POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES

MY PERSONAL THEORY OF COUNSELING

Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School

Polytechnic University of the Philippines
Sta. Mesa, Manila

In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements in Theories and Techniques in Counseling

Master in Psychology (Clinical Psychology)

Submitted by

Karen Gail P. Comia

(MP-CP)

Submitted to

Dr. Rosenda De Gracia

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MY PERSONAL THEORY OF COUNSELING

I. Theory of Personality
View of Human Nature

Within the goodness of a person lies a behavior or a trait that one does not
notice. Man is consists of both the good and the evil personality. We tend to see our life
like a movie in which we are the protagonist and the person we hate or we don’t like are
the antagonists of the story. As we see ourselves being condemned by the antagonist in
our story like how the protagonist of the story suffers in a movie but we do not notice
when we have been doing antagonistic activities when we condemned or make fun of
other people’s misfortune around us.

Dynamics
There are two persona that lives within the person: the Good Persona and the
Bad Persona.

Good Persona – This is the persona the person is more aware of. The Good persona
comprises of the good personalities or behavior of a person can easily observe and
showed to the people around. These behaviors are the behaviors accepted of the
person.

Bad Persona – The persona which most person are not familiar or aware of. It consists
of behaviors and traits that one deemed as negative or bad to the people around but
one does not notice or one disregards that s/he has it. This persona could easily
retrieve or showed up specially on occasion which the person thinks are unfavorable to
him or her but the problem is the person is not aware of it.
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II. Counseling Approach
Evil Persona Acceptance

A person cannot be whole s/he could not accept ones bad or evil persona within.
This counseling approach tries to help client to find, acknowledge and accept ones evil
persona.

Find – In this step, the client evaluates and tries to understand more about his or
herself. The person overlooks the traits that s/he knows and tries to dig inside oneself to
find the behaviors and traits they cannot accept.

Acknowledge – In this step the person learns to acknowledge ones negative traits.
This step could turn into a critical stage since acknowledging those traits could be hard.
If the client acknowledges his/her negative traits then the approach will continue to the
next step, if the client do not accept his/her negative traits then the approach will stop or
be aborted.

Acceptance – The last step in the approach. In this step, the client tries to accept that
this negative persona could not be eliminate within oneself but one should learn how
minimize the use of ones negative persona.