Person-Centered Therapy

Introduced by: Carl Rogers

Rogers believed that this type of counseling relies mostly on the attributes of the therapist. He believes that if a therapist possesses realness, acceptance, and the ability to understand the subjective reality of a client then the core of an individual can be reached, creating trust and positive, successful changes.

The Goals of Person-Centered Therapy:

• Focuses on the person not the problem
• Assisting clients in growing towards better cope mechanisms with their problems
• Discovering one's self.
• Guide clients to more authentic lives
• Encouraging clients to grow in self-actualization

*Rogers used the technique of grasping the worldview of the client and establishing the therapist/client relationship with trust.

Existential Therapy

This therapy was developed by a number of psychologists including: Viktor Frankl, Rollo May, Irvin Yalom, and James Bugental who each shared their own approach.

Key Concept of Existential Therapy includes:

• Understanding human nature through various approaches of therapy.

These approaches include:

1. Increasing self-awareness
2. The right to free will and choosing one's destiny
3. Creating our own personal identity
4. Finding one's purpose
5. Facing anxiety of existence
6. Being aware of death

Goals of Existential Therapy:

• Help clients face anxiety
• To understand the client's worldview
• Guide clients into finding their purpose
• Take responsibility for our choices in life
• Lead clients to live authentic lives

* Existential therapists desire to understand the client's subjective reality based upon philosophical views about the nature of human existence.

Psychoanalytic Therapy

 

Introduced by Sigmund Freud

 

Freud believes our behavior is determined by the following key concepts: life instincts, sexual and aggressive drives, structure of personality, levels of the conscious and unconscious, anxiety, ego-defense mechanisms, and development of personality.

• The Goal of Psychoanalytic Therapy is to increase adaptive functioning.

Techniques of Psychoanalytic Approach:

• Limited objectives
• fewer sessions
• more emphasis of support
• here-and-now client/therapist relationship
• practical concerns
• focus on mutual transference and countertransference

 

Useful videos:

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS_L8efaJ-E

Adlerian Therapy

Introduced by Alfred Adler

Unlike Freud, Adler believed that humans are more motivated by social relatedness. The focus of Adlerian Therapy is consciousness and behavior is purposeful and goal-directed.

 

Key concepts include: inferiority feelings, therapist viewing client's subjective perception of reality, unity and patterns of personality, social interest and sense of belonging to community, birth order and sibling relationships.

• The Goal of Adlerian Therapy is to form a successful relationship between therapist and client and assist in adapting behaviors that desire social interest and sense of belonging.

Techniques of Alderian Therapy:

• Establish therapist/client relationship
• Complete and assessment of clent
• Insight into purpose
• Reorientation and reeducation

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