The case is about a 25-year old lad by the name James Dellson. The subject is observed to have reported social awkwardness and isolation as a result of his inner frustrations and fears. An African-American male, he reports several behavioral issues that links to symptoms like depression, stressed out attitudes, anxiety, troubles with relationships, loneliness, inability to pursue career aims, and overall family stress.
Theory Chosen to Understand the Client
The theory chosen to understand the client and provide possible interventions is that of the Person-Centered Therapy which will be focused on understanding the client through a client-centered approach (Walker, 2001). The Person-centered therapy revolves around two key assumptions:
Human beings have an inherent tendency toward growth.
The relationship that develops between the therapist and client is crucial in the therapeutic process (Walker, 2001).
Rogers stresses, and provides abundant research on this, that the primary therapeutic efficacy, there are techniques, the worthiness of the therapist as an expert, but their attitudes, how to be a person with your customers. Only if the therapist has worked hard and sculpted in his personality the three attitudes which I will discuss may be effective in its support. In the client-centered therapy, the goal is achieved the person reconnect with their organic nature, with his real self, for this, the therapist by the attitude of empathy, unconditional acceptance and consistency (expressed through the art) provides a psychological safety relationship with the client, which will allow the progressive entry into his inner world, progress towards making the experience of consciousness denied, the encounter with new meanings from their experience and progress towards the progressive process of reorganization of his ego.
The Therapeutic Relationship
The emergence of family therapy from various sources some connected yes and no shared body of theory, made ??during the first years of expansion of the discipline emerged a large number of schools. Rogers called the client and patient to those who evoke a patient consulted because dependency and passivity. The therapeutic process in schema-focused therapy is articulated in relation to two main phases which represent the integration of all types of techniques from cognitive behavioral techniques, through experiential techniques and the management of patient-therapist relationship (Rogers, 2000).
The therapist does not direct to the customer, because that would decide it and handle it, but neither is deprived of participating, or is indifferent to the suffering of a person. What is ultimately a search is to accompany each other to see who gets to be who he is and decide from their intimacy. The therapist then techniques intended to reflect the experience of their customers. This is subject to reeducate the patient in an atmosphere of understanding, trust in you discovering one's own values (Myers, 2000). The therapeutic relationship in which the therapist feels and expresses in relation to the identity of the client, respect, caring, deep and accurate non-judgmental awareness, promote the disclosure of internal feelings of our client. During therapy, the client learns to trust his experience, is moving towards ...