Empathy and drug addiction Thomas Dawson Interpersonal Communication Empathy is the ability of one person to understand another’s point of view, and is important in some approaches to drug addiction treatment, in which the empathizer understands the addict’s point of view as valid. Empathy is powerful in building trust, and in developing a good relationship with the user, especially if the user’s behavior has lead to judgment and criticism from others in the past. It takes some people a very hard time to have empathy for drug addicts especially if they never had to go through life knowing and loving someone addicted to something as evil as drugs. Then after all the time, sweat and tears of understanding what empathy really means and to finally stop all the negativity and hate towards someone you love and to finally want to help this person you lose them to the power of the addiction. This happens every day to people all over the world, even me, and is a topic that people need to hear and understand.
Motivation Theories Shivani Rathod PSY/230 14th March 2014 SHAREMAH BARLOW Motivation Theories Based on the studies I have read, I agree more with diversity theory, as we are all vastly differing from each other; our motives are individually based, yet may be similar in some, yet less likely to have many of the same types of motivations. In my opinion; I do not feel too many individuals would be motivated my aggression or sexuality which falls under the psychoanalytic theory, granted I am sure there may be a group who may be motivated in such a way. Humanistic theory is based more on self, there are many people with big egos, and however, I feel not enough to be a strong motivator for a large group of people to fall under. After
In his article however he doesn’t really use any other sources besides various secondary sources besides himself as a primary source. I think that him being one of the only primary sources does hurt the article’s credibility a little bit because firsthand information is always going to be better than when you get it from a secondary source. Most of his secondary sources are various books and articles such as in the section Casual Sex and Civilization he uses Achieving Our Country (1998) by Richard Rorty to help his point of saying how the 1960s was a real turn in how people viewed love and sex. Lawler really makes great use of his secondary sources to help him provide evidence about whatever section of the article he was focusing in on. Lawler actually never really disagrees with any of his sources and uses them to help make the article more credible and better in general.
I think this whole subject and paper was written with facts and no personal biases were added. It was written from studies instead of opinions. He also talked about how two different people from different back grounds brings their own knowledge to learn from each other without having any personal biases involved, In my own opinion this material shows that people from different backgrounds can work together through critical thinking can leave personal biases
Throughout history, authority figures have been commonplace in virtually every society; however, resistance to the aforementioned authority has not been. Just as Stanley Milgram illustrates in his book, Obedience to Authority, I too believe that it is far easier for a subject to comply with what he or she is told than to rebel against rules and protocol. In this paper, I will argue that those who are subjected to authority inherently fail to oppose it, and succumb to it by nature. Resistance is hard to come by, and at times when it is present, it comes under many positions and precursors before it that led up to it. Reasons for lack of resistance and tendency towards compliance include, but are not limited to, fear of disruption of power structure
In most instances, psychological debriefing teams arrive on the site of the trauma, especially, when its an incident that involves a mass of people. Devilly and Cotton, perceived that psychological debriefing does more harm than good to enhance lives. Emmerik et al (2002) concluded that psychological debriefing did not change the long-term outcome, and CISD was seen as a hinderance in the recovery process. (2.) Authors, Devilly and Cotton, proposed that CISD and CISM are one in the same, and its methods are undefinable.
But with only the rule to guide a person's actions, this interpretation is the least vulnerable to extremes. So this really is the most logical meaning of the golden
Bonsanti’s perception is very clear and genuinely supported by those who share a common ground. Whereas McDaniel’s perception is very self oriented; his word choice and evidence gives a very clear picture of how he sees this topic and how it has personally affected who he is as an
The management of the therapist’s counter transference, through the containment of the group’s projections, is related to positive therapeutic outcome. Self-awareness and self-care are crucial in counter transference management. Regular consultation with a co-therapist or supervisor/consultant can also be very useful. (Association, 2007) I have found it very difficult to research the effectiveness of a non personalised induction in hypnotherapy as all the evidence shows that personalised inductions are far more effective, the only time that it would be difficult to produce a personalised script is if you were to hold a group session or produce a CD or video to focus on a certain situation such as to stop smoking, fear of spiders etc. Personalised inductions are more effective as they treat each person as an individual, in order to do this you need to assess the client, it is important that you have to try to find the most effective way to communicate with your client so that they get the most benefit from the session, in order to do this you need to take into account the clients modalities, explained below.
I also find it interesting how society, culture and the attitudes and opinions of other people can have such an impact on a person's behaviour. For example, I find it fascinatinghow one can intentionally harm or abuse another and feel no remorse or guilt at all whereas another may be extremely guilt-ridden.Psychology never has a straight answer and continuously opens doors to new research.The more I discovered, the more I learned, the more I grew fond on the subject. I’ve concluded that I want to study Psychology at greater depths, further my knowledge and pursue a career as a psychologist. I am aware that the mind is very complex and to understand someone completely, you must understand how the