M2L4 Flashcards
Setting, Process, Methods and Tools in Counseling (26 cards)
- Largely synonymous
- Both are collaborative processes
- The practitioner may utilize research-based strategies and practices
Counseling and Therapy
- More on advising
- Involves offering guidance and support to a client
- If underlying patterns and concerns are recognized, the counselor may make a referral and recommendation to start therapy
Counseling
- Can include counseling on specific issues that may arise during sessions
- Therapeutic in nature
- Longer-term process focused on long-standing attitudes, thoughts, behaviors and feelings
Therapy
Dominant schools of thought in Psychology in the 1950s:
- Psychoanalysis
- Behaviorism
- Humanistic Perspective
Psychoanalytic therapy (psychoanalysis)
Consists of a three-past psyche structure
- Id: operates on the pleasure principle
- Ego: operates in reality
- Superego: operates as a moral conscience
Goal:
- Help bring the unconscious into consciousness
- Put the three areas of the personality into balance
- Enhance the functioning of the ego
- To understand a person, you have to take the individual as summations rather than parts
- Believed that behavior depended on how one interprets their past and its
continuing influence on their present life - Believed that individual psychology is motivated by the will to power
Adlerian therapy
by Alfred Adler
also called individual psychology
Adlerian therapy
* Short-term, goal-oriented and positive psychodynamic therapy
Focus:
development of individual personality while understanding and accepting the interconnectedness of all humans
- Individual behavior should be explored within the context of a client’s sense of fitting in with their community and society at large
- Individual psychotherapy consists of encouraging clients to overcome their
- feelings of insecurity through developing keeping feelings of connectedness
- Draws heavily on existentialist philosophy that emphasizes human freedom to define oneself and that our lives are not predetermined
- Encompasses the various forms of therapy that focus on the will to meaning
- Focuses on the human capacity to define and shape their own life
- The central problems people face are embedded in anxiety over loneliness, isolation, despair and ultimately death
- What does it mean to exist?
Existential therapy
- Empowerment depends on the self and as such requires non-directive processes
- Non-directive counselors focus on the clients self-discovery rather than their inputs
- The counselor and client reflects and clarifies the verbal and nonverbal
communications of clients
Person-centered therapy
- “Pattern” “form” “whole” or “put together”
Gestalt therapy
- Meaning cannot be found from breaking things down into parts but rather from appreciation of the whole
- Gestalt is a holistic process which regards the individual as a totality of mind, body, emotions, and spirit who experiences reality in a way unique to themselves
- Counselors push for doing and experiencing rather than just talking about one’s feelings as a client
- Clients are encouraged to focus on self-awareness
- Clients are encouraged to engage in intellectual and physical experiences
Key element is a focus on the “here and now”
Gestalt therapy
- Main uniqueness is its emphasis on decisions and contracts that must be made by the client
- Explores how people communicate and interact with one another
- Based on the idea that human interactions can be understood as transactions
- Believes that the client has the potential for choice
- Client clearly states the directions and goals of therapeutic process
- Sessions explore the individual’s personality and how it has been shaped by experience
- Ego state determines how we express ourselves as individuals, interact with each other and form relationships
Transactional analysis
- Rooted in the past
- Thoughts, feelings and behaviors learnt from parents and other people
Parent
- Rooted in the present
- Thoughts, feelings and behaviors learnt from our childhood
Child
- Rooted in the present
- Relates to direct responses in the here and now that are not influenced by our past
Adult
- Uses action-oriented methods to help people take steps to change what they are doing and thinking
- Focuses on overt behavior
- The counselor is active and directive and functions as teacher or trainer
Behavior therapy
- Cognitively oriented behavior therapy
- Assumes that human beings are born with a potential for both rational or straight thinking, and irrational or corroded thinking
- Focuses on helping clients accept themselves as people who would continue to make mistakes
Rational emotive therapy
- Based on choice theory
- Behavior is a choice where we might not be able to control how we feel, we can control how we think and behave
- We can choose to behave in certain ways and those choices can help or hamper the ability to satisfy essential needs and goals
Reality therapy
Government Setting
Private Sectors
Civil Society Setting
School Setting
Setting
- Working with various government agencies that have counseling services
- Social welfare
- Correctional department
- The court system
- Child and women affairs services
Government Setting
- Counseling ranges from independent providers of services
- Life coaches
- Working for NGOs
- Specialized for profit centers and organization
Private Sectors
- Generally, charities or nonprofit and issued center for organizations
- Causes:
- Abandoned children and elderly
- veterans
- Teachers
- Professionals
- Religious groups
Civil Society Setting