Katie Louise Harris
9 Tremabe Park, Dobwalls, Liskeard, Cornwall, PL14 6JS
Student Number: HAR013AQ
Tutor: Sarah Willcocks
Course: Advanced Psychotherapy
Assignment Two
1. What might a client's appearance include evidence of?
Subjective distress Disturbance of thought or feeling Expressing behavior subconsciously
2. What should a therapist be aware of when taking note of a clients manner and content of talk?
Slowing Incoherence Evasiveness Flights of ideas
3. Give examples of disorders of mood
The experience of emotion described as fear spread thin, Anxiety is the commonest of experiences. Abnormal frank excitement can be expressed by a client experiencing a mood disorder, when
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The false belief is not accounted for by the persons cultural or religious background or his/her intelligence. The client experiencing this will hold on firmly to the belief regardless of the evidence to the contrary, the client is absolutely convinced that the delusion is real. Delusion are symptoms of either medical, neurological or mental disorder.
B. Hallucinations, are perceived through one of the senses and do not correspond to any stimulus in the outside world. Hallucinations are defined as perceptions in a conscious mind. C. Illusions, are simple perceptions, which although produced by an external stimulus are misinterpreted by the client. The information gathered by the eye is processed in the brain to give a perception that does not tally with the physical measurement of the stimulus source.
7. What is a Thought Block?
Where a client's capacity to maintain a train of thought is constantly interrupted. A thought block is an abrupt interruption in the stream of thought describe as a profound sudden blankness of the mind. The client usually express flight of ideas as the disruption occurs. Language may seem difficult to understand, as it switches quickly from one idea another or long winded and very delayed and reaching its goal and or if words are inappropriately strung together resulting in gibberish.
8. State the categories of delusion. Bizarre Delusion; A completely implauseable idea, a far
To communicate effectivley all of this must be taken into account. If communication needs are not taken into account, problems will begin to arise such as distress to the client, anger/frustrating leading to possible violence and the client not recieving adequate care.
Definition of Delusional disorder: is a type of serious mental illness called a "psychosis" in which a person cannot tell what is real from what is imagined and the main feature of this disorder is the delusion in some beliefs not true or it is not identical with reality. (1)
It gives the opportunity to provide structured feedback and reflection and recognise ay achievements as well as identify any performance issues.
-3 x 1.66 pts. = minus 5 pts. = 45 pts. out of 50 pts. = 90%
Communication plays a massive part once building a relationship in the work setting. By regularly keeping effective communication between practioners, parents/careers and children makes a positive working environment. The relationships are mostly based on the type of communication between one another, communication is not just by verbally but also the body language we show, facial expressions and our gestures.
There are various types of materials and equipment required to deliver medications via different routes examples of which are: patches for drug absorption i.e. in hormone replacement which can be placed in the most direct location, needles for subcutaneous injection i.e. in insulin dependant diabetes to allow the transfer of insulin into the body. Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy feed tubes for people with issues swallowing or with sever reflux to allow liquid food and medications to be administered whilst bypassing the throat and gullet.
SHC 32 1.2: Explain the purpose of the National Occupational Standards and the values and principles to childcare practice
Surprisingly, research shows that even 15 minutes of near-total sensory deprivation can cause hallucinations on par with psychedelics. (University, 2011)”
Connections Essay An Illusion is a false idea or belief. We all have ideals, but sometimes people become so obsessed with ideals that they start believing that their ideal is the truth. These illusions are harmful when obsessed over, they become dangerous and end up harming us and the people around us. An example of this effect in some literature of the 1920’s is what I have studied and summarized in this Connections report.
The book The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us by Chabris and Simons truly makes a strong case for how six different types of illusions (or beliefs) truly disserve the human population. The six common illusions that the book discusses are the illusion of memory, the illusion of confidence, the illusion of knowledge, the illusion of cause and the illusion of potential. Chabris and Simon argue that one can see these illusions at work in a range of human interactions and current events. Sometimes these illusions demonstrate the fallibility of the human mind; sometimes they just demonstrate the need of human beings to impose meaning or order upon things or events which lack both.
Delusional thinking is practically deceiving yourself by believing outrageous things. Delusional thoughts are often a sign of mental illness. Ncbi.nlm.nih.gov says that a delusional thought is “A belief that is clearly false and that indicates an abnormality in the affected person's content of thought.” The short horror story, A Tell-Tale Heart,written by Edgar Allan Poe is about an unnamed narrator/protagonist who explains to the readers that he is sane and isn’t a madmen, while he is also describing a murder he had committed. A murder about an old man with a pale blue vulture eye with a film over it.
Delusion of persecution may occur in the following conditions: Schizophrenia, depression, and psychosis. Persecutory overvalued ideas are a prominent facet of the litigious type of paranoid personality disorder (Content of Delusions). Currently, there is solution that involves psycho-therapy and medications for patients with delusion of persecution in which most cases are successful with only a standard treatment although others “elaborate and develop their belief into a comprehensive system which may remain unaltered even with regular medication,” (Resolution of Delusion). Ultimately people suffering with any type of delusion holds his or her belief with the same conviction and intensity as they hold other non-delusional beliefs about
Hallucinations are a complex form of our eyes playing trick on us because our brain is producing these images. Our eyes are a vital part of helping perceive the world so when they are not working right, our hold on reality may be distorted as shown in the following study. The study was conducted in 1966 at The University of California, Los Angeles by a group of doctors. Four, healthy male individuals were sleep deprived in a controlled environment for one hundred and twenty-two hours. This experiment was conducted to observe the effects of long term sleep deprivation. There were no signs of hallucinations until after the seventy-two-hour mark where the doctors observed “Two walked into a wall because they had hallucinated an open
Multiple regression analysis was run to predict hallucination history from source monitoring variables; speak vs. hear and imagine vs. hear. The model statistically significantly predicted hallucination history, F(2, 177) = 171.7, p < .000, adj. R2 = 65.6%. All variables added statistically significantly to the prediction, p < .05
When looking at illusions people have to understand how human’s brain work and analices information on the surroundings. As the book “ Discovering psychology” by Don andSandra Hockenbury points out, sensation and perception play and important role when it comes to identifying objects. Sensation is define as the way in which humans identify stimulus on their surroundings. For example, detecting odors and colors in nature. Moreover, perception describes the process by which brain analyzes and understand sensations. When watching the Ted Talk “Al Seckel says our brains are mis wired - powerful visual illusions” I selected the following the following illusions.