About the book This book deals with several counselling processes and vivid illustration of this processes. It also gives an insight of one’s personality. How a problem arises in one’s mind, how this small problem proliferates into the thinking process and creates several travails in the mind of counsellee. This book is a counselling guide to the barefoot counsellor.
Contents Proposition
one Proposition two Proposition three Proposition four Proposition five Proposition six Self disclosure The Facilitative dimension The action-oriented dimension Dimension of counselling
Proposition one
Two people, the counsellor and the counsellee.
An intensely relationship.
Person to person relationship, not as a scientist and an object of study.
personal
and
subjective
Proposition two The
counsellee is in a state of incongruence. He is anxious or prone to anxiety, confused. Not able to accept himself or others, or his present situation The state of incongruence
REAL ME
POSSIBLE ME
IDEAL ME
Proposition three The
counsellor is in a state of relative congruence. He can accept himself better. He is in a better control of his feelings whether they are good or bad. He can communicate them to others IF and WHEN appropriate.
Proposition four
The
counsellor experiences EMPATHIC UNDERSTANDING of the counsellee. He lets himself go in understanding the others. He sees the world as if he were the counsellee. He is good in listening and responding.
Proposition five Unconditional
positive regard counsellor to the counsellee.
He
from
the
“prizes” the counsellee as a person of self worth, a person of value irrespective of his conditions, behavior or his feelings.
Proposition six
Providing optimal therapy that enable the client to explore the strange, unknown and dangerous feelings in himself.
The result is the movement of the counsellee in positive directions i.e moving toward self-actualization, growing toward socialization.
Proposition six The
more the individual is understood and accepted, the more he tends to drop the false fronts with which he has been meeting life.
He
will be confident enough to take charge of his won life and not be dependent on others and their expectations.
Self disclosure “Will
the real ME please stand up?” There is a conflict between our ideas and reality. The sharper the conflict, the more vehement the excuse; “he protests too much.” As we cannot be happy with our self, we shall remain uneasy with our self and therefore with others
The facilitative dimension
According to Carkhuff- it is the nondirective, personalized approach.
The counsellor provides a relationship that is characterised by 1.responsiveness or a listening attitude; 2.warmth,acceptance and respect; and 3.feminine “sensitiveness”
The action-oriented dimension Assertiveness
or taking the initiative in the
interview; Offering directions when called for; and Masculine “frankness”. Immediacy and concreteness. The art of confrontation.
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