Wk7 Feminist or Transpersonal Counseling Case Conceptualization Discussion
Hi
Please see doc attached. I am waiting for the second post to come in and will send over to you ASAP. The responses are due in this week so I cannot wait as long as I did last time
C3 WK7 Resp
April 10, 2019
Below you will see the requirements for this assignment.
A response is required for two different posts (listed below), Dawn R and __ (pending)
There is no set word count or pages needed. They only need to be about one paragraph. They need to flow and sound natural (b/c it’s a discussion post), and APA is required.
You can also use the previous google drive link if needed:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1FV8O_vJjwV3GXrAd”¦
Discussion: Feminist or Transpersonal Counseling: Case Conceptualization
For this Discussion, you will write a case conceptualization as though you were a feminist or transpersonal counselor.
As you review this week’s Learning Resources and media files, note techniques and interventions, and consider the role of a feminist counselor in planning treatment. Further, reflect on feminist therapy with respect to developing your own theoretical orientation. In what ways do you find that feminist therapy may resonate with your own point of view?
Note: For this Discussion, you are required to complete your initial post before you will be able to view and respond to your colleagues’ postings. Begin by clicking on the Post to Discussion Question link, and then select Create Thread to complete your initial post. Remember, once you click on Submit, you cannot delete or edit your own postsand cannot post anonymously. Please check your post carefully before clicking on Submit!
To Prepare:
Review this week’s Learning Resources.
Review the feminist therapy video from this week’s Learning Resources. Take note of language and techniques used by the counselor that is specific to this theory.
Review the Psychoanalytic Case Conceptualization Example found in this week’s Learning Resources and use this document to prepare your initial Discussion post.
Select one of the four case studies presented in this week’s Learning Resources, and answer the following points as if you were a feminist or transpersonal counselor. Use your Learning Resources and the notes you took on language and technique from the feminist therapy video to support your conceptualization and integrate examples from the case to support your post. Include the following:
Presenting Problem
Treatment Goals
Identification and explanation of at least two techniques and interventions
Expected Outcome
By Day 3
Post your feminist or transpersonal conceptualization.
Be sure to support your main post with specific references to the Learning Resources using proper APA format and citations. Your response posts may be more conversational and less formal.
Read your colleagues’ postings.
By Day 5
Respond to at least two of your colleagues’ posts and explain whether you believe the proposed case conceptualization is the most beneficial for the case selected and why.
Your responses may be more informal than your main post.
Dawn R
Case Conceputlization Transpersonal Theory
Case of Jason: Conceptualization of Problem through Transpersonal Theory Approach
Presenting Problem
From a transpersonal perspective, Jason appears to be experiencing some depression because of his religious beliefs not being congruent with his chosen sexuality preferences. According to Hartelius (2007), Transpersonal theory is a transformative approach of the whole person. It is their intimate interrelationship with the whole self and the world. It pays special attention to self-experience states as well as spiritual ones. Jason could be suffering from an overlap of spiritual experiences that are causing him to have disturbed mental symptoms (Davis, 2000).
If he can be helped to reach a higher consciousness from the personal self to the transpersonal or outside of self a more healthy development can exist throughout the whole person (Wilber, 1997). Jason’s religious beliefs have taught him that homosexuality is sinful and forbidden, but he chooses to stay in a same sex relationship thus is causing tension. This tension has caused transformation in his consciousness because the horizontal and vertical dimensions are not equal. In order for him to find relief with some of his depressive symptoms, he must find wholeness in each of his separate parts (Bidwell, 1999).
Jason presents with feelings of loneliness, despair, frequent crying, and isolation. The transpersonal counselor will work with him to reframe his current conditions and find his “authentic self”. He might feel powerless and desperately trying to escape these emotions through long work hours. Transpersonal theory believes that all voices within each person should be honored in some form. In addition, that even the
