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Person-centered therapy allows for a lot of reflections of feeling, meaning, and content. Natalie Rogers developed the technique of expressive arts therapy in which provides clients with a safe, nonjudgmental way to discover more about themselves (Corey, 2013). Motivational interviewing is another technique that requires the therapist to take a directive approach to help clients commit to making a change (Corey, 2013).

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Person-centered therapy has several central tenets including: the belief that therapy is a journey the client and therapist take together, the characteristics of the therapist and the therapeutic relationship are essential, people strive for self-actualization, and clients can be in charge of their own growth (Corey, 2013). The therapist must also possess three core qualities congruence, unconditional positive regard, and empathy (Corey, 2013).

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Common SFBT therapeutic techniques include pretherapy change, exception questions, the miracle question, and scaling questions (Corey, 2013). The pretherapy change involves the counselor asking, "What have you done since you called for the appointment that has made a difference in your problem," in the first session (Corey, p. 406, 2013). Exception questions allow the client to examine times in his/her life when the problem was not present or was not as excessive. The miracle question is when a therapist asks, "If a miracle happened and the problem you have was solved overnight, how would you know it was solved and what would be different?" (Corey, p. 406, 2013). Scaling questions allow clients to observe how feelings have changed by rating how they were and how they are currently (Corey, 2013).

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Cepeda, L. M., & Davenport, D. S. (2006). Person-centered therapy and solution-focused brief therapy: An integration of present and future awareness. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 43 (1), 1-12.

Corey, G. (2013). Theory and practice of counseling and psychotherapy. Australia: Brooks/Cole / Cengage Learning.

Dameron, M. L. (2016). Person-Centered counseling and solution-focused brief therapy: An integrative model for school counselors. Journal Of School Counseling, 14 (10), 1-28.

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There is a limited amount of empirical research to support SFBT. The lack of direction present in this type of therapy may also make it difficult for some clients to comfortably participate (Corey, 2013).

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Person-centered therapy does not have a structured set of techniques which makes it difficult for the practice to be uniform. A lot of emphasis is placed on the characteristics of the therapist so if he/she doesn't correlate with what the role requires the therapy will not be effective (Corey, 2013).

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The therapeutic process allows the client to direct the focus of therapy and decide on the goals. Recognizing exceptions to problems, identifying a client's values and  strengths, and narrowing the strengths to determine the current problem are also important parts of the therapeutic process (Corey, 2013).

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The therapeutic process relies a lot on the therapist's role of providing empathy, genuineness, and unconditional positive regard. The therapist must also follow the six core conditions that allow for client personality change to occur (Corey, 2013).

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The therapist play an active and collaborative role in sessions while still leaving the client in change of the direction (Corey, 2013).

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The therapist plays an active and collaborative role in sessions (Corey, 2013).

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In SFBT small changes can lead to bigger changes as therapy progresses (orey,2013).

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The therapeutic objectives of person-centered therapy as listed in the textbook are, "1. Two persons are in psychological contact, 2. The first, the client, is experiencing incongruence, 3. The second person, the therapist, is congruent or integrated in the relationship, 4. The therapist experiences unconditional positive regard or real caring for the client, 5. The therapist experiences empathy for the client’s internal frame of reference and endeavors to communicate this to the client, and 6. The communication to the client is, to a minimal degree, achieved," (Corey, p. 181, 2013).

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In SFBT symptoms are minimized because the real focus is on a client's strengths (Corey, 2013).

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Not much focus is placed on symptoms in Person-centered therapy because the client and his/her strengths and ability to grow and change are more important (Corey, 2013).

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Counselors do not specifically search for the presence of of pathology and try not to label clients with a diagnosis (Corey, 2013).

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Person-centered therapy does not use traditional forms of assessment and diagnosis because they believe the client knows himself/herself best (Corey, 2013).

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SFBT is future focused but is also technically in the present frame of reference as well (Corey, 2003).

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Person-centered therapy has a  present focused frame of reference (Corey, 2013).

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There is a major focus on finding exceptions to every problem rather than placing emphasis on the problem itself (Corey, 2013). A relationship does not always have to exist between a problem and the root of  problem. The premise for change is centered around searching for solutions rather than analyzing problems. In SFBT the client is seen as the expert and can best determine what goals will suit him/her (Corey, 2003).

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SFBT's major premise is that people tend to focus on problems and conflict that happened in their past which makes it difficult to visualize future solutions (Corey, 2013).

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Person-centered therapy is centered around the premise that humans are trustworthy, seek self-actualization, and are able to make changes in their lives (Corey, 2013).The focus is on the individual, not the problem.

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In my future career as a school counselor it will be important to be well versed on therapeutic techniques and know what will best fit my practice. The person-centered focus on the therapist, or in this case the school counselor, possessing qualities of genuineness, empathy, and unconditional positive regard  can easily fit into a school counseling program (Dameron, 2016). If students are to trust and share information with school counselors they must be comfortable and if the counselor possess all of these roles, it would be hard to be uncomfortable. SFBT can also be successfully used in the school setting because it has a positive outlook and places the emphasis on solutions rather than problems which can be helpful for children to learn and model (Dameron, 2016). SFBT interventions can also be used with students who have behavioral, anxiety, and depressive disorders  (Dameron, 2016).

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Although person-centered therapy and SFBT have many similarities, there are also many viewpoints the conflict. Person-centered therapy focuses on the present situations while SFBT stressed the future and what it will be like without the present problem (Cepeda & Davenport, 2006). The way both therapies approach change also conflicts; SFBT centers attention on solution-talk while person-centered therapy person-centered emphasized self-acceptance as the way through which change happens (Cepeda & Davenport, 2006). The SFBT therapeutic process is driven by the client's ideal version of the future which conflicts with the person-centered therapy focal point of acceptance (Cepeda & Davenport, 2006).

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Person-centered therapy and solution focused brief therapy (SFBT) share many important aspects. Both therapies provide environments for clients to grow and change in hopes of ultimately seeking self-actualization (Cepeda & Davenport, 2006). Person-centered therapy and SFBT share a similar positive view of human nature. They also share the idea that clients know themselves best and the therapist should always try to see situations from the client point of view (Cepeda & Davenport, 2006). Person-centered therapy and SFBT have similar thoughts on change being inevitable and the client is the one who must drive change for it to happen (Cepeda & Davenport, 2006).

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Carl Rodgers
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