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Group Counseling Essay

Due Date: 1/20/2/

Essay 1: The Gift of Therapy Chapters

1-6

Remove the Obstacles

Avoid Diagnosis

Therapist and Patient as "Fellow Travelers

Engage the Patient

Be Supportive Empathy: Looking Out the Patient's

Window

Directions for writing the essay. Formulate your essay by answering

the following

questions.

Cover Sheet: The Gift of Therapy Essay 1

Give me 2-3 sentences about the author

Dr. Ivin D. Yalom- Look in the Introductory Sentences

introduction passage of the book After reading pages 1-5,

Answer the Paragraph 1

Chapter 1: Remove the Obstacles following questions:

Chapter 2: Avoid Diagnosis Ch1. According to your educational,

personal and professional experience, do

you think it is the role of the therapist to

facilitate removing obstacles that block

the patients/cliene's path. Explain your answer in a paragraph. Ch2. How do you feel about avoiding

diagnosis in regards to getting to know

he patient over several sessions therapeutically opposed to a precise diagnosis? Why do you think Managed Care mandates demand immediate

"diagnosis? | After reading pages 6-12, Answer the Paragraph 2

Chapter 3: Therapist and Patient following questions: as "Fellow Travelers"

Ch3. What are your thoughts on Yalom

stating that both patients and therapists are destined to experience not only exhilaration of life, but also its inevitable darkness: disillusionment, aging, illness,

isolation, loss, meaninglessness, paintul choices, and death. Does that make them

equal? Could this equality possibly foster

Chapter 4: Engage the Patient

a healthy "fellow travelers" relationship, ith the travelers representing the patient

and the therapist both?

Ch4: In regards to Intimacy between the "healer and the patient," do you believe

that building a therapeutic relationship consists of complimenting patients when appropriate? Validating the patients needs and inquiring about how the therapeuticrelationship is going: example: "How are you and I doing

today?"

Ch5: How important is it for the "healer to be supportive to the patient? Should the

Paragraph 3

Chapter 5: Be Supportive Chapter 6: Empathy: Looking Out healer make positive "true"

statements

the Patient's Window that will promote a positive outlook on the

patient's life? If so, explain your answer. Ch6: Have you ever encountered an experience like Dr. Yalom's patient

regarding the father and daughter who had a difficult relationship and in the final

analysis, the father was looking on one side of the road and the daughter was

looking out at the other side of the road? They observed different things and it led

to a bigger misunderstanding. Empathy is feeling what others feel. Should very

therapist or healer have empathy. Tell me what is your take away from the

for first 6 chapters and how it has impacted your overall education and

futurecounseling practices?

Paragraph 4

What I leamed from reading the first 6 chapters.