BCA Holistic is a new mental health therapy based on brain development, functioning and neurology to address a person’s Behaviors, Cognitions, Affect [BCA] and relationships with shifting, delineated therapeutic roles and interventions based on a client’s mental health needs.
BCA Holistic is significantly different than current mental health approaches in two key aspects – emotions and process
First, it defines emotions as power-based and not learning-based. This paradigm shift, away from emotional intelligence and towards emotional power, is related to brain neurology that the amygdala is our emotional center and the cortex is our intellectual center. The impact of this simple, yet significant shift, is that all emotions are okay and to be accepted and validated. That our mental health dysfunction does not lie with emotions, but rather how, where, when and why emotions are generated, experienced and managed. However, while having emotions is not dysfunctional, emotions can be uncomfortable, painful, stressful, overwhelming and blow us up.
Second, BCA Holistic incorporates Edward Deming’s concepts of quality service delivery to 1) provide a consistent therapeutic approach; 2) evaluate BCA specific service needs; 3) implement interventions based on identified needs; and 4) obtain and incorporate a transparent whole process feedback in an ongoing manner. This process approach incorporates specific focus and interventions to manage emotional power, behavioral choices and cognitive habits, processes and distortions. It extensively evaluates changes that are integrated and will generalize and are stable and durable across time and environments.