PERSONAL THERAPY

FREE WILL THERAPY

                The FREE WILL therapy is based on the therapy of CARL ROGERS, the Person-Centered Therapy in which emphasizing its positive focus on human capacities. Free Will Therapy looks at the person’s will on how they practice their freedom in deciding for themselves to be a better person.

VIEW OF HUMAN NATURE

                Free Will therapy views people as a master of their actions and behaviors. They have the capacity to choose the actions and behaviors that would enhance their personality and reject some actions and behaviors that which is not necessary needed in their personal growth.

          As guided by what Rogers called ORGANISMIC VALUING PROCESS, this innate drive serves as pathfinder. Presumed to be an infallible and instinctive compass for guiding choice and action. In this case, the author of FWT believes that all human being have the power to choose their actions and behaviors. Even it is good or bad for them. The Free Will therapy focuses on the decisions of the person, on how the person deals with his choices in life. Here, the FWT believes that a person is the product of his decisions that will able him to build what kind of personality he wants.

DEVELOPMENT OF MALADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR

                Children still need acceptance and positive regard from others. If this need for acceptance is met, according to Rogers, children begin to define their sense of self in accordance with their own experience and choices rather than in terms of how other see or expect them to be. As FREE WILL therapy views that maladaptive behavior can results when children or a person become mere externally than internally oriented. It happened when they let others manipulate their lives so they were become a product of other’s decision. Like what happened to some children, their parents are the one who decide for them in believing that they knew best for them. As a result they are tempted to distort their feelings and actions to match the expectations of others. We ask “How should I be feeling?” rather than “how do I feel?”And it is this incongruity between what we really are and what we are trying to be that gives birth to psychological pain and maladjustment.

FUNCTION OF THE THERAPIST

                Like the person-centered therapist’s role, the FREE WILL therapist is focus in the being, not doing. The major task of the therapist is to provide a climate of safety and trust, which will encourage clients to choose specific actions and behavior that they want to detach and attach from themselves for them to be a better person. Here the therapist is non-authoritarian so it depends to the clients if what are the maladaptive behavior he wants to detach from himself and what are the adaptive behavior he wants to attach for him to overcome the maladaptive behavior.

        The therapist will give the client the power to choose of what kinds of method the therapist should used. The formal assessment of the client’s problems in the form of psychological testing is considered to be inappropriate and unnecessary.

GOALS OF THE THERAPY

        The aim of the FREE WILL therapy is not so much to solve problems but to assists clients in their growth process, so they are equipped human beings who are fully functioning and who are able to cope effectively with current and future problems by their own choice of decisions and actions. The Free Will therapy tries to eliminate the unhealthy need to please others. Here the therapist allows client to ignore the pressure not only of parents, teachers, and friends but also of the surrounding culture and depend only on their capacity to choose what is good or not for themselves.

        Like the goal of person-centered therapy, moving away from the self is not, whereas they will do things to please others, they will not become someone else just to please others, as healthy people; they are true to the essence of their own selves.

        The main goal of Free will therapy is that children would be the one who will decide for themselves for their personality growth and not the other people. The therapy is expecting those children to make choice on how they will detach their maladaptive behavior that will lead them in a better person.

 METHODS

> express what you've got

> free association

> reflect on your choice

> truth or consequence

Section E:THEORITICAL FRAMEWORK

Section E:THEORITICAL FRAMEWORK

THEORITICAL FRAMEWORK

The therapist shows the above diagram to see and to explain the different factors that affect the client’s behavior of not accepting the fact of having a stepfather that results problems such as disrespect to his stepfather, disobeying what his stepfather's commands and request.

  The first factor that affects the child is his individuality as a child. The client’s parents got separated when he was a one year old. When he grows up, he never saw his real father’s face. In that sense, the separation of his parents makes a bad impact to R-jay’s behavior in the way of being incomplete in terms of his needs. He is the only son of his parents but now he has two stepsisters in the side of his stepfather. As the therapists doing her observation, she observed that the client does not get much attention and needs from the second parents. The second factor is the kind of relationship that R-jay has with his second family. R-jay has poor communication on his stepfather in the way that he’s action towards his stepfather is really disrespectful. Sometimes He answered his mother and stepfather in a sarcastic way. The environment also affects the child and his past experiences had a big impact to his behavior.

            A theory being used by the therapist is the Kant's ethical theory. According to this theory, it claims that all persons are owed respect just because they are persons, that is, free rational beings. To be a person is to have a status and worth that is unlike that of any other kind of being: it is to be an end in itself with dignity. And the only response that is appropriate to such a being is respect. Our fundamental moral obligation, then, is to respect persons; morally right actions are thus those that express respect for persons as ends in them, while morally wrong actions are those that express disrespect or contempt for persons by not valuing them as ends in themselves (Wood 1999).It means that the client cannot value his stepfather so because of that he shows disrespect towards him. In the stepfather side, Respect for such beings is not only appropriate but also morally and unconditionally required: the status and worth of person is such that they must.

