Use your self!
What is required of you to end a therapeutic relationship?
Help prepare the patient to deal with the natural losses & terminations that await him.
Based on our fundamental need to belong, we are social beings that have the inner drive seek, form, maintain and protect social relationships
Social relationship
Coaches the pt, supports
Coach
The concept of modulating your actions, reactions, body language, use of body, etc. to facilitate the desired response from your client.
Therapeutic use of self
The ability to understand how the other person feels.
Empathy
Therapeutic use of self is used through...
therapeutic communication.
What relationship requires developing and maintaining a good relationship with the patient.
Therapeutic Relationship
Analyzes pt needs, what he already knows and ability to learn
Teacher/ instructor
A type of dependency: excessive dependency, entangled, undermines the therapeutic relationship.
Detrimental
Alertness to the patient’s needs and awareness of your effect on him and attune to pt. body language
Sensitivity
When developing a relationship with a new patient....
make the first contact brief.
This relationship is present at work, school, In our communities and other social contexts
Social relationship
Identify problems, set goals of treatment, set examples for problem solving, involve patient in process
Problem solver
A type of dependency: more productive, patient relies on therapist for something he can’t provide himself.
Constructive
Putting yourself in someones shoes, understanding how someone feels
Empathy
How do you show you have been listening?
By using minimal responses such as “go on, or uh-huh” to show you have been listening
A trusting connection established between the therapist and client through collaboration and communication therapist has empathy and mutual respect.
Therapeutic relationship
Oversees, checks quality, monitors progress
One person (patient) unconsciously relates to the other (therapist) as if that person were someone else.
Transference
Recognize the patient as a unique individual and remember that different cultures have different expectations.
Respect
Do we sometimes have to sit in silence?
Yes! Sitting in silence allows the client and therapist to self reflect and concentrate/process better.
where at least one of the participants intends that one or both parties, experiences more appreciation of, more expression of, more functional use of the latent inner resources of the individual.
Helping relationship
Assess how the environment affects the patients, modify it and show patient how he might change it himself
Environmental Manager
The other person (therapist) unconsciously falls into the role transferred onto him.
Countertransference
The practice of revealing things about oneself and timing is important
Self-disclosure