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What is Solution-Focused Brief Therapy?
-Focuses on actions a client can take to change their reality
-Recognizes that each person has a different "reality"
-Goal is to seek action-oriented changes in as few sessions as possible through optimism & empowerment - 8,10,12 weeks
What is Behavior Therapy?
A Behavioral Approach
-Asserts that all behavior (adaptive/maladaptive) is learned.
-Counselor's teach or help clients discover behaviors to correct the faulty learning that leads to disorders
-Goal is measurable behavior change. Insight is not necessary
BEHAVORIAL THERAPY'S MAIN GOAL?
To develop a FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT
A. Antecedent
B. Behavior
C. Consequenc
BEHAVIOR APPROACH

REALITY THERAPY
Genetically based theory. People have 5 genetically encoded needs that guide and motivate behavior
5 ENCODED NEEDS?

Reality Therapy
1. All Strive to Survive
2. All Want Love & Belonging
3. Power and Achievement
4. Fun
5. Freedom / Independence
GOAL OF REALITY THERAPY?
Help client become responsible for choices that affect his/her life
HUMANISTIC - ALDERIAN

Founded on Two Concepts
LIFE GOAL - Primary focus of one's actions; addresses come personality issues & concerns
ex. I must devote my life to helping others

SOCIAL INTEREST- A person's knowledge of his or her impact on the world
GOAL OF HUMANISTIC
TO CORRECT a client's mistaken goals and faulty assumptions regarding social relations
HUMANISTIC APPROACH
Human beings are basically good
PERSON CENTERED THERAPY
Relationship oriented vs. techniques
CARL ROGERS
relationship between client and counselor is the primary focus
every person has
"CONDITIONS OF WORTH"
Unconditional positive regard most important
3 CORE CONDITIONS
-Accurate empathetic understanding
-Unconditional positive regard
-Genuineness/congruence (non-verbals)
GOAL OF PERSON CENTERED THERAPY
Help clients become all they are capable of becoming
What are some examples of ACCREDITING
EXCET EXAMS
NCC
ACCREDITATION
To give official authorization to or approval of.
COMPONENTS OF A COUNSELING THEORY
1. Precondition for Treatment
2. Counselor Characteristic
3. Relationship Between Counselor & Client
4. Diagnosis of Client Problems (Therapist understanding of symptoms, Clients reported presenting problems)

5. Counseling Goals
6. Techniques
7. The Process
8. How to Evaluate Outcome
What is PCIT
Parent/child interaction therapy
What is a Counseling Theory?
Explanation to Account for why things happen the way they do.
Counseling Theory
-An expert practitioner/researcher begins to speculate on how behavior changes
-These ideas or concepts are linked together for hypothesis about behavior change
Hypothesis
Prediction or assumption
Theory
Hypothesis linked together form a Theory
THEORY
A set of ideas used to explain what happens when a counselor & client work together
HYPOTHESIS
Comprehensive, predict effectively, parsimonious, simple, testable
Counseling vs. Psychotherapy
COUNSELING: Usually signifies a more brief treatment for less severely disturbed clients who seek assistance
Usually conducted in educations & community settings
PSYCHOTHERAPY: Usually signifies a more long-term treatment for more chronic & several problems
CMI?
Chronically Mentally Impaired
TYPES OF PROFESSIONALS / PRACTITIONERS
Psychiatrist (M.D. or D.O)
Psychologist (Ph. D., Ed.D., Psy.D)
Counselor (LPC)
Social Worker (MSW)
Why do clients seek help from counselors?
Remediation with Daily Functioning
-The worried well
-Wanting to live life "more fully"
THOSE UNABLE TO FUNCTION INDEPENDENTLY IN SOCIETY
-May become dangerous to self or others
-Unable to care for self due to mental illness
REBT - COGNITIVE THERAPY

