How Creativity Can Be Developed And Exercised

“Counseling’s focus on development, prevention, wellness, and treatment makes it attractive to those seeking healthy life-stage transitions and productive lives” (pearson). In the early 1900’s, there was a movement within the counseling profession that centered on promoting the prevention and the objects that provided purpose in a person’s life. The idea was to help individuals avoid problems and “focus on wellness, development, mindfulness, meaningfulness, and remediation of mental disorders” (pearson). This was the beginning of one of the three philosophies that comprises the key philosophies of counseling.

In the essay “Creativity in the Classroom” written by Ernest L Boyer, the essay talks about creativity in the classroom and what can affect or empower creativity to occur. At the beginning, the writer stated that if the students and the faculty did not work together to create a prosperous ambiance, and did not see that they are having an important thing to do, the effective education atmosphere will be minimized. Another point that the writer stated carefully was when the professor spoiled the book and the students did not react disappointed because they did not need to read the book they had the information’s that they need from the professor. Therefore, in my opinion, the writer point was that students need to get serious about their

Kaplan, D. M., & Gladding, S. T. (2011). A vision for the future of counseling: The 20/20 principles for unifying and strengthening the profession. Journal of Counseling & Development, 89(3), 367-372.

The origins of clinical mental health counseling are best explained through an understanding of the counseling profession as a whole. From its start, counseling was interdisciplinary, evolving from such disciplines “including but not limited to anthropology, education, ethics, history, law, medical sciences, philosophy, psychology, and sociology” (Gladding, 2013, p. 3) . As people began to experience adverse effects to their lives due to the circumstances of the Industrial Revolution, it was apparent that help was needed, sparking humanitarian work and the beginnings of counseling. By the early 1900s people began to take notice of the counseling profession in the form of the progressive guidance

For the entirety of the fall semester, I took on a project to create a three-page layout for a fictional campaign in National Geographic magazine about endangered species. The goal was to create different content for my portfolio, challenging my skills in photography and photo-manipulation. I transformed people into animals and used gel lighting and Photoshop to create my artwork (see Appendix A figure 1 & 2). At the end of the semester, I reviewed my completed pieces and two theorists best fit my creative process, Julie Burstein, and Teresa Amabile. Julie Burstein discusses the best way to foster creativity is by ‘letting go’ she outlines this in four lessons (Campbell and Dubois, “Artist Best practices” 25). These lessons include experiences, challenges, limitations and loss (Campbell and Dubois, “Artist Best practices” 25). While Teresa Amabile discusses how the theory of creativity is fostered through her componential model of creativity (Campbell and Dubois, “On theories of” 14). These include domain-relevant skills, creative thinking skills and motivation (Campbell and Dubois, “On theories of” 14). Both of these theorists go hand in hand providing me with the framework for my best work. This essay will discuss how Amabile’s theory for intrinsic motivation and Burstein’s lesson of experience and loss, align in my creative process to be conducive to my work.

Counseling is a relatively young profession when compared to other mental health professions. In my brief personal and professional experience with the field, I have come to define counseling as a process of engagement between two people, both of whom are bound to change through a collaborative process that involves both the therapist and the client in co-constructing solutions to concerns.

reactive in its approach to tackling the issues at the school. As the most effective school policies have demonstrated, the whole school needs to come together to change the culture to create the positive, safe and productive learning environment that all schools, parents and students want.

Broadly defined, counseling is a process that facilitates and supports change. In the early stages of development, counseling was intended to help individuals of all ages make meaningful life choices to find direction and fulfillment in what they did. Today, counseling professionals continue to help clients avoid making bad life choices while promoting growth, wellness, development, change, and remediation of mental health disorders. Counseling services are available for individuals, couples, groups and families across varied cultural backgrounds and through the life span. To understand the counseling profession now, emerging counseling professionals first need to understand the history of the counseling process and the various changes it has undergone.

