Basic Issues in Counseling Practice Flashcards
psychodynamic approaches
psychoanalytic therapy and Adlerian therapy
psychoanalytic therapy founder
Sigmund Freud
Adlerian therapy founder
Alfred Adler
Psychoanalytic therapy
theory of personality development, a philosophy of human nature, and a method
of psychotherapy that focuses on unconscious factors that motivate behavior. Attention is given to the events of the first 6 years of life as determinants of the later development of personality
Key figures in Adlerian therapy
Adler and Rudolf Dreikurs(popularized in the U.S.)
Adlerian Therapy
growth model that stresses assuming responsibility, creating one’s own destiny, and finding meaning and goals to create a purposeful life. Key concepts are used in most other current therapies.
Experiential and Relationship-Oriented Therapies
Existential therapy, Person-centered therapy, and Gestalt therapy
Existential therapy key figures
Viktor Frankl, Rollo May, and Irvin Yalom
Existential therapy was a reaction to
the tendency to view therapy as a system of
well-defined techniques
Existential therapy
model stresses building therapy on the basic conditions of human existence, such as choice,
the freedom and responsibility to shape one’s life, and self-determination. It focuses on the quality of the person-to-person therapeutic relationship
Person-centered therapy founder
Carl Rogers
Person-centered therapy key figure
Natalie Rogers
Person-centered therapy
Based on a subjective view of human experiencing, it places faith in and gives responsibility to the client in dealing with problems and concerns.
Person-centered therapy was a nondirective reaction to
psychoanalysis in the 1940s
Gestalt therapy founders
Fritz and Laura Perls
Gestalt therapy key figures
Miriam and Erving Polster
Gestalt therapy
experiential therapy stressing awareness and integration; it grew as a reaction against analytic therapy. It integrates the functioning of body and mind.
Cognitive Behavioral Approaches
Behavior therapy, Cognitive behavior therapy, Rational emotive behavior therapy, and Reality therapy
Behavior therapy key figures
B. F. Skinner, Arnold Lazarus, and Albert Bandura
Behavior therapy
approach applies the principles of learning to the
resolution of specific behavioral problems. Results are subject to continual experimentation. The methods of this approach are always in the process of refinement
Cognitive behavior therapy key figures
A. T. Beck, Judith
Beck, and Donald Meichenbaum
Role of cognitive behavior therapy key figures
A. T. Beck founded cognitive therapy, which gives a primary role to thinking as it influences behavior, Judith Beck continues to develop CBT. Donald Meichenbaum is
a prominent contributor to the development of cognitive behavior therapy
Rational emotive
behavior therapy founder
Albert Ellis
Rational emotive
behavior therapy
highly didactic, cognitive, action-oriented model of
therapy that stresses the role of thinking and belief systems as the root of personal problems.