How the program will help counselors and therapists
THIS PROGRAM WILL HELP COUNSELORS AND THERAPISTS:
- Learn to make contact and build rapport with clients to stimulate their healing energy
- Understand and incorporate the basic therapeutic belief system of the Satir Model.
- Use experiential process throughout their therapy sessions.
- Surface and identify clients’ communications and coping patterns.
- Prepare clients’ family maps (genograms) and surface dysfunctional personal and family dynamics.
- Sculpt relationships among family members and bring automatic coping patterns into awareness.
- Transform clients’ problems into positively directional goals.
- Learn the Satir process of therapeutic change.
- Help clients access, accept and utilize their internal strengths and resources.
- Transform family rules that diminish clients’ self-esteem.
- Help clients raise their self-esteem and increase their choice-making possibilities.
- Map the internal processes of the clients and help them access and change their behaviors, feelings and perceptions and expectations.
- Help clients reduce the impact of past events and negative experiences.
- Help clients integrate and maintain their changes.
- Become more effective counselors/therapists using the Satir Model.
Text: The Satir Model: Family Therapy & Beyond.
By Satir, Banmen, Gerber, & Gomori, (1991)
Reading: The New Peoplemaking by Virginia Satir.