Strength Based Approach

Strength based approach

Teddy wakes up 7:00 am to go to the park it’s his favorite part of the day, he also attends to the
class and never skip classes, Teddy catches up with some of his friends after class to eat dinner
with them. When pandemic started and all of the people affected to these calamities, and
everyone need to follow the new normal even its difficult. teddy started to doubt himself
because everything changes. lately teddy hasn’t feeling like himself and trouble sleeping at
night, he does not feel motivated to his life, has been trouble concentrating in online class and
losing his appetite. teddy’s friend worried about him and recommend to go to see a doctor. The
doctor ask teddy to fill out a lifestyle questionnaire, teddy’s symptom diagnose him with major
depressive disorder. Teddy does not want to tell anybody about his situation, and worried about
what his friend might think if they found out. the doctor said don’t worry teddy I will explain all
there is to know about depression and clear any misconceptions, and doctor says that teddy
need to help himself while the doctor helping him. According to my research Strength-based
therapy is a type of positive psychotherapy and counseling that focuses more on your internal
strengths and resourcefulness, and less on weaknesses, failures, and shortcomings. This focus
sets up a positive mindset that helps you build on you best qualities, find your strengths,
improve resilience and change worldview to one that is more positive. A positive attitude, in turn,
can help your expectations of yourself and others become more reasonable. Using this
approach, it helps teddy to become motivated again and boost his strength.

Right based approach

Keira is part of indigenous people in Mindanao, she’s belonged to the dcx groups. One day
Keira asks for help to the social worker whose deploy in their place for the mission. She shares
a story that she’s often faces difficulties in accessing social protection, benefits usually as a
result of discrimination, economic and social disadvantages. Their groups struggle against
development aggression, which lead to loss of ancestral domain and self-determination as well
as to environmental destruction, are met with harassment and human rights violations, including
political killings. Keira worried about if she can pursue her study after the government shutdown
their only one school. Lumad schools have been the targets of a military vilification campaign by
the government, saying those were being used as training centers for New People's Army
(NPA) communist rebels. Using Right based approach in counseling I will help Keira and her
community to know their rights, it also means that they should be fully supported to participate
in the development of policy and practices which affect their lives and to claim rights where
necessary. A rights-based approach requires the recognition of rights as legally enforceable
entitlements and is linked in to national and international human rights law.
Family therapy
Lucy and her husband are always fighting, she tends to lose her patient quickly with her child. it
leads a barrier between her son, Sometimes, her family member chooses to become silence
rather than to talk and find the solution on their problem, and her family don’t know how to react
or what she could say to make her situation better. Because of that situation her son had mental
health condition, eventually lucy’s friend suggested to her to consult in family therapist. Lucy
and her husband brush the idea aside, at the time they thought that their family didn’t need help.
She assumed that her husband who had all the issues, but the more she thought about it the
more she realized that trying to cope with challenges that her son mental health conditions. One
day Lucy decided to consult in therapist so as not to worsen the situation, the therapist
suggested that they could benefit from family therapy. Family therapy can help you improve
troubled relationships with your partner, children or other family members. You may address
specific issues such as marital or financial problems, conflict between parents and children, or
the impact of substance abuse or a mental illness on the entire family, and it is a type of
psychological counseling that can help family members improve communication and resolve
conflicts.
Cognitive behavioral theory
Layla works as a manager for a large organization. because she wanted everything to be
perfect, she became strict in everything She felt quite stressed and also annoyed at other staff
members because she thought that they didn’t understand the policy. She is becoming more
and more stressed at work as the company is constantly changing and evolving. It is a
requirement of her job that she keeps up with this change by implementing new strategies as
well as ensuring focus is kept on her main role.
She finds that she is working twelve-hour days, six days a week and doesn’t have time for her
friends and family. She has started yelling at staff members when they ask her questions and
when making small mistakes in their work. Concerned about her stress levels, Jocelyn decided
to attend a counselling session.
The counsellor proceeds to work through the cognitive behaviour process with Layla as follow:
Step 1 – Identify the automatic thought
Step 2 – Question the validity of the automatic thought
Step 3 – Challenge core beliefs
By using Cognitive approaches, it has been applied as means of treatment across a variety of
presenting concerns and psychological conditions. Cognitive approaches emphasize the role of
thought in the development and maintenance of unhelpful or distressing patterns of emotion or
behavior.Cognitive therapy has also been successfully used to treat such conditions as anxiety
disorders, obsessive disorders, substance abuse, post-traumatic stress, eating disorders,
dissociative identity disorder, chronic pain and many other clinical conditions. In addition, it has
been widely utilized to assist clients in enhancing their coping skills and moderating extremes in
unhelpful thinking.
Reality therapy
Pol had a tough life growing up in the center. Before he turned 5, he has lived in the adoption
center with the other kids with similar background. Contradicting to his faith, Pol has been
adopted by a nice couple when he’s five. During the years he spent with that nice couple, pol
was able to attend a prestigious school and learned a lot about the world. Extremely well
treated, pol felt really lucky but there’s always an unanswered question deep inside his heart:
Who are my birth parents? For several months, he tried to post notes in the newspaper behind
his parents in search for his birth parents and yet no response has been received. Greatly
disappointed, pol thought there’s no hope in finding his birth parents.
How could he stop thinking about this anyways, they are his birth parents no matter what? In
despair, pol prayed to the stars during one night, he asked the stars to bring him to his parents
so he could at least meet them once. With using of Reality therapy in counseling, our goal is to
help people accept responsibility for these behaviors and choose more desirable actions that
enable them to connect with others. Based on this notion, reality therapy aims to increase your
accountability of pol’s behavior. Additionally, reality therapy rejects the idea of mental illness. Dr.
Glasser believed that people aren’t mentally ill, they just choose inappropriate behaviors to
satisfy their needs instead. Pol need to find his biological parent so as a social worker we need
to guide him in every decision he made.

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Step 2 – Question the validity of the automatic thought

Step 3 – Challenge core beliefs

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