A minister with only a client - centered string on his counseling fiddle often feels guilty or blocked
in counseling situations requiring the constructive exercise of authority, functioning as a teacher - counselor, or serving a parishioner emotionally in a feeding role.
Through vignettes illustrating
common counseling situations, Nealy shares experiences with parents and teens going through the coming - out process and provides an enormous amount of guidance for those facing gender questions for themselves or family and friends.
Phobias about inadequacy, not having enough milk, and starving their babies are all issues that can find resolution
in counseling situations.
Much attention is being given to this aspect of
the counseling situation.
Any first - year psychology student will tell you that just about the worst thing you can do in
a counseling situation is respond to a person's vulnerability by dismissing and invalidating her experience.
Against the background of such an anthropology, values and norms suddenly become relevant again to
the counseling situation.
Even if the pastoral counselor has some ethical convictions that touch on the issues that come up in counseling, the counselor is most likely to «bracket» these convictions and conceal them as long as he is in
the counseling situation.
In
the counseling situation it is good to have the partners score the test for themselves and then for each other in order to see how their own perceptions of themselves differ from those of their partner.
Others are more suitable for
the counseling situation.
But, she says, «I wasn't sure I would be comfortable in a one - to - one
counseling situation or could have the skills required.»
Sometimes one partner is used to doing all the talking, and when they get into
a counseling situation they may be surprised to hear their spouse share deep feelings they may have never felt free to share before.
Whilst the activities are designed primarily for use in classroom or small - group counselling sessions, with minor adaptation, they can also be used in one - to - one
counselling situations.
The MFT informs prospective clients about any aspects of
the counseling situation which might affect the client's decision to enter the relationship, such as the recording of an interview, use of interview material for training purposes, or observation of the interview by other persons.