Person-Centered Approach to Addiction and Recovery Person-centered therapy is an egalitarian relationship. The client and counselor are equals. However, the therapeutic process is largely client led. The person-centered counselor believes that clients are the best authority on their lives and have all the resources they need within them to improve their life situation. The counselor acts as a sounding board, refrains from judgment, and trusts that the client knows what is best for them. The client needs only support, not direction. This non-directive approach enables the client to find solutions to their own problems.
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By focusing on human individuality, the counselor can address the complex multifaceted etiology of the addiction. The interaction of genes, developmental history, and multicultural influences an individual’s likelihood to engage in high risk behavior, thrill seek, and the process of acquiring and living with an addiction. Looking at the individual’s unique collection of biopsychosocial factors that influence the etiology, expression, prevention, and treatment helps the counselor to more holistically assess for and address addiction. It is important to note that person-centered therapy often avoids labeling and …show more content…
It espouses that the essence of being human is the process of searching for meaning and purpose. The challenge of creating meaning and continuing to build your identity is the personal responsibility of every individual. Existential Therapy focuses on contextually exploring challenges and paradoxes of human experiences. Humans continually change and transform. The approach emphasizes freedom to choose what we make of our circumstances. The intention is to live authentically and deliberately, in harmony with their ideals, priorities, and values. This responsibility comes with angst and struggle. However, without purpose and meaning an individual lives in an existential vacuum, the malaise of
Person-centered therapy promotes the idea that there are core conditions in therapy that are necessary for rapport building …show more content…
By focusing on human individuality, the counselor can address the complex multifaceted etiology of the addiction. The interaction of genes, developmental history, and multicultural influences an individual’s likelihood to engage in high risk behavior, thrill seek, and the process of acquiring and living with an addiction. Looking at the individual’s unique collection of biopsychosocial factors that influence the etiology, expression, prevention, and treatment helps the counselor to more holistically assess for and address addiction. It is important to note that person-centered therapy often avoids labeling and …show more content…
It espouses that the essence of being human is the process of searching for meaning and purpose. The challenge of creating meaning and continuing to build your identity is the personal responsibility of every individual. Existential Therapy focuses on contextually exploring challenges and paradoxes of human experiences. Humans continually change and transform. The approach emphasizes freedom to choose what we make of our circumstances. The intention is to live authentically and deliberately, in harmony with their ideals, priorities, and values. This responsibility comes with angst and struggle. However, without purpose and meaning an individual lives in an existential vacuum, the malaise of