counselling psyc

People use different methods to decide daily life problems and some researchers in the field of counseling have investigated systematic methods to describe style of decision-making. One of the theorists who proposed three styles of decision-making is Harren, who identified the planning style, the intuitive style, and the dependent style. The theories supported by other researchers, Scott and Bruce, also share influential similarities. According to Harren, people with planning style acquire broad information of data and evaluate situation by handling personal responsibilities in order to determine conclusion by themselves. For example, students with planning style would search for lots of information in order to decide the university they would go to in the future. On the other hand, the intuitive style advocated by Harren, Scott, and Burce is decision making based on their emotions and feelings. Moreover, people with intuitive style consume less time, less structured but rather make decisions by focusing more on their intuition and feelings. The intuitive style reflects our usual daily decision-making process, especially during our fast-paced lives. The dependent style involves taking other’s viewpoints such as recommendation and opinions. Scott and Bruce also constructed rational decision making, which is different from the intuitive style and it contains six steps to follow. First, the participant distinguishes the situation and decision. Then one accumulates information and identifies essential criteria that will be used to determine decision. Next, one comes up with as many solutions as possible, compares each of them using the criteria and chooses the best choice among the options.