Counselling techniques which focus on understanding have many forms, but basically they can be reduced to two variants: 1. One tries to broaden the sphere of that which someone understands about himself. Things, which to date have been implausible, become plausible, because one brings order into a context (“Ah, now I understand my rebellious reaction, …
No counselling theory and practice can manage without diagnoses. Otherwise the counsellor would have no orientation. A diagnosis is a reduction in complexity – but may vary widely: e.g. precise or vague, general or specific, situational or general, dynamic or categorical, anamnestic or actual, established or flexible, behaviour- or symptom-related, with focus on the individual …
Unfortunately, ‘solution-orientated’ has become a popular advertising word in the counselling field. Unfortunately, because as a result, findings, which have been developed in psychology over a long period of time, have been labelled as useless, inefficient and out of date. Instead, an apparent simplicity is often offered as an alternative, which can harm the client …
It could also be quite different. This sentence expresses the system theory principle that everything which is recognised and said, is said by ‘someone’. This someone, though, has no privileged, superior view on the world, with which he can recognise all correlations, including his own awareness. Recognising means observing – and thus it creates blindness …
Evaluating regulates feelings (“Should I be pleased or annoyed?”), it gives options for action (“I am only giving him my opinion about this impossible behaviour!”), and it determines what is being evaluated (“I find this unreliability impossible!” or “I find this colleague impossible!”). This reduces complexity and thus it also decides what consequences the situation …
Explanations make connections which have much to do with the nature of description and, thus, with that which gives an explanation. You can usually explain situations rather differently and, accordingly, the reaction will also be rather different. If you explain the delayed target date by the colleague in terms of the illness of his wife, …
When researching what one responds to or not, it initially helps to name which observations are the starting point for all the following steps (“Oh, I see that my colleague has not kept to the delivery date!”). This statement describes a part of that which could be perceived and investigated in this connection (so, for …
It is a particular challenge for the accompaniment of change processes, when clients have little or no access to their emotions. As emotions are a very fundamental form of internal and external orientation (see affects), people who have a very limited experiential range become very hard to understand, assess and approach, both, for themselves and …
Resonance is a key concept in system theory (which is a firm reference point for meta-theoretical deliberations about change). It encompasses the considerations about how systems make themselves sensitive or insensitive to the environmental stimuli through their inner processes. How a system allows itself to be irritated, i.e. responds with resonance, is hugely variable: psychological …
The psychological guiding process about how one reacts to something or not, can be accomplished by the psychological system functionally or dysfunctionally. It is functional when the complexity of the environment is reduced in such a way that the psyche is not overloaded, that it can process the stimuli from outside and enjoy or tolerate …