VIEW OF HUMAN NATURE
HYT believes that an individual may reacts differently in a particular situation. The reaction of a person is affected by his past experiences. So the person is either be good or bad depending on what he had experienced especially by interacting to his environment (people who surround the a person and a condition during that time).
This theory is opposite to psychoanalytic theory that believes people tend to react in a situation unconsciously because of their past experiences.
HYT argued that people react unconsciously in a particular situation. Instead, people are conscious about on how they do things out.
For instance, a man who had once rejects/neglects by a woman on his request might afraid to request again because he was still conscious about his past that he had been neglected/rejected.
As HYT stated in the first part of the paragraph, people either be good or bad depending to their past experiences. Good past can produce good people and bad one might produce person with maladaptive behavior. Nevertheless, there are circumstances that person with bad experiences somehow acts positively, in this case, person might realize that he had bad experiences so he must do good thing to avoid repetition of he’s bad experiences.
It only means to say that it still depends on the person on how he/she will perceives and makes decisions in as situation consciously depending on his/her past.
Another factor for the maladaptive behavior of the child is the influence of media today, it might contains or display maladaptive behavior that a client might imitates.
DEVELOPMENT OF MALADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR
HYT stressed that people who experienced a lot of bad experiences, and once affected by maladaptive behavior such as bullying or aggressive are prone to act maladaptive behavior also in the future. A person who had been victims of aggression might had reacts the same maladaptive behavior, mostly if the person took it as normal behavior.
People with negative experiences are different in the extent of maladaptive behavior. A person with mild negative past experiences may reacts mildly or intensively in the future.
HYT believes that every experiences of a person will contribute to his total picture of personality. So looking in the past of the client may gives the therapy to better understands the problem of client.
FUNCTION OF THE THERAPY
The role of the therapist here is to become passive listener to the history of client. Therapist should not bias in understanding the past experiences of the client. Therapist also perform the task of being motivator, he should convince the client in following the procedure given by the therapist in solving the problem.
Since misbehavior is affected mostly by the unfavorable environment of the client, therapist should make an environment which is free from misbehaviors.
GOAL OF THE THERAPIST
Therapist does not intend to have immediate resolution to the problem of client. Instead at least to diminish the maladaptive behavior of the client little by little as therapeutic process undertakes.
Therapist needs also to avoid client from unfavorable environment that might influenced the client. Therapist must create favorable environment for the client which is free from maladaptive behaviors. The therapist also needs to determine the real experiences of the client through non bias observation and therapist needs to seek the help of significant people to the client such as; families, teachers and classmates. Another tasks is to encourage the people around the child to display adaptive behavior for the client to imitate and replaced his maladaptive behavior.
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