The name of my movie is Clinical, it is entailed a Therapist which is specialized in Trauma
recovery for adult and adolescent’s psychiatrist. Her business was at her resident. The therapist
is known to be one of the best therapists in town. She is known to help many adults, children and
adolescents recovered from Traumatic events. The therapist also, see another therapist due to a
childhood trauma she has not get over but needs help with. The movie started one of her patients
try committing suicide in front of the therapist, she took a piece of glass, started to cut herself
then put the glass to her throat, telling the therapist I followed what you told me but it did not
work. “You told me to confront the problem” The therapist uses confrontation techniques with
her patients. The therapist seeing Nora try to take her life was traumatic for the therapist as well.
After, this tragedy at the therapist home; Nora was hospitalized in a psychiatric ward for ten
months; the patient began to show improvement at the psychiatric ward which led her to be
discharged. Nora was a patient of the therapist; she came seeking help. While speaking to the
therapist, Nora asked “what I am telling you today will this be confidential”. The therapist said
yes! Nora suffered with abused her whole childhood life, until she went seeking help at 18. The
perpetrator used to come into her room and sexual abused her every night. Nora was an innocent
child which her father groomed her to be his lover rather than his child. She lived with her dad
for 18 years during this time her dad was sexual abusing her. During therapy Nora told the
therapist her dad died, which this was not true, Nora dad was alive. Nora developed low selfesteem, abused drugs self-harm, she used to peel her skin of her hands until it bleeds, she had no
friends, PTSD due to her childhood trauma, and was diagnosed with Bipolar. She was living in a
dark place for a long time. One day Nora dad came after the therapist, trying to kill her, the
therapist asked him who hurt you so bad which he had to abuse his own flesh and blood. The
perpetrator told the therapist his dad used to come into his room every night. When his dad
comes home, drunk he had sexual intercourse, physical and mentally abused him, He was a sad
unhappy boy. Therefore, when his wife had a little girl, to show love for his child, he did the
same what he was done to him. His mind was twisted. One day Nora decided to end her life she
hanged herself. Ending her life of pain and sorrow was the best thing for Nora, this caused Nora
dad to go after the therapist because he believes the therapist was changing his daughter. She did
not want to sleep with her dad anymore. The therapist also had night sweat and nightmares
because of her past childhood trauma which began to resurface due to Nora situations. The
therapist was raped when she was a little child by her mother ex-boyfriend, which she did not get
a chance to overcome her childhood trauma. Therefore, if a client she has reminds her of her
trauma, this began to affect Nora therapy which led her to take medications. One-night Nora dad
came after the therapist, he somehow drugged her which led her to be delusional, which the
therapist end up killing her boyfriend that lead the therapist to end up in a psychiatric ward.
During this time the therapist did not know she killed her boyfriend because she was drugged by
Nora’s dad.
Therapeutic Implications
The therapist client Nora, was raised in a dysfunctional home, which her biological dad
repeatedly raped her all her child hood life, she was emotional, scared and did not trust anyone,
she try to commit suicide, depressed, did not love herself and think no one loves her, she felt
lonely in a world. Older she got Nora realize what her dad was doing to her was wrong.
Although this was not a true story, however, some children/adolescents go through this, which is
unfair and sad. When a child comes into this world, they are innocents, sexual advancement is
learned from your environment. Nora should be happy and enjoying life with her friends now
this is something she must live with for the rest of her life. Firstly if this was real life clients, I
would report her dad to the authority, which he needs psychological help and needs to be in jail
for a long life, due to taking his daughter innocents from her. As a therapist which wants to help
my client; I will actively listen to Nora, try to build a client and therapist relationship because I
want her to trust me first. Building a rapport with your clients is very important.
