people who attend counseling are able to exhibit catharsis in a safe‚ but also in a supportive and non-judgmental environment. In addition to these attributes counseling services the client with beneficial or appropriate coping skills. In a humanistic approach counseling is practiced to help people to recognize and accept their own internal worth and to be congruent with their self. Psychotherapy and
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When a person needs help or advice they sometimes seek the assistance of a counselor. Counselors use communication skills and their knowledge of psychology to assist their clients. There are many known psychotherapeutic approaches that are recognized and used by different counselors. Each counselor has their own style and incorporates their own personality into how they treat their patients. It is very important for counselors to be familiar with different approaches because each client is different
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Loss is something we all share and experience in life. There are different types of loss which affect our everyday lives‚ emotions and relationships. If our attachment is strong then we will feel stronger emotions. The complexity of our attachment will also dictate how we move through our grief. Grief has several components: physical‚ behavioural‚ emotional‚ mental‚ social and spiritual. Looking at an anticipated death for example when someone is terminally ill planning can be made well
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Outline and evaluate the Psychodynamic approach to abnormality (12marks) It claims that personality develops in childhood through a number of ‘psychosexual stages’ and that too much or too little pleasure at one of these can lead to fixation and abnormal behaviour. For example between the ages of two and four children are in the anal stage – too much focus on holding in faeces during this time can lead to an ‘anally retentive’ adult personality which is obsessively neat and tidy‚ in some cases leading
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It is widely known that unhelpful thinking in the form of dysfunctional beliefs and/or cognitive distortions is just like any other automatically occurring bad habit; with practice and effort‚ people can become more aware of what is happening in their minds and change how they are thinking for the better. Cognitive restructuring therapy‚ also known as cognitive reframing‚ is a technique drawn from cognitive therapy that can help people identify‚ challenge and alter stress-inducing thought patterns
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However‚ as the unofficial “humanistic” approach gained momentum in the field‚ it received a lot of warning and criticisms. For example‚ in the 1960’s when there was a great emphasis on peace and justice from the ending of recent wars‚ Carl Rogers warned that the approach would not become permanent if it was made into a protest movement. The humanistic approach needed to be taken seriously‚ and if psychologists treated it as a “fad”‚ then the community will treat it as such as well. In order for
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The psychodynamic approach’s key strength is that this was the first approach of personality to try and attempt to explain mental illnesses and personality formation in terms of psychology. This psychodynamic theory had enormous influence in the development of the field of psychology today and brought around a new approach to the study of personality and individual differences. The psychodynamic theory cannot be mentioned without the recognition that it has shaped and influenced the majority of psychology
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INTRODUCTION Constructive Psychotherapy is a theory that suggested that people constructed their own realities and found meaning based on life experience. Granvold (1996) shared that constructivism focused on human meaning making and promotes a person’s proactive participation in his or her life in order to create change. Constructivism is a process to help client understand present experiences‚ emotions and perceptions and how these elements are affected by events from the past‚ and how we make
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The behavioral model of psychology‚ in my opinion‚ best explains the behavior of others. I think this approach exhibits why events that happened in an individual’s life have lifelong effects that can include the possibility of mental disorders (Comer‚ 2016‚ p. 57). The behavioral approach is greatly considered when one thinks of the mental disorder of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. This disorder is directly affected by traumatic events that happen to an individual‚ which could possibly affect their
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Outline and evaluate the psychodynamic approach to abnormality The psychodynamic approach to abnormality assumes that unconscious desires and memories influence behaviour and may lead to abnormality. It claims that personality develops in the childhood through a number of psychosexual stages and that too much or too little pleasure at one of these can lead to fixation and abnormal behaviour. For example‚ between the ages of two and four‚ children are in the anal stage- too much focus on holding in
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