guidance and counselling

A CASE STUDY OF A GROWN-UP DISLEXIC

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A Case Study of a Grown-Up Dyslexic

Browsing some old library books at a local library several years ago as a college sophomore , I came across one book that talks about helping people straighten their talk ' The author , who I realise now is a counsellor , stresses the need of some people , possibly his clients , to get somebody to listen to them in to heal , process their thoughts and understand

their lives . Lacking in knowledge about counselling , I thought that what the book was pointing out was simply the capability to listen to people , to be a friend , or to sympathise with someone by listening to their stories with neither prejudices nor giving advice . To me it was simply a way to provide an outlet to those who felt isolated but now I realised it was more than that it was the ability to lead people to listen to themselves and grow up in the same process of hearing their stories . In such a counselling situation , the counsellor serves to facilitate the process of growing up ' and making realities easier to accept . Allowing the person to talk during therapy is the main goal of Transactional Analysis (TA , an approach introduced by Eric Berne (1964 , and later redeveloped by other psychologists including Tony White (1994 . In the case I handled , TA served as an ideal approach along with Carl Rogers ' Person-Centred Therapy , owing to...