Person-centred counselling.
In person-centred counselling the theory is that the therapist must give 'unconditional positive regard' to the client. Viewing the client to be a person of self worth and self value, no matter what their conditions, their behaviour or their feelings. Respecting the client for what they are, and accepting them as they are with their potentialities. I find this an interesting area and question whether giving unconditional positive regard is always possible. Does this mean that the therapist puts aside his/her own values and assumes the attitude that anything goes. I will explore this question from the therapist's point of view in this essay, and I will refer to unconditional positive regard as UPR. Positive regard is essentially about being accepting of others and conveying this acceptance. It is based on a profound belief in positive human nature. Carl Rogers approach to the study of persons is phenomenological and idiographic. He views human behaviour as exquisitely rational. He states that the core of man's nature is that he is a 'trustworthy organism' who is realistic, positive and unique. The entire theory behind person-centred therapy is built on the 'actualizing tendency'. This is a 'force of life' that gives us the desire to strive to make the very best of our existence. The actualising tendency is holistic in its mechanism, constant in its state and
one to one communication interaction
In this activity, I will be carrying out two interactions, one with an individual and one with a group of service users. For my individual interaction I have chosen to work with a service user from my workplace. I am a social tutor working with deaf and blind adults. I will take an activity with a group of young children in a local school for my group interaction. After these interactions have taken place, I will look at and discuss the types of communication skills shown, and I will also describe the interpersonal interaction that occurred. Communication with other people involves a process that most of us take for granted. We need to pass information using a form of code from one individual to another. A code is a communication system, which contains elements, which all individuals will understand. This could be verbal, non-verbal i.e. body language, Braille, sign language, writing, pictures or even music to convey a message (CCMS, 2006). We need to express our thoughts to another person using methods of communication. The other person thinks about our communication and responds. We then check the response, whether the communication has been correctly interpreted, and if not we need to clarify our communication. Gerard Egan (1986) states that 'the goal of listening is understanding'. (Moonie, 2005) I had chosen to work with a male service user, a resident at my workplace.
How are the themes brought up in "A death of a salesman" releveant to the presant day.
My essay looks at a sales man called willy who trys to cope with the stresses of his work and family life, and how in the present day thing like this are easy to relate to. Q:How are the themes brought up in "A death of a salesman" releveant to presant day There are many things in this play that are relevant to the lives of people today. The modern world is full of stress, whether it is work related, financial worries or problems in the family. Most people suffer at some time from anxiety or even depression, and suicides driven by a sense of failure to achieve are not uncommon. Particularly in the USA the belief in the 'American Dream' is strong, this belief is that any one no matter who they are can achieve what ever they want and nothing can stop them. In Arthur Miller's play, even though it was written over 50 years ago the problems associated with modern city living and pressured life styles were already apparent, particularly in the USA where this play is set. In my following paragraphs I am going to cover the topics which I think are very important to the break down of Willy and the relevance it has today. I am going to include, family life, as it is almost exactly the same as today. Then I am going to study the American dream, and finally The pressures of his job and his financial worries. 'The American Dream consists of a belief that in America, all things are
Skungpoomery - Textual Analysis.
GCSE Drama Coursework2 Skungpoomery - Textual Analysis We used the text Skungpoomery as a starting point for our scripted pieces we used this text to look at ways of developing a character and using the space within a rehearsal process. It's a comedy piece but like all comedy pieces it needs to work to be funny and the jokes have to be clear, comedy pieces are really one of the hardest kinds of performances you can ether do them or you can't. I this piece uses two stereotypical characters as the basis for the humour, a week and easily dominated son and a formidable and dominant mother. The good thing about this piece is that you can make it very funny by having the mother played by a male like a pinto dame. To gain a good prospectus for the characters we did two things that helped build up an idea of them, first of all we did hot seating we got to people out of the class and one was the boy - PC Nicholas Wibble and the other was Mrs Wibble. They would sit in the centre of a circle and we would ask them questions and they would have to answer them as if they were the character. This did help a lot with creating the character it also helps to build a back round for the character which you can think about when you are being that person. The second thing we did was to build up in our minds what they would look like and put it on paper this gave us an understanding of their
Write about how the authors have made you aware of different experiences and feelings associated with growing up.
