Final class – celebration?

Hey class – is everyone up for bringing a treat of some sort to class on Thursday? Maybe we could have a final class wrap up with treats.

Anchors

I’ve created a menu bar at the top of the Narrative Therapies wiki page. I tried to make it more fancy, but had no luck. If you (collectively) like how it came out, I can do the same thing to the other theory pages.

Lastest & Latest script

Teresa and partners – i think the script looks great! Can’t wait to make final edits tomorrow!

example video

Check out this video created by a psychology class at UMKC. It is about the program, but is similar to what we’re doing at the CCS.

Wiki work

Hello All,

I’ve reviewed the Wiki and think it looks great! I don’t know what to add at this point, so thought I’d go through and format so that each page looks alike. What do y’all think? I don’t want to change a single thing without asking the class.

-Daphny

Latest Latest CCS Storyboard

Hey class,

I posted the latest CCS Storyboard on lake online (blackboard). Go over and take a look at it. It may take awhile to download. In it, I have changed the order of the slides to make more sense. I also added new pics for the informed consent and outcome forms slides, and put in the lastest revision of the script.  You can find it with the storyboard AND on buzzword. It’s labeled “Script (4-14-08)” and it contains new script to the introductory (welcome to the CCS) slide as well. I will be using this latest script to record Rohnn’s voice for our rough draft video. That is all for now.

-Anthony

Spanish script

Hey,

Should I start the Spanish transaltion with the new script version?

LP

Thursday’s Meeting

The part of the class that did not go to the TAMFT conference met and did another literature search on therapy prep videos and client expectations in therapy. There was not much to be found. We’ll bring our articles to class next Thursday. We also worked on the script together and made the changes that were suggested by Dr. Bobele, and Dr. Slive on goal setting. You can see the document on buzzword under “Ordered Script with Spanish Translations.”

 -Anthony

Class this Thursday

Do we have class this Thursday? I heard that we may not because of the TAMFT conference, but I just wanted confirmation.

For those of us who are not going to the conference, are we supposed to meet so that way we can work on the wiki packet and the script together? Or are we supposed to be working on these things individually?

 -Anthony

Video preparation – sources

I am frustrated that I cannot find the original article from Acosta et al. (1980) with the detailed description of the video, “Tell It Like It Is.” If anyone finds it, please forward because I think that would be worth our while to read. I have checked every library in town and all over the internet. Nothing. I could not find any other articles other than the ones we had already found earlier in the semester. I did find something about how multimedia projects have enhanced the medical field, but not specific to counseling.

On another note, here are my thoughts about the 2 articles that Dr. Bobele asked us to read:

The Acosta et al. (1983) article was geared more towards what Dr. Slive was saying about preparing clients by 1. informing clients to be more assertive; 2. understand the process; 3. clearly express problems, needs, & expectations; and 4. be more active. I would like to see the 7 types of behavior that are valued, though, that Acosta et al. assert in the video. On the other hand, it seems that their other treatment, the not oriented program, is like our present idea for the video. It is more of an orientation to therapy at our clinic (like their video of the L.A. Med. Ctr.) which describes our process of therapy, including scheduling appts., taking consultation breaks, having 2 co-therapists, etc. According to Acosta, then, our video would not be very effective at providing information about how therapy is effective, and clients would not be any more positive in their attitudes towards therapy. 

The other article by Reis and Brown assessed whether it is beneficial to provide a video of this sort and if it’s useful for clients to have the opportunity to estimate how long they will be in therapy. We all know the results of their study, so it seems that they arrived at the same conclusion about the video that the original authors did.  

Thus, I am thinking that if we divert from our original script and idea for our video, and focus our video on the goals for our clients (i.e. ask for what they need) then we will be more effective, like Dr. Slive said. If so, then I think the sections we could keep are the goals, homework, and making appointments sections. In addition, we would need to add more about how we expect our clients to act while in therapy (asking questions, clarifying when we say something they do not agree with or understand, stating how they would want to improve, etc.) and even between sessions (carrying out their homework).  Therefore, we need to change our rationale for this video to focus more on expectations of clients after watching this video, rather than only making the clients comfortable with the process (we want them to do more than just be comfortable and at ease). 

This is it for now.  

 Karri