Integrative psychotherapy

Characteristics such as rapport building skills, empathy and unconditional positive regard can all be developed in the counseling process with clients; however rapport building and empathy are two that are most likely to change with each client and therefore should be genuinely new and relevant to each person as they come along. For example, each client that comes in will need a different set of feelings from their counselor, since every one’s story is different. The empathy can be a general…

The textbook, Intentional Interviewing and Counseling: Facilitating Client Development in a Multicultural Society (2014) explores core counselling skills and techniques. The authors, Ivey, Ivey, & Zalaquett (2014) assert that counselors help clients to help themselves by using competent and effective counselling skills. When counselors accurately use their basic counseling skills, they aid clients in developing their own abilities to use their human potential in the present and in future.…

Recovering from trauma may seem impossible to the victims who are left to cope with the intense symptoms that plague them long after the traumatic incident. Although progression is slow, recovery with the right therapy is possible (Wright, 2011). Some victims may choose a therapist who is well equipped to provide therapy to those who have been through trauma. Other victims might choose a spiritual leader to help them through the process of recovery and others may not choose to get help at all.…

Carl Rogers developed the person-centered theory, his major focus is on an individual’s “humanistic” abilities and their need to belong through “self-actualization” meaning that it “focuses less on diagnosing” because it works to lead the client/patient to be autonomous (independent) on themselves that may help them and those around their social circle too (Barclay, 2016, p. 127). According to Kass (2015), Rogers understood that people grow and develop in accordance with their personality traits…

Phases of Adlerian Play Therapy In Adlerian Play Therapy (AdPT), there are a total of four phases or procedures in the play therapy session. The four phases of AdPT are establishing relationship, investigate the lifestyle of the child, gain insight and administer reorientation and reeducation (Kottman, 2001). In the Adlerian Play Therapy, the therapists will include parent consultation because they believed that parent contributes greatly to the development of the child. They served as place…

My Preferred Therapeutic Goals Most family therapy approaches that I’ve studied agree that the major goals of therapy are anxiety relief and change; however, theories differ on how to achieve these goals; for example, Bowen’s transgenerational model emphasizes insight into family patterns transmitted across generations (G&G, 2013, p. 208), whereas strategic therapy (p. 303) and brief solution-focused therapy (p. 376), though very different in origin, emphasize action and change over…

This paper will discuss the case scenario involving a single mother named Sylvia who seems to be suffering from major depression. Major depression can be an awful and debilitating disorder for some individuals to deal with. She is feeling isolated and undesirable and these feelings can lead to a dark road that can, eventually, if not treated, turn into suicidal thoughts or actions. Fortunately, because of modern psychology, there are specific methods and techniques that are mentioned below that…

Growing up in Ecuador certainly influenced what I wanted to study. I was not sure I would ever be able to live in the United States. Hence, I needed to study for a highly regarded and well-paying job there. Although there are clinical psychologists in my home country, the career is undervalued because people refrain from going to therapy. Unfortunately, seeing a psychologist is equated with weakness or severe mental illness. The stigma surrounding the field did not allow me to consider…

Psychotherapeutic professionals have been acknowledged in practice as early as 1896, acknowledged primarily with Sigmund Freud, “the true pioneer in the recognition of the importance of unconscious mental activity” (Beystehner, 2006, para. 1). Since then, numerous therapists, philosophers, studies and educational programs have been pursued in the betterment for the professional therapy practice today. Becoming a Therapist: On the Path to Mastery enclosed important subjects that are essential in…

Mark Twain once said, “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” Higher education was a goal that was instilled in me at a young age. My siblings and I all have great aspirations. I admire each of them, because each one is great individually. My two sisters both work in social services, one a social service supervisor, the other a supervisor over several social work departments. One…