Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, Adlerian Therapy, and Person-Centered Therapy Therapy can take many forms. There is numerous therapies out there and many different people who have contributed to the development of each theory and form of therapy. The goal of therapy is to help people get through any problems they may be facing. Therapy is used as a form of support, stress relief, and a way to make people happy and overall healthier. As a therapist it is important to know the different types of therapy and choose the ones that fit best with you. Adlerian Therapy is also known as Individual Psychology. This form of therapy is named after Alfred Adler. Adler believed that as humans we all strive for perfection and we push forward trying to make …show more content…
These approaches are modern-day behaviorism, rational emotive behavior therapy, cognitive therapy, and reality therapy. Each one of these forms of therapy make up what we now as the cognitive behavior approaches. These approaches were developed by men like Albert Ellis, Aaron Beck, and William Glasser.The cognitive-behavioral therapies are meant to be a short term treatment. It is goal orientated, and a pretty hands on approach. The overall goal of this therapy form is to change a persons way of thinking. It just like the conditioning experiments done by Pavlov and Skinner. If the person is exhibiting the wrong behaviors or thinking , than you try to change their thinking/behaviors into the correct behaviors. Starting as children we are forming our personalities thoughts and behaviors. We get older and some behaviors are automatic and this therapy helps us understand the reasoning behind the way we act and how to look past the automatic response. In therapy, if the undesirable behaviors can be picked out than the client and counselor can work together to get rid of those less desirable behaviors. The modern-day behavior therapy has 6 stages: building the relationship, clinical assessment focusing on problem areas and setting goals, choosing techniques and working on goals, assessment of goal completion and closure and follow-up. Each one of these stages has an important role in building a healthy client/counselor relationship. Then we see that with REBT the therapist is not worried about building a good caring relationship with the client. Instead, they focus on pointing out the negative or distorted beliefs they have. This allows them to understand that what they see through there eye may not be how it actually is. The REBT has 5 stages that help it be successful. They are as follows: assessing the client 's situation and hypothesizing how the ABCs apply,
A REBT therapist might modify the intervention by using cognitive approaches. Cognitive approaches include psychoeducation, problem solving, teaching others, coping self-statements, and cost-benefit analysis (Roy-Day, 2015). I would use this technique in providing psychoeducation tot the client throughout the whole video. Lastly, a REBT therapist might modify the intervention by using behavioral methods. Behavioral methods are described as reinforcements and penalties, activity homework, and skill training (Roy-Day, 2015).
People in therapy are also encouraged to acquire a more positive and productive way of life by developing new insights, skills, and behaviours. These goals are achieved through the four stages of Adlerian therapy: Engagement: A trusting therapeutic relationship is built between the therapist and the person in therapy and they agree to work together to effectively address the problem. 1. Assessment: The therapist invites the individual to speak about his or her personal history, family history, early recollections, beliefs, feelings, and motives. This helps to reveal the person 's overall lifestyle pattern, including factors that might initially be thought of as insignificant or irrelevant by the person in therapy.
Preferred Counseling Techniques As a counselor, I would perfer techniques such as motivational interviewing (MI), self-disclosure, reframing, cognitive restructuring and modeling. These techniques are familiar to those counselors who agree with the humanistic approach. My preferred techniques would be those based on humanistic-phenomenological approaches, such as Cognigive-Behavioral and Person-Centered. Below are descriptions my perferred counseling techniques: Motivational Interviewing.
Trauma-focused therapy, on the other hand, includes psychotherapy, the type of therapy that is used in the treatment of emotional problems as well as mental health conditions. The individual experiencing a traumatic past talks to a therapist in a group or on a one-on-one basis. This allows them to look deeper into their problems and thus deal with the traumatic event. Although the therapy involves talking, other methods, such as art, movements, drama, and music are sometimes used.
