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Jake is a depressed client. An existential therapist would try to understand Jake’s world while fostering an interpersonal relationship between Jake and himself. The existential therapist believes that conflict arises as the persons tries to resolve confrontations with the givens of the human condition which are death, freedom, isolation, and meaninglessness (Bauman & Waldo, 1998). [...]

The integration of expressive arts, narrative, and symbolism with counseling and psychotherapy theory is fundamental to the effective use of these approaches. Inclusion of integrative approaches in counseling enhances the therapeutic milieu and in turn fosters sound theoretical practice.(Capuzzi and Gross, 2007); An integrative approach combining Narrative integration with Adlerian theory will be used in [...]

Structural Family therapy means approaching clients in their social context. It is based on changing the organization of the family. Structural Theory rests on the assumptions that outer context affects inner psychic processes, that changes in context produce changes in the individual and that the therapist working with the family becomes a part of the [...]