Write about how the authors have made you aware of different experiences and feelings associated with growing up. All the three short stories, that I read in anthology all deals with the same ideology 'Growing up'. Here in all these stories the movement from childhood to adulthood is a significant change. The story 'Superman and Paula brown's new snow suit' is written by Sylvia Plath, the story is set in North America in the city of Boston during the Second World War. The story is about a Girl who was happy and lives in her own intense dream world. She is fascinated by flying and almost believes superman could teach her to fly. She plays superman games with her friend David. Her father has died and she idealises her Uncle Frank. Superman and Uncle Frank are bound together in her mind. Gradually, she becomes affected by the war. She is physically sick when she sees graphic pictures of the horrors of the prisoner of war camps. Superman can't save her from nightmares. She is at first powerless when accused by Paula Brown, then become isolated and a target. Everyone turn against her. She has been victim for the mistake which she has not done. Paula got slid while playing which was her own fault but she pointed the narrator and blames her for what she has not done. She is truly innocent on this matter. After this her usual comforts of
Drama Coursework - Paper 1 Unit1 - Devised Workshop Love and Abuse
Joseph Patrick Drama Coursework Paper 1 Unit1 Devised Workshop Love and Abuse Response Phase 1: Lyrics as Stimulus: Breathless Breathless: My first thought about this song was that it would be about something happy; this is because the beat of the song is somewhat upbeat. After the first listening we received the words and then you got the full effect of this song. In reality this song is one of sadness and of the tragedy of a woman being abused by her significant other. I have remorse for this woman because she says that, 'I've never felt so much to blame.' This isn't right for her to blame herself for the abuse that she faces in her everyday life. Picture as Stimulus: Photo of Claire When I first saw the picture of Claire I was amazed that a human being could do that to another human being. I was amazed that Claire had the strength to let a newspaper run an article about her with a picture. I thought that she must be a really strong, good hearted person to inform others about the abuse and violence that goes on every single day of the year. By looking at the picture one cannot help but to wonder what was going on at the time that this incident took place, and who committed this gruesome act of violence upon another human being. Also you wonder whether or not the person who did this was trying to kill Claire or not. Imagine you are Claire: If I was Claire when this
A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is a play of romantic comedy. It is one of Shakespeare's more famous comedies and has been performed by many different actors. The production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' that I watched was performed in London's Regents Park by the Open Air Theatre Company. The play was successful because of the dramatical techniques and acting shown by the performers. This essay explores the techniques and acting, and compares them to a cinema production of the same play. The play takes place in the Greek City of Athens, about the same time as Shakespeare. There are three main groups of people in the play, the fairies, the lovers and the mechanicals. Each has a specific role in the plot of the play, and their separate worlds get intertwined during the middle section of the play. All the groups meet in the woods just outside of Athens, and it is here that the main section of the play happens. The fairies accidentally put a love potion into Lysander's eyes, making him fall in love with Helena. They then put the love potion into Demetrius's eyes in an attempt to rectify the situation. While this is happening the mechanicals have come to the woods to rehearse their play. Puck, one of the fairies turns Bottom into an ass, and makes Titania, the Queen of the fairies fall in love with him by using the love juice. Each of the
Paper 1 Unit 1: Exploring Persecution
Paper 1 Unit 1: Exploring Persecution Evaluation by Matthew Simpson When devising our piece about persecution, I felt that our piece should convey several different things to the audience. Firstly, our stimulus is key to understanding what we wanted to show; we chose the Rwandan Genocide and so wanted to show how the oppressed or the persecuted in this situation, due to what has happened to them feel the desire to overpower the oppressors or the persecutors, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. I also felt it was important to show that these people held many similar beliefs and traditions and ways of life and the main difference between them (the Hutus and the Tutsis) are their names, and so show that their conflict was pointless. Perhaps it also shows how people can turn in on their own kind because of these attributed differences which have no physical or even cultural correspondence. Furthermore, I felt it important to show the historical context of the piece and the influences of Western powers upon poorer African nations. After the Treaty of Versailles, Rwanda was under the command of Belgium who promptly gave all of the power positions within the Rwandan society to Tutsis whilst the Hutus had the lower skilled jobs and perhaps even felt sub-human. Over the next 60 years the tensions between the two groups would build up considerably until the
Is ameriaca misogynist soceity
American theatre, Jesse Schwenk Cheryl Jackson 04022300 Is America a misogynist society? Give reference to 2 plays When deconstructing text and trying to come up with a black and white answer about whether America is a misogynist society is something of a challenge due to the fact that contradictions are always going to appear. I believe that it is a matter of opinion and it is down to the interpretation of the reader whether or not America is in fact a misogynist society. However, exploring Arthur Millers, The Crucible, which is a play based on the Salem witch hunts in 1692 but is a reflection of McCarthyism which concerned Miller at the time he wrote the play in 1953 and also Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, I hope to find an answer in which I can argue to another fully, although in another opinion somebody else may disagree. An important part of my research is also going to include women's rights in America's society today and also in history. It is known that women have had fewer priorities than men, for example voting rights, throughout the 19th century this has changed and women now have a lot of the same rights as men. Women have always been regarded as homemakers and men as the breadwinners. It has also been the men that have predominantly been in power in politics. Dorothy McBride Stetson writes, 'Women have had equal voting rights for
EN2372 Shakespeare:
EN2372 Shakespeare: Genre, text and performance. Registration Number 0345709. Performance Review: 'O' (2001) Directed by, Tim Blake Nelson. The 1995 release of the film 'Clueless', based on Jane Austen's 'Emma', saw a new trend emerge in Hollywood. By adapting classic literary texts into modern day 'Teen Dramas', the film industry and those working in education may argue that such films allow youngsters an insight into plays and novels written hundreds of years ago. In effect, the work of Shakespeare and others is made accessible to the young, and in a world where reading is now perhaps considered secondary, many may well relish the fact that classic stories are still being presented and enjoyed in this ever evolving and advancing society. As Lynda E. Boose and Richard Burt argue: "...this shift to a cultural studies approach opens new possibilities for a kind of Shakespeare criticism with wider appeal to a non-academic public (which presumes, of course, that the Shakespearean academic necessarily wants such a popular audience).1 It could be argued that this new trend in making Shakespeare accessible to teens through film, is merely a moneymaking commodity. Indeed many of these adaptations pay little respect to the script they are supposedly based upon. However, because the tag line of the film hails itself as being, for example: "an exceptionally intelligent and powerful
