By Nina W. Brown

Targeting idea and healing components and functions, this paintings will offer workforce leaders and counselors operating with youngsters with a conceptual foundation and particular ideas to be used in remedy, counseling, and healing teams. It proposes that teams be shaped round topics of situation (such as loss), instead of topics of condition (such as divorce). Forming the gang, chief features, and the expression of emotions and feelings are emphasised through the writer. This paintings might be of curiosity to all psychological future health execs operating with children--school counselors, social staff, psychologists, and psychiatrists.

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Proper planning can ensure constructive outcomes, but tapping into and using therapeutic factors can make the experience even more rewarding and meaningful. YALOM'S THERAPEUTIC FACTORS Yalom's (1985) therapeutic factors are described in the following discussion. Also discussed are suggested applications for use with children in brief group counseling. , hurt less or not hurt at all). Members need to believe that counseling and the leader will be effective. This is more difficult to accomplish in brief therapy because the barriers to installation of hope, the establishing of relationships, working through resistances, understanding transferences, projections, and projective identifications, identifying and lowering of defenses all take time to accomplish.

The discussion in this section will be limited to pointing out the usefulness at each level. Universality helps members feel less alone. It is important for the group leader to help members understand their similarities, for this is how they begin to see that they are not the only ones with this problem/issue/concern or situation. While no two are exactly the same, enough communalities exist so that members can identify with each other. Hopelessness is incapacitating. When members cannot see any way out of their dilemma or situation they suffer a form of paralysis.

Self-object is an external "object" that provides the appropriate "self and over whom one has control. In Theory, Application, and Therapeutic Factors 29 essence, the child then experiences a loss of control over the "self," which results in injury. Counseling and therapy begin with trying to understand the world of the client empathically. While the emphasis on empathically understanding the other is similar to that proposed by Person-centered theory, there are significant differences. Whereas in Person-centered therapy empathy is used to convey to the other that he/she is understood and valued, in Self-psychology empathy is used for understanding and to repair injury.

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