The Effectiveness of Child Centered Play Therapy: A Non-Pharmaceutical Treatment Option for School-Aged Children Diagnosed with ADHD. William Wilson Wilmington University SOC 340-B1D02 August 19‚ 2011 Abstract Two research methods - an experiment and survey - were used to answer the research question asked: “How effective is Child-Centered Play Therapy (CCPT)? A non-pharmaceutical treatment option for school-aged
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Carl Rogers was a humanistic psychotherapist who developed the concept of client-centered psychotherapy. He was a brilliant and remarkable person who uses a scientific method of integrating client-centered into psychotherapy. His client-centered approached was to treat the client with respect‚ have unconditional acceptance and empathic understanding. Also‚ his theory was to restore people to full function along with maintaining and enhancing themselves. However‚ it is extraordinary how a therapist
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PCT Essay 1 Running head: AN ILLUSTRATION OF PERSON-CENTERED THERAPY What do you consider to be the strengths and weaknesses of the person-centered approach? What concepts and methods might build effective bonds with clients? Discuss any shortcomings in staying with this orientation. Word Count: 2214 * * i ¦* / PCT Essay 2 Abstract This essay would attempt to explain the fundamental concepts and therapeutic methodologies that might build effective bonds with clients
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Person centered therapy. Write in 3 equal parts the following: Briefly describe the key concepts. Explain the strengths and weaknesses of this therapy. How do you feel about the approach of this therapy? Answer: Psychotherapy Networker conducted a survey in 2006 (as cited in Corey‚ 2009) identifying Carl Rogers as the single most influential psychotherapist of the past quarter century. Using humanistic psychological concepts‚ Rogers formulated a person-centered approach to therapy. According
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Evaluate the claim that Person-centered Therapy offers the therapist all that he/she will need to treat clients. Introduction Person-centered therapy is just one of over more than 300 different types of psychotherapy treatments available to clients‚ illustrated by Holmes and Lindley (1989) as ranging from Active Analytical Psychotherapy to Zaraleya Psychoenergetic Technique. Over the years‚ these varying schools of thought have not always seen eye to eye with emphasis being placed on differences
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Person-Centered Therapy Carl Rogers developed Person-Centered Therapy (PCT) in the 1940s (Rogers & Maslow‚ 2008). PCT can be used with individuals‚ group settings‚ or within family therapy. PCT is a way of supporting and working with people within a mind frame of an humanistic approach. The process behind PCT involves active listening‚ thinking together‚ sharing ideas between practitioner and client‚ and the therapist being nondirective and supportive within PCT sessions. PCT puts the client at
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Person-centered therapy (PCT)‚ which is also known as client-centered‚ non-directive‚ or Rogerian therapy‚ is an approach to counseling and psychotherapy that places much of the responsibility for the treatment process on the client‚ with the therapist taking a non directive role. Two primary goals of PCT are increased self-esteem and greater openness to experience. Some of the related changes that this form of therapy seeks to foster in clients include closer agreement between the client’s idealized
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theories that followed him. I want to explore Client/Person Centered Therapy. This is a type of therapy that was pioneered by Carl Rogers. This therapy is different because as the name suggests it solely focuses on the client. ’In focusing on the client‚ the client’s feelings are deeply explored. The assumption is however‚ that the client was never able to have their feelings heard by the people surrounding them. Person Centered Therapy would allow the client to then be able to express their feelings
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Play Therapy Play therapy is a type of mental health‚ educational‚ or developmental intervention that is designed to help children grow up as happy and well-adjusted as possible. It involves the use of play to communicate with children and to help children learn to solve problems and change their negative behaviors. The Association for Play Therapy defines play therapy as “the systematic use of a theoretical model to establish an interpersonal process wherein trained
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DEFINITION Guided imagery therapy is a cognitive-behavioral technique in which a child is guided in imagining a relaxing scene or series of experiences. RATIONALE Guided Imagery is similar to hypnosis and various relaxation strategies. Guided Imagery lies somewhere in the middle of a continuum consisting of standard relaxation techniques on one end of the spectrum and hypnosis on the other. As used by the author‚ guided imagery involves the child engaged in some sort of focused relaxation
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