COGNITIVE APPROACH
-Changing one's thoughts will also change one's feelins and behaviors
-In counseling, one must replace self-defeating (irrational thought with adaptive one - Ellis)
-Pessimistic / catastrophic thinking often leads to depression
-Goal is to develop rational & functional thought processes
What is a credential?
Warranting credit or confidence
credentials serve as indicators of those who are legitimate. practitioners within specific fields (particularly health)
Credentials Serve As a Means by Which...
1. Professional groups Can Communicate Who Meet Specialty Standards
2. Professions can restrict entry into certain job markets by unqualified individuals
3. State legislators can control the entry into, titles used, to practice of, various professional groups
BRIEF HISTORY OF CREDENTIALING
1973: Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification (CRCC) met for the first time
1974: ACA (then APGA) called for licensure legislative efforts in all 50 states
1976: Virginia passed first licensure law
1977: Association for Council Education & Supervision Guidelines for Doctoral Pre. Coun. Ed.
1981: CACREP: Council for the Accreditation of Counseling
1985: Counseling Licensure Law
1998: NBCC & ACES develop a certificate for supervisors, ACS (approcved clinical supervisor)
LICENSURE AT STATE LEVEL
A License is a credential authorized y a State Legislature that Regulates:
1. Titles of Specific Professionals
2. Practices of Specific Professionals
3. Both title & practice in a profession
DIFFERING TERMS IN CREDENTIALING
-State Level Licensure: An effort of state government to regulate professions for good of public
-State level certificate
-State level registry ex. california registry of professional counselors
NATIONAL LEVEL CREDENTIALING
NBCC
-promote accountability and visability
-identify to public those counselors who have met specific professional standars
-advancecooeration among groups involed in professional counseling
PURPOSE OF NBCC
Encourage the continuing professional growth and development of National Certified Counselors
*Ensure national standards develope by counselors currently 42,262 NCC counselors
COUNSELOR REQUIREMENTS
45 - 60 academic hours
2 terms supervised field experience
2 years post-masters counseling experience with 3000 hrs worked - 100 supervised
Passing score on NCC
ACA - AMERICAN COUNSELING ASSOCIATION
ACA created NBCC (National Board of Certified Counselors)
NCC MHC
created Nationally Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor (requires NCC - National Counselor Exam)
GESTALT THERAPY

HUMASTIC APPROACH
-Focuses on the here and now experience of the counseling experience
-Relationship building is of high priority
-Clients are encouraged to experience emotions rather than just talk about them
-Goal is to increase self-awareness and accept responsibility for one's choices
What Kind of Approach is Gestalt Therapy?
HUMANISTIC
ECLECTIC APPROACH
Eclecticism carried greater responsibility than any of the other approaches in the this class.
PROS OF ECLECTICISM
- Can choose from a large variety of explanations & techniques
-Allows for openness & flexibility
CONS of ECLECTICISM
-Can become a hodgepodge or shogun approach
-Can be unethical with appropriate training in this approach
COGNITIVE DISTORTIONS
1. All of nothing thinking
2. Overgeneralization
3. Mental Filter
Disqualifying the Positive
4. Jumping to Conclusions
5. Magnification and Minimization
6. Emotional Reasoning
7. Making Should Statements
8. Labeling
9. Personalization
ALL or NOTHING THINKING
Thinking of things in absolute terms, like "always", "every", or "never". Few aspects of human behavior are so absolute
OVERGENERALIZATION
Taking isolated cases and using them to make wide generalizations
MENTAL FILTER
Focusing exclusively on certain, usually negative or upsetting aspects of something while ignoring the rest, like tiny imperfection in a piece of clothing
DISQUALIFYING THE POSITIVE
Continually "shooting down" positive experiences for arbitrary, ad hoc reasons
JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS
Assuming something negative where there is no evidence to support it. Two specific subtypes are also identified.
MIND READING
Assuming the intentions of others
FORTUNE TELLING
Predicting how things will turn before they happen
MAGNIFICATION AND MINIMIZING
Inappropriately understating or exaggerating the way people or situations truly are. Often the positive characteristics of other people are exaggerated and negative characterized are understated. There is one subtype of magnification.
CATASTROPHIZING
Focusing on the worst possible outcome, however unlikely, or thinking that a situation is unbearable or impossible when it is really just uncomfortable
EMOTIONAL REASONING
Making decisions and arguments based on how you feel rather than objective reality
MAKING SHOULD STATEMENTS
Concentrating on what you think "should" or ought to be rather than the actual situation you are faced with, or having rigid rules which you think should always apply no matter what the circumstances are.
LABELING
Related to overgeneralization, explaining by naming. Rather than describing the specific behavior, you assign a label to someone or yourself that puts them in absolute and unalterable terms
PERSONALIZATION
Assuming you or others directly caused things when they may not have been the case. When applied to others, this is an example of blame.
DISPUTE HANDLES
fill in the blank statements that help polarize the cognitive distortions in one's thinking.
DOWNWARD ARROW
get a client to the core belief.
ex. fail course, then what?
can't get degree, then what?
no good job, then what?
I'M A FAILURE
DOWNWARD ARROW
get a client to the core belief.
ex. fail course, then what?
can't get degree, then what?
no good job, then what?
I'M A FAILURE
PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
Problem Behavior
Counseling Theories are....
Specialized theories of behavior change
SFBT
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy

