The Effects of Forgiveness on Emotionally Abused Women Rodriegus P. Gardner COUN 506 Dr. Hutchinson May 17, 2014 Summary This article helps to explain how forgiveness therapy can help women who have been in relationships where they have been abused in some capacity. Forgiveness therapy does not constitute condoning the violence that has occurred or violent behavior. However it does help the women who have been in these situations to move on from the experience. Forgiveness Therapy helps to actually focus on the woman who has been abused, by allowing her to reclaim personal qualities that she may have lost or let go due to being abused such as compassion. The therapy however does not promote the idea of allowing the woman to actually be in contact with the significant other that was the cause of the abuse because it is recognized that this may open the door for a repeat the past behavior; that start the cycle of abuse all over again.
An individual who has been a victim of rape instantly feels an interruption of her life and coping skills. As a result her ego can suffer a disruption as well. To achieve integration once again she must find a solution to her lack of trust in men, guilt and paranoia. Two models of therapies being review are client-centered approach and existential therapy. These two models are proposed for measurement the victim’s recuperation and adaptive behavior (HI, E.1978).
Although Tan knows that the way her and her mother converse is not grammatically correct, she has grown to love it. Towards the end of her essay, her diction changes as she comes to terms with this fact. Writer Amy Tan recalls her unforgiving childhood of growing up in a “broken” Asian-American household, and she saw how communication issues could impact one’s life profusely. “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan - Original I found this essay to be very
Fame and fortune does not always take its toll on children through spoiling them, but Christina’s story shows that it can definitely take a toll on a family. It can first of all affect the parents and after the parents, affect the children through what the parents experience and how they react to it. Christina became a victim of many incidents of her mom going “crazy”, she was sent off to boarding schools, she went through her mom’s alcoholism and even her multiple unsustainable relationships which no doubt changed her life. Christina was a victim of her mother’s status in society. Her fame and fortune automatically ascended Christina’s status and so more was expected of her, the daughter of Joan Crawford.
In Kay Nuyens’ article, “Invisible Scars: Verbal Abuse” she explains how victims are sometime relieved that there was no physical abuse but don’t see the signs of severe chronic stress that has damaged their body and mind. They are convinced they were just being too sensitive and “…their emotional reaction [was] their own fault.” (Nuyens.) However, scars left from the verbal and emotional abuse are deeper than the ones from the physical abuse. “Children of hostile or verbally abusive mothers were equally negatively affected as compared with children of physically abusive mothers. The negative impact on children of psychologically unavailable mothers (i.e., denying emotional responsiveness) was judged to be the most devastating.” (Myers 86-87).
Discuss two or more Psychological Explanations of Schizophrenia One of the key explanations of Schizophrenia is the double bind theory, this was developed by Bateson. He proposed that children who frequently receive contradictory messages from their parents are more likely to develop schizophrenia. For example if a mother tells her daughter that she loves her, but at the same time turns away in disgust, the child receives two conflicting messages about their relationship on different communicative levels, one of affection on the verbal level, and one of animosity on the non-verbal level. Therefore, the child becomes confused about how to respond to this situation as the two messages invalidate each other and so the child then develops one of the key symptoms of schizophrenics, that is, withdrawal. This is because it is used as a coping mechanism as it is seen as better to just dissolve away in this social situation instead of make sense of it.
She tries to fight it and blame it on her psychiatrist because he knew of the side effects of the medication, and had told her she was fine and had done nothing to regulate the medication. This movie is a great example of how psychology could be dangerous if not done in the proper
She finds them too happy for children, too perfectly satisfied with their lives. She then takes it upon herself to protect the children from the ghosts. After seeing that the children have never seen the ghosts and that the governess herself the only one seeing things, we can only conclude that she is suffering from some kind of mental or psychological disorder, such as schizophrenia. “Characteristics of schizophrenia include: poor reasoning, memory, and judgment; high level anxiety; eating and sleeping disorders; hallucinations; and delusions that present a false belief of something.” Each of these characteristics can coincidentally be linked to the governess. She admits to the tendency of insomnia and mood swings in the first chapter.
If we look at them being related, a woman in an abusive relationship could get to the point of depression or other mental health issues that are left untreated. She may feel like there is no way out, and the only way to relieve her pain is through self-harm. This is one of those instances where they do not know if a battered woman is depressed because of her beatings, or if she was already depressed going into the relationship. I think it is so important to educate our children and teenagers about domestic violence and self-harm. They need to know what to watch for in their own relationships and in their friends relationships so they can understand what lines need to be drawn for domestic violence and when it is time to ask for help for themselves or a friend who maybe
The author of the article explains her experience with the DisDAT and its use on a patient she had with a learning disorder and the final stages of dementia. She says that some patients cannot communicate verbally, which is the best way to communicate, and so this tool helps with the determining the nonverbal signs of what the patient might be experiencing. The tool does not explain why the patient is in distress, just that they are showing signs of distress. It is then up to the professionals to decide what the causes are of their patient’s condition and what to do about their patient. The downside to this tool is that it’s developers aren’t sure how reliable the machine is in accurately interpreting patient’s signs.