COUN 400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Narrative Therapy, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, William Glasser
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Assume that normal personality development based on dealing effectively with psychosexual and psychosocial stages. Faulty development is the result of inadequately resolving a specific developmental conflict. Understand how past s situations contribute to present: key concepts. Reconstruct childhood experiences to explore, interpret, and analyze. Significant personality and character structure modification: therapeutic relationship. Experiential and relationship oriented approaches: existential approach. We have the capacity for self awareness. Because we are free beings we must accept responsibility. We have a concern to preserve uniqueness and identity. We know ourselves in a relation to interacting with others. The significance of our existence and meaning of our lives are not fixed. Anxiety is part of the human condition. Death is a basic human condition and awareness of it: person-centered approach gives living significance. Emphasizes the client"s resources for becoming self aware and resolving blocks to personal growth. Unconditional positive regard of therapist for client: gestalt therapy.
