Video Therapy Analysis: A Case Study

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In this video, you will meet Kevin, my nine-year-old client who came to therapy after threatening to bring a gun to school and shoot a student and choking a student. As a result of his difficulties with his school work and his interactions with others, Kevin had resorted to aggression in order to express his feelings of anger and frustration. By the time he came to see me, Kevin was experiencing problems in his interactions with his peers at school and his siblings at home. In order to help Kevin create alternative stories, I utilized a combination of narrative therapy, solution-focused therapy and play therapy. Because of Kevin's initial reticence and unwillingness to take place in the therapy sessions, I had to rely on approaches in play therapy to enable Kevin to communicate his inner feelings with different tools. Providing him with a journal and using a card game were particularly effective techniques in helping Kevin overcome his inhibitions and establishing our relationship. Furthermore, as you will see in this video, my use of the solution-focused therapy and narrative therapy approaches enabled us to identify and explore the problems from Kevin's perspective. By broadening the context and discovering exceptions to his problematic behavior, we were able to formulate concrete goals that Kevin was committed to attain. As a result of these therapy sessions, Kevin has continued to make considerable progress both academically and socially even after

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nd frustration. Called the Anger Solution Card Game, this activity exposes children to different types of situations, which are described in individual situation cards. Each of the situation cards also contains a selection of solution cards in which various solutions are described. The child is asked to select the solution he considers to be most apt for the situation. Although the child is allowed to any solution card, he can only pick one solution card for each situation. Therefore, the child is challenged to reflect carefully on his choices. One of the solution cards, S10, involves the child devising his own solutions. Play therapy is clearly an effective technique in stimulating Kevin to discuss his issues about his anger and frustration. The moment I suggest that we play a card game, Kevin becomes very alert and attentive. He sits upright on the couch and moves onto the floor with me as I lay out the different cards. By sitting down on the floor with him, I am also applying the principles of play therapy by entering the realm of play with Kevin, thus enhancing our connection with one another (Barnes, 2001). He attends to my instructions without requiring any additional encouragement. Even though Kevin has been u
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