Counseling Approaches: Thought-Focused, Psychoanalytical, and Psychodynamic Approaches

Counseling Approaches

Thought- Focused, Psychoanalytical, and Psychodynamic Approaches

Thought- Focused treatment requires the client to be aware of their thoughts so they can change their notion in order to alter past and current behaviors. The treatment focuses solely on awareness of thoughts and behaviors of the client. The client is approached with a current or past situation and asked to percent their conception. The therapist then provides the client with solutions to produce a robust outcome. However the client can also state a productive belief towards the outcome.

Psychoanalytical treatment focuses on the unconscious and conscious mind. Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud had different views about this treatment. Some of the difference with Freud centered on the nature of the unconscious mind, especially his belief that unconscious process develop not only from early childhood experiences, but also from universal human archetypes (McCarthy & Archer’s, 2011.) Jung simply stated that people also have a collective unconscious expressed through art and mythology. This approach allows the therapist a chance to explore the insensate and conscious parts of a mind. It gives a view of the conscious and unconscious underlying problems behind the client’s actions and behaviors.

Psychodynamic approaches looks at the process of the insensate mind that produce current behaviors. Haggerty 2006, states that this approach originated in and is informed by psychoanalytic theory which stems from psychoanalysis. In fact both theories focus on the conscious and insensate equilibrium of a client. However psychodynamic treatment focuses only on the comatose mind of a client. Therapists, who describe themselves as practicing as psychodynamic, therefo...

... middle of paper ...

...n produce positive outcomes. The strategies and factors above are relative to counseling and psychotherapy.

Works Cited

Carr, J. E., Fraizer, T. J., & Roland, J. P. (2005). Token economy. In A. M. Gross & R. S. Drabman(Eds.), Encyclopedia of behavior modification and cognitive behavior therapy - Volume 2:Child clinical applications (pp. 1075-1079). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage

Froggatt, W, (2005). A Brief introduction to Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy. Third edition (this version February 2005).

Haggerty, J. (2006). Psychodynamic Therapy. Retrieved March 14, 2011, from Http://psychcentral.com/lib’2006’psychodynamis-theraphy/.

Hollon, S. D. (2010). Aaron T. Beck: The cognitive revolution in theory and therapy. Bringing psychotherapy research to life, 63-74.

McCarthy & Archer’s (2013) Theories of counseling and Psychotherapy. San Diego: Bridgepoint Education, Inc