We all have different likes and dislikes and we have different outlooks on life. All this and more is what makes us unique individuals. It’s these differences that will affect how we deal with certain situations, our openness and why we have resistance to certain thoughts or ideas. With these differences in mind, it is the requirement of the hypnotherapist to assess the client and devise a therapy strategy that meets their needs and will achieve the best outcome for them. We are all aware that the usual method of
The most common procedure for using a placebo is when a patient is given a useless pill and is told that the pill will improve their condition. The patient’s belief that this pill will improve their condition could produce a sort of therapeutic effect, which in turn can actually cause an improvement in their condition, perceived or actual. This type of application of the placebo effect is the one used by most psychologists when studying its importance. As for whether it should be treated as an extraneous variable, many people are of the belief that the placebo effect has a very important role to play when studying psychology. Hrobjartsson (2003) believes that the placebo effect is a phenomenon that will always be around, no matter how it mutates.
Although one ethical limitation of a counselor is that they are not able to prescribe medication, the counselor still plays a major role in the clients overall treatment, to include medication. The role of the counselor is to offer recommendations to the physician for medication use, constant consultation and screening of the client for the need for medication, monitoring and evaluation of effects of medication, education to clients and family members, and advocating for the client to the physician. It is also a counselor’s responsibility to inform the client of available treatment methods (King & Anderson, 2004). For example, if I am seeing a client for depression I would be legally responsible for informing the client about antidepressant medication used to treat depression in addition to possible counseling treatments to ensure the clients right to effective treatment. Because counselors are responsible for assisting physicians in ensuring the best possible care for the client, it is important that I familiarize myself with psychotropic medication.
4. Understanding the role of Complementary therapies in relation to Orthodox Treatments Throughout this assignment I am going to be clearly explaining the role of complementary therapies in relation to orthodox treatments. I will be describing two health conditions: Back pain and stress, and I will be identifying and explaining the orthodox treatment that is available for each treatment and some of the complementary therapy treatments that are available to treat the two conditions. I will be including advantages and disadvantages in using complementary therapies in maintaining health and well-being of patients. Complementary therapies can be a massive benefit for patients but there are always some down sides to them and do not always benefit the patient for many reasons.
From today’s perspective, the early use of electroconvulsive therapy (which led to memory loss, fractured bones and other serious side effects) is considered draconian but during their era, clinicians used the technique in an attempt to help their clients achieve mental soundness. Counseling has evolved from that standard of care to one of “avoiding harm and imposing values” (American Counseling Association 2005, p.4). Brief
If a patient needs treatment but they are not covered, that may motivate a counselor to place an incorrect billing code on an invoice to get paid for an non-covered service. While the counselor may believe this to be the best thing for the client, it is not ethically or legally allowed. This behavior actually hurts the industry as more regulation will be placed upon the counselor who will have to take more time to prove their compliance. That time they are using to prove compliance is time they are not seeing clients or generating revenue. One aspect of counseling that is very helpful is the licensure that is granted to counselors by the state.
Nevertheless, the technologies also prolong the dying processes, leading some people to question whether modern medicine is forcing patients to live in unnecessary pain when there is no chance they will be cured. “Passive euthanasia—disconnecting a respirator or removing a feeding tube has become an accepted solution to this dilemma. Active euthanasia perhaps an overdose of pills or a deadly injection of morphine remains controversial “(McDougall,
In addition, they may be aware that new guidance has been issued but don’t know how their current way of working needs to change to ensure they provide the best care for patients in line with the guidance. Motivation is a fundamental part of nearly everything we do. External factors can drive motivation and change behaviour, for example, for some carers who are not motivated because they knew that the purpose of certain trainings that are needed to attend are useless due to the reason that not everybody is practicing it in actual field, or maybe due to the fact that it is not paid for the number of hours. External factors can drive motivation and change behaviour, for example, the provision of incentives or penalties imposed as part of regulatory checks. But internal factors, such as
Running Head: REALITY THERAPY Counseling is sought for many different reasons and usually for issues that are deemed out of control, in which the person seeking therapy does not know how to cope or manage. Oftentimes, these people become chronic counselor seekers, never fully satisfied and unable to work through their problems and move on with a new, healthy approach on life. There are multitudes of approaches in the therapeutic field and what may work for one person does not necessarily work for another. Reality therapy is one avenue that can be traversed when looking to strengthen coping skills and start living a life that succeeds in meeting all needs for satisfaction. Reality therapy was first introduced in the 1960's by an MD who went by the name of William Glasser.
The role of an outside consultant in training or any other field has always been highly controversial in an organisation. When organisations need to hire outside consultants, they feel that they have in some way failed internally and that’s the only reason they will need an outside consultant. But the truth of the matter is that maybe in an ideal world an organisation would have mechanisms which would ensure that everything ran efficiently and smoothly but like in the human body we need a physician for physical problems and a psychologist for mental ones, so does an organisation need n outside consultant to ensure its success. In training the role of an outside consultant can be cut down to the following: 1. Find out the training need of the organisation.