Importantly relevant is the art of communication that feeds the counselor’s creativity, and as a therapist, it is essential for a scientist’s postulation to use their skills to form objective assumptions and observations, build new theories or to test hypotheses, as well as the implication and application of models. Therefore, doing therapy as both an art and science (Kottler, 2017) overlaps and intertwines both arts and science which is dependent upon the variable of every individual

But as everything else evolves counseling will be another subject that will grow as well. The future of anything might be anyone’s guess. Authors Kaplan, Tarvydas, and Gladding have come up with a new approach to a new way of addressing how to advance counseling in the future. Those authors have come up the 20/20: A Vision for the Future of Counseling that addressed how professionals would move forward in the arena of counseling. This new idea of this vision from the authors would encompass seven different subjects: strengthening identity, presenting ourselves as one profession, improving public perception/recognition and advocating for professional issues, creating licensure portability, expanding and promoting the research base of professional counseling, focusing on students and prospective students, and promoting client welfare and advocacy (Kaplan et al., 2014). The goal of this new age thinking is to provide the framework for the principles of unifying and strengthening the counseling vocations (Kaplan et al, 2014). The first three subjects will focus on unifying and promoting professional counseling, and will come up with a clear and concise definition of what the counseling profession should develop as a clear definition of counseling for the public to understand (Kaplan et al.,

In the twenty-first century, one inhabits a world in which one must choose between academics and creativity. Unfortunately, it is arduous to be efficacious in either if both are not offered. Being in the middle of an economic crisis does no abet in the slightest. Art is becoming endangered outside of the educational system as well as within it. “Public Money is…drying up as states struggle with yawning budget deficits” (Wiggins). Lawmakers everywhere are threatening significant cuts in art funding (Hurley). Broadway productions, ballets, operas, and symphonies are languishing. Plays are being practiced and performed without understudies, which is a big “no-no” in the creative arts domain (Rourke 1).

Creativity to me means, the use of your imagination to create something using your original ideas. A creative skill I have that's important to me and is in my everyday life is drawing. I am always drawing things that pop up in my mind throughout the day from something I made up that I want to draw that challenges me or from a dream I had the night before. I like to draw realistic looking things like flowers or people, but my favorite thing to draw that I pretty much draw every day I get the chance to are eyes. I just love how there are so many different ways eyes look and can say so much about a person just by looking into them. I have started to draw the whole face instead of just the eyes and i'm getting a lot better at making them look

Counseling is a relatively new profession which has transformed over time from treating mental illnesses to providing educational guidance to counseling with a variety of specializations. Pistole summarizes by stating that counselors, now, aim to, “contribute to the vitality and vigor and to the soundness in body, mind, spirit, and social connection that sustains well-being, and so is considered, by our society, to be health” (2001). However, this was not always the case. National events such as the industrial revolution, World War

As a concept towards education, performativity is one that seems to strongly divide opinion. There are many scholars who argue that an increasing emphasis on performativity within education has a detrimental effect on the levels of creativity that students and teachers can demonstrate, and in turn affects the results of education in a detrimental way. Fostering creativity in education is intended to address many concerns. As Parkhurst summarises, this includes “dealing with ambiguous problems, coping with the fast changing world and facing an uncertain future”. Other scholars such as Poole (1980) argue that creativity cannot be “ignored or suppressed through schooling” as the role of creativity in the economy is seen as crucial (Burnard, 2006).

Creativity is something people use throughout their entire lives. The billboard that you drove by this morning was created by someone with an original idea. That someone who created that billboard has creativity. Not only do adults have creativity but it started when they were kids. In elementary schools teachers love helping their students broaden their imagination, but once the students get into middle school things start to change. In middle school teachers tell students to grow up and that they are to be ready for what life throws at them in high school. Their creativity is smashed right into the ground. Throughout middle school and high school all the teachers seem to be worried about is how we test. They seem to not care about what we want to do to broaden ourselves and to help us push ourselves harder, they just want us to test well for the state tests. Once those students get to college, they have another thing coming, they are told to think outside the box and to come up with something original but that is not how they were taught throughout middle school and high school. Teaching students to the test instead of trying to broaden their creativity is what is wrong with the system. Students need creativity throughout their life because in the real world people want to see something new, not the old stuff.