Theoretical Orientations Flashcards
In this orientation people are not emotionally sick and in need of curing. They have become discouraged and need positive, growth oriented encouragement
Adlerian Orientation
In this orientation, counseling should be growth-oriented, focused on the future, and create goals that provide direction in life and the ability of clients
Adlerian Orientation
This orientation is person-centered and emphasizes the client/therapist realtionship as the major factor that leads to personal change
Existential Orientation
This orientation focuses on techniques designed to tap the unconscious and counselors use interpretations to foster insight
Psycho analysis
This orientation believes that people can move forward in a constructive direction w/o interpretation or active intervention from the therapist; counselors DO NOT rely on directive techniques; they have faith in clients’ capacities for self-direction
Person-Centered Therapy
This orientation holds that people by nature uncritically incorporate irrational ideas about themselves and life; counselors use a therapeutic style characterized by forceful persuasion, active & direct teaching. Techniques are used to help the client attack stubborn irrational thoughts; There is a high degree of therapist confrontation to undermine the client’s tendency towad self-sabotage
Rational-Emotive Therapy
The struggle between valuing characteristics like autonomy of choice, expression of feelings, beig open and self-reveling versus a client being emotionally reserved and not making decisions on their own could be viewed as
Cultural Sensitivity
a theory of personality development; a philosophy of human nature; a method of psychotherapy, focus on unconscious factors that motivate human behavior; attention to events of the 1st 6 years of life determining the later development of personality
Psychoanalytic/Psychotherapy
a growth model; stresses taking responsibility, creating one’s own destiny, and finding meaning and goals to give life direction; these key concepts are used in most other current therapies
Alfred Adler/Adlerian Therapy
Viktor Frankl, Rollo May, Irvin Yalom
Existential Therapy
a reaction to view therapy as a system of well-defined techniques; stresses building therapy on the basic conditions of human existence: choice, freedom, & responsibility to shape one’s life; self-determiniation; focus is on the quality of the person-to-person therapeutic relationship
Existential Therapy
carl Rogers
Person-centered therapy
originally a non-directive approach developed during the 1940s; a reaction against psychoanalysis; based on a subjective iew of human experience; places more faith in and gives more responsibility to the client in dealing with prolems
Person -Centered Therapy; Rogerian
Fritz Perls
Gestalt Therapy
experiential therapy stressing awarreness and integration; reaction against analytical therapy; integrates functioning of body and mind
Gestalt Therapy
