Client Centered Therapy Scenarios

To provide competent care to a client, the therapist has to be culturally prepared to work with the client. To be culturally competent as a therapist I have to be aware of my own bias, my identity, and my values in regards of my culture. I also need to be aware of the judgments that I have about the client’s cultural identity. In order to know the client’s culture, I would inquire about the identity during the intake. I would use the Addressing model by Pamela Hays to inquire the cultural identity of my clients. The addressing model helps to consider the various social categories that a client belongs to. Also, providing culturally competent services is to be aware of the population surrounding the therapist’s office or agency in order to

Allowing for our ethical codes of conduct, if the client is someone we feel we can proceed with, then as always, the first stage would be to develop a good rapport and gain the clients trust to develop an honest and open relationship with them. The client centred approach as always is the best method for this – to put the client at ease in a non-judgemental space where they can express their emotions and explore what it is they want to achieve with therapy. In giving the therapist an

“A” of the ABC model of crisis intervention, is developing and maintaining a rapport. Structuring a rapport state of fathoming, a console between the counselor, and client the base of the healing process. This phase of the three-stages is critical in forming reliance with the client. The client will have a complexity being open with the client until he or she feels implicit and putative by the counselor. Therefore, the counselor should presence attending behavior skills such as: direct eye contact, body language, vocal qualities, and verbal following. These attending behaviors “demonstrate to the client that you are with him, or her, and indeed are listening,” enabling the client to talk more freely (Ivey, 2015). In addition to the informational material, the counselor should personally be cultural sensitive.

I am committed to embracing cultural diversity and social responsibility in my counseling practice (Corey, et al., 2015, p. 112). I am committed to my own cultural competency and, although I am not perfect, I am open to learning and growth (p. 118). I invite you to challenge my assumptions. Many therapy approaches reflect Western patriarchal values that do not fit the needs of all cultural perspectives (p. 117-118). I consider your disclosure of personal information to be an important aspect of therapy, but I will encourage you to self-disclose according to your own timeline, not mine (p. 120). Some people hesitate to speak due to respect and cultural norms, so I encourage you to let me know when I am being too direct or assertive in my questions (p. 122). Therapy sometimes assumes a goal of individualization, buy I realize this might not be your goal, so I am open to exploring issues of collective responsibility as well as self-actualization (p. 123). Finally, I come from a Western cultural orientation, both personally and professionally, and am often unconscious of my nonverbal behaviors, so I encourage you to let me know when I treat you disrespectfully in my use of eye contact, facial expression, or gestures, or when my interventions feel uncomfortably personal or intrusive (p. 123). “Recognizing our own cultural and historical embeddedness can remind us that our assumptions about what a person is and what a person should be or become

Despite the many differences there are some main similarities between client- centered and psychodynamic therapy in that they are both approaches to counseling helping clients overcome obstacles to personal growth and to bring a better quality of life for the client. Also both are focused on the problems/issues that may or have already hindered the client from successful relationships. They are both based on empathy, acceptance and understanding providing ways of responding to a wide range of human needs and providing opportunities for those seeking help to work towards ways of living in more satisfying and resourceful ways.

Collaborative therapy approach was founded by Harlene Anderson, Harry Goolishian and Tom Andersen. Their approach required the client and therapist to engage in a two-way dialog to examine and create a positive understanding to the client’s situation (Gehart, 2014). Creating a positive understanding and meaning can be done with the help of the therapist and sometimes a reflection team. The therapist and reflection team try to help the client shift their meanings and beliefs. Once that is done the therapist and client starts the restructuring process by changing the client’s behavior and interactions. Collaborative therapist have identified ways to help the client solve concerns by helping the client to stabilize, normalize,

Audrey’s emotions must be handled with care, as the counselor guides her to understanding the situation and handling it properly. With this understanding it is evident that the most strategic method for helping Audrey is the Person-Centered Therapy utilizing the techniques the systematic-relational approach and the house, tree, person test. By using a mixture of the different techniques, it allows for a balance of flexibility and structure in Audrey’s progress.

Evaluate the claim that Person-Centred Therapy offers the therapist all that he/she will need to treat clients.

Still, the counselor must realize that his or her intuitive assumptions are based in a particular cultural worldview. This does not negate his or her ability to counsel persons from different cultures, but it does demand the ability of the counselor to step back and to view his words with an objective perspective. For example, when counseling an Asian family, the counselor may have to contextualize the parent's demand for obedience as a cultural product, and not simply see it as a neurotic instrument of control. The relationship of parent to child may be different from what the counselor has personally experienced in his or her own life and also what conventional

Integrative approach to counselling consist of the counsellor using a variety of techniques to meet their clients individual needs. There are a broad range of theoretical approaches the counsellor can use to best support their client. IN addition to those mentioned above techniques such as family therapy sessions, Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) – PST REM, Neuro-Linguistic Programming 9 NLP) – combines cognitive behaviour therapy, humanistic therapy and hypnotherapy to control thoughts and actions. An integrated approach may be that the counsellor uses a variety of techniques throughout the counselling relationship for example they may use the non directive approach initially to build the relationship and identify issues,

I want to explore Client/Person Centered Therapy. This is a type of therapy that was pioneered by Carl Rogers. This therapy is different because as the name suggests it solely focuses on the

Among the three main approaches to insight therapy (psychoanalysis, client-centered, or group therapy), the one that l believe has the most reasonable way to deal with psychological problems, is client-centered therapy. Client-centered therapy is an insight therapy that emphasizes providing a supportive emotional climate for clients, who play a major role in determining the pace and direction of their therapy (pg. 459). According to Carl Rogers, the man who devised client-centered therapy, three elements were necessary to promote positive changes in therapy: Genuineness (honest communication), Unconditional positive regard (therapist remains supportive, non-judgmental) and Empathy (therapist understands issues from client’s point of view) (pg. 460). In following these three elements, client and therapist were working together equally and helped client become more aware of themselves and even feel more comfortable with their therapist and the idea of therapy. Some people don’t seek help because they feel therapy might be too intimidating for them or it’s a step that they fear having to take. I can agree with this, because from my personal experience, l had pushed off therapy for so long because l was afraid to admit that l needed it.

In person-centered therapy, the client is normally disturbed or affected by the past events. An individual who had the ability to do or perform great things is eventually demoralized, and he or

These four dimensions in question essentially emphasis both “culture” and “self”. Therefore, E-H may facilitate to be a culturally sensitive therapist, since it points out individual and his/her environmental-cultural reality as a whole. In that manner, I also could understand why CBT does not work well in my country. Since problem focused orientation is not precisely part of my culture. In contrast of the observable problem; relationships, emotions and spirituality always come into play in the therapy process. A therapist should pay attention each of these dimensions in order to drive a therapy. In addition, I consider E-H approaches might efficiently be adapted to Non-western cultures as well. For example, some of the criticisms toward E-H are its individualistic stance and freedom of choice concept. It is accurate that these two concepts do not predominantly take place in the East cultures, however, sometimes collectivist cultural structure and social pressure could be so intense on the individuals’ shoulders, and they come to the therapy just to be heard and understood. In this way, only empathic listening, and value their personal beliefs and personality could be useful in the session. Actually this is my observation obtained from my four-year work

3. How does each specific approach deal with therapy? 4. What are the specific skills required by each approach? 5.