Behavior therapy

PERSON-CENTERED THERAPY Student’s name Prof’s name Course title Date Person-centered therapy (PCT), also known as person-centered psychotherapy, Rogerian psychotherapy, client-centered therapy or, person-centered counseling. It is a popular treatment that has proven to be effective despite criticism by behaviorists for deficiency of structure. Psychoanalysts too criticize it for its ability to provide conditional relationships. Carl Rogers, a human psychologist who…

intricate part of becoming a counselor. They allow for students to work with a specific theory that may possibly stay with them through their entire career. Here is a case conceptualization from the rehabilitation case study; I have applied Gestalt therapy to help the client. II. Client Overview The client is a 38-year-old, divorced Mexican female, with two children; presenting with anxiety and depression symptoms. She has a successful, good paying career in upper-level management at a thriving…

Similarities Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) counselors and Reality Therapy (RT) counselors both strive towards creating a relationship with their clients. In regards to SFBT, it is important for the counselor to have an understanding of the theory behind what they are practicing, but it is even more important that the counselor and client have a healthy working relationship that is built on collaboration (Winbolt, 2014). In order for a SFBT counselor to have success with their client,…

their idea of corporal punishment is, but they cannot describe what aversion therapy is. In layman's terms, they are one in the same. Aversion therapy is a term psychologist use to describe “a type of behaviour therapy which aims to reduce or eliminate an undesirable behaviour. This can be achieved by associating the undesirable behaviour with unpleasant stimuli” (Psychology Notes HQ). One example of aversion therapy, which quite common, is when an individual uses the popping of a rubber band…

Person Centered Approach: Emotionally Focused Therapy Emotion focused therapy is a rooted person center philosophy that integrates aspects from Gestalt therapy and existential therapy. Emotion focused therapy revolves around emotions being the primary focus and its real role in psychotherapeutic change. In couples Emotionally focused therapy is a method based on the scientific study of the adult love and bonding processing. It is designed to address and repair emotional distress in the intimate…

the current situation that has lead to physical therapy. The therapist and the patient went over the VLQ done prior to the intervention and created a life compass from the responses on the VLQ (See Appendix F for an example of a life compass). The life compass described the values dimensions in the patient’s life and how consistently the patient lived according to their values. Issues such as barriers and discrepancies between values and behavior were discussed. Next, creative hopelessness was…

The process of animal therapy alters between each program and animal. Typically, sessions involving horses and dolphins will be held outside while ones with dogs and domesticated animals occur either inside or out. Correspondingly, sessions vary in frequency, fluctuating between eight to ten weeks or even 12 months (Ward, Whalon, and Rusnak 2191). Before the lesson begins, tests and interviews with parents and teachers are completed to determine how severe the child’s autism is and the amount of…

person, environment, and behavior. A unique feature of Social Cognitive Theory is the focus on social influence and social reinforcement from an external and internal perspective. SCT takes into consideration the unique manner in which we all learn as individuals and acquire and maintain behavior while also addressing the social environment in which individuals perform the behavior. This theory reflects on individual past experiences which factor into whether or not a behavior…

This pattern of instability and impulsivity is present in a variety of contexts and includes: Desperate efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment, identity disturbance, impulsivity in shopping and relationships, suicidal or self-mutilating behaviors, inappropriate, intense, uncontrollably anger (DSM-5). Lorena is displaying great instability, including impulsivity, great shift in moods, and an unstable…

Psychotherapy, fifth edition, 2005. Various counseling programs use this book as a guideline on how to conduct effective therapeutic group sessions. In chapter 2, the authors express the importance of interpersonal learning and the impact it has on group therapy. Interpersonal learning originates “when interpersonal relationships exist that require corrective emotional experiences in order for the group to operate as a microcosm” Yalom, I. & Leszez, M. (2005). In fact, survival of the human…