Person-Centered Counseling
- Originated by Carl Rogers 1940s
- Emphasis on therapeutic counsellor-client relationship
- Humanistic, experiential-existential apprach
- Present oriented and holistic
- Encourages client’s self awareness, exploration, self esteem and competence
- Beneficial for people with adjustment disorders, relationship, occupational and identity problems as well as bereavement and grief
- This group of people usually already have some effective coping skills and are in good contact with reality. Thus they can be together in a therapeutic relationship with the counsellor on a more equal and effective level.
Behavioral Counseling
- B. F. Skinner 1930s/1940s
- Based upon the belief that personality is shaped by environmental factors
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