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Gestalt Therapy and Humanistic Psychology
Psychology is a discordant discipline. The beginning of the 1900s saw the rise of behaviourism in the laboratory, and the ascendancy of psychoanalysis in the treatment room. Around mid-century a new...
View ArticleBehavior Therapy
The term behavior modification and behavior therapy are often used interchangeably, but they have slightly different meaningsBehavior modification is an approach to assessment, evaluation, and behavior...
View ArticleAdlerian Therapy
Alfred Adler was a major contributor to the development of the psychodynamic approach to therapy. After 8-10 years of collaboration, Freud and Adler parted company, with Freud taking the position that...
View ArticleCognitive Behavior Therapy
Traditional behavior therapy has broadened and largely moved in the direction of cognitive behavior therapy. Albert Ellis’s rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) , Beck’s cognitive therapy, and...
View ArticleExistential Therapy
Existential therapy can best be described as a philosophical approach that influences a counselor’s therapeutic practice. Existential psychotherapy is neither an independent nor separate school of...
View ArticleExpressive therapy
Expressive therapy, also known as expressive arts therapy or creative arts therapy, is the use of the creative arts as a form of therapy. Unlike traditional art expression, the process of creation is...
View ArticleFamily Systems Therapy
Contributors to Family Systems Theory:Family systems therapy is represented by a variety of theories and approaches, all of which focus on the relational aspect of human problems. During the 1950s...
View ArticlePerson-Centered Therapy
The person-centered approach is based on concepts from humanistic psychology. Roger’s basic assumptions are that people are essentially trustworthy, that they have a vast potential for understanding...
View ArticlePsychoanalytic Therapy
Freud’s views continue to influence contemporary practice.Many of his basic concepts are still part of the foundation on which other theorists build and develop.Some extended the psychoanalytic model,...
View ArticleReality Therapy
Founder – William GlasserVery early he rejected the Freudian model and put together what became known as reality therapy by 1962. By 1996 Glasser changed the name to choice theory to reflect all that...
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