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36 Cognitive Rehabilitation with People with Schizophrenia
The traditional approaches to people with thoughts and behaviors that cause them problems in living tend also to increase the problems. Delinquency is often punished rather than rehabilitated, and mental health “controls” through chemical or physical restraints. Both procedures are easily interpreted as unhelpful, if not downright hostile. Despite the poor prognosis and stability given by the mental health professionals, all is not lost. For our cognitive structures and even the unconscious contexts, are open to conscious consideration and decision-making.
36 Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing
Clinical Prompt [to be used AFTER the technique is understood] Cognitive Process Correction is being used to address the client’s automatic thoughts The client and the clinician agree that there are emotional issues that may be addressed by EMDR Clinician evaluates...
37 Behavior Planning
School behavior plans are often just a statement of how the educator wants the student to behave with rewards for production. This fails by a wide margin in being effective. When seeing such plans which are predestined to failure, it occurs that there are a few thoughts about how to better prepare.
37 Metaphor Counseling through Clean Language
INTRODUCTION Metaphor Counseling, developed by Morris Berg, is a way of working with blocked feelings, traumatic memories and of accessing inner healing and helping resources. There are two main ways of using metaphor in counseling: one is to tell the client stories,...
38 Dialectical Behavior Counseling
INTRODUCTION While children and adolescents are not often diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, the circumstance that lead to such disorders are often apparent. The format of this counseling endeavor is well thought out and has merit particularly for...
38 Responses to Atypical Behavior
What is the underlying problem that generates the symptoms that define the problem statement? Answers such as mental ‘illness’, bad schools, bad home environments, etc., are not the answer. Attempts to resolve the problem by covering the symptoms with pharmaceuticals or ‘blaming’ parents, teacher, human services workers or the children themselves are simply acts of ‘shifting the burden’.
39 Professional Elicitation
There is danger in being an expert for in the mind of a beginner there are many possibilities, but in the mind of an expert there is only one. Professional clinicians need to discover the essence of their client’s ‘inner logic’, but often fail. All of the historic material given to you about the client’s past performances and the observations of other professionals combines with your own expertise to create a barrier to understanding. More importantly, perhaps, you have to watch as well as listen.
39 Schema Focused Counseling
INTRODUCTION Cognitive psychologists are well aware that human beings ‘chunk’ information in order to be able to draw on a network of ideas to a particular context or domain. Generally , the largest ‘chunks’ are called schema and the most powerful schema include the...
40 Calm Action
CALM ACTION What follows is a technique that includes four [04] procedures that teach the skills leading to the ability to take Calm Action. This technique is helpful for people who are impulsive and have distorted thoughts about self and others, which usually leads...