Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

explanation of behavior and it can reflect the complexity of human behavior. Its weaknesses simplifies the behavior of the client to the ID, EGO and SUPEREGO and the importance of the childhood, which innate forces and childhood determine the clients behavior. Psychodynamic has proven to be useful with clients who self-harm. There is usually no limit to the amount of sessions in psychodynamic counseling, it depends on you, your situation and progress.

Humanistic, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Psychodynamic have all been developed over the last 100 years or so by different theorists who have taken key concepts of a theory and pointed them in a slightly different direction sometimes, or more often than not having massive effects. Whereas the Psychodynamic approach looks at the clients past and unconscious, CBT and Humanistic will look at the here and now. However even though CBT and Humanistic are about the clients present, CBT will also look at the clients thinking and behavior whereas Humanistic theory will use the non-analytical approach and look to achieve autonomy and independence. The outcome of the client would totally depend on their situation and how well the client worked with the type of therapy chosen. Within these three different counseling approaches there are also similarities, which would consist of things such as a contract. This would detail clear boundaries, as seen earlier the contract may take different forms, verbal and written depending on the approach taken. However, it is clear that a contract is important through out all three approaches to enable the counselor to determine boundaries with the client.