learning questions

Psychonalytic Therapy


Questions:
1. Why does Psychoanalysis become a long, intense and expensive process?
2. How does Freud interprets dream and apply it in his therapy?
3. Why does Freud tend to emphasize the past experiences of the client rather than on present?
4. what does psychoanalytic therapy be criticized by others?
5. Why does the therapist encourages clients to talk about more on childhood experience rather than on present experiences?

Existensial Therapy

Questions:
1.How does Existentialism is alternately religious, atheistic and at the same time, anti-religious?
2. How can Existential Therapy recognize to humans their need and existense?
3. Why does Existentialist do not believe that there is a set of rules or standards in decision making even though this therapy emphasizes on making decisions?
4. In what way does Existentialists have helped the professional community although its main focus is the existence of individual itself?
5. How does Existential therapy can show the essence of individual's existence?

Adlerian Therapy


Questions:
1. Why does Adler preferred to believe that human behavior is pulled by the future?
2. What is the connection of social interest in Adler's individual Psychology?
3. What does Adler mean that personal goals do not exist as actualities but as potentialist?
4. If the main purpose of the therapy is the client. how come that it attempts to make the counselor perform a "miracle" in the therapy?
5. What does dream analysis of Freud become different in Adlerian's method of analyzing dreams?

Person-Centered Therapy


Questions:
1. Unlike the other therapy that focuses on the past experience of the client, why does person-centered therapy focuses on present rather than the past?
2. Why does person-centered approach need to be limited to individual counseling sessions?
3. Why does person-centered counseling also called a non directive counseling?
4.What makes person-centered influential to the other counselors nowadays and used as a basic as well?
5. How does technology contributed to Roger's practice of counseling?


Gestalt Therapy

Questions:
1. Why does gestalt therapy tends to focus on present rather than on past and future?
2. Can we say that the persons that are manipulating may have lack of awareness and responsibility?why?
3. How does Gestalt related to existential therapy?
4. What makes the dream work (method of therapy) different from the other therapy that uses dream to analyze the problem of the client?
5. In treating clients with physical disabilities, how does Gestalt therapy become particularly useful for those who are in denial or hostility phases of adaption?


Transactional Analysis

Questions:
1. How does psychological hunger motivates people to transcend patterns of behavior that begin early in life?
2. What is the difference between Freud's iceberg model to Berne's ego conscious states?                               3.According to Transactional analysis, what part of us directs behavior?
4. What are the advantages of using Transactional analysis in treating problems of  young children?
5. How can TA language creates a tendency to confuse labeling with counseling? 

 Behavior Therapy

 Questions:
 1. Why does Behavior Therapy describe as having a long past but a short history?
 2. In the function of therapist, how come that the counselor becomes very active in counseling?
3. One of the major methods of the therapy is the "token economies". What does the word token pertains to? 
 4. Why does Behavior Therapy does not deal with the total behavior of person?
 5. Why does critics of behavior therapy see this as in humans?

Rationale-Emotive Therapy

Questions
 1. How does ABC theory works on the process of RET?
 2. How does emotional consequence related to activating events and beliefs of the client?
 3. How does ABC theory connected to DEF?
 4. What are the similarities of RETin Cognitive theory approach?
 5. How does irrational thinking of the client turns into rational thinking?