personal therapy "MASK THERAPY"

MASK THERAPY

VIEW OF HUMAN NATURE

         

          This therapy believes that each individual uses defense mechanism to cover their true personality for their own benefits , for other people to accept them when they are interacting or communicating with them. A strategy of distorting reality used by the ego to defend itself against the anxiety provoked by the conflicts of everyday life. And defense mechanism will lessen the self- confidence of an individual because they don't express and show their real personality for other people to accept them for what they are. Their environment is the big factor why they act and think of that therapy, their environment become judgmental in that case they never show their own to be not neglected and to be accept to the society. Too much expectation to them from other people motivates them to strive through defense mechanism.

DEVELOPING MALADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR

          The Maskirian therapists believe that maladaptive behavior is being develop in developing a defense mechanism. This maladaptive behavior is being develop because they don't want to disappoint other or even their selves. When people loss the sense of courage in facing the real life situation they become inferior. They exaggerated feelings of weakness and a belief that they can't over come one's difficulties. But when people succeed in using defense mechanism they gain courage and sometimes they become superior. They achieve their ultimate goals in striving that motivates an individual to keep his or her true personality. The use of unrealistic striving is for the benefits of everybody.

FUNCTION OF THE THERAPISTS

          Maskirian therapists helps the clients to lead to their perspectives. Therapists also function as educator to help the clients to built strengths for their personality. The Maskirian, works to establish and maintain an accepting and encouraging the clients to face real life situation.

GOALS OF THERAPY

          Maskirian therapists goal is to help people to develop a sense of accepting behavior. To decrease a sense of inferiority and change it to a better one. Developing socialization with others by showing what you are without keeping your personality and to be unrealistic.

MAJOR METHODS AND TECHNIQUES

          The therapeutic techniques that maskirian therapists use are the following:

·                    BACKGROUND

          - gathering information about the clients

·                    TRACING

          - looking for the reason why the client react and act like that. The possible reason in clients action.

·                    INTERPRETING

          -give your clients a situation and let the client react on the given situation and as therapists you will give your interpretation.

·                    REFLECTION

          -the therapists will give a scenario and let your client reflect in the given scenario. And it also develop sense of realization.

APPLICATION

          Maskirian therapy has been applied to a wide variety of clinical issues. This approach can be applied and illustrated to the case of Xander.

          In the classroom scenario, Xander is one of the grade IV students, studying in an exclusive private school, with a full scholarship in their school administrator. This is a big opportunity for Xander because his parents are unable to send him to school.

          Xander is one of the many children who is wishing for a wealth, but unfortunately his not one of them. As the school year start, it is a big adjustment for Xander. Coping with others is a hard time for him, specially they are not in the same level. He is neglected by somebody that as time goes by he didn't take it anymore.

          One of Xander's classmate talk to him, " Hi Xander, I though your a poor guy, I'm a right? and if yes, you don't have place here specially being our friends." Then Xander think, then immediately said, " Of course not, I'm not one of them, I have lots of toys and gadgets and eat delicious foods same with you and to all of you, is that enough? he replied. "That's fabulous, now your one of my and our friends" then he smiled.

          But as the issue grow, Xander never take it anymore, he has no alibi to think off. So the therapists talk to Xander, Maskirian therapists let Xander realize the whole situation. Xander's replied is , " I do that for alibis, for my environment to accept me for what I'm".

          Then as Xander realize all things, he become responsible and felt a keener of achievement and face the reality of life.

 

         

ADLERIAN SUMMARY

ADLERIAN THERAPY


                                                               


Alfred Adler was born in Vienna in 1870 of a middle-class family and died in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1837 while on a lecture tour. HE received a medical degree in 1895 from the University of Vienna. At first he specialized in opthalmology and then, after a period of practice in general medicine, he became a psychiatrist. HE was one of the character members of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society and later its president. However, Adler soon began to develop ideas that were at variance with those of Freud and others in the Vienna Society, and when these differences became acute, he was asked to present his views to the society. this he did in 1911. As a consequence of the vehement criticism and denunciation of Adler's position by other members of the society, Adler resigned as president and a few months later terminated his connection with Freudian psychoanalysis (H.L & R.R. Ansbacher, 1956, 1964; Colby, 1951;Jones,1955)


He then formed his own group, which came to be known as Individual Psychology and attracted followers throughout the world.


Adler's personal history provides a clear example of the striving to overcome inferiority, which became the central theme in his theory. As a boy, he was weak, clumsy, unattractive, and initially a poor student. He was run over by carriages on several occasions, and he developed rickets and pneumonia. The latter disease led a physician to tell Adler's father " your boy is lost", an event to which Adler traced his decision to become a physician(orgler,1963p.16) Adler recognized that his own success in compensating for these deficiencies served as a model for his theory of personality(bottome,1939,p.9)


Adler assumed that humans are motivated primarily by social urges. Humans are accdng/ to Adler, inherently social beings. they relate themselves to other people engage in cooperative social activities, place social welfare above selfish interest, and acquire a style of life that is predominantly social in orientation. Adler did not say that humans become socialized merely by being exposed to social processes. Social interest is inborn, but the specific types of relationships with people and social institutions that develop are determined by the nature of the society into which a person is born. Freud and Adler assume that a person has an inherent nature that shapes his/her personality. Freud emphasized sex , Adler stressed social interest. this emphasis upon the social determinants of behavior that had been overlooked or minimized by Freud is probably Adler's greatest contribution to psychological theory. it turned the attention of psychologists to the importance of social variables and helped to develop the field of social psychology at a time when social psychology needed encouragement and support.


FUNCTION OF THE THERAPY


Adlerian therapists often function as educators who attempt to build on strengths the client already demonstrates.Encouragement is critical as the therapist work to establish and maintain an accepting, caring, cooperative relationship with the client. The work of therapy is viewed as collaborative, where the client and the counselors are partners, working toward mutually agreed-upon and clearly identified goals. in short, the Adlerian counselor's energy is invested not in analysis but in encouragement.


GOALS OF THERAPY


Adlerian therpy seeks to decrease a sense of inferiority in clients and help them encase their social interest. By helping people to contribute, by altering faulty motivations that underlie even acceptable behavior, by encouraging equality, Adlerians seek to change the life styles, the perceptions, and the goals of their clients.


MAJOR METHODS AND TECHNIQUES


The most common therapeutic techniques of Adlerian therapy include  investigating the client's life style(basic orientation toward life.) This is done systematically by exploring "3 entrance gates to mental life".1st  of these is birth order,which examines one's position within the family and the expectations and roles that typically result from it. the 2nd is early recollections, which encapsulate one's present philosophy of life. and the 3rd is dreams, which in Adler's view, serve to rehearse how one might deal with problems in the future.


APPLYING ADLER TO SCHOOL COUNSELING AND EDUCATION


1. School counselors need to help children develop a positive lifestyle and social interest.
2. The goal is establishing a positive self-esteem.
3. Children can learn advanced social skills when given the opportunity to belong to a group.
       a. Collaboration between students and counselors, students and educators, and students is extremely important for valuing cooperationand not competition.


-Misbehavior in the classroom is usu. the stem for counseling assistance. knowing what the motivation behind self-defeating behaviors is can help counselors an educators better handle these situations.


1. Attention getting
2. Power
3. Revenge
4. Compensation for inadequacy experienced by the student.


- Misbehavior is the student's choice to fulfill a need.


- School counselors and teachers should help modify the child's motivation rather than focusing on changing the child's behavior.




ALAJAS, RACHELLE V.
PLATA, CAMILLE
MONDELO, KATRINA
REGACHO, SHAILA
OBUSAN, LOVE LEE