TREATMENT
APPROACHES
1)
COGNITIVE
BEHAVIOR
THERAPY
(CBT)
Cognitive
Behavior
Therapy
(CBT) is
a
psychotherapeutic
model
that is
more
present-centered
and
future
focused
than
traditional
therapies.
It is
aimed at
influencing
disturbed
emotions
and
behaviors
that are
not
helpful
by
identifying
and
modifying
irrational
or
maladaptive
thoughts,
assumptions
and
beliefs;
replacing
them
with
more
realistic
and
self-helping
alternatives.
As such,
CBT is a
cognitive,
affective
and
behavioral
approach
to
healing
that is
used
with
individuals
and
groups.
CBT is
an
umbrella
term for
many
different
therapies
that
share
many
common
elements.
While
similar
views
have
existed
for
millennia,
the
earliest
form of
Cognitive
Behavior
Therapy
was
developed
by
Albert
Ellis
and
Aaron T.
Beck.
Goal:
To
enable
clients
to think
and act
more
rationally.
Method: Clients
identify
irrational
beliefs
and
assumptions
that are
causing
or
maintaining
disturbances
and work
toward
correcting
them.
2)
REALITY
THERAPY:
Reality
Therapy a
psycho-educational
brand of CBT,
similar
in many
ways to
other
forms of
education,
tutoring
or
coaching. It
purports
that
thinking
is at
the core
of human
experience
and that
thoughts
are
vital
tools in
creating
the
reality
we
experience.
Thoughts
create
our
emotional
states;
affect
our
bodies,
and
therefore,
our
health.
Thoughts
also
affect
our
responses
to life,
our
relationships
and
determine
the
choices
we make.
Hence,
various
studies
show
that
thinking
leads to
feelings,
feelings
to
behaviors
and
behaviors
impact
results.
Goal: Enabling
clients
to think
optimistically
as a
basis
for
rational
behavior.
Method: Clients
identify
particular
types of
errors
enshrouded
in
pessimistic
thinking
and work
at
creating
optimism.
3)
AFROTHERAPY
(AT):
Afrotherapy
is a
modified
version
of
Reality
Therapy.
As a
developmental
and
transformational
process,
it is
culturally
specific,
not
universal.
Based on
the
multi-cultural
premise
that a
group
must
recognize
and
affirm
itself
before
it is
able to
share
and
appreciate
the
difference
in
others,
AT
emphasizes
cultural
identity
and
reflection
on
history
as
spiritual
practices.
AT
affirms
that
treatment
of
African
Americans
would be
incomplete
without
an
examination
of their
African
past.
This
background
knowledge
is
relevant
to
psychotherapy
since
understanding
the past
is vital
to the
healing
process.
Pain,
like
fire,
has the
power to
destroy
or
transform.
AT,
therefore,
teaches
clients
how to
transcend
feelings
of shame
and
humiliation
about
their
past
while
creating
the
optimism
necessary
for
using
their
history,
including
the
experience
of
slavery,
as a
catalyst
for
recovery
and
transformation.
Goal: To
help
clients
think
optimistically.
Method: Clients
identify
particular
types of
cognitive
errors
concealed
in
pessimistic
thinking
as a
basis
for
cognitive
restructuring
and work
at
creating
optimism.
4)
TREATMENT
MODALITIES:
We are
licensed
clinical
psychotherapists
specializing
in work
with
children,
adolescents
and
adults.
Our
focus is
on
short-term
therapy,
15 -20
sessions
in
duration
depending
on
consumers’
diagnosis,
level of
motivation
to
change
and
consistency
with
treatment.
Sessions
are
interactive
and move
quickly.
We give
homework
assignments
and
feedback.
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