It is in the method of Client-Centered Therapy that Earlene takes control of the sessions. She is the active agent in her problem-solving as she discusses and invites what she believes in and is capable of and would like to do (Knight 2007). Knowing that her crisis is self-triggered, Earlene removes herself from self-pity. Her concern is about being distracted, she wants other’s sympathy and for them to take care of her so she can be happy. Except, Earlene is opposed to being included to set affiliation and has several independent interests she is anxious to develop (Knight 2007). With Client-Centered Therapy she charges herself to be happy and inches to pursue her initiatives. Her solution is to not to be given an identity, but create own and do it for herself because she is already content with now, she only wishes to make it better.
Martha would not benefit from Client-Centered Therapy. She is elusive and too patient for this kind of therapy. Given the aggressions of her own therapist, Martha is overly convinced by her actions and feels underpowered to do anything about it (Ellis 1974). The soothing and slight guidance of a therapist is not going to change her behavior because she is much more willing to be told what to do; Martha is looking for someone to change her, instead of doing it herself. She is already cautious of her actions, and is conscious of the source of her issues (Ellis 1974). Her concerns are rooted in years of conditioning in addition to a recent change of environment. In Client-Centered Therapy, Martha would be encouraged to find the answers, but she is already has them but requires them to be explained. It is in this relationship where Martha needs not support but confidence that she has to drive herself to conclusions and keep by it. A more careful and subtle management could leave her within the unhappy position she is already in.
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy is an analysis of certain events happening in order for someone to obtain a reaction. The therapist lists Martha’s relationship with her family is directly linked to why she finds herself worthless (Ellis 1974). How Martha treats herself and deflects truth is aggressively confronted by her therapist so she can debunk her own actions. In the name of REBT: an event happens, an emotion is conjured, and then Martha acts according. Martha’s parents ask something of her, she is reminded over her devotion, and she acts according despite her independence from them (Ellis 1974). The overall effect is her guilt. The problem-solving to dilute these feelings are not supplied by Martha but instead thickened as her therapist explains extensively how Martha is avoiding self-reliance in order to be approved by anyone else.
Martha has a therapist who does not believe in gentle hand-holding (Ellis 1974). The therapist actively seeks to shock and agitate Martha to narrow her perception and have gumption (Ellis 1974). She’s aware of her choices and that is what holds her back, and causes her to not commit and generate answers that bubble up into excuses. Her therapist does the work of bring Martha to the best direction. She is offered elaborations to why she does things instead of being encouraged to extensively drive out her own feelings. Martha has to be convinced that what she thinks is only hurting herself, that her opinion is what makes her sick (Ellis 1974). The system Martha is subscribed becomes fruitful once she is accustomed to being held accountable (Ellis 1974). It’s not that Martha is waiting to fulfill herself, she has believe that she can and will happy if her happiness is more focused and deliberately self-absorbed.
Earlene would not benefit from REBT. Earlene’s history involves thinking negatively of others and being negative towards herself. To have a therapist who is an aggressor instead of a companion would feed into Earlene’s interest of being kept safe. She would retreat into a worse attitude if not remain in the idea that she needs someone to baby her, see that she’s rightly incurable. Though with REBT, Earlene will not have a therapist who entertains this, it will combat the confidence Earlene uses to separate herself from everyone and how she feels toward herself. It would take her longer for Earlene to believe in the security of not self-harming and isolating herself. She merely wants a mind to confide in order to confirm the value of her choices (Knight 2007), not someone else who would point out that everyone has lousy moments and feelings of anxiety.
Citations
Knight, T. A. (2007). Showing Clients the Doors: Active Problem-Solving in Person-Centered Psychotherapy. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 17, 111-124.
Ellis, A. (1974) Growth through Reason. Hollywood: Wilshire books