CONCEPTS

            There are several important consequences of this view regarding the scope of recognition respect for persons. First, while all normally functioning human beings possess the rational capacities that ground recognition respect, there can be humans in whom these capacities are altogether absent and who therefore, on this view, are not persons and are not owed respect. Second, these capacities may be possessed by beings that are not biologically human, and such beings would also be persons with dignity whom we are morally obligated to respect. Third, because dignity is an absolute worth grounded in the rational capacities for morality, it is in no way conditional on how well or badly those capacities are exercised, on whether a person acts morally or has a morally good character or not. Thus, dignity cannot be diminished or lost through vice or morally bad action, nor can it be increased through virtue or morally correct action. Because personhood and dignity are not matters of degree, neither is the recognition respect owed to person.

           

Ø              Another theory used by the therapist is the Social Psychology - Theories of Obedience: Milgram’s Agency Theory, .according to this theory” When a person shifts from the autonomous state to the agentic state (the agentic shift) they give up their responsibility and follow orders without considering the consequences or whether the request is appropriate. This diffusion of responsibility means that the person no longer monitors their own behaviour. Milgram believed that his participants were ‘just following orders’ and did not consider themselves responsible; his participants even sighed with relief when the experimenter said “I am responsible for what happens here.”In this theory describe the behavior of the client child towards his stepfather.

Section F: PROGNOSIS

SECTION F: PROGNOSIS

                As the therapist gathered information about the problem of the client child who is R-jay, the therapist makes some hypostasis that leads the therapist to identify the real problem of the client child. As what the client’s mother told the therapist that his son is not so close with his stepfather Danny, the therapist impression to this is that maybe because in the first place: R-jay did not  fully accept that his real parents got already separated. So there is a possibility that he cannot accept the fact that his mother got married again. In addition to this, according to the client’s stepfather, the client child never follows his commands and request. Also, the client child does not want to say “po and opo” to his stepfather. As the therapist looks at these cases, the therapist thinks that maybe the reason why the client child behaves like this because the client child had experienced physical abused such as hitting in some of his body parts by his tita when his mother left him to her. As result, the client child decreases his trust towards adults especially his stepfather. Maybe the client child does not want him to hurt again. According to his stepfather, the behavior of the child is really tolerating. According to the point of view of the therapist, it became worst because both of them are not close with each other. The factor of being open is not present so they could not communicate to each other. The client child also never feel that he is loved by his parents maybe because his mother had already two daughters-his step sisters so he feel that He cannot get the full affection of his real mother.One factor also is that his classmates bullies him that he is not the real son of his mother, it also increase the maladaptive behavior of the client child.

            Looking at these information, the therapist conclude that maybe the real problem of her client child is that he cannot accept the reality that his mother  already have her second family and his real father and mother are never going back again. So by this problem the effects are the client child became a bad boy towards his stepfather that he disobeys him in everything and lacking of respect to him.

Section G: THERAPEUTIC PLAN

SECTION G: THERAPHEUTIC PLAN

6.1 Knowledge Building

                At the end of the case, the client child must be able to build knowledge about.
        1.  Distinguish what kind of relationship R-jay have with his stepfather Danny
        2.   Identifying what are the actions and behaviors that can lead in disobedience
        3.   Identifying what are the actions and behaviors that can lead in disrespect.

6.2 Skills Building

                At the end of the case, the client child must be able to build knowledge about.

1.      Communication skills in terms of openness with R-jay’s stepfather.

2.      Relationship-building skills in terms of attachment to his stepfather Danny.

3.      Speaking skills in terms on how to pronounce the proper words with "S"

6.3 Attitude Building

                At the end of the case, the client child must be able to build knowledge about.

        1. Obedience towards adults especially his parents.

        2. Respect towards adults especially his parents.

        3. The importance of respect and obedience to himself and the people around him

        4. Affection with love ones especially with his parents.

Section I: THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION

Section H: Therapeutic Intervention

                At the end of the case, the client child must be able to build knowledge, skills and attitudes about;

OBJECTIVES	ACTIVITIES	SCHEDULES
KNOWLEDGE BUILDING 1.      Distinguish what kind of relationship R-jay has with his stepfather Danny. 2.      Identifying what kind of actions and behaviors that  can lead in disobedience.  3.      Identifying what are the actions and behaviors that can lead in disrespect.         SKILLS KNOWLEDGE 1.      Communication skills in    terms of openness with R-jay’s stepfather.    2. Relationship-building skills in terms of attachment to his stepfather Danny. 3. Speaking skills in terms on how to pronounce the proper   words with "S".      ATTITUDE BUILDING   1. Obedience towards adults especially his parents.   2. Respect towards adults   especially his parents.      3. The importance of respect and obedience to himself and the people around him.	STORY TELLING    Ø  Title: “Prodigal Son” PLAYING GAME    Ø  “Follow The Leader”                    TEACHING SONG    Ø  Title: “RULES RAP”    Ø    QUESTION and   ANSWE  Portion    Ø    SPEND Time With the Family    Ø    Game    Ø   READ IT LOUD           GAMES   Ø  Treasure hunting   Ø  Simon Says   Ø  Reflection     DRAW  WHAT YOU’VE GOT   Ø  Reflection ROLE PLAYING(with playmates)   Ø  Showing respect and obedience   Ø  Reflection	Sunday ( Feb.27,2011) >10am-1pm Monday (Feb.28,2011) >10am-1pm Wednesday ( March 2, 2011) >10am-1pm Thursday ( March 3, 2011) >10am-1pm Sunday ( March 6, 2011) >10am-1pm     and Monday ( March 7, 2011) >10am-1pm Wednesday ( March 9, 2011) >1Oam-1pm Thursday (March  10,2011) >10am-1pm Sunday ( March13,2011) >10am-1pm Monday ( March 14,2011) >10am-1pm          and Wednesday (March 16,2011) 10am-1pm

