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Experience Focused Counselling -

History of Experience Focused Counseling

 * The term Experience Focused Counseling originated from Traditional talk therapy, which focuses on discussing the experiences of the individual to examine the cause of their symptoms. This type of therapy is most common in trauma survivors, and, unlike Solution-Focused Brief Therapy which focuses on addressing the symptom, not the cause or history of the issue; Experience Focused Counseling is used or referred to in the long-term treatment of trauma and mental health conditions and is focused on the traumatic experiences and symptoms of the person receiving the treatment to work through them and slowly move towards recovery.
 * Experience Focused Counseling is now a new sub-type of counseling which has become the foundation of The Peer Movement and is often used in Peer Support services. One such service provider, and one of the first mainstream service providers to be entirely based on peer support services is The International Hearing Voices network (Intervoice) which focuses on the experience of the individual to normalize the phenomena and focus on learning coping techniques to live with their voices. There are many types of providers of Experience Focused Counseling within the mental healthcare and advocacy fields which can be found in the Providers of Experience Focused Counseling section below.



2) Providers of Experience Focused Counseling

 * There are many agencies which have also began or changed to provide peer supportive services such as The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), The National Peer support Network, The National Peer Helpers Association, SAMHSA, National Peer Review Committee  and numerous independent service providers and community mental healthcare providers. Now, each state in the united states of America have incorporated this type of Experience Focused Counseling into their mental healthcare practices. For more information on Peer services please see the Peer support article.
 * Counselors, mentors, Psychologists, Psychiatrists and Social Workers all provide different levels of experience focused counseling depending on the type of therapy they choose to practice, the training they have received and their scope of practice. Many use the Traditional Talk Therapy methods which were the original foundation of the experienced focused counseling movement. Other Providers may use alternative therapies which can incorporate experience focused counseling; such as Art, Nature Music therapies, Group Therapy and, of course, Peer Support

How experience-focused counseling is preformed
Depending on the symptoms, histories and trauma's of the individual receiving treatment the methods of treatment may vary, as the experience focused counseling and Peer support movement focuses on the worldview of the individuals. Typically, Experience Focused Counseling is preformed by discussing the symptoms of the individual and their emotional and physical responses to trauma and/or mental illness by examining the individuals' current and past experiences to locate the cause(s) of their symptoms thereby focusing on the experience of the individual as cause for the illness, not on the illness itself. By focusing on the experience of the individual rather than the illness the provider can begin to assist their client in finding the rout-cause of the trauma and onset of the symptoms causing the distress.

Due to the belief's of the providers of experience focused counseling mentioned about, there are various therapeutic techniques that are currently being used to assist the client in gaining insight and working through symptoms and emotional responses to their individual experiences.

Some of these treatments may include:

Standard talk therapies, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, EMDR ,C ognitive processing therapy, Art therapy, Nature Therapy, Music Therapy and Peer support.

Who utilizes experience-focused counseling
Of the numerous mental illnesses which are currently identified in the DSM V (5) the most common conditions which typically benefit from experience focused counseling include:


 * 1) Schizophrenia
 * 2) Dissociative identity disorder
 * 3) Borderline personality disorder
 * 4) Posttraumatic stress disorder
 * 5) Eating disorder
 * 6) Anxiety disorder

While many individuals with other forms of mental illnesses often benefit from a combination of therapies including experience focused counseling, the illnesses above are the primary recipients of experience focused counseling, however, it is of note that Peer support is provided to every individual seeking support regardless of diagnosis, further proving that experience focused counseling is becoming a major form of therapy.

Due to the fact that each person is unique in their trauma's and experiences people with the above diagnosis's can and often do pursue other therapeutic interventions and treatments as well; likewise, people with other forms of mental illness or physical health conditions can take advantage of experience focused counseling, particularly through the avenue of Peer support and Mentorship or by requesting the service when speaking to their mental healthcare provider.



Training and Accreditations
Counselors, Mentors, Psychologists, Psychiatrists and Social Workers all provide different levels of experience focused counseling depending on the type of therapy they choose to practice, the training they have received and their scope of practice.

