The author believes that patients who are very talkative will benefit from this type of evaluation. However, clients who have a hard time communicating their thoughts will find this assessment burdensome. The second assessment is the spiritual lifemap, which is used for artistic patients who are able to draw their life’s major
Lin Article Critique: Part 2 Dustin T. Rheel Liberty University Counseling 503, D22 Professor Carlene Taylor November 25, 2012 Critique of Population and Sampling In the Lin, Mack, Enright, Krahn, and Baskin article (2004) article, they sampled forty-three participants from various drug rehabilitation centers. These participants were suffering from alcohol and other drug dependences. Some of the participants were referred by the therapist and then the suggested participants then had the option to participate or not, thus making the sample used not random. Even though the sample was not random, they were randomly selected to be in one of 2 groups, Forgiveness Therapy (FT) or Alcohol and Drug Counseling (ADC) (Lin et al., 2004).
I then carried out an exercise where I walked up six flights of stairs and then returned back to the classroom. 5. After this I then measured my heart rate again for thirty seconds just after the exercise using a stop watch, when thirty seconds had passed I stopped measuring my heart rate and wrote it down and then multiplied it by two in order to get my heart rate in beats per minute. 6. I then measured my breathing rate by counting how many breaths I took in within thirty seconds just after the exercise, when thirty seconds had passed I stopped measuring my
A student calculated the theoretical yield of barium sulfate in a double replacement reaction experiment to be 1.35 g. When she filtered, dried and weighted her solid (precipitate), however, her yield was only 1.29 g. Calculate the student’s percent yield. 3. Before going to lab, a student reads in his lab manual that the percent yield for a difficult reaction to be studied was likely to be only 40% of the theoretical yield. The student’s pre-lab stoichiometric calculations predict that the theoretical yield should be 12.5 grams. What is the student’s actual yield likely to be?
There has been a lot of research that suggests that the immune system can be severely affected by stress. Kiecolt-Glaser did an experiment to evaluate the effect of acute stressors on the immune system. She had a group of students who were about to have their medical exams. She took the blood sample one month before the exams and another during the exam period. She measured the NK cell activity to see how the immune system was effected and found that the NK cell activity had dropped significantly in the second blood sample that had been taken shows that stress had caused to lower the efficiency of the immune system and made the students were vulnerable to stress-related illnesses.
77). The following instruments were used in this study: EFI and SSTAEI as pretest measures, Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II), Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory (CSEI), State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), and the Vulnerability to drug use scale (Lin et al., 2004). Sample questions from each testing instrument were not provided in the study for review. However, treatment parameters were well explained with 12 individual treatment sessions lasting 1 hour each over a period of 6 weeks (Lin et al., 2004). Multiple methods of data collection were used with (3) self-report measures, (1) self-report questionnaire, (1) rating scale, and (1) 5-point Likert scale (Lin et al., 2004).
Project Match study showed effectiveness of motivational interviewing (John, Veltrup, Driessen, Wetterling, & Dilling, 2003). There are two hypothesizes in this study. The first one is that participants in the motivational interviewing group do not do better than the participants in the group counseling group after the six month treatment period. The second one is that group therapy does not outperform motivational interviewing six months after treatment (John, Veltrup, Driessen, Wetterling, & Dilling, 2003). Participants were found at inpatient treatment in the psychiatric university hospital, alcohol dependent, home dependent within the last six months, twenty-one to sixty-five years old, located within reach of outpatient services after treatment, consenting to take part in a twenty-one day treatment program, no organic brain damage, no psychosis, and no more than ten previous inpatient stays (John, Veltrup,
Steve’s empowerment came mostly from his relationship with the counselor. He knew that someone believed in him and would be there for him. The counselor helped Steve to see that accepting help from others is not a sign of defeat; but also modifying his goals to something he could more adequately achieve helped him not to feel discouraged. The relationship Steve had with his counselor made him more motivated for his journey because he had a support system to help him emerged from the lowest point in life to be triumphant. The ethical issue that I found was went the psychiatrist told Steve that he needs to accept his limitation; I believe that this was inaccurate the way it was said, that was why the counselor clarified it for Steve that she meant that he needs to re-evaluate his goal base on his current condition.
There is a need to devise a strategy to communicate that would promote empowerment, building on existing strengths so as not to reinforce a sense of helplessness and power imbalance. Studies have showed that by using verbal and non verbal communication techniques appropriately can help us nurses/carers and families to communicate and enhance the communication experience for Mr Kee. For example we should create conducive environment, listen carefully to what he is trying to say, observing his body language, using positive body language to convey warmth and reassurance, speaking slowly, using short and simple words, give Mr Kee opportunities to talk in indirect ways and to express himself, I tried emphasis the need for us nurses/support worker to be creative, adaptable and skilful to avoid disempowering Mr Kee because of his communication impairment (Allan 2001, Feil & DeKlerk-Rubin 2002 and Alzheimer’s Association 2005). ‘One of the ways in which people with dementia are disempowered in communication is that of being continually outpaced, having others speak, move and act more quickly that they are able to understand or match’ (Killick and Allan, 2001, pp.
In order to answer this question, relevant studies will be described and evaluated. The point is to dig deeper into the interaction between cognition and physiology in terms of behavior, and to find out whether if it is possible to make generalizations from the studies used. An empirical study by Davidson (2004) was carried out with the aim to examine whether if meditation could affect the activity in the human brain. For the procedure, he collected 8 very experienced monks, who had meditated for more than 10,000 hours, and 10 volunteers who had been training meditation for one week only. Both monks and volunteers were then told to meditate on love and compassion while being PET-scanned.