M2L4 Flashcards
Setting, Process, Methods and Tools in Counseling
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- Largely synonymous
- Both are collaborative processes
- The practitioner may utilize research-based strategies and practices
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Counseling and Therapy
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- More on advising
- Involves offering guidance and support to a client
- If underlying patterns and concerns are recognized, the counselor may make a referral and recommendation to start therapy
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Counseling
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- Can include counseling on specific issues that may arise during sessions
- Therapeutic in nature
- Longer-term process focused on long-standing attitudes, thoughts, behaviors and feelings
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Therapy
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Dominant schools of thought in Psychology in the 1950s:
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- Psychoanalysis
- Behaviorism
- Humanistic Perspective
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Psychoanalytic therapy (psychoanalysis)
Consists of a three-past psyche structure
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- Id: operates on the pleasure principle
- Ego: operates in reality
- Superego: operates as a moral conscience
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Goal:
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- Help bring the unconscious into consciousness
- Put the three areas of the personality into balance
- Enhance the functioning of the ego
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- To understand a person, you have to take the individual as summations rather than parts
- Believed that behavior depended on how one interprets their past and its
continuing influence on their present life - Believed that individual psychology is motivated by the will to power
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Adlerian therapy
by Alfred Adler
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also called individual psychology
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Adlerian therapy
* Short-term, goal-oriented and positive psychodynamic therapy
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Focus:
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development of individual personality while understanding and accepting the interconnectedness of all humans
- Individual behavior should be explored within the context of a client’s sense of fitting in with their community and society at large
- Individual psychotherapy consists of encouraging clients to overcome their
- feelings of insecurity through developing keeping feelings of connectedness
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- Draws heavily on existentialist philosophy that emphasizes human freedom to define oneself and that our lives are not predetermined
- Encompasses the various forms of therapy that focus on the will to meaning
- Focuses on the human capacity to define and shape their own life
- The central problems people face are embedded in anxiety over loneliness, isolation, despair and ultimately death
- What does it mean to exist?
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Existential therapy
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- Empowerment depends on the self and as such requires non-directive processes
- Non-directive counselors focus on the clients self-discovery rather than their inputs
- The counselor and client reflects and clarifies the verbal and nonverbal
communications of clients
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Person-centered therapy
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- “Pattern” “form” “whole” or “put together”
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Gestalt therapy
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- Meaning cannot be found from breaking things down into parts but rather from appreciation of the whole
- Gestalt is a holistic process which regards the individual as a totality of mind, body, emotions, and spirit who experiences reality in a way unique to themselves
- Counselors push for doing and experiencing rather than just talking about one’s feelings as a client
- Clients are encouraged to focus on self-awareness
- Clients are encouraged to engage in intellectual and physical experiences
Key element is a focus on the “here and now”
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Gestalt therapy
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- Main uniqueness is its emphasis on decisions and contracts that must be made by the client
- Explores how people communicate and interact with one another
- Based on the idea that human interactions can be understood as transactions
- Believes that the client has the potential for choice
- Client clearly states the directions and goals of therapeutic process
- Sessions explore the individual’s personality and how it has been shaped by experience
- Ego state determines how we express ourselves as individuals, interact with each other and form relationships
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Transactional analysis
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- Rooted in the past
- Thoughts, feelings and behaviors learnt from parents and other people
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