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.

Ravings from beyond

Belief might be a bit of strong word to use here, but cannot think of a better one at the moment. My belief in coincidences happening for a reason, a universal energy that can be connected to, I like this concept, the belonging to some thing greater. I am not keen on the God Head concept of most of the standard western religions, the one creator. Carl Rogers did look at this later on in his life, is there part of the person that needs this feeling of belonging to some thing greater, I feel that the person centred approach to becoming a more fully functioning person, moving to a more internal locus of evaluation of ones experiences, thrusting in that internal evaluation and intuition is a way of opening one self up to the greater, what ever that may be or what one may wish to perceive it has, which is going to be different for every one I feel. Opposed to being burden down with the external evaluations of others and society, and not realizing what a great repressing weight this is, until shedding it like a snake disgarding its old out grown skin and the freedom this brings to experiencing the world once again, with all it temptations and for bidden fruits, the ball and chains of sin and guilt no longer dragging behind. The author of The Road Less Travelled, Dr M. Scott Peck a psychiatrist and psychotherapist said in one of his books somewhere, not sure which one, but I liked it “religion has made me living” refereeing to the amount of cases he has seen where religious conditions of worth, external evaluations and repression have sent people psychotic, sounds about right to me. Then may be religion is a form of psychoses it self?