ABSTRACT
This chapter provides clinicians several treatment approaches used to address troubled thoughts and behaviors. Humanistic, person-centered care is based on mutual respect and faith in the client using a stance of genuineness, unconditional positive regard, and empathetic listening. Cognitive behavioral therapy emphasizes that we can change our behavior when we change the way we think and feel about the world around us. Rational emotive behavioral therapy involves exploring the activating events that cause an immediate reaction, the beliefs we hold about why they occur (which might or might not be accurate), and the consequences that drive those inaccurate beliefs. Reality therapy focuses on short-term, clearly identified, and measurable goals. Narrative and metaphor therapy attend to the stories, metaphors, and analogies the client uses to describe their lives and worldview. Existential therapy requires the therapist to engage the client to face their fears of death, freedom, isolation, and meaninglessness. Motivational interviewing offers a series of concepts for the therapist to engage the client with to bring about change. The transtheoretical model outlines a series of progressive levels we each move through when attempting to change our behavior. Each of these is explored in more depth in the chapter.
