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    This document discusses various psychological counseling techniques including psychodynamic therapy, client-centered therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and narrative therapy. [1] Psychodynamic therapy invites patients to explore unconscious feelings and past experiences shaping present emotions. [2] Client-centered therapy is non-directive and focuses on helping clients gain self-understanding and solve their own problems. [3] Cognitive-behavioral therapy aims to change faulty thinking patterns to change behaviors by reframing thoughts and building problem-solving and self-confidence skills. [4] Narrative therapy seeks to change self-destructive stories by having clients see themselves as heroes rather than victims of externalized problems and deconstructing limiting narratives.

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    This document discusses various psychological counseling techniques including psychodynamic therapy, client-centered therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and narrative therapy. [1] Psychodynamic therapy invites patients to explore unconscious feelings and past experiences shaping present emotions. [2] Client-centered therapy is non-directive and focuses on helping clients gain self-understanding and solve their own problems. [3] Cognitive-behavioral therapy aims to change faulty thinking patterns to change behaviors by reframing thoughts and building problem-solving and self-confidence skills. [4] Narrative therapy seeks to change self-destructive stories by having clients see themselves as heroes rather than victims of externalized problems and deconstructing limiting narratives.

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    Psychological Counseling

    Techniques
    By Sara Saleh
    What is counseling psychology?
    It is relational-based assistance where both counselors and clients work together for a better
    quality of living and self-understanding.

    What do counselors attempt to accomplish?

    People’s behavior is like a code. If we don’t learn how to decipher that code we won’t
    be able to go far in life. That’s what psychologists do; they try to decode people’s
    patterns in order to be able to help them get over their struggles.

    What are different psychological counseling techniques?

    Psychologists take many therapeutic approaches to counsel patients back to


    a healthy and painless life.
    1. Psychodynamic method:
    This technique invites patients to delve more into their unconcious mind and bring it into a
    concious awareness where they are faced with past experiences that could have shaped present
    feelings.
    According to Shedler (2009), “Psychodynamic psychotherapy encourages exploration and
    discussion of the full range of a patient’s emotions. The therapist helps the patient describe
    and put words to feelings, including contradictory feelings, feelings that are troubling or
    threatening, and feelings that the patient may not initially be able to recognize or
    acknowledge.” This approach brings stilfed emotions to the surface and help ward off defence
    mechanisims that are possibly keeping patients from dealing with them.
    1. 2. Client-centered therapy :
    Early in 1940s a psychologist name Carl Roger developed a non-directive approach called
    client-centered therapy where Clients are not being directed or judged, rather taking control
    and getting a better understanding of themselves and what they’re going through. It is about
    getting more insight to be able to solve your own problems in a therapeutic setting. And as
    Witty M. C. (2007) quoted, Person-centered psychotherapy is the practice of an image of the
    human being which understands the human being as a person and thus encounters him or her
    personally acknowledging him or her as the Other...instead of objectifying him or her by
    trying to know him or her, to get knowledge over him or her (Schmid,2001,p.42).
    3. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
    In 1960 ,Aaron Beck, a psychiatrist at the University of Pennsylvania, developed Cognitive-
    Behavioral Therapy. CBT revolves around the idea of getting the patient to change their
    thinking patterns and their behavior will change subsequently. It is about putting what
    happened in a new frame where the patient can see it differently.
    CBT usually uses a number of strategies that include that one should recognize their own
    faulty thinking and reframe it, develop a better sense of what motivates them, use problem
    solving skills and work to build up self-confidence. (Lukianoff G. , Haidt J. 2018).
    4. Narrative Therapy
    Sometimes the stories we keep telling ourselves lead to self-destructive behavior. Narrative
    therapy aims to change those stories and replace them with other narratives. There are many
    approaches to the narrative therapy:
    - Having clients tell their stories in their own way where they are not the victim, rather the
    hero.
    - Externalizing the problem which involves separating themselves from the problem and
    seeing the problem as an external factor that is separate from their identity.
    Problems develop when people internalize conversations that re- strain them to a narrow
    description of self. These stories are experienced as oppressive
    because they limit the perception of available choices. (Westcott A. , Dafforn, and Sterne
    1993)

    -Deconstructing
    References:

    Shedler, J., (2009), The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy , University of Colorado Denver.

    Witty M. C. (2007), Handbook of Homework Assignments in Psychotherapy: Research, Practice, and Prevention

    G.,Schmid,P.,& Stipsits, R.(Eds.).(1996).Client-centered and experiential psychotherapy: A paradigm in motion. Frankfurt


    am Main, Germany: Peter Lang.

    Lukianoff G. , Haidt J. (2018), The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up
    a Generation for Failure

    Adams-Westcott, J., Dafforn, T. A., & Sterne, P. (1993). Escaping victim life stories and co-constructing personal agency. In
    S. G. Gilligan & R. Price (Eds.)

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