DESCRIBE SOME OF THE WAYS THAT THE PERSON-CENTRED APPROACH (PCA) DIFFERS TO COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL (CBT) AND PSYCHODYNAMIC APPROACHES TO COUNSELLING.
DESCRIBE SOME OF THE WAYS THAT THE PERSON-CENTRED APPROACH (PCA) DIFFERS TO COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL (CBT) AND PSYCHODYNAMIC APPROACHES TO COUNSELLING.
In order to be able to say what the differences are between PCT, CBT and Psychodynamic approaches to counselling I have first of all set out below a brief summary of all three;
Person centred therapy concentrates mainly on the subjective experience of the client and on how they might lose touch with their own organismic experiencing through taking on board the evaluations of others and treating them as if their own. Therapy puts importance on a relationship built on empathy; respect and non-possessive warmth. Cognitive therapy works on the assumption that clients become distressed because of faulty processors of information leading them to jump to unwarranted conclusions. Therapy involves educating clients to test the reality of their thinking and by making use of a style of questioning which helps the client to become more aware of how he thinks. Real life experiments might also be used. Psychodynamic approaches pays attention to unconscious factors which have caused neurosis. The treatment consists of working through transference where the client regards the therapist as an important figure from their past. Also the interpretation of dreams may be used. (Nelson-Jones, 2011).
It appears that some of the ways that the PCT approach differs from CBT and psychodynamic approaches is that PCT relies on the relationship that is built between therapist and client and also makes a point of not directing the client. This is what makes PCT so unique from other approaches. PCT was developed by Carl Rogers, an American psychotherapist, researcher and academic. Rogers and his colleagues developed the person centred techniques from about 1940 onwards. At the time it was considered to be a very radical way of working with people because it sharply moved away from Freudian and cognitive-behavioural approaches that
In order to be able to say what the differences are between PCT, CBT and Psychodynamic approaches to counselling I have first of all set out below a brief summary of all three;
Person centred therapy concentrates mainly on the subjective experience of the client and on how they might lose touch with their own organismic experiencing through taking on board the evaluations of others and treating them as if their own. Therapy puts importance on a relationship built on empathy; respect and non-possessive warmth. Cognitive therapy works on the assumption that clients become distressed because of faulty processors of information leading them to jump to unwarranted conclusions. Therapy involves educating clients to test the reality of their thinking and by making use of a style of questioning which helps the client to become more aware of how he thinks. Real life experiments might also be used. Psychodynamic approaches pays attention to unconscious factors which have caused neurosis. The treatment consists of working through transference where the client regards the therapist as an important figure from their past. Also the interpretation of dreams may be used. (Nelson-Jones, 2011).
It appears that some of the ways that the PCT approach differs from CBT and psychodynamic approaches is that PCT relies on the relationship that is built between therapist and client and also makes a point of not directing the client. This is what makes PCT so unique from other approaches. PCT was developed by Carl Rogers, an American psychotherapist, researcher and academic. Rogers and his colleagues developed the person centred techniques from about 1940 onwards. At the time it was considered to be a very radical way of working with people because it sharply moved away from Freudian and cognitive-behavioural approaches that