Theory Outline Project Assignment Raymond McCall March 28‚ 2013 Grand Canyon University PCN-500 Instructor: Gigi Sofia Theory Outline I. Theory: Person Centered Therapy a. Key Concepts i. A client can find away to resolve their issues when they make themselves aware. Some client result to faith to gain a sense of self direction. The client must figure out what he or she want to be verses what he or she is. During that time the client focus is on the present
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Ced 677 Read the book "The Games people Play" Transactional Analysis (TA): the analyst of a client to other people Eric Bern was initially trained as a psychologist. says that we all play a part and all follow a script. says we have thee choices follow the script of your life/play the part‚ don’t follow the script/don’t pla the part‚ or rewrite the script/change what you don’t like about yourself. says people collect feeling like they collect stamps. Stamp collecting: collect feelings/experiencing
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Evolutionary Psychology: Therapudeic therapy In our society there are several forms of behavioral and social development concerns. To help people cope with these psychological concerns there are a wide range of therapies‚ techniques and approaches‚ such as psychotherapy. Psychotherapy is a systematic interaction between a therapist and someone who is suffering from mental or emotional issues‚ with the goal of providing support or relief to overcome their psychological
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Factors to consider in evaluation: 1.cultural bias in the instrument or clinician 2. Theoretical orientation 3.Underemphasis on the external situation 4.insufficient validation 5.inaccurate data Classification system: • -delinates meaningful subvarieties of maladaptive behavior • -first step in the nature‚ causes‚ and treatment process of a disorder • -provides a means of universal communication regarding abnormal behavior • -the product of human invention-disorders can be “constructs”
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which is a theoretical alternative to the psychoanalytic behavioral approaches. This has encouraged therapist to turn to the humanistic approaches like the existential therapy which was developed by Carl Rogers and the Gestalt therapy developed by Fritz Perls. These both therapies are experimental and relationship-oriented rather than just focusing on behavior and personality. Existentialist therapy reacts against the psychoanalytic and behavioristic positions’ deterministic‚ reductionistic and mechanic
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Gestalt Therapy PSYU-501 February 13‚ 2012 Gestalt Therapy Gestalt therapy was founded by Frederick (Fritz) and Laura Perls in the 1940s. It instructs the client on the phenomenological method which is the theory that says behavior is determined by the way the person perceives reality rather than by objective external reality. This therapy method is an influential preference compared to the two chief therapeutic methods‚ psychoanalysis and behavioral therapy. This therapy combines the
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Article Review Harper‚ F. D.‚ Guilbault‚ M.‚ Tucker‚ T.‚ & Austin‚ T. (2007). Happiness as a goal of counseling: Cross-cultural implications. International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling‚ 29(2)‚ 123-136. doi:http://dx.doi.org.jproxy.lib.ecu.edu/10.1007/s10447-007-9030-0 The authors of the article discuss the concept of happiness as a therapy goal‚ explore the variables that are likely to influence our subjective well-being‚ and analyze the perceptions of happiness in different counseling
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Comparison of Counseling Theories By: Introduction to Counseling February 27‚ 2007 Abstract The purpose of this paper is to provide further insight on several different counseling theories. The theories outlined are client-centered therapy developed by Carl Rodgers‚ existential therapy developed by Rollo May and Victor Frankl and the Gestalt counseling theory derived from Gestalt psychology. Each theory is still used today with many studies and attempts to study each theory further
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The sharp‚ strained movements and demonic screeching in Anna Halprin’s 1975 improvisational piece‚ Darkside Dance‚ make it is easy to understand the amount of despair Halprin went through upon hearing that she had been diagnosed with colon cancer a second time. In an interview‚ Halprin described her feelings regarding this diagnosis when she said‚ “For those of you who have cancer or have had cancer‚ you know how life threatening it can be. You’re unprepared suddenly to face the possibility of dying
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The Comparison between Psychodynamic and Humanistic Theory There are very distinct differences between Psychodynamic and Humanistic Counselling but both ultimately offer the help and guidance to discover why we act the way we do and why we make certain choices in our lives. Throughout this essay‚ I will endeavour to explain those major differences and you will see that despite these completely different methods of therapy‚ depending on what the problem maybe‚ they can both work very effectively
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