Every step in my life has being important to me because it will help determine the future that awaits for me at the end of my journey. Choosing a theoretical orientation is an important decision for me as a graduate student working towards becoming a licensed professional counselor. After being introduced to several theoretical orientations, it was difficult to make a final decision of which one to choose because each one had ideas that I agree with. When reading these theories I realize that many of them had views that I agree or believe by, which made it more difficult to choose one in specific. At first, person-centered by Carl Rogers captivated my attention by his view and the way he develop the theory. He believed that no one was born to be devious towards others and I agree with him (Rogers, 1961). I believe no one is born with the intent to hurt others, but certain experiences that individuals experienced throughout their lives may cause them to do harm to others. One time, I saw a picture illustrating a white baby in a bus touching the hand of a black male who was sitting down next to his mother. The mother seemed to have a disgust face while looking away avoiding eye contact with the man. The picture said, “no one is born racist,” and in that moment I thought about the importance of what children are being exposed every day and the importance of what parents teach their children about life. Holdstock & Rogers (1977) mentioned that each individual is biologically and psychologically unique, which helps each person experienced their environment in their own distinctive way. I agree that each person is unique in their own special way, but at the end of the day each individual chooses to be different from others to...
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A brief historical view of the counseling profession with a concentration of the philosophies on the wellness model will be discussed.
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One of Anderson et al.’s (2010) key points is summed up in the following statement: “The contextual view holds that psychotherapy orientations (and other forms of healing) are equivalent in their effectiveness because of factors shared by all” (p. 145). They posit that four key factors are responsible for this success: the healing setting, the therapeutic myth, rituals prescribed by the therapeutic myth, and an emotional relationship in which one person is able to confide in another (p. 145-152).
My theoretical orientation can best be described as a mixture of Person-centered therapy and feminist therapy. Where person-centered therapy is all about being aware of oneself and feminist therapy encourages personal empowerment. Those two together create a great theme of evolving to become something greater in life. I believe that human behavior is a result of feeling like you, have a sense of belonging in the world. Similar to what Maslow’s hierarchy, people need to feel a sense of love in order to be happy and confident in one’s self. Once they are content with themselves as result, they will project that same love towards others. When considering my approach, I want clients to be authentic and confident in who they are. The individual
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...entation, or several, in which they choose to practice in their professional career. Psychoanalysis and Person-Centered Therapy are just two, out of over four hundred types, of counseling approaches in use today. The constructs and theories are extremely different, however, neither can be considered right nor wrong. They are simply based on different beliefs, assumptions and viewpoints of human development and their behavior. Although, however different and unique, there are still similarities between the two types of therapy approaches. Through case examples, such as the case of D and the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder, the techniques and outcomes of different treatment approaches can be see in real life examples. Past research and writing support brings about contradictions, criticism and treatment outcomes to the theories and those who developed them.
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Your theoretical orientation is one of the most important decisions you will make as a social worker. Theoretical orientation prepares you for practicum by providing a framework for the assessment, intervention, and treatment of clients. As a social worker, one must know how to respond to various complex individual and family issues, behaviors and emotions. If the social worker does not know how to respond to the client, then he or she may appear incompetent to the client. Actually, the social worker may be incompetent regarding that particular issue. Most theories recommend that social workers are competent to address most of the major life issues that clients present within the relationship. Therefore, being knowledgeable and well-trained
This essay will attempt to highlight and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the three main theories of counselling within the module covered this term. The three approaches in discussion are psychodynamics, cognitive behavioural and humanistic.
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