Psychological Theories Of Counseling

Counseling

Did you know that over 1 in 5 adults has a mental health condition which means over 40 million Americans (Mental Health America, 2018)? Counseling is an important occupation in the treatment of the individuals afflicted with mental illness. Counseling psychology is a profession within the mental health field that works with an individual, or other group to deal with emotional, physical, and mental health problems across the lifespan. Their focus is to facilitate patients in developing healthy intrapersonal and interpersonal relationships (Keenan, 2015). To have a clear understanding about the discipline of counseling one needs to know the history, theories, research methods used, and specific occupation that they are interested

For an example of behavioral theory in the examples of Pavlov’s dog, and B. F Skinners operant conditioning. In the Pavlov’s dog example, he trained dogs to salivate whenever a bell is rung because they would receive a food source. In the example of operant behavior, it is believed that rewards, and consequences can shape behavior. Either in the direction of rewards increasing, and punishments decreasing the likelihood of behaviors. The other theory is cognitive theory which says that the way a person thinks can change behavior. Cognitive-behavioral therapy is one of the most widely used techniques in the counseling field for anxiety, substance abuse, eating and personality disorders. There are many studies that seek to prove the usefulness of counseling

In this study 186 adult clients were selected, 500 questionnaires were sent out, and 37% responded which was in the level of acceptable for the study (Hamm, Carlson, & Erguner-Tekinalp, 2016). Each person was asked a series of 5 questions pertaining to the counseling effectiveness (Hamm, Carlson, & Erguner-Tekinalp, 2016). The counselors used all had a master’s degree in counseling psychology, and received specific training for the phone counseling (Hamm, Carlson, & Erguner-Tekinalp, 2016). The results of the test found that if there was a bond formed with the counselors that they rated as overall effective, and that this type of counseling over a duration of longer than 12 months is more effective than short-term counseling (Hamm, Carlson, & Erguner-Tekinalp, 2016). With the desire for counseling to be convenient it would seem that this type of telephone counseling could be useful to implement the counseling process. For individuals who more around it may be effective for their counselors to conduct telephonic sessions to continue treatments. This study is useful to determine effectiveness of the telephonic