Presented by:
Sheneice Rose
Marseilla Jardine
Rasheedah Keshwah
Goal of Preventive Counselling:
“Love All,
Serve All.
Help Ever,
Hurt Never”.
As Kessler and Albee have noted, “everything aimed at
improving the human condition, at making life more fulfilling
and meaningful, may be part of primary prevention of mental
or emotional disturbance. As an example, selective prevention
measures are agreed to be appropriate when an individual is a
member of a subgroup of the population whose risk of
becoming ill is above average. Counselling towards teenagers to
build self-esteem is an example of selective prevention.
Effective strategies to reduce bullying such as school-based
anti-bullying programs have also proved effective in reducing
subsequent aggression or internalizing problems in adolescents.
Roles Of Preventive Counselling
To Build:
• Self-awareness
• Future career choices and,
• Career preparation,
• Drug awareness,
• Suicide,
• Retirement Options, and
• Communication Skills,
• Future anxiety
• Sex education-
sexuality and sexual relationship,
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Why use Cognitive Therapy?
Cognitive Therapy was chosen to deal with our
client John Doe because it is a form of
psychological treatment that has been
demonstrated to be effective for a range of
social problems. These problems include
suicide, depression, anxiety disorders, alcohol
and drug use problems, marital problems,
eating disorders, and severe mental illness.
This approach teaches patients like John Doe
the skills to use alternative ways of thinking and
behaving during episodes of suicidal crises and
assists them in building a network of mental
health services and social supports to prevent
future suicide attempts. It is designed to be
provided by individual therapists on a one-to-
one basis.
Cognitions are thoughts, beliefs and
internal images that people have about
events in their lives.
Cognitive Therapy
• What is Cognitive Therapy?
• A type of therapy that focuses on mental
processes and their influences on mental
health and behavior. A common premise of all
cognitive approaches is that how people think
largely determines how they feel and behave.
Cognitive Therapy
Indications for Cognitive Therapy
• Depression
Cognitive Therapy
Theories
Two theories that have a cognitive base, Rational Emotive
Behavioral Therapy (REBT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
(CBT) will be used when dealing with Preventive Counselling.
These theories are Cognitive- Behavioral in nature because they
emphasize both cognitions and behaviors. They are humanistic
as well.
Techniques Used in Preventive Counselling
Behavioral Therapy in children
Anti-Bulling Programs
Self esteem Workshops
Teenage pregnancy awareness programs
Skills used in Preventive Counselling
Problem Solving Skills
Helping client to identify what the problem is and the causes
Getting solutions
Acting on the best one
Stress Tolerance Skills
Helping client to identify what emotion is felt and not necessary
acting on it
Emotional Regulation Skills
Informing a client that it’s ok if he or she experience an emotion
without having to understand why they feel that way
