Capella PSYC2320 2022 November Week 3 Discussion Latest

PSYC2320 Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy

Week 3 Discussion

Theory Base and Counseling Approaches

All counselors and therapists use theories as frameworks for understanding what they are hearing and observing. Theories provide an organized foundation to understand problems and formulate interventions. The counselor’s approach is then based in the theory or theories.

After reading about various counseling approaches in your studies this week (Chapters 5 and 6 in your textbook), engage in a conversation about ONE of the following:

Explain the counseling approach that most speaks to you and how it fits with your way of thinking.

Choose one counseling approach and search for a scholarly article from the Capella library that researches the approach with a specific population and share a brief summary in a way that gives us a good understanding of what the research was about. Who and what did the researchers study and how? What did they find?