Direct Decision Therapy
Direct Decision Therapy
Direct Decision Therapy
Decision Therapy
Harold Greenwald
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From The Psychotherapy Guidebook edited by Richie Herink and Paul R. Herink
DEFINITION
HISTORY
TECHNIQUE
APPLICATIONS
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Direct Decision Therapy
Harold Greenwald
DEFINITION
HISTORY
Decision Therapy. I have given courses in this therapy not only in the United
States but also in other parts of the world; it made considerable headway in
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throughout the United States and has shown interesting growth in the brief
period that it has been in existence.
TECHNIQUE
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4. The question is then asked, “What is the context within which this
decision was originally made?” Direct Decision therapists
believe that all decisions, when first made, had validity to the
person making them; even though they may no longer be
functional, they were once very important to the psychic
economy of the individual.
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therapist may help him develop, through practice and
homework, a series of aids, and self-administered rewards in
carrying through this new decision. It is also made clear that
many of these decisions have to be made over and over
again. If, for example, the individual who makes a decision to
lose weight does not put it into practice, it is considered only
a wish. It becomes a decision only when it is put into
practice, and the client is helped to see that the decision
must be made over and over again every time the individual
sits down to eat. He also is helped to see that just because he
fails once in not carrying out this decision to limit his weight,
it does not mean that he has to give up the entire procedure
of dieting; he can return and try to carry out the decision in
the future.
APPLICATIONS
examined. Families often have decided, for example, that one member of the
family is the disturbed one. The family is helped to understand the payoffs for
this kind of decision — what it arose from and what alternative decisions may
be made by the family as a whole. The practice of making family decisions has
addition to the field of therapy, the approach has also found acceptance in
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educational organizations. I am invited to speak to educational organizations
major problem many young people have is that they haven’t made the
decision to learn — or they have made the decision not to learn. Other
applications are to industry, because industrial management and government
management.
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