Theory Case Analysis

Theory Case Analysis

Introduction

Darnell is suffering from depression which needs to be sort out through a therapy. A comparison of Person-centered approach and Adlerian approach will help to choose the best therapy for Darnell to solve his issues. He requires a therapy to identify his problems, produce alternate solutions to problems, choose the best solution for Darnell and test the effectiveness of the solution.

Discussion

Person Centered Approach

Carl Rogers carried out a work for person-centered approach, which was designed to encourage openness, change and growth in understanding the process for psychotherapy. A human may misperceive challenges in life which they deal with; they may function on mistaken beliefs, and behave inadequately (Bohart, 1995). The characteristic of person-centered approach may be that a person fails to learn from past experiences. This is the reason why therapist has to make an extra effort to help out client to become more open to learn from new experiences.

Each moment is a new learning for a human being, closing down to experience, ignoring these moments and avoiding these moments is pathological. Greenberg et al. focuses on the importance of openness to emotional development of normal human functioning in their process-experiential psychotherapy approach. Person-centered approach is centered on two fundamentals; the therapist has to trust his client, and the therapist has to create a certain type of relationship with the client.

It is confirmed from the research of psychotherapy that the relationship between the client and the therapist is a fundamental factor (Greene, 1991). Person-centered therapy is more than just eye-contact, verbal conversation, and head nodding with clients. Therapist let the client speak and process their thoughts and only speak when necessary, therapist often says less or sometimes nothing at all for several minutes.

Therapist has to emphasis on their skills of affection, empathy, unconditional positive regard, and anxiously wanting to know the client (Cochran et al., 2010). Therapist has to feel the same emotion that the client is sharing with him, sometimes therapist cries when client move to extreme emotions because person-centered is a human encounter and rejecting humanity means to abandoning client for the therapist.

Person-centered oriented goal-task , which to upon to out . In this approach, client's world is the central context for the therapist where the client will experience three conditions of congruence, empathy and unconditional positive regard. On the whole client is assumed that he possess the ability to come up with the solution to the problems that he is facing, where the therapist only act as a significant companion in the process.

Adlerian Approach

Adlerian therapy is an application of individual psychology, which provides the base for how we relate with the client in term of how we think about the clients and the therapeutic process. This therapy is based on the understanding of lifestyle of individual's social life and pattern of living. Unlike the person-centered therapy, adlerian therapist sees their client as discouraged, not as sick. The therapist shows the client the better side of the world and encourages him that ...