Healthy Behavior
Clients in this therapy would displaying healthy behavior if they had "the courage to be" themselves. Healthy individuals find meaning in live through engagement. They are committed to loving, working, and building
What is existential therapy?
One of the key concepts of this therapy is that 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. Anxiety is a result of repression of basic conflicts. Unconscious processes are centrally related to current behavior. (Corey, 2016)
What are the key concepts of psychoanalytic therapy?
The goal is of this theory is to reconstruct the basic personality of clients, assist them in reliving early life experiences, work through repressed conflicts, and achieve emotional and intellectual awareness. (Corey, 2016)
What is psychoanalytic theory?
Few techniques flow from this approach because it stresses understanding first and technique second. The therapist can borrow techniques from other approaches and incorporate them in an existential framework. Diagnosis, testing, and external measurements are not deemed important. Issues addressed are freedom and responsibility, isolation and relationships, meaning and meaninglessness, living and dying. (Corey, 2016)
What are the techniques of Existential therapy?
Because the approach is based on a growth model, it is applicable to such varied spheres of life as child guidance, parent-child counseling, marital and family therapy, individual counseling with all age groups, correctional and rehabilitation counseling, group counseling, substance abuse programs, and brief counseling. It is ideally suited to preventive care and alleviating a broad range of conditions that interfere with growth. (Corey, 2016)
What is the population of a Adlerian therapist?
Clients in this therapy are living in congruence. Their spheres of their self-image and ideal-self are similar, display more overlap and they are able to self-actualize.
What is person-centered therapy?
Key concepts include the unity of personality, the need to view people from their subjective perspective, and the importance of life goals that give direction to behavior. People are motivated by social interest and by finding goals to give life meaning. Other key concepts are striving for significance and superiority, developing a unique lifestyle, and understanding the family constellation. Therapy is a matter of providing encouragement and assisting clients in changing their cognitive perspective and behavior. (Corey, 2016)
What are the key concepts of Adlerian therapy?
Challenging clients’ basic premises and life goals, offering, encouragement so individuals can develop socially useful goals and increase social interest, and developing the client's sense of belonging are goals of this theory. (Corey, 2016)
What is the goal of Adlerian therapy?
This approach uses few techniques but stresses the attitudes of the therapist and a “way of being.” Therapists strive for active listening, reflection of feelings, clarification, “being there” for the client, and focusing on the moment-to-moment experiencing of the client. This model does not include diagnostic testing, interpretation, taking a case history, or questioning or probing for information. (Corey, 2016)
What are the techniques of person-centered therapy?
Candidates for this therapy include professionals who want to become therapists, people who have had intensive therapy and want to go further, and those who are in psychological pain. It is not recommended for self-centered and impulsive individuals or for people with psychotic disorders. Techniques can be applied to individual and group therapy. (Corey, 2016)
What is the population of a psychoanalytic therapist?
What is Adlerian therapy?
Emphasis is on the “what” and “how” of experiencing in the here and now to help clients accept all aspects of themselves. Key concepts include holism, figure-formation process, awareness, unfinished business and avoidance, contact, and energy. (Corey, 2016)
What are the key concepts of Gestalt Therapy?
To assist clients in gaining awareness of moment-to-moment experiencing and to expand the capacity to make choices. To foster integration of the self. (Corey, 2016)
This therapy pays more attention to the subjective experiences of clients than to using techniques. Some techniques include gathering life-history data (family constellation, early recollections, personal priorities), sharing interpretations with clients, offering encouragement, and assisting clients in searching for new possibilities. (Corey, 2016)
What is Adlerian therapy?
This approach is especially suited to people facing a developmental crisis or a transition in life and for those with existential concerns (making choices, dealing with freedom and responsibility, coping with guilt and anxiety, making sense of life, and finding values) or those seeking personal enhancement. The approach can be applied to both individual and group counseling, and to couples and family therapy, crisis intervention, and community mental health work. (Corey, 2016).
What is the population of an existential therapist?
In this therapy, a healthy individual is understands and is able construct his or her reality. Understanding their 5 basic needs, they seek to close the proximity between their perceived world and their quality world. They become more adept at identifying and satisfying frustrated needs.
What is Choice Theory/Reality Therapy?
Although psychological problems may be rooted in childhood, they are reinforced by present ways of thinking. A person's belief system and thinking is the primary cause of disorders. Internal dialogue plays a central role in one's behavior. Clients focus on examining faulty assumptions and misconceptions and on replacing these with effective beliefs. (Corey, 2016).
What are the key concepts of CBT?
To teach clients to confront faulty beliefs with contradictory evidence that they gather and evaluate. To help clients seek out their faulty beliefs and minimize them. To become aware of automatic thoughts and to change them. To assist clients in identifying their inner strengths, and to explore the kind of life they would like to have. (Corey, 2016)
What is the goal of Cognitive behavior therapy?
