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Compare and contrast the person-centered approach and cognitive-behavioural approaches to understanding and working with fear and sadness. Which of these two approaches do you feel more drawn to and why?
- Essay length: 2263 words
- Submitted: 25/04/2012
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Linda Penn
Teacher essay summary
The writer appears to understand the main differences between the two approaches. The essay could now be improved by being more specific and quoting research and studies carried out. There is plenty of research which explains why and how certain therapies are better than others for dealing with fear and sadness. Also, the essay brief was about comparing and contrasting approaches with relation to fear and sadness. The writer could spend more time covering anxiety, panic attacks and possibly mild depression to fulfill the brief. It is however clear that the writer has researched the different approaches and just needs more practice with regards referencing and structuring the work.
Marked by teacher Linda Penn 29/12/1999
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Compare and contrast the person-centered approach and cognitive-behavioural approaches to understanding and working with fear and sadness. Which of these two approaches do you feel more drawn to and why?
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In this essay I will look[KHB1] at the key features of the cognitive behavioural approach and the person centered approach, I will look at the differences and similarities of the two approaches and explain why I am drawn to the person centered approach. The overall purpose of cognitive behavioural therapy is to increase self awareness, introduce better understanding, and improve self control by developing more appropriate responses to negative feelings. The goals of the person-centered therapy are to increase ones self-esteem, to have a greater openness to experience and to find out where you belong in life and be content with it. Both therapies help individuals to experience and express feelings at the moment they occur, rather than dwell on them at a later date.
I will first look at the Cognitive behavioural therapy which was founded by Beck (1976), he believed that "the emotional and behavioural difficulties that people experience in their lives are not caused directly by events, but by the way they
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MbT essay summary
The writer appears to understand the main differences between the two approaches. The essay could now be improved by being more specific and quoting research and studies carried out. There is plenty of research which explains why and how certain therapies are better than others for dealing with fear and sadness. Also, the essay brief was about comparing and contrasting approaches with relation to fear and sadness. The writer could spend more time covering anxiety, panic attacks and possibly mild depression to fulfill the brief. It is however clear that the writer has researched the different approaches and just needs more practice with regards referencing and structuring the work.
