NUR 640 Weekly Discussion

NUR 640 Weekly Discussion

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  • Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted, and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources. Your initial post is worth 8 points.

Week 1: The PMHNP as a Psychotherapist

Psychotherapy is often misunderstood or devalued.

  • Discuss your views of the PMHNP as a psychotherapist
  • Discuss whether it is feasible to provide psychotherapy at each patient encounter

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Week2: Dream Interpretation

Freud viewed dreams as the “royal road to the unconscious.”

  • Discuss a memorable dream from your childhood. Provide as much detail about the dream as possible.
  • Interpret the dream of two peers using the psychodynamic dream of Freud or Jung

Week 3: Genogram

A genogram is often used to illustrate the behaviors of a family unit across generations.

The genogram can be used to reduce resistance to harmful family patterns.

  • Recall a family with a member who has a history of drug or alcohol dependence.
  • Describe how the genogram can be used to address the denial of family unit addiction to individual family members.

NUR 640 Weekly Discussion

Week 4: Automatic Thoughts

Patients are often asked to write their record their negative thoughts as homework for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) session.

  • Explain how difficult this task might be for depressed patients?
  • Identify your culture and ethnicity. Describe how negative thoughts are perceived in your culture.
  • Discuss ways you could increase the likelihood that a depressed patient completes the Automatic Thoughts Download Automatic Thoughts assignment.

NUR 640 Weekly Discussion

Week 5: The Culture of Family Violence

Identify your culture and how it addresses family violence.

  • In your opinion, what is the best way for a family therapist to bring up the issues of abuse and violence in a family when those are not the problems that family members have identified?

Week 6: Grief

A 75-year-old widower walks into your practice to request therapy services. He has grieved the loss of his wife for the last 28 months; they were married 50 years.

  • Explain the significance of interpersonal deficit as it relates to interpersonal therapy
  • Describe how you would ask “very good” questions to facilitate the patient’s ability to see their own experiences.

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Week 7: The Therapist’s Personality

According to Carl Rogers, unconditional positive regard involves basic acceptance and support of a person, regardless of what the person says or does. The therapist gives space for the client to express whatever immediate feeling is going on—confusion, resentment, fear, anger, courage, love, or pride.

  • Discuss the role of the therapist’s personality in person-centered psychotherapy.

Are there particular people who have been or would be especially difficult for you to unconditionally positively regard?

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