`The Client that Changed Me`, by Kottler & Carlson

THE CLIENT THAT CHANGED ME

Stories of Therapist 's Personal Transformation

Psychology , as a branch in studying human behavior and intellect has been naturally involved in several processes of handling individual problems on their dispositions in life . Therapies have been developed to support the need of the people who are under the effect of depression and stress that are brought about by the changing lifestyle in the society . Through the different developmental processes that have been taken by psychologists to support the growing need for psychological therapeutic treatments for victims of

depression , it could be observed how counseling too has become more complicated yet more effective for the patients that the said practice in psychology targets

Counseling is a very important sector of individual development Because of the existence of the many problems that are affecting the personalities of the people nowadays , it is not that easy to deal with life without the help of psychological counselors who are supposed to set the balance for people who are already losing their hopes in becoming something in their life . However , because of the fact that counselors are people just the same , they also need guidance to be able to help them with their responsibilities to be of assistance to others This is the reason why the development of supervising models for counselors have been applied further for the sake of the improvement of the counseling practices that are used by the psychologists in meeting with their patients

Integrated Developmental Model of Supervision

This developmental pattern of supervision works along with the narrative counseling theory . Narrative counseling theory is a way by which a supervisor helps the counselors examine the situation with the use of stories , either mythology or a casual narrative , so long as the said narrated story would help the counselors understand the situation that their patients are encountering . In Sheila Bob 's Narrative Approaches to Supervision and Case Formulation ' study , the use of narrative process in supervising counselors on their skill application in their profession is presented as an effective way that counselors could use in their practice . Another study that referred to narrative theory was that of Carol Sommer and Jane Cox 's Using Greek Mythology as a Metaphor to Enhance Supervision , which used a mythological based story that deals with Psyche and Eros . Two characters of the Greek mythology , whose experience and story were used by the author of the said study to show several characters that counselors should have in their personality . The said personalities are taken in basis of the characters of the said personalities in the story . These characters are as follows

Sorting the jumbled seeds : Conceptualizing personal values

In dealing with the different cases of the patients who are seeking help of psychological counseling , counselors should be able to understand their patient 's values through the stories and the narrative situations that their patients relate to hem during the counseling sessions . It is more of like reading between the lines . When a patient...