Narrative Therapy Approach to Family Counseling Name Liberty University Marriage and Family Counseling I COUN 601 Dr. NNE March 05, 2013 Abstract Michael White and David Espton developed the narrative therapy approach in the early 1900’s. Narrative therapy is a therapeutic approach where the therapist allows the client to re-author his or her life story into one that moves into a positive direction. Narrative therapy, which has been around since the early 1900’s, is still one of the most popular therapies used today; narrative therapy will continue to be used for many more years to come. In this paper, the history of narrative therapy, its techniques and some modern-day uses of the therapy is discussed; plus the author discussed personal Christian viewpoints and how it relates to the narrative therapy approach. Narrative Therapy Approach to Family Counseling Due to the fact that all humans are different by the grace of God, each person requires a different type of treatment to meet their counseling needs.
By contrast the human potential movement defined human nature as inherently good. From its perspective human behaviour is motivated by a drive to achieve ones fullest potential. Person Centred Therapy was mainly developed by Carl Rogers in the early 1940s. He was an American psychologist who was highly influenced by modern culture. He worked as a psychotherapist for most of his life.
Kerry Macleod Page 1 Tutor: Emma Redfern Course code: Brist2s ‘Evaluate the claim that person centred therapy offers the therapist all that he/she will need to treat clients’ Rogers was an influential psychologist. He had a humanistic approach and was the founder of the person centred therapy approach. His approach is still relevant and widely used by therapists today. Rogers seemed to have a very optimistic and positive viewpoint on mankind. The humanistic approach is essentially positive as it identifies the basic goodness of the individual.
As one of the founding fathers of humanism, he was very interested in an approach to psychology that had to do with the thoughts and feelings of clients. He is best known for his nondirective approach to treatment known as client-centered therapy. Carl Rogers was a psychotherapist who, in the early part of the twentieth Century, developed the concept of client-centered psychotherapy. He was a great proponent of the scientific method and was one of the first to incorporate it into psychotherapy. His person-centered approach to psychotherapy entailed an unconditional acceptance between client and counselor.
The founders of the Milwaukee team, de Shazer (1988, 1994) and Berg (Berg, 1991; Berg & Miller, 1992), were also interested in determining the goals of therapy so that they and their clients would know when it was time to end! They found that the clearer a client was about his or her goals the more likely it was that they were achieved. Finding ways to elicit and describe future goals has since become a pillar of solution-focused brief therapy. Since its origins in the mid-1980s, solution-focused brief therapy has proved to be an effective intervention across the whole range of problem presentations. Early studies (de Shazer, 1988; Miller et al, 1996) show similar outcomes irrespective of the presenting problem.
What the client brings into therapy such as courage, willingness, honesty and faith greatly contribute to successful results (Hubble et al, 1999 p75). Openness and the client’s ability to be actively involved also have great bearing on the therapeutic outcome (Clarkin & Levy, 2004 p 194 – 226). In addition, client factors also include elements that exist in the clients’ life such as a new job, social support, occurring crises and religious beliefs, which all contribute to and bear impact on the therapeutic interaction and outcomes (Hubble et al 1999 p75). According to Lambert’s findings, relationship factors make for 30% of the model outcomes (Hubble et al, 1999 p75). Therapeutic relationship variables include building rapport, engagement, collaboration, finding and maintaining a working
Rogers’ “person centered therapy” became the platform for the type of therapy most counselors use today. Rogers believed “we are the best experts on ourselves” and noticed that most people tended to use the phrases “I feel” and “I don’t understand what’s happening” (McLeod, 2008, p.1). Taking a more humanistic approach allows the client more freedom to guide his or her sessions and be more open with his or her therapist. Rogers believed therapists needed a warmer approach. The therapist shows authentic expression (or congruence) to his or her client and does not maintain a “blank slate” expression.
“Evaluate the claim that Person-Centred Therapy offers the Therapist all that he/she will need to treat clients” LOND02S Words: 2705 “Evaluate the claim that Person-Centred Therapy offers the Therapist all that he/she will need to treat clients” Person Centred therapy is one of the many theories which are used in the field of psychotherapy and counselling. The first influences of this type of theory was by Carl Roger (1902-1987), he was an influential American psychologist, who along with Abraham Maslow (1908-1970 – Psychologist) was the founder for the humanist approach to clinical psychology. Abraham Maslow known for his thoughts on Self Actualization (see Fig. 1) which was also known as ‘Third Force in psychology’ which means that humanistic psychology emerged as another reaction to behaviourism and psychoanalysis, which were seen as the two major forces in the field. Prior to this ‘third force’ and Maslow it was thought that human behaviour was just a set of behaviours to satisfy the drive for not enough of something.
ERT: “Enhanced Rogerian Therapy” Most helping professionals know that we can do a lot of good, and we can’t do any harm, through the application of Rogerian Counselling—also called Client-Centred, Person-Centred or Humanistic Counselling. This can be read about elsewhere in books by Carl Rogers and by advocates of his approach, but it basically consists of empathetically helping the client to gain as much clarity as possible about his current world-view
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