Cbt Approach In Counselling
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is one of the effective, and empirical proven therapies in counselling, mentoring, and coaching (Connor, & Pokora, 2017, p.111-112; Dobson, & Dozois, 2001, p.10-11). CBT approach states that individual’s attitudes, feelings, and thoughts are connected and influence each other. Individuals’ defeating, self-limited thoughts, and interpretations of specific event or the world around them, produce grief and have a negative influence on their doings (McLeod, 2013, p.141). In CBT approaches, counsellor/coach/mentor try to make the client aware of their tendencies for thinking this way. They help with finding alternative thoughts, and teach the client some techniques on how to cope with their automatic, distorted
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In both cases, counselor/coach/mentor first listen to the client’s story of problematic event(s), their interpretation(s) of these stories and tries to find information about the problem and re-interpreted it. Also, through personal stories, the client can understand their feelings, beliefs, and attitudes better, and engage in that problem through cooperative relationship with counsellor/coach/mentor. In both approaches the client is perceived as an ‘expert’ of their life and the one who can ‘re-write’ it (McLeod, 2013, p.253-266; Cox, Bachkirova, & Clutterbuck, 2014, p.117-130). However, in Narrative Approaches the focus is on externalising the problem by making the client aware that there is nothing problematic about them and the problem does not represent who they are, ‘the issue is the issue’, not the person themselves (Carey, & Russell, 2002, Retrieved from https://dulwichcentre.com.au/articles-about-narrative-therapy/externalising/). This can be done by externalising the problem, by the questions which change the client perception of ‘I am really an anxious person’ to ‘How long has that anxiety impact my life?’ or by personifying the issue: ‘In which situation does Mr. Angier appear the most?’ Questions like that help to put some distance between the individual and the issue, and therefore, let the person to re-think about a relationship with the issue and their sense of self (Cox, Bachkirova, & Clutterbuck, 2014, p.120-122; Carey, & Russell, 2002, Retrieved from https://dulwichcentre.com.au/articles-about-narrative-therapy/externalising/). Additionally, if the problem definition is closer to the client’s own experiences it is easier for them to come with any ideas of solving it. It is more likely to come with some coping strategies and methods for dealing with ‘the negative thoughts’ rather than finding some for depression per se, as it
In both cases, counselor/coach/mentor first listen to the client’s story of problematic event(s), their interpretation(s) of these stories and tries to find information about the problem and re-interpreted it. Also, through personal stories, the client can understand their feelings, beliefs, and attitudes better, and engage in that problem through cooperative relationship with counsellor/coach/mentor. In both approaches the client is perceived as an ‘expert’ of their life and the one who can ‘re-write’ it (McLeod, 2013, p.253-266; Cox, Bachkirova, & Clutterbuck, 2014, p.117-130). However, in Narrative Approaches the focus is on externalising the problem by making the client aware that there is nothing problematic about them and the problem does not represent who they are, ‘the issue is the issue’, not the person themselves (Carey, & Russell, 2002, Retrieved from https://dulwichcentre.com.au/articles-about-narrative-therapy/externalising/). This can be done by externalising the problem, by the questions which change the client perception of ‘I am really an anxious person’ to ‘How long has that anxiety impact my life?’ or by personifying the issue: ‘In which situation does Mr. Angier appear the most?’ Questions like that help to put some distance between the individual and the issue, and therefore, let the person to re-think about a relationship with the issue and their sense of self (Cox, Bachkirova, & Clutterbuck, 2014, p.120-122; Carey, & Russell, 2002, Retrieved from https://dulwichcentre.com.au/articles-about-narrative-therapy/externalising/). Additionally, if the problem definition is closer to the client’s own experiences it is easier for them to come with any ideas of solving it. It is more likely to come with some coping strategies and methods for dealing with ‘the negative thoughts’ rather than finding some for depression per se, as it