Person-guided behaviour therapy - An approach for Clinical and Personality Psychology

Authors

  • Heinrich Berbalk

Abstract

The inalienable requirements of every psychological description and change are often overlooked by those working within the framework of cognitive behavioural and personality psychological approaches. What has always been a given in depth psychology and humanistic interventions, remains the step-child in cognitive behavioural and pharmacological therapy: (1) the appropriate consideration of the whole person, (2) the way the person incorporates the encountered life conditions into her/his inner world, (3) the knowledge of the actual environmental conditions.

The excessive desire for classifying disturbances, an exaggerated belief in disturbance-specific manual-based therapies and the „marriage“ between disturbance classification and pharmacological therapy is partly responsible for this.

Berbalk’s person-guided behaviour therapy meets this deficiency with a unique person model (BIG and BIU) for description and change. In this model the aspects of the person are conceptualized as bipolar and competing. Every person has their own developmental history and thereby a unique structure and dynamic. Berbalk’s Inner Globe is a ball-like model of the person with the dimensions basis, love and maturity. Berbalk’s Inner Universe covers the inner world of the person.

A method for description and change the puppet inventory for person-guided change has been created.

Disturbances as well as beneficial developments are phenomena of the person, their life space and reality.

Keywords: Person-guided behaviour therapy, dimensions of aspects of a person, behaviour patterns with an aspect-specific logic to the solution process, inner globe of a person, inner universe of a person; real life conditions.

Author Biography

Heinrich Berbalk

Diplom-Psychologe Dr. phil. Heinrich Berbalk, Studium u. a. an der Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main, Universitätsprofessor für Psychologie an der Universität Hamburg. Akademische Lehre seit 40 Jahren in Kiel, Trier und Hamburg. Eigene Psychotherapeutische Praxis und Leitung des Instituts für Person-geleitete Veränderung in Eckernförde, Schleswig-Hostein. Stationssupervision am Zentrum für Integrative Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie der Universität Kiel in der Erwachsenen- und der Kinder- und Jugendlichen-Psychiatrie und -Psychotherapie.

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Published

2015-04-29

How to Cite

Berbalk, H. (2015). Person-guided behaviour therapy - An approach for Clinical and Personality Psychology. Psychotherapie-Wissenschaft, 4(2), 50–66. Retrieved from https://psychotherapie-wissenschaft.info/article/view/144

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Vol. 4 No. 2 (2014): Freie Themen

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