ORIGINS There were four (4) marked periods of person centered therapy development. ... HUMANISTIC APPROACH A common view in the person centered approach is the humanist ideal. ... Therapists with the humanistic approach guide the clients towards making changes that lead to the client experiencing a fulfilling life although not without continued struggle and they come to the realization that are constantly evolving. ... In this study person centered therapy was twice as effective as the traditional treatment. ... TECHNIQUES There are no techniques which are vital to the person centered approach...

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Life Span Perspective Many individuals within someone point in their life do reflect back on earlier stages in that individual life and think about the many differences from how they use to be to how they are now. We often wonder why we have changed and when it takes to create the person we have become. Our changes without our life is examined through the science of human development. ... Views of the Life Span Perspective The life span perspective "holds many principles within human development. ... Plasticity discusses the human development explaining how humans can change and become ...

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For example, if somebody was unhappy about their job and kept on getting tasks dumped on them eventually their unhappiness would transition over to other parts of their life. ... For example, if your father is an alcoholic the odds of you being an alcoholic at some point in your life are higher than that of a person whose parents are not alcoholic. ...

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According to Lysenko's law of the life of species-- "individuals of the same species do not compete but help each other survive", which meshed perfectly with Mao's obsession with class struggle, eight-point blueprint for all Chinese agriculture was drawn up in 1958. ... He was used to instituting a series of radical social transformations and class struggles to dismiss or imprison the person who he considered to be the threat to his headship. ... However, Mao was unable to accept his mistakes because he was the person who initialized the famine. ...

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"It takes a person an average of 10 years, and an average of four doctors, to get properly diagnosed," said Gloria Pope, a spokesperson for the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance. ... Bipolar disorder is a life long disease, but the burden can be eased with early detection, proper treatment, precautionary behavior, education of physicians, patients and caregivers, and alternative methods used in combination with prescribed medications. ...

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Both had strong views regarding childhood, innocence, and the necessity to progress through life past the naivety of adolescence. Aside from simple comparisons though, Blake was his own person in a multitude of other ways. ... The common person must take more than a passing glance at Blake to truly appreciate the vast array of ideals for which he stood. ... Instead of taking this approach, one must evolve into a person more familiar with the ways of the real' world - much less nave. ...

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Furthermore, the panopticon exemplifies power and control because it minimizes the persons needed to operate and maximizes the persons that it watches over. ... Many of these security measures are now becoming so ingrained in everyday life that we are oblivious to them and we do not question their existence. ... Whitehead mentions in his article tilted: Kafkas America that "We now live in a society in which a person can be accused of any number of crimes without knowing what exactly he has done. ...

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Citizen kane as a remembered person story The structure of "Citizen Kane" is circular, adding more depth every time it passes over the life. The movie opens with newsreel obituary footage that briefs us on the life and times of Charles Foster Kane. ... Kane even runs for President of the United States, but his life is ultimately about the quest for acceptance and popularity and the loneliness that money cannot fix in Citizen Kane. ... They are being shown the true meaning of a man's life through the course of the movie, which ties into the earlier point about only audiences learning ...

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Smoke Signals, rather than being a cohesive screenplay, is more of a series of a few noteworthy moments of the life of two brothers, Victor and Thomas. ... Thomas, on the other hand, is a very calm person who often narrates inventive stories to his brother all through their journey. ... This feature is easily recognizable by anyone who would have closely interacted with Native Americans in their life. For those viewers who do not have any idea about the cultural backgrounds of Native Americans, the film offers a sense of the hardships that indigenous people face in their effort to retain their...

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An individual has liberty, which includes the right of owning his life. He is the possessor of his life. ... In a typical situation, a person has some terrible, deadly disease. ... If a person decides that he wants to die, and someone does not think that this is a good decision, what right does the opposing person have to tell him that he cannot do this? ... If the person is no longer able to relate in any way to his relatives and friends, he might not want to live a day further. ...

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When a person turns eighteen does the fabled light of enlightenment come down and totally change the way you think, somehow transforming you into an adult? ... Another version of the story is that you become an adult when you move out and begin to see the story of life for what it really is, my advise to you is to stay at home until you get tired of your parents giving subtle hints about you leaving their future guest room, don't become an adult until you have to, it's not really what you always thought it would be. ... Adult life is not simple, it's not fun, it is life. ...

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Persons may take into consideration the amount of hours the job requires, the duties, the requirements and most importantly, the salary base for the job. Along with these factors, a person must have the desire and motivation for the career path chosen. ... Firstly, in order for a person to be hired as a surgeon, there are many requirements a person must fulfill before even being considered for the job. ... General Surgeons are usually paid very well for the life-saving responsibilities they uphold on the job. ... Having the best attitude and the goal of saving each patient's life ever...

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Life of Illusion In society today, individuals view the appearance or possessions of a person as reality when in truth they are living a life full of illusions. ... For example, individuals may judge a person by his or her material possessions, and it is assumed that person is of the aristocratic society, but in reality he or she may belong to the middle- class and maybe in enormous debt. ... One might say Matilda feels that a person's self-worth is measured by his /her material possessions. ... In general, the truth of ones" life can be deceiving to others. ... However, I feel it i...

