Speaking with service users who have a mental health problem can be quite challenging in some cases (Kaprowska, 2005). There is, therefore a heavy dependence for carers and support workers presence to facilitate effective communication. Diggings (2004) Suggests that social workers often speak with service user’ key worker or carer rather than directly with the service user. This can have a negative impact on the service user as they can feel that they are not valued. I identified that I had to refocus discussions because the service user I was working with tended to digress.
This treatment plan focuses on taking negative thinking patterns and inserting positive thinking patterns in their place. One study looked at this process as the Thought Changing Process. The curriculum for this process is exstensive and can be focused in many areas of the negative behavior (i.e. cognitive distortions, aggression and violence for sex offenders, responsibility, healthy behavior, etc.). This change is a continuous process that has to be worked on through every phase of treatment (Apsche, Evile, & Murphy, 2004).
As previously mentioned she uses the words ill formed and feeble to describe her unfinished writing’s fragility. In line 10, she continues by saying, “thy visage was so irksome in my sight,” to explain the shame and discomfort that she carries with her due to the fact that her “baby” was exposed to the public still so unpolished. She applies the words blemishes, flaw, and hobbling into her diction in order to express her piece as something that is not well put together, and no matter how much she attempts to polish it, she feels as if she has failed at improving it. Lastly, Bradstreet’s characterization of her work comes to life through the evident controlling metaphor of the poem, which is claiming that her writing is her “offspring”. Throughout the entire poem, the controlling metaphor becomes this idea that her writing is her child,
For example, the poor memory system applies to the case study where Diane recalls to have trouble remembering whether she turned off the gas or not. According to cognitive perspective, patients with OCD have different obsessive thinking patterns which cannot be dismissed and often are misinterpreted leading to exaggerated sense of responsibility. This concept can be applied to Diane’s case where she took a big responsibility as a child for her mother’s life by obsessively praying for her safety. Individuals with OCD blame themselves for having these thoughts and for the terrible things that will happen as a consequence of them (Shafran, 2005). Another episode from the case study where Diane had intrusive obsessional thoughts of strangling her own children with the dressing gown cords suggests that Diane had maladaptive cognition and she believed that her thoughts would help to cause events (thought-action fusion) e.g.
person view point is on that divorce is bad for child, which leads child to serious social, emotional, and/or psychological dysfunction. This children are more emotional when it comes to relationship or any point related to family or parents, which cames them to think critically towards to their own situation or time that they faced, so the person had pointed out three right strong point to support his or her argument. The Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney, Australia) , February 18,
This is an example of Melinda’s thoughts. As Melinda grows deeper into her silence, she suffers consequences physically. These consequences include sores and blisters on her mouth and chewed and bloody finger nails. Melinda’s bottled up thoughts drive her to injure herself which is not a preferred result. Melinda’s actions, words, and thoughts that build her characterization prove the lens
Workers are susceptible to different work- related differences, which can create burnout. Burnout is condition of physical, mental, or emotional exhaustion, which is caused by unnecessary and monotonous anxiety from attachment to individuals in sensitively challenging circumstance. Burnout is compiling of three key issues: emotional fatigue, feelings of little personal achievements with customers, and an awareness of depersonalization thoughts. Suffer exhaustion should be averted for the fact that it has a momentous outcome on human services workers, consumers, and even corporations. Available is a big catalog that can be categorized into sets of what causes burnout.
I understand that these behaviors are interrupting to your other residents and very frustrating to your staff so you would like to have a plan put in to place immediately. Please understand that in order for me to develop a plan that will be successful in changing Jordan’s behaviors, I will need to find out what, in her environment, is causing her behaviors. All behaviors are a reaction to something that occurs in the individual’s environment and in order to understand a person’s behavior, I need to identify the relationship between individual characteristics
When deciding to take on the role of caretaker, certain problems have been known to arise. Assuming the role of caretaker can pose a threat physically and emotionally to a person. Caregivers suffer in the forms of “sleeplessness, fatigue, anxiety, depression, and impaired immunological responses that result in increased use of psychotropic drugs” (Marziali, Elsa, et al. 2005: 376). Author Jo Danna describes caretaker suffering to come in the forms of discouragement of being unable to stop the disease from progressing even with one on one care, resentment of the energy, time and money spent, self-loathing because of losing patience with an Alzheimer’s sufferer who means no intentional harm, frequent sicknesses such as colds or headaches, lack of time for oneself and the things one enjoys, cutting oneself off from friends and other family members to put the patient first, and severe depression due to a combination of these factors(90).
Topic Three: Abnormal Psychology Critically discuss the problems involved with studying the effects of stressful life events on depression Each research method has its own particular strength and weakness in helping us to understand the nature and causes of abnormal behaviour, specifically, the effects of stressful life events on depression. Because of the personal nature of studying the effects of stressful life events on depression, a series of problems which “compromise our ability to make clear causal inferences about the effects of life events on first onset of major depression” (Kessler 1997) have been observed. These problems relate to both quantitative and qualitative methods of study. The quantitative data method describe, for example, longitudinal and cross sectional surveys while qualitative methods interpret, using, for example, group discussions, in-depth interviews and case studies. The following paper will critically discuss examples of both quantitative and qualitative methods and their positive and negative features which create problems for researchers studying the effects of stressful life events.