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Animal-Assisted Therapies
Published in Tricia L. Chandler, Fredrick Dombrowski, Tara G. Matthews, Co-occurring Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders, 2022
Tara G. Matthews, Dawn Yelvington
Person-centered techniques focus on the healing power of safe, supportive, and non-judgmental relationships (Kirby, 2010; Chandler et al., 2010; Brandt, 2013). The client plays a key role in their own therapeutic process in person-centered therapy while working collaboratively with their therapist. A sociable animal, such as a trained therapy dog, could help facilitate the atmosphere of trust and safety (Chandler et al., 2010). The simple presence of the animal without any specific interaction can be a non-directive way to allow the client to experience the here and now. During EAP, the therapist often allows the client to work through the activity on their own, only providing support or suggestions when prompted. Similarly, horses provide the client with opportunities to assertively, yet respectfully, direct the activity. In doing so, clients gain confidence in their abilities and learn how to express their needs and emotions in a relationship (Chandler et al., 2010; Brandt, 2013). Person-centered therapy in conjunction with a therapy animal is non-invasive and allows the client to direct the amount of interaction they have directly with the animal.
Emotion focused therapy with injured athletes: Conceptualizing injury challenges and working with emotions
Published in Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 2022
Katherine A. Tamminen, Jeanne C. Watson
Emotion Focused Therapy is part of a family of person-centered experiential therapies which also includes person-centered therapy (Rogers, 1961), Gestalt (Perls et al., 1951), existential (Yalom, 1980), focusing-oriented (Gendlin, 1969), expressive (Daldrup et al., 1988), and body-oriented therapies (Kepner, 1993). These approaches to therapy share a focus on promoting client experiencing and being nondirective; that is, they emphasize facilitating clients’ self-disclosure and openness to their own experience, rather than the therapist’s agenda or techniques ( Bohart & Watson, 2011). Person-centered experiential approaches are often contrasted with cognitive-behavioural therapeutic approaches that focus on cognitions and cognitive change as central to achieving positive therapeutic outcomes (Clark & Steer, 1996; McArdle & Moore, 2012) and that may emphasize the development of strategies to “control injury-related stress and anxiety” (Wiese Bjornstal et al., 2020, p. 729). Some contemporary ‘third wave’ CBT approaches (e.g., acceptance and commitment therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy; Hayes et al., 2006) share similarities with EFT in that they may integrate experiential change strategies along with direct and didactic strategies in therapy, although person-centered experiential therapies hold different theoretical and philosophical foundations from these approaches, as well as differences in proposed processes for change and differences in ways of working with clients.
Smith College School for Social Work: Thesis Abstracts 2017-2018
Published in Smith College Studies in Social Work, 2022
In answering this question, a qualitative, exploratory study was conducted to examine clinicians’ beliefs on a person’s right to suicide and the potential impact of clinician subjectivity in work with client suicidality. The study included 10 individual, semi-structured interviews with current social workers. The findings of this study include the following: 1) the majority perspective of clinicians interviewed revealed that persons who are mental health clients have a right to suicide; 2) an overlap exists between physical and mental health, but reactions to physical and mental health continue to differ; 3) person-centered therapy yields most successful results. The literature reviewed and the data collected from this study reveal a clear need to rethink responses to suicidal ideation amongst persons who are mental health clients. Significant findings of this study echoed much of the existing literature on the subject of suicidal ideation amongst mental health clients: a person’s ethical right to suicide remains questioned, but the need for improved clinical response to suicidality proves imperative.
Akhtar, Nosheen, Forchuk, Cheryl, McKay, Katherine, Fishman, Sandra, and Rudnick, Abraham. Handbook of Person-Centered Mental Health Care
Published in Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2020
Person-centered care grew out of the work of Carl Rogers person-centered therapy, also known as Rogerian therapy, in the 1940s. Traditional therapy placed the therapist in the position of expert; person-centered therapy came from the perspective that much could be gained by empowering the patient/client to fulfill their own potential while using empathy and empowerment to support the individual. Person-centered care is an extension of Rogerian therapy, expanding the principles to be applied to all aspects of care (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration [SAMSHA], 2020).