Effective Helping: interviewing and Couseling Techniques:8th edition Barbara F.

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Effective Helping: interviewing and Couseling Techniques:8th edition Barbara F. Okun : Ricki E.Kantrowitz chapter 7 Introduction to Strategies
How might a Gestalt therapist use the empty chair or the dialogusing technique? Give an example of a hypothetical Couseling situation. Effective Helping: interviewing and Couseling Techniques:8th edition Barbara F. Okun : Ricki E.Kantrowitz chapter 7 Introduction to Strategies
How might a Gestalt therapist use the empty chair or the dialogusing technique? Give an example of a hypothetical Couseling situation.
How might a Gestalt therapist use the empty chair or the dialogusing technique? Give an example of a hypothetical Couseling situation. How might a Gestalt therapist use the empty chair or the dialogusing technique? Give an example of a hypothetical Couseling situation.

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Firstly what is a Gestalt therepist?

He/She is someone that makes the client focus on their own personal responsibility. In this type of therepy they deal with concerns where their own self is the most important aspect of finding solutions to their problems. like the environmental or social factors of that persons surrounding.

Empty Chair technique

This technique is quite a simple but effective one that was popularised by Fritz Perls who was a founder of the Gestalt Theories. This technique invovlves an empty chair to be placed in front of the patient who requires counselling. Now the person who is counselled must imagine a part of themself or an aspect of their own personality sitting in that chair and they must use this to vent out and express some thoughts that could be hidden. This method is useful in letting out what actually is happening in a person and addressing it.

Dialouguing Therepy

This method is similar to the previous one where the counselee has unresolved issues with himself/herself. He and the therepist sit together and go over a situation or a problem voicing out the concerns so that when it is heard aloud the patient is able to clearly identify the problem as usually when things are said out loud they are more believable and clear.

These two therepy methods are very important for Gestalt Therepists as they deal with their own personal responsibilities and problems. The focus on these methods is to deal with the self and ones own internal issues that do no pertain to another individual. These techniques help to identify how a problem can be solved by changing only themselves and not the entire environment of that problem and focus on yourself.

For example if a client is visiting a counsellor as he has just gone through a bad episode in his marriage. He walks in expecting to vent out how he feels and as usual to express that the fight that he and his spouse have just had was completely not his fault. Usually in other methods venting out and supporting the client is the key but using these methods as a gestalt therepist the counsellor can sit down the client and make him voice out the entire argument again but this time he would hear what actually happened and be able to understand his part of the fault as well. These methods would help him understand the problem within himself of changing his attitude and behaviour first and then focusing on the external factors. Always "self" is to analysed before focusing on other aspects as a Gestalt Therepist.

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