As a therapist Nora will need Psychosocial Interventions, which she will benefit from
individually or group based psychological therapy, weekly assessments and contact
interventions, which client will check-in with therapist or someone can be assigned to the client
as a buddy. This will assure the client having that group support which she needs. Due to the
client struggles with severe depression, and self-harm she will need some type of medication,
therefore; Pharmacological Interventions can also be included. Witt et. al. (2020) stated
Pharmacological treatments may include antidepressants, for instance benzodiazepines and other
anxiolytics, may also be prescribed. However, treatment with pharmacological agents is
generally less common than treatment with psychosocial interventions, partly due to concerns
about the risk of exacerbating suicidality. Nora needs to learn coping skills and overcome her
psychiatric disorder; therefore, she will also benefit from Psychosocial Interventions which will
help her reduce impulsivity, aggression, and unhelpful reactions to distressing situations. Nora
must learn to love herself and change her mindset. Which she will benefit from Cognitive
behavioral therapy. Witt. Et. al (2020) stated CBT and problem-solving therapy will help patients
identify and critically evaluate the ways in which they interpret and evaluate disturbing
emotional experience and events. This type of therapy will help Nora on the way she thinks,
Nora thinks no one love her, she feels alone, she does not trust anyone, she gets very emotional
which lead her to harm herself. Therefore, we need Nora to change her mindset which will help
her build self-esteem and learn to love herself. Also, she will be able to develop positive
functional behavioral. Nora exhibit multiple episodes of self-harm which at times she peel her
skin off while talking to the therapist when she was angry will also benefit from Dialectical
behavioral therapy. Witt. et. al. (2020) stated DBT combines problem-solving training, skills
training, cognitive modification training and mindfulness techniques. This type of technique will
help Nora to accept her good thoughts, feelings, and behavior without necessarily attempting to
change, suppress, or avoid these experiences. With all these interventions in place, I will conduct
assessments which will help me track her progress. As a Christian therapist I will encourage
Nora to seek God and pray because with the holy spirit God can heal her pain and sorrow, which
will help her to forgive herself and others around her. What her dad did was unforgivable, but
Nora will have to forgive him one day. Her dad had a mental illness. Psalm 141: 1-2 Lord, I cry
unto thee; make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee. Let my prayer be
set forth before thee as incense, and the lifting of my hands as the evening sacrifice. This prayer
can keep Nora heart from evil thinking. God can deliver her from all her pain.
Personal Implications
I chose to look at this movie because many children have been raped by a family member. For
instance, one of my student’s confide to me his older brother had sex with him during a summer
break, hearing this was such a shock. As a school counselor I had to report this through the right
channel, calling DSS, letting an administrator know and a full police report. Also, this affected
the student physically and mentally he had to obtain clinical help from a therapist. Many children
experience trauma which they should not because they are innocent. But being raped by a family
member is very gruesome. Also, working in the school system there are many kids which are in
foster home, These kids were traumatized in so many way, most of them have low self-esteem,
not on grade level, and behavior issues. Sometimes this is very challenging for me, because some
of them does not like to express their feelings; but as a counselor you want to build a relationship
first with your students, this has been working for me. Therefore, as a therapist we must be
trained and know which type of intervention will suit the client which will lead him/her to live a
positive normal productive, functional life. Sadly, some intervention may not work, but this do
not mean for us to give up on the child/adolescent. Dittmann & Jensen (2014) stated there are
some challenge working with kids which are traumatize, which is how to get children to
collaborate in the necessary therapeutic tasks. One core component considered necessary in the
treatment of posttraumatic stress reactions is working through the child’s trauma history.
Because letting a child talk about the trauma may result in re-experiencing the trauma again
which may be more traumatizing for her/him. Just like in the movie, when Nora talk about what
her dad did to her she gets emotional, that leads her to peal her skin which results in bleeding.
She also gets angry, start to scream, gets fidgety and shut down.
Children which experience trauma and suffered PTSD, focused Cognitive Behavioral
Therapy is recommended as the first line treatment. Studies stated TF-CBT as being effective
and helps reduced a range of symptoms in children suffering from trauma. Therefore, as a
therapist it will be my line of therapy to treat children that has been traumatized (Dittmann &
Jensen 2014). Nora in the movie have to get out of her environment to see change in her life and
she needs the Holy spirit to help her heal.
The scriptures stated places around us in our environment. The environment is important
to establishing who we are (1 Corinthians 15:33). There are numerous passages in the Bible
about the Christian viewpoint on how we should not only be “true to ourselves, but true to god.”
(Romans 6:15-19) and “free to celebrate our identity in Christ” (John 3:30). Christians must give
into God and trust in His guidance.
Professional Implications
Firstly, this movie was a little scarry due to the therapist herself had some underlying issues, and
I disagree on the technique she uses with all her clients, confronting techniques meaning if you
exposed the trauma you can get over your trauma. which some of her clients can mis understand
this term, because Nora took it as facing her dad and cutting will help her overcome her issues, in
the movie the therapist caught Nora cutting herself, which Nora told the therapist it is not
working. At the end of the movie Nora committed suicide. Nora was very sick, due to what her
dad did to her. She needed intensive therapy probably needed to be psychiatric hospital. When
the therapist realized Nora was a threat, she should of report it to the authority. Nora had her
business at home, but she should of have some type of ethical rules in place with her clients. One
technique I like what she used with her clients 478 breathing. When her client gets overwhelmed,
this technique worked with the client. On a professional level we need to set boundaries for our
clients. Although we want to build a client and therapist relationship. Therapists are encouraged
to show empathy and genuineness. As with any other social relationship, the therapeutic
relationship has boundaries which help to define acceptable and unacceptable behaviors.
