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Jun 1, 2015 · Psychotherapy theories provide a framework for therapists and counselors to interpret a client’s behavior, thoughts, and feelings and help them navigate a client’s journey from diagnosis to post-treatment. Theoretical approaches are an understandably integral part of the therapeutic process.
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- Psychoanalysis and psychodynamic therapies. This approach focuses on changing problematic behaviors, feelings, and thoughts by discovering their unconscious meanings and motivations.
- Behavior therapy. This approach focuses on learning's role in developing both normal and abnormal behaviors. Ivan Pavlov made important contributions to behavior therapy by discovering classical conditioning, or associative learning.
- Cognitive therapy. Cognitive therapy emphasizes what people think rather than what they do. Cognitive therapists believe that it's dysfunctional thinking that leads to dysfunctional emotions or behaviors.
- Humanistic therapy. This approach emphasizes people's capacity to make rational choices and develop to their maximum potential. Concern and respect for others are also important themes.
Jul 29, 2024 · Explore essential counseling theories and approaches with William & Mary's guide. Understand client care dynamics to enhance therapeutic outcomes.
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As stated in the previous section, theoretical orientations are the broad lenses that clinicians use to guide their practices. Within these orientations, however, are the techniques that are used to target specific goals. Often times techniques are clustered into established therapies. Below is a chart of techniques and therapies that you may see a...
Psychoanalytic
Projective testing, dream analysis , free association, attachment-informed psychotherapy, focal psychotherapy
Existential
Paradoxical intention, existential integrative therapy, logotherapy, mindfulness-based existential therapy, philosophy-based counseling
Person-Centered
Motivational interviewing, actualization, emotion-focused therapy, nondirective play therapy, phenomenology
Lastly, many clinicians can work towards advanced certifications beyond their basic license. Some of the therapies listed above may require these extra certifications to practice fully. This person is known as certified. On the other hand, When a clinician does not have the full specialty certification, but still uses concepts from certain techniqu...
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Oct 12, 2024 · A therapist or counselor’s theoretical orientation is an organized set of assumptions or preferences based on specific psychological theories that guides their work. It provides the clinician with a conceptual framework for identifying client needs and discerning which specific interventions might work best to treat them.
Overview Of cOunselling and therapy apprOaches A useful distinction exists between schools of counselling and therapy and theo-retical approaches to counselling and therapy. A theoretical approach presents a single position regarding the theory and practice of counselling and ther-apy.
Jan 3, 2023 · 1. Psychoanalytical Counseling. Initially developed by Sigmund Freud, psychoanalysis strives to uncover unconscious motivations and meanings to explain and alter thoughts, feelings and behaviors. Psychoanalytic techniques include dream analysis, free association and emotional transference.
