Title: The Therapeutic Relationship and Affect
Regulation
Goal of
the Assignment: The
purpose of this paper is to demonstrate your ability to apply the course
content regarding affect regulation while facilitating a strong therapeutic
relationship with one of your cases. If you do not have a current or previous child
or adolescent client, you may use a case from the course.
Tasks:
1. Identify
one of your own child or adolescent practice cases. Summarize the presenting
problem and relevant history.
2. There are
many ways to facilitate a strong therapeutic relationship with your client
based on their age, gender, racialized identity, cultural background, and
trauma history.
a. Describe
a practice that was new to you and how you applied it to your work with this
client.
b. Address
your positionality and its impact on the therapeutic relationship.
3. Describe
one strategy for helping your client increase their affect regulation skills
that is related to the handouts for this course (e.g., belly breathing
exercise, mindfully eating a raisin).
4. Describe
how the therapeutic relationship contributes to the effective use of the affect
regulation intervention focused on increasing affect regulation skills.
Format: Typed,
double-spaced 5-page paper with bibliography in APA style.
The paper has been submitted and there were questions asked below: Can you please answer the questions within the chat first and also in the paper.
This paper reads well and I also have some questions. Jenny is 8 so I am wondering about the use of narrative therapy? Jenny was able to identify this as an 8 year old? In narrative therapy, Jenny was able to identify two separate entities: the influence of her trauma on her and the sources of the trauma. This allows her to externalize the experiences and see herself separate from the events.
I am also wondering about her Latina background and how that factors into the case.
My next question is on positionality-you do not name your positionality-you also use the term cultural competence a lot but we do not use that term-the class is based on an anti-racist framework
Finally, what do you mean by this
Therefore, mental health professionals and social workers must prioritize individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences by providing culturally sensitive and trauma-informed care.