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When a person's beliefs, values and norms are not in line with the organisations, they will not feel connected to the business. ... A person who does not understand their job or certain job tasks is not likely to be content in that position. ... It is also now believed that productivity may actually affect a persons job satisfaction, rather than the inverse, as was once held to be true. A person, who excels in their position, is more likely to be satisfied with their job. ... Maritime Life, a successful Canadian life insurer, considers "employee satisfaction is at the root of customer sat...

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How to Examine the Effects of Personal Hardships Hardships occur in and usually greatly impact the lives of everyone, especially those who are at an age where they are still discovering who they are and how they fit into the "big picture" of life. ... Essentially, by the time a person hits legal age, they have experienced events that will forever change how they view themselves and the world they are about to enter. ... Wang Lung's hardships were mostly pecuniary, but turned him from a modest farmer into the type of person he use to resent. ...

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Kierkegaard gained fame from his three stages on life's way that include the aesthetic, ethical, as well as religious stages. ... Is Kierkegaard anti-philosophical in regards to the very essence of life as conceptualized individually as well as collectively and by extension? ... This can probably be exemplified by the biblical example of the youthful rich ruler, who seeks Jesus' thoughts on how to enter heaven, even though he is sure he is a good person. ... From his arguments regarding this stage, Kierkegaard seeks to portray that sacrifices are necessary in life in order to realize...

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That is why chronological age, the number of years a person has lived, is an inaccurate basis of functional age. Functional age is a term for a person's age that is determined as a measure of their functional capabilities that have been indexed to a standard. ... Although generally, loss outweighs improvement and maintenance as people approach the end of life. ... It involves coming to terms with one's life.Despair is the result of the negative resolution or lack of resolution of the final life crisis. This negative resolution manifests itself as a fear of death, a sense that life i...

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Some of them include health insurance and life insurance. ... The next type of insurance we learned about was Life Insurance. ... In order to convince people to get life insurance the agencies will split it up in to two types of insurances that will cover you for a different amount of time, term and ordinary life. Term insurance is a lot cheaper but it is usually a month by month coverage whereas ordinary life is a lot more expensive but it covers the person for life so it all depends on the buyer to make the decision whether to take the term or the ordinary life. ... In the end it would make...

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How Native American culture is perceived may have changed, but to those that live on a reservation life may have not changed as much as a person might see form television. ... Erdrich and Alexie both paint reservation life as one that is not concerned with the daily hustle and bustle that is normally associated with life in a big city. The life that they describe more closely resembles one of a small town, or rural country community. ... Alexia has been criticized as portraying Indian life on reservations as demeaning. ... This is often something that a person might not be exposed to without t...

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Lee and Satrapi highlight the intolerance through the use of first-person perspective, symbolism, and textual/graphical irony. Lee and Satrapi both use a child's first-person perspective in their texts to challenge commonly held values and beliefs of the intolerant public society. ... Lee and Satrapi's use of first-person perspective is designed to challenge the readers' values and present the intolerance of their public societies through clashing public and personal values. ... " Marji later states that she feels ashamed because the social class system present in the ...

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Lee and Satrapi highlight the intolerance through the use of first-person perspective, symbolism, and textual/graphical irony. Lee and Satrapi both use a child's first-person perspective in their texts to challenge commonly held values and beliefs of the intolerant public society. ... Lee and Satrapi's use of first-person perspective is designed to challenge the readers' values and present the intolerance of their public societies through clashing public and personal values. ... " Marji later states that she feels ashamed because the social class system present in the p...

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While many Americans still rely upon the faulty "realities" of the evening news to catch their glimpse of real life, those who are seriously devoted to learning about life's everyday realities are turning to reality television. ... First, reality based television shows display accurate depictions of everyday life by placing its" characters in very realistic situations. ... These "pillar personalities" include: a homosexual, at least one ethnically diverse person who is very defensive about their race, one small-town jock, one whiny girl, one male chauvinist instigator, one feminist instig...

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People go through stages of life from birth to death that shape their body, their personalities, thoughts, interactions with people, and also develop a personal code of ethics. ... During Infancy, most of the brain cells a person will ever have are present at birth. ... Decline in the functioning of the body's disease fighting immune system makes the elderly more susceptible to life-threatening aliments such as cancer and pneumonia. ... However, adolescence is a time of growing peer influence and discriminating parental influence, especially on matters of personal taste and life-style. Be...

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It is for this reason that I have chosen Utilitarianism as the ethical and moral system I employ in my everyday life. ... " This quote, by Leon Trotsky, written in his book, Their Morals and Ours, depicts relativistic ideals in that through relativism, the end results of actions taken may easily justify said actions as long as the person taking said actions benefit from the end result. ... Furthermore, a person who follows a deontological mindset, which focuses more on the rightness or wrongness when it comes to an action rather than the consequences of an action, may look at a utilitar...

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Life Space Crisis Intervention (LSCI) has been proven to be an extremely effective program for crisis intervention and conflict resolution. ... It is their book, Life Space Intervention: Talking To Children in Crisis (Long, Fescer & Wood, 2001), which provides the framework for the training. ... The goal is to help young persons develop clear thinking and pro-social behavior. LSCI utilizes problem-solving strategies that target these six patterns of self-defeating behavior: Red Flag: Stress in a child's life space is carried to another setting where it sparks conflict. ...

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