The self as an instrument in the change Process
- Intimidating idea?
- Your personality is a principle tool in the helping process
- The communication process is going on concurrently with the activity
- Focus on developing interpersonal skills
- Which ones? What are they?
Sample of Traits from Chapter:
- self awareness
- cultural awareness congruence
- altruism
- honesty
- ethical integrity
- responsibility
- empathy
- warmth and caring
- conceptualization
- forsight
- commitment to growth
- motivation of helper
- positive regard and respect
- openness
- concreteness and specificity
- communication competence
- genuineness
- client empowerment
- healing
- awareness
- persuasion
- attitudes
- self disclosure
- self disciple
- listening
- stewardship
Which do you pick to work on?
- I follow the Carl Rogers school of thought
- It boils down to three things:
- empathy
- genuineness
- respect
- When these are present, it allows us to confront therapeutically and facilitate growth change. Without these, all other tools are useless
Is that it?
- In Roger's paper "The necessary and sufficient conditions of Therapeutic personality change" he lists six conditions
- two persons are in psychological contact
- the first, whom we shall term the client, is in a state of incongruence, being vulnerable
- The second person, whom we shall term therapist is congruent and integrated in the relationship
- The therapist experiences unconditional positive regard for the client
- the therapist experiences an empathetic understanding of the client's internal frame of reference and endeavors to communicate this experience to the client
- The communication to the client of the therapist's empathetic understanding and unconditional positive regard a minimal degree achieved
Listening, reflecting and understanding
- level 1 response
- verbal and behavioral responses are irrelevant, subtract in affect and content and do not attend to the other's expressions. Responses include advice giving, arguing, criticizing, changing the subject and asking questions that shift the focus away from the client's expressions
- Level 1.5 response
- counselor response qualify as negligibly accurate and any of the client's feelings that are not distinctly defined tend to be ignored. Responses may mislead or block off the client. The client does not go to a deeper level of self exploration
- Level 2 response:
- the counselor responds to at least part of the surface feelings of the other person, but the response subtracts affect or distorts the meaning. Awareness of the client's feelings is only partially communicated. The counselor may respond to his own conceptualizations rather than to what the client expressed.
- Level 2.5 response:
- The counselor wants to understand and makes the effort, but his responses subtract slightly from the level of feelings other expresses. Responses that merely parrot expressions. Responses that merely parrot expression of the other person in the same words belong to this level.
- Level 3 response:
- Responses communicate understanding at the level of feeling the client expresses. The counselor's expressions are essentially interchangeable, or reciprocal, in affect with the surface, explicit expression of the individual. They accurately reflect his or her state of being. Responses do not add or subtract from the feelings and tone expressed.
- Level 3.5 response
- The counselor's responses reflect not only feelings but the reasons for the feelings that the other person expresses-in other words, the counselor's responses compliment feelings with content.
- Level 4 response
- The counselor's responses accurately identify implicit, underlying feelings somewhat beyond the expressions of the client and compliment feelings with content that adds deeper meaning.
- Level 5 response:
- The counselor's responses significantly add to the affect and meaning expressed by the client. Additionally, the counselor's responses accurately communicate the affect, meaning and intensity of the other person's deeper feelings by word, voice and intensity of expression.
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