Case Study On Narrative Behavioral Therapy

Introduction
Client is a 30-year-old Hispanic American male who appears his stated age. Client’s posture was open, calm, and cooperative throughout the assessment. Client maintained good eye contact, which faltered when he began to recall his abusive past. Client James Diaz came to Ocean (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism) for his third session with therapist Tamar Jaff on 3/20/2018. Client entered the office with an established rapport with his social worker. Client has been attending yoga sessions at Active Life Active Mind for seven sessions to date. Client was referred by writer to attend yoga to work on his daily stress and angry outbursts. Last session on 3/13/2018 client mentioned that he feels as if he needs more resources to work on his anger. Writer referred client to Awareness Naming Goals Enroute Recovery, which is an anger

With time and practice writer can develop these skills. Writer wants to educate herself further on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy by reading articles and doing further research. Through role play activities in class writer can develop better therapy skills and work on techniques. Writer thinks that shadowing a session or watching YouTube videos of therapy sessions can help with question building and constructing. If a similar session came up in the future writer would like to use a Strength Based Approach. In retrospect writer would have told client, “you are a good son, and a successful man.” Writer would have asked client to write out their strengths and positives that they like about themselves. This would help the client to find good in himself and realize that even though he went through an abusive childhood he turned out to be a good person that is open to work on himself. Writer could have Pointed out that the client was able to forgive which is an amazing accomplishment that the client should be very proud