This list is about 24 years old, written while I was still practicing psychotherapy and serving as an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Louisville:<\/p>\n
1. Weave \u201cinner connections,\u201d using arts, drama, the urge to creativity.
2. Develop \u201cpsychological literacy,\u201d skills for managing thoughts and feelings, basic knowledge that such skills can be developed\u2014education. Many people not only don\u2019t know this is possible, but they deny it!
3. Work mutually, and, indeed, teach the skills of mutuality!
4. Seek to develop a \u201cgood diagnosis\u201d together\u2014one that is comprehensive, discriminating, practical, constructive, understandable by the client.
5. Integrate relationship with close others, relevant groups, extended famil, community, etc.
6. Value love, cultivate it, believe in love, faith, openness
7. Remind patients of their strengths, develop their talents, use their strengths to balance or heal weaknesses.
8. Recognize the client\u2019s many roles\u2014a pluralistic model of the psyche
9. Cultivate the observer role, and work with it to help it be a better manager. That is, validate the client\u2019s attempt to co-manage the therapeutic process.
10. Emphasize process as well as content. Learn the process of exploration rather than knowing \u201cright answers.\u201d Self-questioning leads to \u201cconstrucitvism\u201d
11. Attend to the future; goal-setting and what is needed to progress. Dare to dream! Think in terms of growth and potential.
12. Develop the patient\u2019s sense of uniqueness in terms of temperament, abilities, imagery,
I-thou is preconceived, surprise delight
13. Use surplus reality, imagination, healing through synbolic actitivity
14. Be concrete, specific; address non-verbal behaviou. Counter vagueness and promote direct-ness.
15. Open to enchantment, synchronicity, mystery, being \u201chelped,\u201d guided, \u201cteachings\u201d transformation
16. Make work and psychotherapy \u201ccreative,\u201d an opportunity for discovery, wonder.
17. Interweave moments of play and humor.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s still the way I work to help people heal and grow. Might \u201clife coaches\u201d do this?.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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