anybody know theories in psychotherapy

I uploaded the assignment on theory application.  The textbook for the course was Current Psychotherapies by Wedding & Corsini, 10th ed.  But alot of the time I got the answers off the internet.  You do not have to do problem number 4 as it relates to my genogram, and I will do that one.  So its a total of four problems to complete.

Theory

Understanding

The goal of the following questions is to provide the opportunity to demonstrate your understanding of the concepts and application of the theory perspectives we have been studying in this course.

1. Review the concepts of Adlerian Therapy and the Lifestyle Assessment that you completed. How would you apply the process of Adlerian Therapy to your own life and lifestyle? Please look for themes, influences, and other messages you consciously or unconsciously received. And please be honest — with yourself as well as with me — and remember your results are completely confidential. (15 points)

Remember that we cannot ask our clients and patients to look at what we are not willing to …

2. The goal of the following scenario is to help you relate and apply some of the concepts and theory approaches you have been studying. (Alderian, Client Centered Therapy, Rational Emotive Therapy, Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Therapy, Existential Psychotherapy, Gestalt Therapy)

Derek is struggling to find meaning and direction in his life. He has a hard time falling asleep because he is so worried about deciding what he wants to do. He feels pressure to decide and do well in school from his parents and yet he feels they don’t place any expectations at all on his younger sister or brother. He knows he smokes too much but he’s tired of his mother nagging him about that and everything else. Why doesn’t everyone just leave him alone?

Identify and define 5 techniques/ exercises / concepts from the approaches that we have studied that could be applied to this situation. Include in your answer the theory base that the technique or concept is most applicable to (Please use at least 3 different theories).

(25 points total: For each term and definition – 2pts; Theory base – 1 pt; How it applies – 2 pts)

3. It has often been said that, “all counseling is family counseling”. Because our individual challenges and struggles are intertwined with our lives, family therapy views the family as a ‘system’. Goldenberg and Goldenberg (2013) conceptualized eight approaches to family therapy (as summarized in Wedding & Corsini, p. 382-385). The 8 approaches are Object Relations Family Therapy, Experiential Family Therapy, Transgenerational Family Therapy, Structural Family Therapy, Strategic Family Therapy, Cognitive-Behavior Family Therapy, Social Constructionist Family Therapy, and Narrative Therapy.

1) Define and summarize 5 of these approaches and how they apply to family therapy.(15 points)

2) From the approaches you identified, choose 3 that you can relate to and describe how you will apply them in your current/future experience. (5 points)

4. Even if you feel you know everything about your family, the visual overview of a genogram provides the opportunity for a unique view and analysis.

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1) Give an overview of influences and issues that have affected your family, summarizing patterns, traits, commonalities (or anomalies) that you learned about your family from your genogram (e.g., age of marriage, divorces, miscarriages, mental/physical illness or disease, or even common vocations). (15 points)

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2) Are their patterns in common bonds or conflictual relationships (e.g., Does one side of your family have more conflict?, Are some family members always close or distant)? (5 points)

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3) As you reflect on this overview of your family, what did this genogram exercise help you learn or realize about yourself (i.e., How the influences of the past affect how you relate to others? The messages you have passed (both consciously and unconsciously) on to your own children) (5 points)

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5. Are you ready to integrate perspectives? The most widely utilized and integrated theory perspectives today focus on aspects of behavior therapy, cognitive therapy, and cognitive-behavior therapy.

Develop a case example that you can use to apply the following:

(Begin by describing and giving background for a case example or situation)

1) Apply the five core steps of problem-solving training to your example. (5 points)

2) Define and apply 5 cognitive and/or behavior techniques that you feel would be effective for the problem situation you identified. (Wedding & Corsini, p. 251-254 provide a good start) (10 points) (Cognitive Techniques- automatic thoughts, maladaptive assumptions, decatastrophitizing, reattribution, redefining, or decentering or Behavioral Techniques- homework, hypothesis testing, exposure therapy, behavioral rehearsal or role playing, diversion techniques, activity scheduling, or graded-task assignments)