Supportive Councelling

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Supportive Councelling

Councelling and psychoanalysis - or depth psychology - has a lot in common. Impulses and ideas of another may be worked on and improvements tend to show up. Many could need a helping hand in dealing with the environment and coping with others. There are many excellent ways of doing it. - Tormod Kinnes

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Supportive Councelling

Changing one's motivations could end up in conflicts, depending on others in the conglomerate or great network of living and functioning, where many evidently fit in to their harm, as alarming stress research shows. Good counselling could give some help in many cases of that sort. Learning to put names on emotions and problems could help, and so could the learning of fit responses, for example through assertiveness training.

One may fit in to one's good or harm; in the latter case counselling might give some help

EXAMINATION of the following characteristics indicate that they are interrelated to some degree. The helping relationship:

Is meaningful.
Integrity of person is present.
Is marked by mutual consent and enough sensitivity (Rogers and also others). [8]
The individual to be helped needs information or treatment.
Depth of involvement may vary. [17]
"Ad hoc" is applicable to the counseling conversation. [17]
Conducted councelling is confidential. [19]
Is conducted through articulate communication and interaction, while eliminating (reducing) competing responses.
Structure is evident.
There is collaborative effort and in part an exchange of ideas. [6-8, 17]
The helping person is approachable and secure as a person. [6-8]
The focus may be study of the total personality, and deviations should be studied too. [16]

The demand for a helping relationship in our society has resulted in the establishment of several types of professionals. Boundaries, focus, goals, and significance of their service are transitory, uncertain, and often the subject of dispute. [15]

Listening is present in councelling, but not all councelling is listening. And there is an element of empathic understanding in some cases (Einfühlung). [19, 105-6] ¤
The title "counsellor" is in some cases self-conferred, and attempts to differentiate psychotherapy and counseling have not had much success. [14, 16]

A change of motivations could end conflicts or end up in conflicts, depending on others of the environment. Thus, smartness is not to be dispensed with.

THE EFFECT of councelling is improvement or change in client behaviour. [19]
To a much similar or identical end psychoanalysts aims at treating neuroses and a variety of other disorders - Psychoanalysis is based on concepts of unconscious motivation, conflict, and symbolism. Its boundaries are not sharply defined. [11]

Length of treatment may vary — A great aim is to deal more effectively — Councelling facilitates meaningful understanding of self and/or environment and results in clarified conduct. — One is to improve social and personal functioning, or standing. [17, 18, 20, 9] ¤

Accommodating oneself all passively is hardly the best accommodation to be found. Having many options may be good, and a firm resolve. But it depends on such as one's circumstances.

THE PREFERRED setting in a helping profession would quite naturally be one's own clinic. However, through infancy, childhood, maturity, and senility man accommodates himself in some manner to the tasks, demands, and realities expected of him by others as well as by himself. [13, 4]

One has the opportunity to achieve role by experimentation, routine work, labels, interaction with the public, discussion, and by significant work work. And there are differences in approaches. They involve such as:

Ambiguity of therapeutic role;
The amount of therapist warmth;
The emphasis on recall of the past versus dealing with present problems;
The degree of activity of passivity of the therapist;
The emphasis on client affect versus cognition. [All, cf. 15, 13] ¤

By a helping relationship Carl Rogers understands "a relationship in which at least one of the parties has the intent of promoting the growth, development, maturity, improved functioning, improved coping with life of the other." Other aims are more appreciation of and/or more functional use of the latent inner resources of the individual. [5] ¤¤
Accordingly, one may deal with milder forms of emotional stress, including anxiety, mild psychosomatic forms, phobias, tics, motor and sensory manifestations. [11]

Summary

One may fit in to one's good or harm; in the latter case counselling might give some help.
A change of motivations could end conflicts or end up in conflicts, depending on others of the environment. Thus, smartness is not to be dispensed with.
Accommodating oneself all passively is hardly the best accommodation to be found. Having many options may be good, and a firm resolve. But it depends on such as one's circumstances.

One should seek to fit in to one's good first and foremost, and in such cases councelling is not so often desperately needed. And in dealing with conflicts, one should enhance one's winning chances. There are many ways of doing it. A firm resolve helps too.

"Always keep the audience amused"

THERE was constant friction between the British novelist Mrs. Frances Trollope (1780-1863) and the local vicar, a well-known evangelical called J. W. Cunningham. Objecting to Mrs. Trollope's allowing her daughters to act charades at parties, he asked whether she considered play-acting a suitable amusement for young ladies.
"Why not?" said Mrs. Trollope. "Mrs. Cunningham has evening parties at which we are always glad to hear your daughters play the piano."
"Yes," said the vicar, "but they always keep their backs to the audience."

Literature
Ccpi: Rogers, Carl. Client-Centered Therapy: Its Current Practice, Implications, and Theory. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1951.
Clu: Johnston, William, ed. The Cloud of Unknowing and the Book of Privy Councelling. New ed. New York: Doubleday, 1973.
Fuf: Shertzer, Bruce, and Shelley Stone. Fundamentals of Counceling. 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton, 1974.
Mut: May, Rollo. The Art of Counceling. Nashville: Abingdon, 1967.
Pary: Nilsen, E. Pastoralrådgivning. Oslo: Luther, 1974.
Pocn: Patton, Michael, and Naomi Meara. Psychoanalytic Counceling. Chichester: Wiley, 1992.
Tcrr: Kirschenbaum, Howard, and Valerie Henderson, eds. The Carl Rogers Reader. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989.
Ura: Tyler, L. The Work of the Councelor. 3rd ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1969.
Åq: Stefflre, Buford, and W. Grant. Theories of Counceling. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972.

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