Therapist Dos & Donts Flashcards

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Cure you

A

Help change behaviors in the direction of your identified goals

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2
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Advise you

A

Identify options and provide outcomes and consequences of behavioral changes of failure to change

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3
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Be your friend

A

Be a partner and team member in problem solving. The difference between therapist and friend is a unilateral benefit and direction in daily living

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4
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Be a surrogate

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Be a role model in terms of his or her interaction with you as a patient, but never replace partners you hose for parenting and for sexual interaction.

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5
Q

Change your life

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Help yo find more control for your own destiny and see you own self-responsibilities within your life system

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Be a source of strength

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Help you identify your strengths and put them to work in solving problems you confront in daily living

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Redo or correct the past

A

Accept life as a journey and not a destination (The neutrality rule). One will not predict the present or future based on the past.

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Help become a new person

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Help you integrate your behavior into a growing person who will develop through life and not achieve”health” but work towards wellness

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9
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find your identity

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see your behavior more clearly by holding up an objective mirror to you, your life and your behaviors, and protect your options for change.

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10
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Make you feel better

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Help you take responsibility for yourself, and see that in the final analysis you are own physician, psychotherapist. Your degree of wellness depends upon your assuming responsibility for coping more effectively with day-to-dya problems.

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