This approach to helping is user friendly and supportive and an advantage to this technique is that it can be flexible and that it does integrate other approaches as well. Adlerian counseling is broken down into four stages. They are building a trusting relationship, the assessment stage, promoting insight, and the reorientation stage. In stage one the counselor is building a trusting relationship with the client. This is because the client is facing their fears in the
There are three specific techniques of structured dyadic behavioral therapy. The first one is behavioral goal setting. Behavioral therapy applies both operant and classical conditioning. These principles are used to support the performance of desired behaviors and reduce those that are undesired. In order for this to work the patient must understand the behavioral expectations and the reinforcements must be thought of as a reward.
Out of these three approaches, I like contextual therapy the best. I especially like contextual therapy better than CBT because the idea of teaching skills over reframing fear and beliefs seems better to me. Contextual Therapy is broken in three phases. First phase focuses on safety, second phase focuses on addressing the trauma and third focusing on reconnection and integration. It is important to build a solid foundation, Phase one, with the client before trauma is addressed.
Psychotherapy may be done in different ways, such as: • Dialectical behavior therapy, which is specifically designed to treat people with borderline personality disorder. This can be done through individual counseling or phone and group counseling. It can be combined with physical exercise and meditation, which help regulate emotions, tolerate stress and improve personal relationships. • Cognitive behavioral therapy helps you to become aware of negative thoughts, to view situations more objectively and to find alternative solutions. • Mentalization-based therapy is talk therapy that can help you identify your own feelings and thoughts and to separate them from those of other people around you.
This is common to most of the therapies. What distinguishes ST from CBT and psychodynamic therapies (PDT) is the application of experiential emotion-focused techniques and imagery, and active confrontation of dysfunctional behaviour (Boterhoven De Heen, Lee, 2014). Also the attitude of the therapist is more neutral, as the ST therapist is self-disclosing and presents high responsiveness to the patient's questions and uncertainties. Unlike in other therapeutic approaches, ST therapist educates the patients on his core issues and defence mechanisms being a subject of their collaborative
The overriding process an Adlerian counselor uses with all therapeutic techniques is encouragement, the practice of building courage. Therapy begins by establishing a therapeutic relationship. The therapeutic relationship developed by Adler seeks to directly bond the counselor and client. It is designed to establish a close relationship that is built on friendship, openness, and collaboration. The counselor creates this open environment by listening as would someone who sees a friend’s strengths and weaknesses.
As stated previously, REBT counselors believe that client’s problems are caused by the beliefs they hold (Corey, 2013). The overall goal of REBT theory is to help clients minimize emotional disturbances, decrease self-defeating behaviors, and become happier. The therapeutic goal of REBT theory is to help clients develop and internalize a rational philosophy of life. REBT theory teaches clients how to deal with negative feelings of sorrow, regret, frustration, depression, and anxiety (Kiser, 2013). Through the REBT theory, clients develop a positive outlook and maintain positive cognitions by reorganizing the irrational thoughts and beliefs they hold.
Person- Center Therapy is the most common theory that is use in counseling today. Person-Center Therapy is also called “client center therapy” was developed by the late Carl Rogers in the 1940’s and he was a major spokesperson
Cognitive Theory and Therapy Cognitive Theory and therapy appear to have developed as a reaction to Behaviorism simplistic view of human behavior. Cognitive Theory attempts to address variables that Behaviorism failed to account for in the previous behavioral models such as individual differences, thoughts, and emotions (as cited in Heffner, 2017). Cognitive Theory appears to be based on the premise that cognitive schemes and thoughts influence feelings, and, in turn, feelings influence and drive behaviors. Cognitive therapies within this model appear to focus on addressing faulty cognitions through directive exercises in an attempt to modify or extinguish an individual’s unwanted behaviors. Techniques and Application Cognitive therapies
Cognitive behavioural therapy can help change how one thinks (cognitive) and what one does (behaviour). Unlike some of the other talking treatments, it concentrates
Who developed this model There many different interventions that someone could use. This paper will be focusing on Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT). It will discuss who developed this model, how it works, which population its is recommend for, the strength and weakness and when and why this model would be used. Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy is a form of cognitive behavior therapy. Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy was developed by Dr. Albert Ellis in 1955.