Individuals have within themselves enormous resources for self-understanding and change in their self-perceptions, basic attitudes and self-directed behavior. These resources can be utilized if a definable environment of facilitating psychological attitudes can be created. When the conditions of authenticity, unconditional acceptance and empathetic understanding exist, the therapist accompanies the client in the search for himself, which he now feels free to begin, and this environment promotes the development of the person in any kind of relationship.
In addition, various materials are offered, with which they can proceed to create art, which will help them to express their emotions more smoothly.
Children and adolescents have within them enormous resources for self-understanding and changing their self-perceptions, basic attitudes and self-directed behavior. These resources can be utilized if a definable environment of facilitating psychological attitudes can be created. When the conditions of authenticity, unconditional acceptance and empathetic understanding exist, the therapist accompanies the child and adolescent being treated in the search for himself, which he now feels free to begin, and this environment promotes the development of his personality in every kind of relationship – therapist and patient, child and parent, student and teacher, individual and group.
Children are offered various materials with which they can play and create art, which will help them express their emotions more smoothly.
Parents have within themselves enormous resources for understanding, self-understanding and changing their perceptions, basic attitudes and behaviour, which can be exploited if there can be a definable environment of facilitating psychological attitudes by the counsellor - of authenticity, unconditional acceptance and empathetic understanding. The counsellor accompanies the parent and/or both parents in their search for themselves and their parental role, when they now feel free to begin it.
This environment promotes the development of the relationship and communication of the parents in their relationship with each other and their children, but also with the other members of their family.
Partners have within themselves enormous resources for understanding, self-understanding and changing their perceptions, basic attitudes and behaviour, which can be harnessed if there can be a definable environment of facilitating psychological attitudes by the counsellor - of authenticity, unconditional acceptance and empathetic understanding. The counsellor accompanies both partners in their search for themselves and their partner role, when they now feel free to begin it.
This environment promotes the development of the relationship and communication of the partners with each other, but also with other members of their family.
GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY – ENCOUNTER GROUP
The group is an important phenomenon in our lives and has many forms, natural, such as family and friends, or artificial, such as the school class or work group. Its basic elements are the mutual interpersonal relationships and the interdependence of its members, who usually meet in a place for a certain time. The members constitute a dynamic whole, which determines the satisfaction of their goals.
Encounter Groups are a social invention of the humanist psychologist Carl Rogers against the feeling of alienation and loneliness in general, and satisfy the psychological need of every integrated person for all kinds of close, meaningful relationships and genuine communication with spontaneous expression of emotions. Encounter Groups are based on the non-interventional Person-Centered Approach of Carl Rogers and have as necessary and sufficient conditions the development of a therapeutic relationship with the patients and the offer of unconditional acceptance, authenticity and empathetic understanding by the therapist.
The goal is for the therapist or co-therapists to understand the clients from their own frame of reference and to facilitate them in finding their own solutions to their personal issues, in which they themselves are considered experts. The therapist or co-therapists fully trust the tendency of the group members to reach the fullness of themselves. During the process of the meeting group, each member of the group can become a helping factor for himself and his co-therapists.