Watching this movie makes me feel I want to help children and adolescents who has been
traumatized. These kids need love and someone to hear them. These children need therapist
to help them feel better, makes goals, put intervention in place and conduct assessments.
Working with clients with anxiety, depressions, self-esteem, and trauma, also will benefit with
cognitive therapy or gestalt therapy, theses clients can also focus on the “here and now” and
learn to manage stress and their emotions and reconstruct their mind in a positive way. Everyone
needs to live a healthy, peaceful life. While working with clients in the secular and Christian
setting, all therapist and counselors must learn about various types of theories and conduct
assessments with clients because this will help the therapist know what type of interventions
should be put in place for the client. It is wonderful to image how a therapist would feel when
his/her clients meet their goals and responds well with interventions which are put in place. Also,
the clients will be able to live a happy, productive, and peaceful life better than before. I tell my
students that the mind is like a trickster where sometimes negative thoughts try to attack the
mind, but we have the authority to control what comes into our mind, by switching it off. If it is
not something nice, try self-talk and change the negative thoughts to something positive, or put
your mind in a happy place which will help you think about something positive. I never was
traumatized as a child but seeing what this child went through in the movie was horrifying.
Before the therapist start helping clients to overcome trauma, she should of seek help, because
dealing with some clients remind her of her childhood trauma which she has not get over. The
therapist in the movie is good but some of her techniques I disagree. We are God leaders; he can
give us the wisdom and strength to help our clients. Also, as therapist we have to take care of our
self because working with trauma case can burn out a therapist. Some type of mindfulness or
selfcare will benefit therapist with the Holy spirit at our side.
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MOVIE REVIEW ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS
OVERVIEW
Students are expected to complete two (2) movie reviews focused on childhood/adolescent
crises/trauma. Watch a movie of your choosing with a strong trauma theme and then complete a
three to four (3-4, not including your title page) page critique of the movie as it relates to the
topic of trauma. Give particular attention to how you might use the ideas presented in this movie
to counsel children/adolescents who are facing a crisis or dealing with trauma. This assignment
should have a title page which will have your name, the course, the instructor, the assignment #
(Movie review #1), and the date. (Relates to learning outcomes A, B, C, D).
INSTRUCTIONS
The Movie Review requires the student to interact with the content of the movie in a way that
allows for an understanding of the impact that movies can have on the therapeutic process.
Please start with a title page that has the title of the paper, student name, Liberty University, and
our course, TRMA 800. You should adhere to the following format in completing your Movie
Reviews:
1) The Review:
Give your impression of the movie with only the briefest description of the plot. Resist the
urge to retell the whole plot of the movie, instead sharing the scenes that had the greatest
impact on your thinking or the most potential for use within the therapeutic process. What
aspects of the movie should the viewer look for if they have not seen the movie and what
aspects/scenes do you feel warrant further reflection and why? This section should be at least
600 words in length.
2) Therapeutic Implications:
Having noted the scenes that have value for use in the therapeutic process, what is the
specific value that you see for use in the counseling process? For example, if you observe
emotional outbursts, angry tirades, attempts at connection, empathic listening, etc… point out
the scene and the way in which it could be used to enhance your client’s understanding of the
skill/technique you are attempting to teach. How would you use this scene to make an
emotional, cognitive, or spiritual connection? What is your rationale for choosing this scene?
This section should be at least 600 words in length.
3) Personal Implications:
How did you connect with the movie on a personal level? How did it confirm or challenge
some of your perceptions of Child/Adolescent Trauma and its treatment? How will you
utilize this information personally? This section should be at least 600 words in length.
4.) Professional Implications:
How did this movie impact your thinking professionally? How will it inform and impact your
delivery of therapeutic interventions/services. Were there any scenes that you strongly
agreed/disagreed with on a professional level and why? What did you learn from this movie
that will make you a more competent therapist? This section should be at least 600 words in
length.
Please note: Your grade on this MOVIE REVIEW depends on the manner in which you address
each of these four dimensions of response to your chosen movie. The material should be engaged
and responded to at a doctoral level.
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