Limitations of Psychotherapy Approaches
Assignment
Limitations of Psychotherapy Approaches Assignment
Psychoanalytic therapy
Requires lengthy training for therapists and much time and
expense for clients. The model stresses biological and instinctual
factors to the neglect of social, cultural, and interpersonal ones.
Its methods are less applicable for solving specific daily life
problems of clients and may not be appropriate for some ethnic
and cultural groups. Many clients lack the degree of ego strength
needed for regressive and reconstructive therapy. It may be
inappropriate for certain counseling settings.
Adlerian therapy
Weak in terms of precision, testability, and empirical validity. Few
attempts have been made to validate the basic concepts by
scientific methods. Tends to oversimplify some complex human
problems and is based heavily on common sense.
Existential therapy
Many basic concepts are fuzzy and ill-defined, making its general
framework abstract at times. Lacks a systematic statement of
principles and practices of therapy. Has limited applicability to
lower functioning and nonverbal clients and to clients in extreme
crisis who need direction

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