A comparison of psychotherapy techniques: Person-Centred, Cognitive Behaviour and Solution Focused Brief Therapy.
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Introduction
For, decades, the desire to comprehend or understand how psychotherapy help individuals change their lives has been a motivating factor for most psychological philosophers, theorists, and academicians as well as practitioners and counsellors. This has led to voluminous accumulation of psychotherapy literature, giving theoretical and empirical studies on the mechanisms that facilitate the therapeutic process and changes on the clients or patients.
Psychotherapy has been known to be a form of treatment which is based on systematic
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Hedonism explains the concepts of seeking pleasure and avoiding pain, responsible hedonism therefore primarily maintains pleasure over long-term while avoiding short-term pleasures that can result in pain. The humanistic view of REBT involve viewing human beings as holistic, goal oriented and have interests. On other hand, the rational view of REBT entails using efficient, flexible, logical and scientific ways that can be used to achieve goals and values in presence of feelings/emotions (Dozois & Beck, …show more content…
On other hand, the cognitive-behaviour therapy (REBT) entails practical approach to problem-solving that aims at changing the thinking and behavioural patterns that cause difficulties to individuals, thus, change the way in which people feel. It is a relatively short-term as well as long-term, focused therapeutic approach used mainly for emotional, behavioural and psychiatric problems (Yoosefi, 2011; Wampold, 2013).
Solution focused brief therapy on other hand, is a future-focused, goal orientated and directed type of therapy that focuses on solutions rather than the problems which have caused the client seek therapy. This approach explores the current resources and future hopes rather than the past causes and present problems. Therefore, the solution-focused brief theory emphasizes that rather than dwelling on the past and present problems, it focused on the future and seek to identify strengths and resources for the
Solution-focused therapies are established on the method of reasoning that there are exemptions to each issue and through analyzing these exemptions and having an unmistakable vision of a favored future, customer, and advocate, together, can produce thoughts for solutions. Solution-focused specialists are competency and future-focused. They feature and use customer qualities to empower a more compelling future. It differs from Interpersonal therapy because this therapy is most normally utilized on an individual premise to treat dejection or dysthymia. Interpersonal therapy concentrates on a man 's interpersonal connections.
Hedonism is basically something that brings pleasure and happiness to someone. This doesn’t necessarily mean that the thing that brings one person's happiness will bring another person the same happiness. Each person seeks their
Hedonism is the different theories about what is good for humans, what motivate us to behave and how we should do it, all of the hedonistic theories catalog pleasure and pain as the most important element of the life of a human being. Hedonists states that all the pleasure you can feel as a human, is intrinsically valuable and pain is intrinsically not valuable, by intrinsically we mean essential, necessary. the Pleasure Machine most known as The Experience machine is a thoughtful experiment proposed by Robert Nozick in his book Anarchy, State and Utopia (1974), that propose humans to imagine a machine that can give you whatever you can desire or unlimited pleasure experiences and then asks you which one would you choose whether your real life or get plugged-in on the machine. This experiment may seem as a good option for any human considering the actual situation of the world and each person problems, and it makes sense: no problems, unhappiness or injustice. I would never enter the Nozick’s Experience Machine nor any human should, for certain reasons such as: Doing things rather than experience them, We want to be someone, and it limits us to what we can make.
Developed by Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg, Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), is a behavior based, goal oriented, treatment system that focuses on the present and future, rather than past experiences, to find solutions to problems (Goodtherapy.org, 2016). This paper will explore Solution-Focused Therapy, its core constructions, approach, and techniques. Core constructs Berg and de Shazer (as cited by Fiske, 1998), used three principles to direct their philosophy when creating SFBT: (1.) “If it isn’t broke, don’t fix it” (p. 186). (2.)
Hedonism and the desire-satisfaction theory of welfare are typically seen as archrivals in the contest over identifying what makes one’s life better. It is surprising, then, that the most plausible form of hedonism is desire satisfactionism. The hedonism theory focuses on pleasure/happiness while the desire-satisfaction theory elucidates the relevance of fulfilling our desires. Pleasure, in some points of view is the subjective satisfaction of desire. I will explain the similarities and the differences between the desire-satisfaction theory of value and hedonism.
Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, Adlerian Therapy, and Person-Centered Therapy Therapy can take many forms. There is numerous therapies out there and many different people who have contributed to the development of each theory and form of therapy. The goal of therapy is to help people get through any problems they may be facing. Therapy is used as a form of support, stress relief, and a way to make people happy and overall healthier.
For example, using the various theoretical approaches in psychology such as solution- focused therapy or cognitive behavior therapy for treating and engaging future clients and their support
Abstract This paper focuses on person-centered therapy. Person-centered therapy is an approach to help individuals develop a sense of self. This therapy is different from others as the client is responsible for improving his own life, not the therapist. However, it is important for the therapist to create a conducive environment for the client so that the client feels safe and secure and will be at ease to share problems or issues during therapy sessions.
Proficient use of skills and techniques, leads to the achieving of one’s ultimate goal. The objective with effective therapy is that you are equipped to generalise skills and coping strategies to a variety of events and circumstances. Clients are thus equipped with strategies for relapse prevention, resulting in long-term
,1986). Solution focused therapy (SFT) aim for all individual to solve their problems in a manner that do not bring harm or cause emotional
Psychotherapy is as effective as medication in treating depression and is more effective than medication in preventing relapse (DeRubeis, Siegle, & Hollon, 2008). Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) pertains to a class of interventions whose premise is that mental disorders and psychological distress are maintained by cognitive factors. Beck (1970) and Ellis (1962), were the pioneers Cognitive Behavioral Therapy approach of the core premise of holds that maladaptive cognitions contribute to the maintenance of emotional distress and behavioral problems. A review of meta-analytic studies by Hofmann, Asnaani, Vonk, Sawyer, and Fang (2012) examined the efficacy of CBT and it demonstrated that this treatment has been used for a wide range of psychological problems such as cannabis and nicotine dependence, schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, depression, anxiety disorders, bulimia, insomnia, personality disorders, stress management and more studies being conducted to study its effectiveness. There is a well-established literature regarding effective cognitive behavioral therapy in treating mental health problems, specifically those utilizing face-to-face counseling.
Among the Ethical Philosophy, which I find to be interesting and different from the beliefs that I have, is the Normative or Ethical Hedonism. Coming from a culture which is highly collective, this ethical philosophy is something interesting to learn as a person who strive to broaden his horizon by learning different ethical philosophy that might different from ours, yet common and acceptable by other culture. As far as our culture is concern, we believe that we must act always according to the will of our conscience and we must always follow the norms of the society for the betterment of all. Normative Hedonism is a theory which suggest that happiness must be always be given a huge importance and as much as possible “pain should be avoided.”
Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) is a strengths-based, future-focused therapeutic model that was developed under the leadership of two social workers, Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg, and a team of interdisciplinary colleagues at the Brief Family Therapy Center in Milwaukee (de Shazer, 1985; de Shazer et al., 1986). The SFBT approach to helping clients provides a set of therapeutic techniques for building client competencies and helps clients discover workable solutions to their mental health problems (Berg & De Jong, 2008). An emphasis of SFBT is on the process of developing a future solution rather than the
DISCUSSION From the beginning, the therapist had to deal with own doubts and anxiety. The therapist had heard a lot about the psychodynamic psychotherapy but this was the first time he conduct the sessions by himself. Unlike pharmacotherapy, there is no standard clinical practice guideline or recommendation for the therapist to refer to or follow. The therapist was worried that he was unable to conduct the therapy effectively and his patient would not benefit from the therapy.
Psychoanalytic Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is reflected as the forefathers of psychology and founder of psychoanalysis. Based on Freud’s theories, psychoanalytic therapy is a type of treatment that tends to observe at the background from early childhood to perceive if these situations have affected the individual’s life, or to current issues. (Counselling Directory, 2014) This therapy discovers how the unconscious mind empowers thoughts and behaviors, with the purpose of offering insight and resolution to the person seeking therapy. This form of therapy is a long-term treatment whereby it can take duration up to weeks, months or even years depending on the complexity of the patient being explored.