Counseling or Psychotherapy? Both Counseling and Psychotherapy Rely on the Same Theoretical Underpinnings How Practitioners Implement Them May Vary With More Education and Training You Can Do Counseling and Eventually Psychotherapy CHAPTER 3 THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO HUMAN SERVICE WORK
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Counseling or Psychotherapy?
Both Counseling and Psychotherapy Rely on the Same Theoretical Underpinnings
How Practitioners Implement Them May Vary
With More Education and Training You Can Do Counseling and Eventually Psychotherapy
CHAPTER 3THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO HUMAN SERVICE WORK
Individual Versus Systems Approach to Clients
Individual Approach: Person Can Change e.g., Viktor Frankl, William Glasser
Systems Approach: Lives Are Seen Contextually e.g., Social and Family Systems
CHAPTER 3THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO HUMAN SERVICE WORK
Why Have a Theory?
Offers Us a Comprehensive System of Doing Counseling
Helps Us Understand Clients, Offers Techniques, and Predicts Change
Theories Are Heuristic: They Are Researchable and Testable.
CHAPTER 3THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO HUMAN SERVICE WORK
Views of Human Nature
Basis for Our Understanding of Theory
Major Orientations: Psychodynamic, Behavioral, Humanistic, & Cognitive
Offers Explanations for Why People Are Motivated to Do the Things They Do.
CHAPTER 3THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO HUMAN SERVICE WORK
Deterministic Versus Antideterministic View of Human Nature Deterministic View Asserts That There is Little
Ability for the Person to Change
Determinism: Early Childhood, Biology, Genetics Determine Later Psychological Makeup Often Adheres to Medical Model
Antideterministic View Has Belief in the Ability of the Individual to Change
CHAPTER 3THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO HUMAN SERVICE WORK
Directive Versus Nondirective Approach to Clients
Directive View Believes Clients Need Guidance in the Change Process
Nondirective View Has Trust in the Client's Own Ability to Make Change
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Integrative Approach
Few Are Strictly Deterministic, Antideterministic, Directive, or Nondirective
Most People Today Take On an Integrative Approach Which Reflects Their Own Views of Human Nature
CHAPTER 3THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO HUMAN SERVICE WORK
Major Theoretical Orientations Psychodynamic Approach
Originated by the Psychoanalytic Approach of Sigmund Freud
Freud Started Using Hypnosis: E.g., Conversion Reaction in Patients
Freud Developed a Complex Theory of Development See Chapter 5
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The Psychodynamic View of Human Nature
More Deterministic than Other Approaches: Freud, Others e.g., Kohut, Erikson, Adler, Jung
Believes That Drives Motivate Behavior and are Somewhat Unconscious
Believes Perceptions of our Childhood and Actual Events in Combination with Our Drives Affects Our Psyche and our Later Adult Development
Purpose: To Help the Person Understand Childhood Experiences, and How, in Combination with the Individual's Drives, They Motivate the Person.
CHAPTER 3THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO HUMAN SERVICE WORK
Key Concepts of the Psychodynamic Approach
Developmental Stages Especially Freud
Early Patterns of Behaviors Are Repeated with our Significant Others
Transference
The Human Service Professional's Use of the Psychodynamic Approach
Offers a Developmental Model to Understand the Individual
Helps Us Particularly to Understand Deviant Behavior
Gives Us an Understanding of the Importance of “Countertransference”
CHAPTER 3THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO HUMAN SERVICE WORK