Person- Centered
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Existenial Therapy
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Existenial Therapy
This role is to help the client gain awareness.
What is Existential Therapy’s Role of the Counselor?
This person helps to alter stories and cognitions to develop new perceptions and thoughts as a co-constructivist.
What is the Role of the Counselor in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
A consultant in a partnership.
What is Narrative Therapy’s Role of the Counselor?
To provide their own solutions and heal themselves with the help of a therapeutic relationship
What is Person Centered Therapy’s Role of the Client?
Role is to extinguish maladaptive behaviors and replace them with new behaviors.
What is the Role of the Client in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
To use their perspectives and current situations to find solutions to their problems.
What is the Role of the Client in Solution Focused Therapy?
A non-directive approach that uses empathetic reflections and paraphrasing.
What is Therapeutic Relationship in Person Centered Therapy?
A collaborative relationship where the therapist shares their perceptions and experiences to help the individuals explore, evaluate, and revise their choices.
What is the Therapeutic Relationship in Reality Therapy?
Relationship is developed as co-authors and collaborators, sharing the responsibility in shaping the treatment process.
What is Therapeutic Relationship in Narrative Therapy?
Belief that all people are good, have a inborn need for growth and are capable of reaching their potential.
What is Person Centered Therapy’s view of Human Nature?
People can overcome their early difficulties and are viewed as self- determining.
What is the view of Human Nature in Reality Therapy?
Belief that people make meaning of themselves and the world through interpretation of their stories.
What is Narrative Therapy’s view of Human Nature?
The Human Condition that life has no meaning
What is the view of problems in Existential Therapy?
Belief that problems derive during early childhood because of a person's act of accepting external influences.
What is the view of problems Reality Therapy?
Problems are derived a client’s current worldview.
What is the view of problems in Solution Focused Therapy?
A view that with the right conditions, people are capable of healing themselves and finding their own solutions.
What is Person- Centered Therapy’s view of Healthy Behaviors?
Teaching individuals to acquire new skills can help the individuals improve their lives
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy’s view of Healthy Behaviors?
Belief that people can shift their perceptions and alternate scripts of their lives which leads to greater empowerment and successfully managing their lives.
What is Narrative Therapy’s view of Healthy Behaviors?
To help the clients fully express their thoughts and emotions, to develop congruence, promote self-awareness and empowerment, and to help the individuals to manage their lives and conditions.
What are Goals of Person- Centered Therapy?
To help the individuals become flexible and sensitive in their responses to their surroundings and to establish strategies/ tools that will help them meet their needs.
What is the Goal of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
The process of utilizing individual’s strengths and resources to find solutions to their problems.
What are Goals of Solution Focused Brief Therapy?
Key concepts are: Human Condition, Existential Anxiety, Neurotic Anxiety, and Dasein
What are Key Concepts of Existential Therapy?
Idea that experiences are more important than genetics, belief that behaviors are learned, therapy should focus on understanding and changing behaviors and the focus is on the present.
What are Key Concepts in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
Emphasizes health resources, dignity, empowerment, and collaboration.
What are Key Concepts of Solution Focused Therapy?
Can be facilitated through Logotherapy.
What is Existential Therapy’s view of change?
Belief that change occurs when: individuals take responsibility, develop positive and supportive relationship, and make better choices.
What is the view of change in Reality Therapy?
Belief that people’s perceptions determine their reality and that loosening that belief is the best approach to facilitating change.
What is the view of change in Narrative Therapy?
Form of therapy that does not use specific techniques but has strategies to help clients reach their goals.
What is both, Person Centered Therapy and Existential Therapy?
Includes Stress Inoculation Training, Behavioral Activation Therapy, Habit Reversal Training, Exposure, and EMDR.
What are techniques in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
Techniques such as these are used in this form of therapy: Miracle questions, Scaling Questions, and Strategic Tasks.
What are techniques in Solution Focused Therapy?
The core conditions in this form of therapy are helpful in understanding individual cultural beliefs.
What is a Person- Centered Therapy’s multi- cultural consideration?
Due to having a wide variety of interventions having respect for indivual differences, this form of therapy is applicable to diverse groups.
What is the application of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to multi- cultural groups?
An approach that discourages diagnoses and focuses on the individual’s current problem.
What is the application of SFBT to multi- cultural groups?
Helpful in addressing anxiety, depression, PTSD, and life transitions, however is not effective in alleviating mental health symptoms.
What is a limitation of Existential Therapy?
Theory that does not focus on feelings, does not help individuals gain insight, and counselor role directive and too structured.
What are limitations of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
Effective for clients with PTSD, Substance use disorder, eating disorders and impulse control disorders, however only addressed the apparent problem.
What is a limitation of Solution Focus Therapy?
Major contributors are Viktor Frankl, Rollo May, and Irvin Yalom
What is Existential Therapy?
Theorist who first believed that people are driven by inner control systems and later recognized that his theory was a form of choice therapy rather than control.
Who William Glasser, the major theorist for Reality Therapy?
Gregory Bateson, George Kelly and Michel Foucault are notable for their works in this form of therapy.
Who are major influencers of Narrative Therapy?