BEA Therapy
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While many counselors and therapists identify themselves as working within the general framework of a specific school or theory of psychology and of personality, others create a personalized therapeutic approach and related strategies that draw upon several different theoretical and therapeutic approaches. Among those approaches described by Corey (1986, 1991) are Individual or Adlerian therapy, Existentialism in counseling, Reality and Client-Centered Therapies, Cognitive and Behavior Therapies, Behavioral approaches, and Gestalt Therapy. Each of these approaches offers both a way of understanding the individual and his or her personality, the effect of development processes on the individual, the role played by the external and familial environment in shaping personality and behavior, and the ways in which stressors and other factors affect the individual (Coleman, 1989). Consequently, an eclectic approach to therapy may draw elements from several of these disparate schools to create what is called herein "Bob's Eclectic Therapy."Central criteria for this new school, called "Bob's Eclectic Approach (BEA), include the following items which are presented along with their theoretical referents. 1. The client is a unique individual who functions within a specific familial and social system (Gestalt). 2. The client is deserving of unconditional positive regard and all therapeutic interventions should be orient
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BEA is therefore based on the view (Shared with Cognitive Therapy) that psychiatric problems are concerned with states of mind, rather than the biological state of the brain or other parts of the body (Sturdy, 1999). BEA will acknowledge that the brain/body and mind do affect each other but does not suggest that most or even many mental disorders are rooted in the physical being. Whether cognitive therapy alone or CBT is used, the therapist working within this school of thought recognizes that feelings are influenced by attitudes and when attitudes or thoughts are distorted, perceptions of reality are also distorted. BEA is therefore a synthesis of these models.
Sturdy (1999) maintains that it is only through eliminating unrealistic views that the individual returns to or achieves mental health. Further, it is only when distorted thoughts are eliminated that a health life can be experienced or enjoyed. Cognitive therapies are increasingly popular in that unlike traditional psychoanalysis, they can be of relatively brief duration and are therefore less costly and time consuming. When cognitive and behavioral therapies are joined together, the results can be rapid and dramatic (Sturdy, 1999). AS
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