Psychodynamic approach is a unique approach like all the other approaches and the therapist will have to evaluate the client’s conditions and wiliness to the specifics of each theory. Moreover the counselor will incorporate it in the therapeutic relationship always thinking that the weakness and strengths of the theory applied will assist the client to achieve its best results. The Psychoanalytical assessment relies on the root of the patient’s request for help and if this type of treatment will be adequate to it. According to Dr.Corey (2009), “Assessment of her need for analytic therapy would include determining whether she wants and needs to understand the unconscious roots of her neurosis” (p.31). Abby’s current symptoms are currently too acute: her depression, migraines, unhappiness, reluctance to accept her husband conditions, he was recently diagnose with cancer, and her unwillingness to live life might lead to a desire to commit suicide. Immediate intervention would be necessary, and then after, with improvement from her conditions and her decision to continue therapy. Abby could be a candidate for the psychodynamic approach and to understand the aim of her conscious and unconscious behaviors.
Abby needs to have a strong support to help her go through her life situation and the way she perceives her life, she always considered herself unhappy. Like Dr. Ford mentioned that it is important in the psychodynamic system to have empathy. Empathy is highly important to work in congruence with a supportive and nurturing relationship while the client achieve a self-discovery, increase his or her self-esteem, defined as reparenting in the psychodynamic approach (R.Ford, 00:02:07, p.1). Besides the client’s desire to continue therapy the counselor has to be very empathic, have to have professional experience in theory being used and skills to assist the client. The psychodynamic permits this interaction with the patient which would be very beneficial for Abby. She...