As multiple types of therapists have the ability to preform this type of counseling the main providers of this technique have been listed below:

Board certified Art therapists (ATR)

Peer Wellness Specialists (PWS)

Peer Support Specialists (PSS)

Psychotherapy

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

Brain spotting (BSP)

REFERENCES GO HERE
DSM 5 for information on different kinds of mental health conditions which fall into the category of treatment; those illnesses which have auditory hallucinations.

https://dsm.psychiatryonline.org/doi/book/10.1176/appi.books.9780890425596

ICGP

https://www.icgp.ie/go/library/catalogue/item/F70DD4C1-8E09-42CC-87428F0A18670101

Intervoice

http://www.intervoiceonline.org/

National Institute mental health

https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/psychotherapies/index.shtml

Positive psychology program

https://positivepsychologyprogram.com/trauma-focused-cognitive-behavioral-therapy/

American addiction Centers

https://americanaddictioncenters.org/seeking-safety-other-trauma-focused-therapies/

US Dept. veterans

https://www.ptsd.va.gov/public/treatment/therapy-med/treatment-ptsd.asp

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Cognitive behavioral therapy

Peer support

EMDR institute

http://www.emdr.com/what-is-emdr/

Cognitive Processing Therapy

https://www.ptsd.va.gov/public/treatment/therapy-med/cognitive_processing_therapy.asp

EFC

https://alliance-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=TN_medline23713997&context=PC&vid=CCC&lang=en_US&adaptor=primo_central_multiple_fe&tab=everything&query=any,contains,experience%20focused%20counseling&mode=Basic

Emotion focused

http://go.galegroup.com.ccclibrary.idm.oclc.org/ps/retrieve.do?tabID=T002&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchResultsType=SingleTab&searchType=BasicSearchForm&currentPosition=2&docId=GALE%7CA397740269&docType=Report&sort=Relevance&contentSegment=&prodId=AONE&contentSet=GALE%7CA397740269&searchId=R2&userGroupName=clackamasccl&inPS=true

Emotion focused counseling

https://alliance-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?vid=CCC&tab=everything&docid=CP71252925700001451&lang=en_US&context=L&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&query=any,contains,experience%20focused%20counseling&sortby=rank&mode=Basic&offset=20

Wikipedia on Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia

Wikipedia on DID

Dissociative identity disorder

Wikipedia on Borderline personality disorder

Borderline personality disorder

Wikipedia on PTSD

Posttraumatic stress disorder

Psychological and Pharmacological Treatments for Adults With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK137702/

From Nostalgia to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Mass Society Theory of Psychological Reactions to Combat

http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/727/from-nostalgia-to-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-a-mass-society-theory-of-psychological-reactions-to-combat

US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health- BPD

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3876885/

Dissociative disorders unclear?

http://www.mdedge.com/sites/default/files/0705cp_article3.pdf

Journal of trauma and dissociation

http://www.isst-d.org/downloads/GUIDELINES_REVISED2011.pdf

Longitudinal Studies of Cognition in First Episode Psychosis: A Systematic Review of the Literature

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3109/00048674.2010.541418

Computational neuropsychiatry – schizophrenia as a cognitive brain network disorder

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2014.00030/full

Eating disorder

Anxiety disorder

American psychiatric association

https://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/pn.41.13.0030

?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3841358/

Art Therapists

http://www.atcb.org/

PWS

https://www.oregon.gov/oha/OEI/Pages/THW%20Peer-Wellness-Specialist-(PWS).aspx

Mental health America

http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/center-peer-support

Social psychology

http://www.socialpsychology.org/endorsements/apadiv1.htm

EMDR

http://www.emdr.com/what-is-emdr/

Brainspotting

https://brainspotting.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma0Vu9BflhI

National Peer support network

http://peersforprogress.org/npscln/

SAMHSA

https://www.samhsa.gov/

Psych today- Talk therapy

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-couch/201011/does-talk-therapy-really-work

Psychotherapy

Nature therapy

http://nature-therapy.us/index.html

American Music Therapy association

https://www.musictherapy.org/

Group psychotherapy

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Rational behavior therapy- More information on what the therapy is about, what it entails, how it is provided, the skills one needs to provide it, the people who will most likely benefit from the treatment, the outcome/short and long-term and its relationship to Rational Emotive Therapy (branch off of it, specific to one cause, or different name for same disorder?)

Therapeutic support staff- Unlikely to work on; Based on one group of people's jobs in specific settings.

Supportive psychotherapy - Similar to those above; more information, DSM(?), who receives treatment, continue to collect data for their 'data' section which has nothing imputed currently.

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