answer 4 questions, respond to 4 students
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1. The three common patient factors in positive outcome are affect experiencing, cognitive mastery, and behavioral regulation, which are what effect change in all of the major areas of psychotherapy. Affect experiencing refers to expressing feelings. Cognitive Mastery refers thinking about problems in a manner that enables the patient to experience control over beliefs, attitudes and perceptions about the patients' problems. Behavioral regulation refers to developing strategies for problematic behaviors and controlling impulses. (Plante, 2011, P. 289) For the best outcome, the patient/clinician relationship should focus on a positive outcome.
Class, what do you have to add about positive outcome?
2. Why is there tension between researchers and practitioners? What is the point of
researching people's behavior if the knowledge is not used to help those in need?
3. With all the new technologies like the broadband Internet and video-conferencing, there have been more things like therapy online within reach. This especially can have a large impact on the delivery services in rural areas. The term telehealth is the use of communications technology in the educational, clinical, training, administrative, technological features of health care (Jameson et al., 2009). Telemedicine is used to define the aspects of telehealth involved in patient care and the methods of delivery differ widely. The telephone consultations contacts, email, store-and-forward, video conferencing, and virtual reality programs signify methods that have been used in the variable range (Jameson, et al., 2009). The use of telehealth is growing in the behavior of health care that one point it claimed that telehealth, it was growing double for every six months. Thoughts on this?
4. Does anyone have any interest in becoming a clinical psychologist or to go into psychology?
Responds to these discussion posts:
1. Rebeca: I think the continuing technology has both benefits and drawbacks. On one side, using technology to provide services online, telephone, email, or video conferences will increase availability to people who didn't have it before. The downfall of using technology in the mental health care field is that it takes some of the personalization, and familiarity out of the therapeutic relationship. It is a less personal interaction between therapist and patient. At the same time, some people may feel more free to express themselves through technology instead of face to face. I think telehealth will continue to grow, just like distance learning has. There are both benefits and drawbacks that need to be considered as it continues to expand.
2. Rebecca : I think that the psychology has to continue to grow and evolve with an ever changing society. Multicultural and diversity issues continue to grow as America's melting pot, includes more cultures all the time. I have many friends with parents from different backgrounds, and who's household culture was very different than American society. More and more children have parents from two very different cultures. Understanding the conflicts, issues and different belief systems between cultural differences is a very important tend that is continuing.
Family structural changes are also a continuing trend. Being raised by a single father in the 80's was not a societal norm, but now more and more fathers are taking on the role of primary caretakers to children. With the current opioid epidemic, more and more children are also being raised by grandparents. My father who raised me alone, has also helped to raise my children. So the family dynamics, although not as extreme as loosing both parents have shifted. There are people who have children with multiple partners sharing custody in different situations all the time. Understanding family dynamics is no longer as simple as either two parent or single parent household. I think this trend will also continue, and needs to be an important topic in clinical psychology.
3. Marcus : Not only do I think that society is starting to look at mental illness with the brighter light, I also believe that society itself has changed so much creating a new and more sophisticated mental illness. Because of the way that our society has been created the pressure of living especially a successful life has become overwhelming. The other biggest factor I believe in creating enhanced in a larger amount of mental illness within our society is the experimentation of new illegal drugs. In the community in which I live for some strange reason a lot of young people are going from being normal kids to having some psychological issues, not sure exactly what the cause is but the rumors speak about them being poisoned through some form of drug in which they were smoking or taking. In our society the fact that entertainers and famous people struggle from deeply rooted mental disorders, pay top dollar for counseling and still and up taking their life or the increased amount of homeless people who struggle with some type of mental disorder or the increased amount of kids were struggling with psychotic behaviors is almost scary. Mental illness to me is just like some other major medical issues, there may be a theory or technique that could possibly cure mental illness but because of the financial benefit of experimental treatment our society will continue to struggle with mental disorder.
