The second moment in my life where I faced difficulty- was in my marriage. It was a tough time in my life because I would come home from work and find myself arguing with my sister in law. I felt that she was interfering in my marriage. I also had many arguments with my husband. I ended up leaving my husband even though it was three weeks after giving birth to my daughter.
I was up for the challenge even though I had nothing to lose, but had much to gain. Due to the challenges I faced with my divorce, and the resignation of my job, I felt I losed everything I worked hard for. However, in the mist of having both it was tearing me apart for years. Therefore, difficult decisions had to be made in other to find myself again. Having peace in my life was not an option anymore.
In this essay I am going to compare and contrast the person centred model with the Gestalt approach and briefly outline a case study who I have worked with in skills practice. My Case study who I will refer to as Mrs B has been in a long term relationship for fifteen years, which has often been stormy. They have four children and got married three years ago in the last two years she has been considering ending the relationship due to her own unhappiness within this relationship as she feels her husband is often selfish, critical of her and doesn’t participate in family life even though he has continuously said he will make an effort to change this. Person-Centred Therapy origins Person Centred Therapy (PCT) was developed by psychologist Carl Rogers during the 1940s; it is a non-directive therapeutic approach which concentrates on the clients present not the past. In the 1950s’ Rogers called his approach client-centred and later in the1960s person-centred-therapy because of its focus on the client's individual view of the world and their needs were put at the centre.
A tragedy happened days after Harley found out she was pregnant. Her boyfriend had totaled his car while on his way to pick her up for school. This situation made it much more difficult to tell her boyfriend the news. When Harley explained her feelings when the doctor explained that she was pregnant she said, “My feelings were altered; I didn’t know what to feel. I was confused, terrified, upset, and depressed” (Duval).
Wishing they could spend the rest of their lives together, war starts. Jay is taken from his one true love and is forced to be shipped overseas to defend his country. Daisy was effectually prevented from seeing the love of her life for what could have been the last. “Her mother had found her packing her bag one winter night to go to New York and say goodbye to a soldier who was going overseas. She was effectually prevented, but she wasn’t on speaking terms with her family for several weeks.” (The Great Gatsby p. 75) Devastated by the pain inflicted from her true love leaving her that by the next autumn, she was just as happy as before.
Olivia Cartwright 2/8/2012 Status: Individual Not Started (Due February 9, 2012 3:00 PM) 1. Impact of Uncle John's death- Uncle John refuses to see a doctor and had been sick for several months. In their culture when a love one dies you’re expected to wail and cry to properly show your grief. His wife Enifa was screaming at first then she started grasping for her breath. Then his mothers face twisted like she had eaten something sour.
Then over the weekend there was a terrible accident and Fred and Feonia died. Marguerite could not get Francine to calm down but then after three hours of being upset Francine calmed down. They buried her parents on the Monday of November 1,
But then, one day, it ended.” (52). Alice loses her confidence when she is shot in the eye with a BB; the injury leaves “a glob of whitish scar tissue, a hideous cataract” (53). Readers realize Alice’s parents’ oblivion to the impact of her injury. Christine Kerr elaborates on this aspect in Bloom’s Literary Reference. Kerr states, “...Walker’s parents are unable to get their child to a doctor until a week after the ‘accident’.
It seems that after their new baby Bryson was born, things took a sharp turn for the worst. When Bryson was two weeks, Nene’s mother passed away from lung disease. Though Nene and her mother weren’t close, she was still hurt by the news. In addition to the death of her mother, the abuse from her child’s father increased exponentially. He was bolder now; more
What made this whole thing even worse was when he looked at my grandmother and just said “where is the baby”? That took a few days to figure out but at the time he was ill my wife was pregnant with our little girl. When we finally realized he kept asking about our baby he kept smiling upon talking about her. Our little girl was born a day earlier than her due date in November. After we were able to leave the hospital we went straight over to my grandfather’s house to show him that the baby was here.