PSY 311 Week 1 Assignment 1

Sam has been improving recently . He did not only finish his homework on time , but he did well . He also regularly participates in classroom activities . I can tell him that whenever he has a chance , he is trying to try . As for Erica , she is a very shy and quiet person .

Week two has been a little more challenging versus week one. I was tempted with sweet tea several times which has made it more difficult. I truly expected it to be easier because I thought after the first week my body would start to adapt without the caffeine from sweet tea. This is not how I expected the assignment to go. I honestly thought I would not have any issues or have any withdrawal symptoms.

made aware of the clients’ usage of therapeutic counseling. She clearly defied her expectations as a professional. Some courses of action that the counselor could have utilized instead were to seek advice from other professionals, talk to the client during a session about the dilemma, come up with another method of counseling besides relying on the homework, or have the client complete her homework during the beginning of the session. The first course of actions listed, seek peer advice, would not only allow the counselor the ability to relieve her own frustrations, it would also provide her with new and creative ways to help her client, while obtaining personal self-growth.

1. If you were directing a theater production of The Wizard of Oz, how would you handle the scene with the tornado (starting at time code 15:09)? Would you include a "tornado" in your production? If so, how would you create the impression of a tornado? The way that i would create the impression of the tornado would be adding in a scene where the wind is calm at first but more in time the wind will begin to pick up.

1- Talking about inspirations, I need to divide into three different categories: concept, style, and material. The idea for this series of drawings comes from human life cycle and I visualize it based on my personal surreal imagination. The human 's life cycle always start by a zygote, then the zygote becomes an embryo, after born there are two main stages, first is before adulthood when there are many conflicts and variances that shape the personality, another stage is the adulthood when the character is totally formed and all those conflicts become part of the personality. During the whole cycle, changes are needed for the evolution. I decided to show these changes with limbs and their different gestures which express diverse feelings.

1. Create an applied research project. a. Identify what type of applied analysis you would be conducting (process evaluation, outcome evaluation, needs assessment, or combination of any of these). This is a needs assessment analysis that targeted an old model of issuing identification cards to abuse victims trying to leave their abuser, which was problematic because of the time it took to issue the cards and the methods it employed requiring the victims to prove who they are. This assessment, evaluation of an old government model was to determine if the new model was more effective than the old model for this particular program and if the officials tasked with issuing new and or replacement identification to the women and their families

1. Define the Problem A client had complete access to the information of another client, who is a prominent public figure. Merry Watson had complete freedom to read confidential information of another client.

The term ‘Counseling’ does not have one definition because each definition is influenced by the theoretical orientation of the individual defining it (Omosule, 2013). In addition, one of the common definitions of counseling is that it is an interactive learning-oriented process with the aim of helping a person to learn more about the self which will soon result to an understanding that will enable the person to become an effective member of society. According to Sheppard (2015), the British Association for Counseling (BAC), now called the BACP, might have been the first professional association to define professional counseling as ‘Counseling is the skilled and principled use of relationship to facilitate self- knowledge, emotional acceptance

Basic Strategy of Counseling In Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, the strategy of counseling is to focus on a goal-oriented approach where the client is an active part of their change process (Andrews, 2010). During the treatment, the client and counselor work together to set desired goals and build a plan of execution (Andrews, 2010). The counselor may also include types of homework, schedules, or other added items to enhance the treatment experience (Andrews, 2010). Research shows significant improvement in clients with depression in 12 to 20 weeks, this is a result of using an action-oriented technique (Andrews, 2010).

In task one I will describe how the helping relationship is initiated, also I will cover ethical concerns, boundaries of the relationship, equal opportunities and confidentiality. Clients come from many backgrounds such as, age, culture, social class, work status, gender, religion, disability, marital status, education, sexuality, ethnicity and politics. Counsellors usually are committed to increasing scientific and professional understanding with conduct and people’s comprehension of by themselves and others and the application of this kind of knowledge in order to prove the healthiness of people, agencies and modern society. Counsellors esteem and protect civil and individual legal rights and also the main incredible importance of freedom