The Healing Process
This is a brief psychological overview of the healing process. The image of healing is best described by Gloria Vanderbilt in "A Mother's Story" when she talks of breaking the invisible unbreakable glass bubble which enclosed her that kept her always anticipating loss with echoes of all past losses. She wrote, for example (Page 3),"Some of us are born with a sense of loss there from the beginning, and it pervades us throughout our lives. Loss, as defined, as deprivation, can be interpreted as being born into a world that does not include a nurturing mother and father. We are captured in an unbreakable glass bubble, undetected by others, and are forever seeking ways to break out, for if we can, surely we will find and touch that which we are missing".
This concept of healing was also described by Philip Berman in "If It Is
Not Good Make It So" as changing positively from the unhappy attitude of(Page
48) "we never got the habit of happiness as others know it. It was always as if we were waiting for something better or worse to happen".
Psychological theory of change suggest it is possible to heal, to break out of the glass bubble, to develop the attitude of happiness. For example, in
"The Process of Change: Variations on a Theme by Virginia Satir says on Page 89 that "successful change-making turns out to involve struggle, necessitating skill, tenacity and perspective". The struggle occurs when a foreign element produces chaos until a new integration occurs which results in a new status quo.
Kurt Lewin echoed this view in saying that an old attitude has to unfreeze, the person experiments, a new attitude develops and a refreezing occurs.
Janis and Prochasky suggest a person starts in relative complacency, is presented with challenging information, the person evaluates the new challenge to habit or policy and reviews alternate policies to create a new policy or return to the original one,
The psychological theories focus on perspective and rational thought.
The significance of the therapist is in giving a new perspective and in aiding self-esteem in order to break down resistance to change. Otherwise, Satir suggests people are likely to revert to their trance lik...
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... learn that laws and mores are not absolutes but open to constant revision as we are to do with our inner selves.
Psychology seems to share the ideas that a person in emotional pain is stuck in a self made prison which can be escaped through unconditional positive regard and a fresh perspective. What isn't clear is how rational thought combined with 'love' enters the person's heart and soul.
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Therefore, happiness is “what provokes us, incites us, need not come from our own time. Indeed, our own time may be and probably is so d
"The feebleness of our own bodies and the inadequacy of the regulations which adjust the mutual relationships of human beings in the family, the state and society" (Freud) Freud also thinks that there’s sense of frustration in finding happiness. To him, humans were more independent and had more freedom and liberty before the existence of civilization as it limits a lot of someone’s needs and desires.
to notice not the loss of their love, for they never had love, but the
1. "My happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to an end. It is the end."
The two videos that I like the most from this class was the ted talk name “America’s native prisoners of war” by Aaron Huey, and the documentary “When Your Hands are tied” by Mia Boccella and Marley Shebala. These two videos brought my attention because in the first video which is the ted talk the author of the video is an outsider of the society that he is trying to represent he did not go through the experience that the native people that he is trying to defend went through. In the documentary when your hands are tied this is a little bit more personal I think because this is a documentary where people from the tribe and people that went through all this obstacles are trying to heal themselves.
who were depressed were 4 to 5 times more likely to have made serious inquiries about
The service delivery will adopt Wanganeen (2011) seven phases to healing model. “For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People healing is a holistic process, which addresses mental, physical, emotional and spiritual needs and involves connections to culture, family and land” (Healing Foundation, para.1). The healing model would be beneficial to service delivery as it a holistic approach addressing the prolonged grief and loss experienced by Aboriginal and Torres strait Islander People Wanganeen (cited in Purdie, Dudgeon & Walker, 2010). What’s more, healing of the spirit is essential for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People that have experienced devastating grief and loss from colonisation (Briskman,2007)
Healing, that is the process of restoring health to an organism, literally to make whole again. This is a process that has been performed for many years, by many different means. Since before time was recorded people have been finding new ways to heal each other. A person gets sick or broken, and they want to be healed. That is the way of human nature. Healing can happen in almost every tissue of the body, and is a vital part of life. So why is it such a huge conflict? Because of the means by which people choose to provide healing. Some may choose to seek medical attention and guidance for every minute problem, others, however see it fit that they only seek medical help when absolutely necessary. This is where the conflict lies. In the choices made about seeking medical attention. This conflict is old, but to be specific, this conflict between people of faith and the scientific community, is centered on prayer, and the use of prayer as a supplement to, or as a replacement for, medical treatment. Should prayer be used as the only means of healing? Should people that keep their children from medical assistance, resulting in the worsening of their condition, be punished? Are parents that do the things mentioned above, in fact, making martyrs for faith out of their children? As research on this topic is done and new facts are found eyes are opened to things such as these, and the conflict is becoming more and more prevalent and urgent. This is something that doesn't seem like it should matter, but it does, it matters a whole lot to a whole bunch of people.
“One in four adults suffer from a diagnosable mental illness in a given year” (~). Society looks at mental illness differently than physical illness. The public stigma that is associated with mental illness can affect the attitude of those with mental health issues and unfortunately, slow down the recovery process. By making the public aware of what mental illness really is, how it affects individuals, their families, and the treatments that are available, the long road to recovery can be shortened.
Fontaine’s willingness to discuss his gruesome journey of a loss of identity brings awareness to the issue, soliciting other First Nations who are hesitant to speak up to build the confidence to confront the abuse that occurred at residential schools. Fontaine volunteers to have his story told in front of a federal government lawyer. At the hearing, he must answer questions about his abuse claims. Fontaine enters the room in panic and feels similar emotions to his time at residential schools; however, Fontaine understands that his hearing will be the beginning of his journey of healing. “This is the day of my healing, the long-waited opportunity to tell representatives of the government of Canada about my experience in residential schools. I’ve had to bring legal action
Happiness plays an important and necessary role in the lives of people around the world. In America, happiness has been engrained in our national consciousness since Thomas Jefferson penned these famous words in the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” (Jefferson). Since then, Americans have been engaged in that act: pursuing happiness. The problem however, as Ray Bradbury demonstrates in his novel Fahrenheit 451, is that those things which make us happy initially may eventually lead to our downfall. By examining Guy Montag, the protagonist in Fahrenheit 451, and the world he lives in we can gain valuable insights to direct us in our own pursuit of happiness. From Montag and other characters we will learn how physical, emotional, and spiritual happiness can drastically affect our lives. We must ask ourselves what our lives, words, and actions are worth. We should hope that our words are not meaningless, “as wind in dried grass” (Eliot).
Additionally, we will discuss the process of trauma recovery and fight-flight responses e.g. some people when exposed to traumatic events have a natural recovery process of PTSD while others have a difficult time with recovery because something obstructs the natural process of PTSD. Therefore, treatment is important because it helps patients get "unstuck" (Resick & Monson, 2018). Another educational component I will focus on is educating the patient regarding the premise of cognitive theory as it relates to the client’s current interruption of the traumatic event based on his beliefs. For example, while growing up the client may have learned about the world and organized them in categories or beliefs which could have influenced his interruption
Coping with the death of a friend or loved one who has struggled with a long-term illness is different than coping with the sudden death of a loved one. If a friend or loved one has struggled with a long-term illness, the person coping could have begun the grieving process before the passing of their loved one. The denial process may be shorter if their loved one had a long-term illness, as they could have already foreseen their passing as a possibility, and had time to prepare. In contrast, the sudden death of a friend or loved one may extend the denial process because they lacked the chance to prepare themselves or say their goodbyes.
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