http://www.novicecounselor.com Different scenarios in counseling and how they are handled by this Novice Counselor Tue, 08 Mar 2011 02:13:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.novicecounselor.com/2009/04/19/defense-mechanisms/ http://www.novicecounselor.com/2009/04/19/defense-mechanisms/#comments Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:18:51 +0000 novice counselor http://www.novicecounselor.com/?p=238 In Freudian theory, defense mechanisms are used by people to ward off anxiety. Defense mechanisms are ways to distort reality and exclude feelings from consciousness so that we do not feel anxious; they are strategic efforts by the ego to cope with socially unacceptable impulses of the id (Pervin, Cervone, & John, 2005). An example [...]

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]]> http://www.novicecounselor.com/2009/03/31/aa-meeting/feed/ 0 http://www.novicecounselor.com/2009/03/26/dysfunctional-thoughts/ http://www.novicecounselor.com/2009/03/26/dysfunctional-thoughts/#comments Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:03:27 +0000 novice counselor http://www.novicecounselor.com/?p=150 The Novice Counselor is human and like everyone else sometimes has dysfunctional thoughts. For example, the Novice Counselor has thoughts which deal with catastrophizing a situation and thinking negatively instead of positively about setbacks. For example she will think: if so-and-so has not called me or emailed her, that means he hates her; or, “if [...]

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