Psychodynamic psychotherapy

The aim of this essay is to explore two counselling theories or theorists in depth, comparing and contrasting their background, theory of personality, theory of problems in living and theory of change. It is also necessary to assess their strengths and weaknesses as you see them and to evaluate which counselling situation that they would be most appropriate for. The two theories that I am going to discuss are the humanistic approach of person-centred therapy and the cognitive behavioural therapy…

placed on recording sessions for hypothesis testing were radical, anti-authoritarian ideas that remain significant and enduring contributions to the field of psychotherapy” (Samstag, 2007, p. 298). Rogers published many journal articles and the following books: The Clinical Treatment of the Problem Child (1939), Counseling and Psychotherapy (1942), Client-Centered Therapy (1951), On Becoming a Person (1961), The Therapeutic Relationship and Its Impact (1967), Freedom to Learn (1969), Carl…

Intervention Process: The major concepts of my chosen theory help guide me in the intervention process for both CBT and Narrative Therapy because of my clients and the issues they bring forward. The concepts also guided me through the intervention process because; it allowed me to concentrate on the issue at hand for my client and helped me learn a lot about the therapies and techniques. It also allowed me to see how both of these theories, CBT and Narrative gave me the opportunity to ask…

I chose psychotherapy as a career path early on. When my parents separated from a tumultuous marriage the court ordered us to see a psychologist and I was always eager to go to sessions. I grew up in a home where domestic violence was prevalent and spent my childhood with a traumatized single mother, a survivor of both marital rape and domestic violence. I would leave the therapist’s office I felt reassured and absolved of my issues at the time and it was an immense relief. I became very…

Judith Myers Avis (2005) wrote an article about if feminism and family therapy co-exit. My comprehension on what she wrote indicates that she feels that both can co-exit. I will discuss my findings about why I think that she feels that both can exist. She stated that many therapists were focused on feminist therapy when she was in university. She took courses that helped her develop her feminism style of counselling and provided her with an open mind. She states that over 35 years, counselling…

Psychodynamic theory stresses the significance of early childhood experience and how it affects adulthood. This theory relies on the relationship developed between the counselor and client, allowing of freedom of expression to take place. When applying this theory within a school setting an advantage is understanding and knowing the clients behavior patterns. Psychodynamic focuses on the past with the assumption that a student is currently acting a certain way based on childhood experiences…

Summary My second interviewee, Margaret Anton, is a fourth year clinical psychology student at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. While she is in clinical psychology program as a graduate-student at UNC, she also works as a research assistant, where she helps to research how technology can improve mental healthcare for low income families. To get to where she is now she went through three years as a post-doc research assistant at the University of Virginia, the school where she also…

The first study utilized a sample of 20 Vietnam combat veterans who were randomly assigned to one of three groups, one of which being EMDR (Albright & Thyer, 2009). While the therapist used in this study was EMDR trained, the extent of that training was not indicated. Only two sessions were provided, and repeated measures ANOVA yielded no significant effects for any of the psychological measures (Albright & Thyer, 2009). The second study utilized 25 Vietnam combat veterans who were randomly…

Getting Started: Couples counseling is different from the individual counseling, couples counseling is active, structured, and the time is around 10 to 12 sessions. The individual counseling is passive, slow, and it takes months. The individual therapy, the therapist is always on the side of the client, while the therapist in the couple therapy never takes a side. Individual therapy, the therapist has to feel connected with the client, but the couple therapist, the therapist has to be close…

involves exposure to whatever causes their anxiety("Different Approaches to Psychotherapy."). This form of therapy helps the patient overcome the actual cause of anxiety instead of just covering up the symptoms. Though not pleasant for the patient, it has longer lasting effects and helps them learn ways to face their fears for the future. Created by Aaron T. Beck in the 1960s, cognitive therapy is a form of psychotherapy that is used to help people realize that what they think about affects…