Section I: THERAPEUTIC PROGRESS

SECTION I: Therapeutic Progress

SPECIFIC     ACTIVITIES	SCHEDULES		PROGRESS
>Story telling “PRODIGAL SON”   Ø    The therapist will ask the client child what is the attitude of the son towards his father in the story ”Prodigal Son”   Ø  Let’s Reflect >Playing Game “FOLLOW THE LEADER”   Ø  The therapist serves as the leader and gives instructions and consequences to the client child.   Ø  Let’s reflect >TEAHING SONG      “respect” respect your parents respect your life respect other people respect elders respect loved ones    Ø  Refection-the therapist will ask the client child what are the words that he should say in respecting others. >QUESTION and ANSWER                    Portion   Ø  The therapist asks some questions to the child client about his likes and dislikes.   Ø  He lets the child to answer freely the questions and let the client child shares his experience to him.   Ø  Let’s reflect. >BONDING TIME   Ø    SPEND Time With the Family   Ø  The therapist ate her lunch with the family of the client. She let them shares their feeling and experiences with each other.   Ø    GAME   Ø  The client’s family play a game “PINOY HENYO”   Ø  LET’s reflect >READ IT LOUD   Ø  The therapist prepares some words consists of letter” s” for the client child in which the client has difficulty in pronunciation.   Ø  The words are Wednesday, rulers, trashcan, squash and scissors >GAMES   Ø  Treasure hunting-The therapist gives some instructions to the client child and his playmates about the game.   Ø  Simon Says   Ø  Reflection-the therapist asks the client child what he had learned in the game they played. >DRAW  WHAT YOU’VE GOT   Ø  The therapist asks the client child to draw what are the possible pictures to be seen in the family who respect each other.   Ø  Reflection-the client child will explain his work. >ROLE PLAYING(with playmates)   Ø  Showing respect and obedience   Ø  The therapist will ask the client child and his playmates to have a role playing about showing respect and obedience inside the house and outside the house. Ø  Reflection-each of them will share their feelings about what they have experienced in role playing.	Sunday ( Feb.27,2011) >10am-1pm                                                        Monday (Feb.28,2011) >10am-1pm    Wednesday ( March 2, 2011) >10am-1pm Thursday ( March 3, 2011) >10am-1pm Sunday ( March 6, 2011) >10am-1pm     and Monday ( March 7, 2011) >10am-1pm Wednesday ( March 9, 2011) >1Oam-1pm Thursday (March  10,2011) >10am-1pm      Sunday ( March13,2011) >10am-1pm Monday ( March 14,2011) >10am-1pm          and Wednesday (March 16,2011) 10am-1pm	Ø  It is now cleared to R-jay that Danny-the second husband of his mother is his stepfather who also have the right with him because he is the son of his mother.  He finds out that the things that His stepfather do to him is his way of showing that he loves R-jay as his real child.          Ø  R-jay finds out that what he is doing to his father like not responding to his requests and commands are ways of disobeying him.   Ø  R-Jay finds out that not saying “po and opo”are ways of disrespecting adults specially his parents.   Ø  The way how R-jay’s communicate to his stepfather Danny already improves by the help of this activity. R-jay has now the initiative to talk his stepfather without any hesitant.   Ø  R-jay now can able to communicate to his stepfather. He is now responding to his stepfather’s command and request; he also talks his stepfather about some matter.   Ø  In the game they played, the cooperation was being established by the members of the family.   Ø  The client child and his stepfather became close because of the game( they are partner)   Ø  R-jay’s way of pronouncing those words is better than our first day of meeting.   Ø  R-jay now can able to approach his classmates and friends who are teasing him sometimes. He asks them now to play with his toys.   Ø  Now, R-jay knows how to obey his parents especially his stepfather. He can now follow the commands of his stepfather as well as all the members of the family. For example, His stepfather asks him to buy RC in store, he immediately follows him.   Ø  R-jay finds out that he should say “opo and po”because it is part of respect to others especially to his parents. Now, when he is talking to the person who older than him, he always uses “po and opo”in his statement.   Ø  R-jay realized that it is very important to respect and to obey others especially his parents because it leads to a good relationship.   Ø  He also learned that if he respect and obey others, they also respect and obey him.