Psychotherapy research typically uses a range of different measures to assess the efficacy or outcome of psychotherapeutic treatments. It goes without saying that the way outcome is assessed is of quintessential importance. According to Achenbach (2006), one of the most powerful assessment strategies in clinical…
Essays on Clinical Psychology
Dissociative Identity Disorder is characterized by someone who has more than one distinct personality states which are present at different times. The person usually has no cognitive recollection of what occurs while the other personality was active. I personally have a fascinating relationship with close…
According to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5th Edition American Psychiatric Association (2013), it specified two major characteristics of impairment in autism spectrum disorder which are deficits in social interaction and social communication, restricted, repetitive patterns of behaviour, interests, or activities. Children with…
A person-centred approach is a way of engaging with somebody, supporting somebody in a way that is likely to work for them and that means avoiding things that are liable to make people fearful or anxious and focusing on things that make people happy, excited…
Although occupation and occupational therapy were harshly questioned when it was first established, the occupation has grown to be an incredibly important aspect of occupational therapy. The main form of practice for occupational therapy is still through occupation-centered treatment because it has shown to be…
The strategic plan is used as a tool to organize healthcare management to coordinate an organizations strategic intent to their operational structure while ensuring the strengthening of the strategic goals in the healthcare industry. Ability Center of Occupational Therapy strives to provide high quality care…
Autism is prevalent neurodevelopmental developmental disorders characterized by core deficits in areas such as communication, social interaction, and restricted or repetitive stereotyped patterns of behaviors. These impairments are variable in range and in severity that affect the developmental skills in children. The exact cause of…
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a condition that affects multiple systems in the body and is a pleomorphic disease, meaning inflammation, antibody production and complement-fixing immune complex depositions causes damage to the bodies tissue. SLE is caused by one’s genetic factors that are activated by…
n individual ‘s personality is the combination of traits and patterns that influence their behavior, through, motivation, and emotion. It drives individual to consistently think, feel, and behave in specific ways, in essence, it is what makes each individual unique. Over time, these patterns strongly…
Hypomnemata In the contemporary world, an artefact offers a high –fidelity experience. In essence, artefacts refer to objects made specifically for subsequent or later use. Communication-related artefacts can be defined as infrastructures that are made up of various components that work together as one. My…
Freud’s structure of the mind empathize that the unconscious mind is the repressed thought of our mind and have great relation to our libido. He saw the psyche structured into three parts: id, ego and superego. These three parts are like an “iceberg model”. Ego…
Inspired by Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of personality, thinkers like Carl Jung, Alfred Adler, and later Karen Horney developed their own Neoanalytical theories which incorporated some of Freud’s ideas, but dismissed others; adapting their theories to incorporate their own beliefs about personality and behavior—notably, they all…
Pain There are two reasons why one person comes to another for help; either he has some kind of pain (suffering, discomfort, problem) or he is causing someone else to have such pain who is in turn compelling him to do something about that problem…
The root of Frankl’s logotherapy was thusly a significant issue of consistency that critics argued was possibly questionable for Frankl because he had laid out the primary components of logotherapy while working for the Nazi-associated Göring Institute (Wong, 2014). Primarily Frankl’s 1937 paper was distributed…
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a combination of behavioural and cognitive theories of human behaviour. CBT helps to build a set of skills that enables an individual to be aware of their thoughts and emotions; identify how situations, thoughts, and behaviours influence their emotions; and…
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