A wide range of experiments are designed to intensify experiencing and to integrate conflicting feelings. Experiments are co-created by therapist and client through an I/Thou dialogue. Therapists have latitude to creatively invent their own experiments. Formal diagnosis and testing are not a required part of therapy. (Corey, 2016)
What are the techniques of Gestalt therapy?
Has been widely applied to treatment of depression, anxiety, relationship problems, stress management, skill training, substance abuse, assertion training, eating disorders, panic attacks, performance anxiety, and social phobias. CBT is especially useful for assisting people in modifying their cognitions. Many self-help approaches utilize its principles. CBT can be applied to a wide range of client populations with a variety of specific problems (Corey, 2016).
What is the population of a Cognitive behavior therapist?
In this therapy healthy behavior is exemplified by a client who is able to synthesize the opposite forces at work in their cognition. They display mindfulness of their behaviors and are able to balance acceptance and change. Their motivation to change and their capabilities is enhanced through therapy, and they are able to apply what they learn to the relevant environments.
What is the healthy behavior in Cognitive behavior 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 mainly motivated to satisfy their needs, especially the need for significant relationships. The approach rejects the medical model, the notion of transference, the unconscious, and dwelling on one's past. (Corey, 2016)
What are the key concepts 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 and teach clients choice theory. (Corey, 2016)
What is the goal of Choice theory/Reality therapy?
This is an active, directive, and didactic therapy. Skillful questioning is a central technique used for the duration of the therapy process. Various techniques may be used to get clients to evaluate what they are presently doing to see if they are willing to change. If clients decide that their present behavior is not effective, they develop a specific plan for change and make a commitment to follow through. (Corey, 2016)
What are the techniques of Choice theory/Reality therapy?
Addresses a wide range of problems and populations: crisis intervention, treatment of a range of psychosomatic disorders, couples and family therapy, awareness training of mental health professionals, behavior problems in children, and teaching and learning. It is well suited to both individual and group counseling. The methods are powerful catalysts for opening up feelings and getting clients into contact with their present-centered experience. (Corey, 2016)
What is the population of a Gestalt therapist?
A healthy client of this therapy lives in the here-and-now, understands the relationship between their language patterns and their personality and is able to express their feelings, attitudes, and thought in light of increased awareness, freedom, and self-direction. They no longer dwell or are governed by their past.
What is Gestalt therapy?
Essentially an experiential approach to counseling rather than a firm theoretical model, it stresses core human conditions. Interest is on the present and on what one is becoming. The approach has a future orientation and stresses self-awareness before action (Corey, 2016).
What are the key concepts of existential therapy?
To help people see that they are free and to become aware of their possibilities. To challenge them to recognize that they are responsible for events that they formerly thought were happening to them. To identify factors that block freedom. (Corey, 2016)
What is the goal of Person-Centered therapy?
The key techniques are interpretation, dream analysis, free association, analysis of resistance, analysis of transference, and countertransference. Techniques are designed to help clients gain access to their unconscious conflicts, which leads to insight and eventual assimilation of new material by the ego. (Corey, 2016)
What are the techniques of Psychoanalytic therapy?
Geared to teaching people ways of using choice theory in everyday living to increase effective behaviors. It has been applied to individual counseling with a wide range of clients, group counseling, working with youthful law offenders, and couples and family therapy. In some instances it is well suited to brief therapy and crisis intervention (Corey, 2016)
What is the population of a choice theorist/reality therapist?
A person operating out of a healthy ego which minimizes anxiety because it governs the demands of the superego and the drive of the id effectively would be considered healthy according to this theory.
What is Psychoanalytic Theory?
The client has the potential to become aware of problems and the means to resolve them. Faith is placed in the client's capacity for self-direction. 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. In therapy attention is given to the present moment and on experiencing and expressing feelings. (Corey, 2016)
What are the key concepts of person-centered therapy?
To help people see that they are free and to become aware of their possibilities. To challenge them to recognize that they are responsible for events that they formerly thought were happening to them. To identify factors that block freedom. (Corey, 2016)
What is the goal of Existential therapy?
Therapists use a variety of cognitive, emotive, and behavioral techniques; diverse methods are tailored to suit individual clients. This is an active, directive, time-limited, present-centered, psychoeducational, structured therapy. Some techniques include engaging in Socratic dialogue, collaborative empiricism, debating irrational beliefs, carrying out homework assignments, gathering data on assumptions one has made, keeping a record of activities, forming alternative interpretations, learning new coping skills, changing one's language and thinking patterns, role playing, imagery, confronting faulty beliefs, self-instructional training, and stress inoculation training. (Corey, 2016)
What are the techniques of Cognitive behavior therapy?
Has wide applicability to individual and group counseling. It is especially well suited for the initial phases of crisis intervention work. Its principles have been applied to couples and family therapy, community programs, administration and management, and human relations training. It is a useful approach for teaching, parent-child relations, and for working with groups of people from diverse cultural backgrounds. (Corey, 2016)
What is the population of an Person-centered therapist?