The Themes Of Constructive Psychodynamic Approach

INTRODUCTION
Constructive Psychotherapy is a theory that suggested that people constructed their own realities and found meaning based on life experience. Granvold (1996) shared that constructivism focused on human meaning making and promotes a person’s proactive participation in his or her life in order to create change. Constructivism is a process to help client understand present experiences, emotions and perceptions and how these elements are affected by events from the past, and how we make sense of our lives and the world constructed by ourselves. Constructive psychotherapy is not defined by specific techniques but rather by the individuation and developmental pacing of different techniques.
The Themes of Constructivism
Constructive
Activity - Human participates continuously in activity.
2. Order - Human activity is devoted to ordering processes - the organizational patterning of experience. These ordering processes are fundamentally emotional, tacit, and they are the essence of meaning-making.
3. Self – The organization of personal activity is fundamentally self-referent or recursive, making the body a fulcrum of experiencing and encouraging a deep phenomenological sense of selfhood or personal identity.
4. Relationship – Social-symbolic processes, human relationships which are mediated by language and symbol systems would deeply affect human’s creations of meaning and ability to self-organize.
5. Lifespan Development - Human life development shape self-knowledge including self-schemas, abstract rules, and expectations for interacting interpersonally and with the environment.
The constructive therapist collaborates with the client in seeking to foster the unique ways that the client achieves proactive change. The collaborative therapeutic alliance is an egalitarian (non-authoritarian) contract that distributes the responsibilities for change. It emphasizes the importance of human relationships in well-being and development.
Case Study of
The therapist has to closely track Esther’s sense of pacing in personal development and respect Esther’s readiness. It is important for therapist to explore and identify Esther’s struggles, contradictory emotions and caused for disturbance. Once Esther’s concerns have been attended respectfully by therapist, then therapist can engage Esther to do a bilateral tapping exercise to assist her practice acceptance of her needs for change. Besides that, bilateral tapping exercise would be able to assist Esther to become in better contact with the parts of the self or external environment. As a way of orientation, Esther could learn her cycle of experience and how the cycle is short-circuited before completion. Nevis (1977) explained that as a way of exploring internal dynamics, the individual could be encouraged to explore individual perceptions, internal dialogues and processes as a means to personally