Personal Model of Helping

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Personal Model of Helping Daysha Hopkins BSHS/ 311 June 24, 2012 Dr. Denise Land Personal Model of Helping There are many models that are designed to help people who have issues with family, personal problems, drug and alcohol problems, and many more. The subject to discuss is a personal model of helping that is the most effect and why it is the most effective. Also explained in this paper is the importance of helping, the relationship between the clinician and the participant, and techniques that may need to be changed. The subject to discuss is to explain some problems that the model could fix, multicultural issues, some limitation or strengths that the model has, and the various types of people that will have an effect in helping these people. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy There are types of models that are designed to help individuals who have issues, but one model may not be completely effective without the use of another model in certain individuals. When working with juveniles that come from different backgrounds that adults have never seen, many approaches have to be used when working with them. I believe that cognitive behavioral therapy is the most effective model when dealing with these juveniles. Behavioral therapy is designed to focus on an individual’s behavior to change his or her behavior. In residential treatments, behavioral therapy could work well with play therapy because the children who stay in a treatment facility might have not of had a perfect childhood and these children might not know how to play. Cognitive behavioral therapy works because it can change the way an individual thinks. When an individual is suicidal, the individual thinks of ways to commit suicide and also thinks that he or she is not worthy of anything to anyone. The individual can feel that he or she would not even be noticed if he or she were gone. Cognitive
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