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The Influence of Wanting on Relationships: A Clinicians Guide to Understanding and Addressing Sexual Desire Better
No full textDesire discrepancy is the most common issue for many couples that come into the counselling room. As counsellors, experiencing clients presenting with issues related to desire discrepancy is likely going to happen. As such, exploring what desire discrepancy is, how it can influence a relationship, the models for understanding it, and what clinicians can possibly do about it is important. In order to help new clinicians, gain more understanding, this paper will explore spontaneous and responsive desire. It will provide two foundational models for understanding what might be happening for clients in the Dual Control Model and the Non-Linear Model of Desire and a model to guide clinicians approach using the PLISSIT Model. This paper will also provide specific suggestions of interventions that can and have been useful for dealing with desire discrepancy and explore the PLISSIT Model as a model to outline how to approach desire discrepancy with a couple. The paper will explore the PLISSIT Model and provide limited information and specific suggestions so clinicians can also apply the PLISSIT Model with couples for desire discrepancy. Finally, specific resources are offered to clinicians for further information and research
Enhancing Mental Health Outcomes for Indigenous Clients by Embodying Decolonizing Principles
Get PDFThe following research paper explores how non-Indigenous practitioners can work to enhance mental health outcomes for Indigenous Peoples by embodying decolonizing principles. First, the author will position themselves within Canada’s history, the paper will then briefly discuss the ongoing harms the profession of psychology has inflicted on Indigenous communities through colonial violence. This will be followed by a critical analysis of the current literature that will highlight individual, institutional, and social responsibilities in the decolonization process. Subsequently, consideration of implications for counseling psychology, and areas for future research are discussed. Recommendations for applied clinical practice can then be offered. The manuscript concludes with a reflexive personal statement. However, the entire document was written through reflexive practice (Allen, 2023). Within the Blackfoot 5 territories where I live, I sought out professional and academic guidance from Blackfoot professionals, as well as immersion and genuine relationship building with the diverse Indigenous community who currently live here. Through these choices I sought to develop strategies to question my "own attitudes, thought processes, values, assumptions, prejudices and habitual actions, to strive to understand [my] complex role in relation to others." (Allen, 2023)