Counseling
Types of counseling:
Cognitive: Thoughts affect how we feel. The cognitive therapies include Rational-Emotive, Cognitive-Behavioral, Reality, and Transactional Analysis. It's aim is to identify distorted thinking that causes emotional discomfort. There's little emphasis on the historical root of a problem. Rather, what's wrong with my present thinking that it is causing me distress.
Behavioral: We learn from our experiences. The main concern is to analyze behavior, define problems, and select goals.Therapy often includes homework, behavioral experiments, role-playing, assertiveness training, and self management training.
Psychoanalytic: Freudian analysis of the root causes of behavior and feelings by exploring the unconscious mind and the conscious mind's relation to it. Free-association, dreams, and transference, as well other strategies to help the client know the function of their own minds. Traditional analysts have their clients lie on a couch as the therapist takes notes and interprets the client's thoughts, etc.
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