Approaches to Human Functioning: Summary of Premise, Context and Solution of Different Approaches

Introduction

The below table summarizes how different fields approach human functioning in a broader sense, and how the Rock Steady resilience program relates to them. The goal is clarification of premise, purpose, toolkit, main benefits and risks.

Comparison Table

Psychiatry versus psychology versus spirituality versus coaching versus Rock Steady resilience program

	Psychiatry	Psychology	Spirituality	Coaching / Consulting	Rock Steady Resilience Program
Premise	The world is a wonderful place, people are all here to help you. If you have issues, your brain must be broken.	The world is a tough place, people can be abusive at times. If you have issues, you’ve got too much maltreatment.	The world might be an illusion altogether; people can be both good and evil. If you have issues, you have written the wrong story about it for yourself.	The world is a complex place, people need a lot of things from us. If you have issues, you didn’t know how to allocate your resources.	The world is a tough place, people can be blind to their actions. If you have issues, you spent too much time in misfitting environments.
Core solution	Fixing your brain.	Fixing your thinking and emotional patterns to cope better with the maltreatment.	Fixing your mindset to see the world differently.	Fixing your schedule and priorities.	Fixing your way of peopling to move out of misfitting environments.
Most common method	Prescription drugs.	Therapy.	Motivational events, self-medication.	Per session support or short term programs.	Short term programs.
Referral path	The community is reaching out to institutions for help in managing the person.	The person themselves asks for help to handle life.	The person themselves looks for ways to change their look on the world.	The person themselves or supervisors look for tools to improve outcome.	The person themselves looks for tools to change their carrier or life trajectory.
Source of power	Social, legal (with the right of coercion).	Individual.	Individual.	Individual or organizational.	Individual.
Lenght	From weeks to decades.	From months to years.	From months to decades.	From days to months.	2-3 months.
Reported issues	Brain deterioration by drugs, verbal, physical abuse by staff, danger of psychotic episodes from cohabitants, years of social marginalization by stigma.	Retraumatization, verbal abuse, social embarrassment.	Radicalization, overlooking needs or basic necessities, financial exploitation.	Misdirecting efforts, financial exploitation, verbal abuse.	Fatigue.
Reported benefits	Provides a legal framework for social benefits, including sick leave and allowances, provides keywords to look for solutions, communities to look for shared experience.	Provides private space for decompression and guidance for self-development goals.	Provides emotional relief, balances sense of responsibility, offers community with useful connections.	Provides better organizational skills, an overview of personal resources, actionable plans for the future.	Provides tools to manage social interactions even in high-pressure situations and realize ambitions.
Typical client	Internalizing tendencies with self-definition that often incorporates sickness language.	Internalizing tendencies with experiences center on stagnation, discomfort, confusion.	In the early phases of self-exploration, or internalizing tendencies with feelings around smallness, powerlessness.	In the early phases of self-exploration, but with a purpose in mind and a sense of capability.	Externalizing tendencies with a strong sense of capability and occasional confrontation with the environment.