Counselling and Therapy Battle

Counselling and Therapy Battle

My personal viewpoint on this question. “Does the person-centred counsellor need to adapt his/her approach or use specific techniques for different client groups or agency settings?” I feel that my personal view point has been dominant right through this whole assignment and I have found it difficult to focus on the situation it refers to, counselling in a one to one environment and find I keep repeating what I am trying to say and keep coming back to another question “What the hell is going on here” and it appears to me that there is a lot of in fighting with in the PC model over who owns the PC label, not that we use labels in the PC approach, and this in fighting expands out in the counselling and therapy world in general to in compass all the different approaches. It appears to me like a medieval battle field, with each approach fortified with in its own encampments and their past successes, statistics and victories like elaborately decorated standards, flying high above each of their encampments. It’s followers gathered around blazing camp fires muttering the words of long gone founding fathers, and refining the finer points of theory until it’s edge is as sharp as a battle axe, that can be wheeled on the battle field of funding.

More Ravings from beyond

Jung’s observations of other cultures and studies of the supernatural? Combined with his academic and medical knowledge tended to make his ideas on the human psyche, seam quite complex, and a bit crazy. One of the criticism of Rogers person centred approach is that it was formulated in a American middle classed environment, with it’s conditions of worth, internal and external locus of evaluations and the actualising tendency may be a bit be for it’s time . Jung looking at what may have been lost in the western world and Rogers looked at what was gong on at the time and may be where this was going to lead. With the focus of human beings more on material, competitive and success driven way of living and the psychological problems this was leading to in the individual and modern society. With the recession of 2009 just starting to bite the condition of worth and external locus of evaluations that have been engrained in to people will really start to torture and torment them. The only people now, who will profit out of the recession will be the drugs companies, who must be jumping up and down rubbing their hands together, think in it is Christmas and the production of anti depressive drugs must be on maxim out put by now. Technology wiping out jobs quicker than we can invent them or train people to do them. So I feel that we are at a point of a big social change in our society and the global world view, our way of being will have to change and the person centred approach and Jung’s may well be right combination for this change.