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Gestalt Therapy: This therapy helps a person to get aware that he is a whole and a very integrate part of the environment. If the person lacks the integrity the counselor makes him understand the basics through the gestalt techniques. This helps the person to acquire integrity and be more responsible. Any shortcomings on his part to fulfill the necessities are again taken care of by the counselor.

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Rational Emotive Behavior therapy (REBT): This brief form of psychotherapy holds that our emotional problems are determined not by events but by the self-defeating beliefs we have about these events.)

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Behavior Therapy offers various action-oriented methods to help people change what they are doing and thinking. This therapy is grounded on a scientific view of human behavior that implies a systematic and structure approach to counseling. The current view is that the person us the producer and the product of his or her environment contrary top the view that humans are a mere product of their socio-cultural conditioning

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Multi modal therapy is a comprehensive systematic holistic approach to behavioral therapy developed by Lazarus. It is an open system where the therapist asked " who or what is best for this particular person. Thus they takes great pains not to try to fit the client to a predetermined treatment instead they make a care full attempt to determine precisely what relationship and what treatment strategies will work best with each client and under which particular circumstances.

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Assertive training. Assertive behavior is interpersonal behavior involving the honest and relatively straightforward expression of thoughts and feelings. By undergoing assertive training we can improve our confidence level, interpersonal relationships, and make us more socially acceptable and less anxious

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Stress inoculation. This is an approach to teaching both physical and cognitive coping skills. To help clients learn how to tolerate and cop with physiological pain to help clients to control anger to deal with occupational stress, dating anxiety and with rape victims.

Goals of Counseling

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Encouraging patient autonomy and minimizing struggles.

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Asking for a clear statement from the counselee about what he/she wants to accomplish.

Assisting the counselee to move in the direction he/she wishes.

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Self understanding which leads to the attainment of awareness which may be curative and lead the individual to become a healthy person completely keeping in touch with self and reality.

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Human nature is holistic, consisting of many varied parts that make him a unique individual.

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We start life more or less together, but as we grow and develop, we counter experiences, feelings and fears in life that causes the split in our personality. Counseling is concerned with integrating and reintegrating the split off parts into a whole being.