued in Counselling Psychology Quarterly in 2012, explores Christians’ reliance on fellow Christian therapists for guidance with their mental health. Greenridge and Baker provide transcripts of interviews they conducted with six Christian clients. Throughout the interview, the authors analyzed the specific language and phrasing used to determine the participant’s expectation, experience, and preference for an equally religious counselor. Greenridge and Baker’s results demonstrate two discourses within the study. Some of the participants fall into the client discourse, where counselling is equivalent to a business transaction
Vickey was open and responsive throughout the counseling session. Individual answered questions asked by the clinician. Ind stated she is not feeling well. Reports depressed mood, anxiety, sleep disturbances excessive tiredness. Ind shared the situation with her daughter and her 5 children living in her house worsened with kids in the house all day.
Company Grade Article 15, 7 December 2012, for failed to obey a lawful regulation on or about 30 October 2012 and found drunk while on duty on 30 October 2012. The punishment consisted of a reduction to E-2, 14 days extra duty, and oral reprimand. DA Form 4856s (Developmental Counseling Statement), dated 31 October 2012, 7 December 2012, 4 January 2013, and 1 July 2013, reflects the applicant received various negative counseling statements for underage drinking, initiation for elimination, and Initiation of suspension favorable personnel action (FLAG).
One of our first obstacles is defining exactly what assumptions are constitutive of a uniquely Christian approach to psychology. How do we identify the core convictions of Christianity, and how can we leave room for a divergence of different Christian approaches?” (Entwistle 2015). The main problem that Entwistle is addressing is integration and the boundaries in which they both inhabit together. Where do the bounds of psychology and theology begin and end?
Christian counselors should pursue God with all their hearts I believe that as a Christian counselor, it is my responsibility to understand the heart of God for humanity. It is through having a personal knowledge and encounter with God that I am able to make others feel that in Christ, one can start all over again. Christian counsels should help their clients possess their souls Hawkins and Clinton (2015) asserted that only in possessing their souls that clients are able to trust God and love Him with all of their hearts. As a Christian counselor, I want to make my clients feel that God loves them and He is for them. It is through this that my clients are able respond to life’s challenges with hope and confidence in Christ.
The integration of counseling practice and theology can take two forms: explicit and implicit integration. Explicit integration occurs in the interaction between the counselor and client, which
Bachelor of Arts/Science (Psychology) Trimester 2,2015 COU1101 Dynamics Models of Counseling Assignment – Case: Study – A Psychoanalytic understanding of the life of (my hero/heroine) Daniel Lim Jun Min Student Id: 10251618 ECU Unit Coordinator: Dr Sarron Goldman s.goldman@ecu.edu.au SMF Tutor: Mr Frederick Low lowpoikee@smfinstitute.edu.sg Table of content Introduction Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was a British Statesman, Prime Minister (1940-1945, 1951-1955), an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer and an artist.
To enhance my experience I would like to work with veterans, adult homeless, and the mentally ill. My objective is to be admitted into the Master of Science degree program with an option in Rehabilitation Counseling, where I can grow and take on new challenges. Ultimately, I would like to assume further educational and gain work experience that would allow me to work more effectively with people with disabilities. Most importantly, I would like to work for an agency where I can build a career in counseling and possibly management. I am driven to be the best at what I do.
Many theories of group counselling have borrowed ideas and approaches from psychoanalysis. The primary aim of the analytic process is reorganize the client’s personality and character structure. This aim is attained by making unconscious conflicts conscious and analysing them. Wolf (1963, 1975) developed group applications of fundamental psychoanalytic approaches such as working with transference, free association, dreams, and the historical factors of existing behaviour. The group leader relates understanding to the family-like relations that emerge among the members and between the members and the therapist.
Like other professions in the mental health field and helping professions, counseling typically attracts those who are imbued with a need to help others, to make a difference in others’ lives, the community around them and sometimes even the world. There are many facets to a counselor and to counseling, some of which take on personal attributes such as personality, the values and beliefs held by counselors, and what they perceive their role in the counseling profession to be. Other facets involve ethical considerations in therapy, the importance of the profession, the value and process of change, important counseling practices and the value of necessary self-care a counselor ought to engage in. The role of a counselor is to act as a conduit to change and wellbeing in a client.
INTRODUCTION. A set of assumptions or rules on which the practice of an activity is based on is called a theory. It is also a fundamental or a basis used to account for a situation. There are several theories used in counseling practice.
