PSYC 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Process Variable, Therapeutic Relationship, Countertransference
20 Sep 2016
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The three-stage model: taking client down and into understanding themselves more and then up and out into the world, better able to cope with problems, acting as a collaborator and facilitator. Helpers do not have to have magic answers for their client. Rather, provide empathy and use specific helping skills to guide clients through three stages. Exploration insight action: exploration stage. Establish rapport (quality of relationship, bond); therapeutic relationship. Giving clients the opportunity to express their emotions/think about their concerns. Attain new awareness of their role in the problem. See things in a new light, taking appropriate responsibility. Get feedback/make sense of events, problems, etc. May occasionally challenge the client: action stage. Think about changes based off their new understandings. Practice changes and process how they are going. Psychoanalytic theorist input insight leads to action: client may not change automatically after insight. Denial (defense mechanisms), scared of change, resistant.
