ve failed to provide culturally sensitive and responsive forms of treatment for these people. More culturally responsive approaches to treatment will require more minority therapists, special training for therapists and investigation of how traditional therapies can be tailored to be more compatible with specific ethnic groups’ cultural heritage (Weiten,1995). In their entirety, both models could be considered reductionistic. Both behavioural therapy and psychoanalysis have an analytical content and attempt to modify underlying causes of behaviour. Therapists make an analysis of the client’s problem, hence the therapist assumes a greater degree of control of the client as opposed to an holistic approach. Freud and Skinner both claimed that people are not masters of their own minds, therefore “free will” is a fallacy. This undermines the ability of human beings to make healthy life choices in spite of faulty learning and destructive unconscious processes, therefore the concept is disempowering. Conclusion: I found this description of a model interesting as it sums up my views of the two theories. A model is a symbolic representation of something we wish to understand. It imperfectly characterises the entity it represents. Models are not right or wrong and they vary in ability to account for aspects of the phenomena they represent. A good model has a good fit with reality. Models are developed to explain behaviour, predict outcomes, organise assessments and interventions, facilitate communication and recognise new facets of the phenomenon of interest. (web address:courses.washington.edu)There is a difference between modalities, relationships and perspectives. The same modalities may be used in several different perspectives. How they are used in the provider/client relationship will depend on that relationship and the life perspectives of the provider and the client. The ...
