Cbt and Person Centered Theory

A Comparative Study of the Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and the Client-Centred Therapy via a Case Study
Carl Jung once said, “It is the client who knows what hurts, where to go to, which problems are crucial and what experiences that have been deeply buried”. Those words implements that only a client would understand what he or she has gone through and sometimes, the need to talk to someone about their feelings happens to arise, whether it is in a form of seeking a direction or just enabling the right to speak freely thus, leading to the requirement of a counsellor. Since, the world is changing at an ever-increasing pace with some of the best economic development, technology and medical institution, theories with regards to psychology has been developed over the years, along with the introduction of some new theories. With how complex the world and the people are, different people would require a different mean of approach, therefore as a job of a counsellor, they have to analyse and come to a decision as to which theories would apply best to their client thus bringing about a significant improvement in them.
The following essay aims to analyse the two approaches, namely, CBT and Client-Centred therapy with regards to Shelly’s case while highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of both theories through a compare and contrast method. The reason why this two theory was chosen The case study was deconstructed into facts, problems, assumptions and theoretical themes which would than be incorporated into the approach evaluation process.