Chapter 11: Lecture Flashcards
Humanistic and experiential approaches focus on…
Help client become aware of and alive to their experiences in the here and now
Encourage to fully encapsulate what it means to be human
Major goal of existential counselling
Help clients face what it is to be human, taking responsibility for their choices, and create a sense of meaning and purpose
Existential counselling
Avoidance of emotions leads to issues. Problems arise when people avoid facing the realities of existence and avoid taking responsibility for their actions. No matter the situation, we always have choice. We need to make meaning given the difficulties of life.
Gestalt Therapy
Belief that people experience problems when they lose contact with their feelings and awareness. They get stuck in unfinished business if the past, impeding ability to be in the here and now. This causes people to become fragmented and creat top and under dog polarities.
Main goal of Gestalt Therapy
To help clients become whole, and more alive to their experience in the here and now
Person-centred counselling
Problems arise when we develop social masks to hide behind, and make us more acceptable to other people.
Main goal of person-centred counselling is…
Helping clients become more aware and accepting of who they really are, and how they feel behind their masks in everyday moments
Three requirements of person-centered counselling in the therapeutic relationship are…
Congruence, unconditional positive regard, and empathy
Congruence
Counsellor is genuine, authentic, no facade, inner feelings match outer expressions. What they say and what they do match
Unconditional positive regard
Showing a nonjudgmental acceptance of the client as a person. Warmth, acceptance, value the person, but this does not mean you are accepting their behaviours
Empathy
Component of compassion, where and you try experience and understand the clients feelings, and communicate that understanding
