05 Feb Discuss the application of reality therapy to (a) multicultural and diverse populations, and (b) diagnostic groups

Theoretical Questions: ½ – 1 page per question

1. Discuss the application of reality therapy to (a) multicultural and diverse populations, and (b) diagnostic groups.
2. Describe the populations of people and diagnostic groups for whom existential therapy seems most appropriate. Include a discussion of its applicability to culturally diverse groups.
3. Discuss the pros and cons of clinician self-disclosure, its appropriate and inappropriate purposes, and three guidelines for the use of self-disclosure.

Theoretical Scenarios: 1 – 1½ pages per scenario

1. Your new 18-year old client Jennifer tells you, “my boyfriend is away at college and last night he didn’t return my phone calls. I called him 15 times between 10 o’clock and 3 a.m. That’s when I finally cried myself to sleep. I know he was out with another girl. I’m so angry. He’s going to do to me what my father did to my mother. I was just 7 when my dad moved away and started another family. Every weekend I would wait at the window for him to come and visit me. Sometimes he would forget and I would cry all night. I felt so bad. When I was 16 I started cutting myself; it was the only thing that made me feel better.”

Identify three statements that indicate Jennifer might be appropriate for Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Identify how the four modules of DBT would help Jennifer gain skills and meet counseling goals

2. You are a client-centered therapist. Write one empathic clinician response and one sympathetic clinician response for each of the following client statements:
(a) I cannot believe that my son totaled my new car.
(b) I’d like to stay in school, but I don’t think I have enough money for next year’s tuition.
(c) My dad said he would come to see me this weekend but he never showed up.

3. You are a Gestalt therapist, working with Jumo, a 33-year old Chinese-American man that believes his father’s death is the cause of all his problems. His father died in a car accident when Jumo was 8-years old, leaving his mother with little financial or emotional support. As a result, Jumo had to help raise his 3 younger siblings, was unable to have much of a social life, and had to turn down a college scholarship to help support the family.

You are about to have a session with Jumo. Choose three of the following Gestalt techniques and create an example of your session with Jumo, using the three techniques you chose.
(choose 3)
a. role plays
b. empty chair
c. “ah-ha” experience
d. topdog/underdog game
e. hot seat

f. making the rounds