Cognitive Behavioral Approach to Counseling

While undoubtedly every modern approach to counseling, including the cognitive-behavioral approach, owes a debt to Freudian theory, theories of cognitive and behavioral capacity have been present in pre-Freudian philosophical discourse and remain relevant to current practitioner discourse as well. Cognitive theory is linked to questions of the source of human consciousness, which has long been an issue of metaphysical discourse. Descartes is the source one of the most famous articulations of cognition (cogito ergo sum; I think, therefore I am/exist). The Cartesian view of human consciousness merges with his view of tangible reality, with existence being a property solely of the mind: I am therefore precisely nothing but a thinking thing; that is, a mind . . . or reason . . . a

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based on the client's psychological situation and career attitudes, and an analysis of the client's values, which are then made career-congruent. At that point counselor and client confer with each other to explore career options and make decisions. Follow-up entails evaluating the client's learning performance in counseling and assisting with job searches (Zunker, 2002, pp. 114-117). Synthesis Ways in which cognitive-behavioral counseling has been applied show that one of its chief components is the rapport that develops, or ought to develop, between client and counselor. The cognitive-behavioral model anticipates a high level of cooperation between the expert system and its object of scrutiny, which tends to emphasize the mental process whereby client buy-in to expert suggestion may take place. That process, indeed, seems in the background of whatever content may emerge in the counseling setting. In a broad sense, the client can be said to learn from the counseling experience. Transformation of how one thinks becomes just as critical to making behavioral changes a part of the person's fundamental makeup as undertaking behavioral change based on (say) reward or punishment stimuli. Obviously the intent of a behaviorist interve
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