HOW TO MAP YOUR WAY TO A THERAPY
The remainder of this chapter presents a three-step process for choosing an approach to therapy that is potentially best-suited to your personal needs and personality.
In the first step, you become familiar with the main kinds of goals and problems that motivate people to enter therapy. You check those that seem to be most relevant to you and then try to confirm the accuracy of your choices. This will point you in the direction of one or more promising therapies.
In the second step, you consider a list of the main personality traits that are relevant to your choice of therapy. Again, you check those that seem most to apply to you and then confirm your self-understanding. Step 2 will also direct you to one or more therapies.
In the third step, you use your results from Step 1 and Step 2 to select an approach to therapy that most closely matches your needs, interests, and personality.
Let's begin.
STEP 1. DIAGNOSING YOUR PROBLEMS AND SETTING YOUR
GOALS: IDENTIFYING APPROPRIATE THERAPIES
a. Read through Table 1 (pages 67-69).
b. Check the goals or problems most applicable to you. If you are in doubt, refer to the numbered short descriptions in the section "Matching Your Goals and Problems with Most Promising Therapies" following Table 1.
c. Choose one or two goals or problems that are the most important to you.