PSY3120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Therapeutic Relationship, Personal Development, Personality Disorder
13 Oct 2018
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Person-centred approach shares many concepts and values with the existential perspective. Approach informed by understanding the role of emotion in human functioning and psychotherapeutic change. Eft designed to help clients increase their awareness of their emotions and make productive use of them. Eft practitioner actively works with emotions using a range of experiential techniques to strength the self, regulate effect, and create new meaning. New narratives can be created that disrupt maladaptive past emotional schemas, which provides opportunities for positive emotional experiencing. Eft focus on two major tasks: help clients with too little emotion access their emotions, help clients who experience too much emotion contain their emotions. Greenberg believes that our emotions cannot be changed merely by talking about them, understanding their origins, or by modifying our beliefs. The two connections between the terms existentialism and humanism have tended to be confusing for students and theorists.
