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Counseling Models
An overview of Contermporary Counseling Models
Model | Proponents | Key Concepts |
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Adlerian Therapy | Alfred Adler. (Popularized in the U.S. by Rudolf Dreikurs) | A growth model that stresses assuming responsibility, creating one's own destiny, and finding meaning and goals to create a purposeful life. |
Existential Therapy | Viktor Frankl, Rollo May, and Irvin Yalom. | A model which stresses building therapy on basic conditions of human existence, such as choice, the freedom and responsibility to shape one's life, and self-determination. It focuses on the quality of the p2p theraputic relationship. No set sys of techniq |
Person-Centered Therapy | Founder: Carl Rogers. Key Figure: Natalie Rogers. | |
Gestalt Therapy | Founders: Fritz and Laura Perls. Key Figures: Miriam and Erving Polster. | |
Behavior Therapy | B.F. Skinner, Arnold Lazarus, Albert Bandura. | |
Cognitive-Behavior Therapy | ||
Reality Therapy | Founder: William Glasser. Key Figure: Robert Wubbolding. | A short-term approach based on choice theory and focuses on the client assuming responsibility in the present. Through the therapeutic process, the client is able to learn more effective ways of meeting his or her needs. |
Feminist Therapy | Jean Baker Miller, Carolyn Zerbe Enns, Olivia Espin, and Laura Brown. | A central concept is the concern for the psychological oppression of women. Focusing on the constraints imposed by the sociopolitical statues to which women have been relegated, this approach explores women's identity development, self-concept..etc. |
Postmodern Approaches | da | dsad |
Family Systems Therapy | Alfred Adler, Murray Bowen, Virginia Satir, Carl Whitaker, Salvador Minuchin, Jay Haley, and Cloe Madanes. | A systemic approach taht is based on the assumption that the key to changing the individual is understanding and working with the family. |
Psychoanalytic Therapy | Sigmund Freud |