by Steven De Shazer, Milwaukee Brief Family Therapy Center
SFBT
is not a technique oriented therapy as much as it is a philosophy
Transactional Analysis
Eric Berne
CBT
Cognitive Behavior Therapy
CBT developed by
BECK
Carl Rogers
Person Centered Therapy
Eli Ginzburg
First person to present a theory as to why people choose occupations ove rthe life span - published theory in 1951.
Donald Super
1953 Developed what became one of the dominant career development theories of the twentieth century.
Frank Parsons
Had his own theory called Mutualism: Held that commond good of scoiety was based to a large extent on cooperative efforts to ensure benefits for all. Advocated urban renewal, educational reform, women's suffrage, uniform divorce laws and other social changes.
Frank Parsons
wrote Choosing a Vocation, 1909 - published posthumously.
Alfred Binet & Theodore SImon
-standardized testing spawned what book?
1939 Dictionary of Occupational Titles
Albert Ellis
REBT - Rational Emotive Therapy
Reality Therapy
Glasser
Behavior Counseling
Wolpe
Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Education Programs
CACREP
Purpose of all of the councils and commissions established by these organizations is to
recognize counselors who have met certain criteria, including certain training requirements.
A secondary purpose of certification
to encourage maintenance of skills and knowledge by requiring continuing education for maintenance of the certification
Counselor's Work with a Clients....
attitudes, beliefs, emotions, values, and behavior
A developmental theory can become
the analogue of the change process we see a client undergo while under the care of a helper
Traits of Effective Helpers
Self-awareness
Sensitivity to cultural differences
Ability to analyze one's own feelings
Ability to serve as a model
Altruism
Strong sense of ethics
Ability to assume responsibility for self and the person being helped.
Ability to assume the role of facilitator of personal growth
Blind Spots
also known as
PERSONALIZATION ISSUES
WHO YOU ARE
INTERFERES WITH WHAT YOU DO
IDENTIFYING PERSONALIZATION ISSUES
Honest Introspection
Crisis (developmental or situational)
Feedback from family and friends
Counseling
Supervision
A Congruent Counselor is
Self-aware
Open to feedback
Self-assured
Effective Communicator
YAVIS
Young, attractive, verbal, intelligent, successful
Despite our best intentions, the counseling relationship always involves
"manipulation" or social influence
some counselors are more
directive than others
GOALS FOR THE
BEGINNING PHASE OF COUNSELING
Form a good working relationship
Explore the reasons the client seeks counseling
THE BEGINNING PHASE REQUIRES
a great deal of listening (basic attending skills) - restating, reflecting
limited questions - primarily open-ended
CLIENTS WILL OFTEN ___________
test, challenge, deceive, and resist exploration (can we blame them?)
MIDDLE and LATE PHASE
counselor applies his/her theory of choice
often more active than phase one, still less active than client
confront of client on "blind spots" occurs in middle and late phase
client is assisted in recognizing and taking responsibility f or change
independence and autonomy are encouraged