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Theoretical Approach to Counseling Personal Counseling Theory

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Theoretical Approach to Counseling

Personal Counseling Theory Paper

A solution-focused approach would be beneficial to the patient. Cognitive Behavioral therapy offers an approach that allows for a solution based approach to counseling Butler, Chapman, Forman, & Beck, 2006.

Emotional difficulties arise from cognitive distortions, which manifest themselves in the patient's automatic thoughts. The thoughts are triggered by situational events that occur in the life of the patient. This approach compares to the client-centered theory. This theory provides a growth-promoting climate. This environment gives the client freedom and the ability to grow, as they want and need. The therapist will be an active listener, providing empathy, accepting the client, and genuinely been concerned of the client's problems. Understanding the client's emotional difficulties and listening to them will allow the client to open up and be more comfortable with the therapist, which will provide the perfect environment for finding a solution. Challenging the thoughts a client possess will allow the therapist to provide a lasting solution. Providing the client with exposure to situations, they perceive negatively and portraying them in a positive light will assist the client in changing their automatic thoughts. Cognitive behavior will enable the therapist to create experiences that the client will use to control their automatic responses and triggers. The main goal of this theoretical orientation is providing a short-term, but lasting solution to the client's problems. Allowing the client to experience different emotions based on their emotional triggers will provide them with the behavioral change required. Showing the client that they can have different consequences based on the same emotional triggers, will assist in changing their beliefs.

People are naturally good, and they only become evil based on their life experiences. Emotional triggers change a person and they end up been perceived as evil. An individual raised in a loving family tends to love others and rarely do they have hatred in them. If the family does not love the individual, they will not know love, and they will not express love. A person does not change immediately. They have to undergo an experience over time in order for them to modify their habits. The same applies to the change process of therapy. The first session will not change a client, but continuous therapy will allow the client to change slowly. There are stages that a client has to undergo in order for them to change. The stages are emotional first aid, problem solving, personality change, and social liberation Hayes & Feldman, 2004()

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Butler, A. C., Chapman, J. E., Forman, E. M., & Beck, A. T. (2006). The empirical status of cognitive-behavioral therapy: a review of meta-analyses. Clinical psychology review, 26(1), 17-31.
Hayes, A. M., & Feldman, G. (2004). Clarifying the construct of mindfulness in the context of emotion regulation and the process of change in therapy. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 11(3), 255-262.

Butler, A. C., Chapman, J. E., Forman, E. M., & Beck, A. T. (2006). The empirical status of cognitive-behavioral therapy: a review of meta-analyses. Clinical psychology review, 26(1), 17-31.
Hayes, A. M., & Feldman, G. (2004). Clarifying the construct of mindfulness in the context of emotion regulation and the process of change in therapy. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 11(3), 255-262.

Butler, A. C., Chapman, J. E., Forman, E. M., & Beck, A. T. (2006). The empirical status of cognitive-behavioral therapy: a review of meta-analyses. Clinical psychology review, 26(1), 17-31.
Hayes, A. M., & Feldman, G. (2004). Clarifying the construct of mindfulness in the context of emotion regulation and the process of change in therapy. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 11(3), 255-262.