They are three main types of psychotherapy one of them would be humanistic therapies, this we can find a variety of approaches rooted in the humanistic perspective on personality. Therapies within this orientation share an emphasis on insight, self-actualization, and the belief that human nature is basically positive. Humanistic therapists reject the interpretive technique of psychoanalysis. Instead, they strive to understand clients' inner worlds through empathy and focus on clients' thoughts and feelings in the present moment. This approach emphasizes people's capacity to make rational choices and develop to their maximum potential. Respect and concern for others are also an important theme. So basically psychoanalytic and psychodynamic deals
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There are three types of humanistic therapy they are, person-centered therapy, Gestalt therapy and existential therapy. Behavior therapy are named that way because they focused on the specific behaviors that lead the client to seek therapy and address the current variables that maintain problematic thoughts, feelings and behaviors. People who are behavior therapist tend to to think that behavior change results from the operation of basic principles of learning, especially classical condition, operant condition and observational learning. A perfect example of this would be a client with a cat phobia may reinforce his problematic behavior by crossing the street whenever he sees a …show more content…
All that it is, these people hold beliefs that play the central role in our feelings and behaviors. These therapies share three common assumptions. (1) cognitions are identifiable and measurable (2) cognitions are the key players in both healthy and unhealthy psychological functioning and the last out of the three would be irrational beliefs or catastrophic, which all it is, thinking such as "I am worthless-and will never succeed at anything." can be replaced with more rational and adaptive conditions, or viewed in a more accepting light. Basically all that Cognitive therapy does is it emphasizes what people think rather than what they do. While behavioral therapy focuses on learning's role in developing both normal and abnormalities behaviors. There are some similarities between cognitive and humanistic therapy, they share similar goals. They both value "self-acceptance," in the form of discouraging the clients from forming negative generalized trait like self-judgement. Both of them also value one's failure and mistakes as part of a process of exploration and
There are three types of humanistic therapy they are, person-centered therapy, Gestalt therapy and existential therapy. Behavior therapy are named that way because they focused on the specific behaviors that lead the client to seek therapy and address the current variables that maintain problematic thoughts, feelings and behaviors. People who are behavior therapist tend to to think that behavior change results from the operation of basic principles of learning, especially classical condition, operant condition and observational learning. A perfect example of this would be a client with a cat phobia may reinforce his problematic behavior by crossing the street whenever he sees a …show more content…
All that it is, these people hold beliefs that play the central role in our feelings and behaviors. These therapies share three common assumptions. (1) cognitions are identifiable and measurable (2) cognitions are the key players in both healthy and unhealthy psychological functioning and the last out of the three would be irrational beliefs or catastrophic, which all it is, thinking such as "I am worthless-and will never succeed at anything." can be replaced with more rational and adaptive conditions, or viewed in a more accepting light. Basically all that Cognitive therapy does is it emphasizes what people think rather than what they do. While behavioral therapy focuses on learning's role in developing both normal and abnormalities behaviors. There are some similarities between cognitive and humanistic therapy, they share similar goals. They both value "self-acceptance," in the form of discouraging the clients from forming negative generalized trait like self-judgement. Both of them also value one's failure and mistakes as part of a process of exploration and