Basic Philosophies
This therapy believes that the person strives for wholeness. View is nondeterministic - person has capacity to recognize how earlier influences are related to present difficulties. Grounded in the here and now, this is an experiential approach which emphasizes awareness, personal choice, and responsibility.
What is Gestalt Therapy?
The client has the potential to become aware of the problems and the means to resolve them. Mental health is a congruence of ideal self and real self. Maladjustment is the result of a discrepancy between what one wants to be and what one is.
What is Person-centered Therapy?
To bring about transformation both in the individual client and in society. To help clients to recognize, claim and use their personal power to free themselves from the limitations of gender-role socialization.
This therapist functions as a teacher and client as student. The therapist is highly directive and teaches clients a model of changing their cognitions. The relationship is collaborative; and the therapist assists clients to identify dysfunctional beliefs and to find alternative rules for living.
What is a Cognitive Behavioral Therapist?
This therapy focuses on understanding first and then on techniques second. Therapists can borrow techniques from other approaches. Diagnosis, testing and external measurements are not as important as addressing freedom, responsibility, isolation and relationships, meaning and meaninglessness, living and dying.
What are Existential therapy techniques?
The central focus of this therapy is on the nature of the human condition. There is a capacity for self-awareness, freedom of choice to decide one's fate, responsibility, anxiety, search for meaning and facing living and dying.
What is Existential Therapy?
Focus is on overt behavior, specifying goals of treatment with precision, development of very specific treatment plans, and use of objective evaluation of outcomes. Therapy is based on the principles of Learning Theory.
To help people see that they are free and to become aware of their possibilities. To challenge the to recognize that they are responsible for events that the formerly thought were happening to them.
What is Existential Therapy?
The relationship is of primary importance. The therapist should show genuineness, warmth, empathy, respect and a nonjudgmental approach. It is the genuineness of this relationship with the therapist that helps the client transfer what they learn to other relationships.
What is a Person-Centered therapist?
Reinforcement, shaping, modeling, systematic desensitization, relaxation methods, flooding, EMDR, social skills training, mindfulness and acceptance methods, behavioral rehearsal, and coaching. Questions focus on "what," "how," and "when," but not "why." Contracts and homework are frequently used.
What are Behavioral techniques?
Human being are basically determined by psychic energy and by early experiences. Unconscious motives and conflicts are central in present behavior. Early development is of critical importance as repressed childhood conflicts result in later personality problems.
What is Psychoanalytic Therapy?
Therapy tends to be brief and addresses the present and the future. The person is not the problem; the problem is the problem. There is emphasis on externalizing the problem and looking for exceptions to the problem. Therapy is a collaborative dialogue.
What is a Postmodern Approach?
What is Gestalt Therapy?
The therapeutic relationship is based on empowerment and egalitarianism. Therapists engage in breaking down the hierarchy of power and will engage in appropriate self-disclosure. They strive to create a collaborative relationship. Clients are their own experts.
What is a Feminist Therapist?
Cognitive emotive, and behavioral techniques. Some techniques include Socratic dialogue, collaborative empiricism, debating irrational beliefs, homework, role playing, imagery, confronting faulty beliefs, keeping a record of activities, and forming alternative interpretations.
What are some Cognitive Behavioral techniques?
This philosophy believes that individuals tend to utilize faulty thinking which causes emotional and behavioral disturbances. Therapy is oriented toward cognition and behavior, stressing the role of thinking, deciding, questioning, doing and redeciding. This is a psychoeducational model.
What is Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy?
The basic focus is on what clients are doing and how to get them to evaluate whether their present actions are working for them. People are motivated to satisfy their needs, especially the need for a significant relationship.
What is Choice Theory/Reality Therapy?
To help people become more effective in meeting all of their psychological needs. To enable clients to get reconnected with the people they have chosen to put into their quality worlds.
What is Reality Therapy?
This therapist is active and directive, functioning as a teacher or mentor to help clients learn more effective behavior. Client are expected to be active participants in therapy, experimenting with new behaviors.The client-therapist relationship is not sufficient for, but is essential for change.
What is a Behavior Therapist?
Key techniques are interpretation, dream analysis, free association, analysis of resistance, analysis of transference and countertransference. These help the client gain access to their unconscious conflicts.
What are Psychoanalytic techniques?
The constructs of this therapy include being gender fair, flexible, interactionist and life-span-oriented. This is a systems approach that recognizes the cultural, social, and political factors that contribute to an individuals' problems.
What is Feminist Therapy?
Normal personality development is based on successful resolution and integration of psychosexual stages of development. Faulty personality development is the result of inadequate resolution of some specific stage. Unconscious processes are centrally related to current behavior.
What is Psychoanalytic Therapy?
To change the way clients view problems and what they can do about them. To collaboratively establish specific, clear, concrete, realistic and observable goals leading to positive change. To help clients create a self-identity grounded on competence and resourcefulness and in viewing their lives in positive ways, rather than being problem saturated.
What are Postmodern approaches?
Clients develop projections toward the therapist. Focus is on working with transference. The therapist makes interpretations to teach clients meaning of behaviors as they relate to the past.
What is a Psychoanalytic therapist?
A wide range of experiments are designed to intensify experiencing and integrating conflicting feelings. These are co-created by therapist and client through I/Thou dialogue. Therapists can also invent their own experiments. Formal diagnosis and testing are not required. A well known technique is Empty Chair.
What are Gestalt techniques?