Building Effective Client Responses

June 19th, 2012 by Keith Abrahams Dip.HG.P

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As the therapy progress and trust (often called rapport) builds, the client should be helped to move into positive ways of responding; either to depression, anxiety, fear, anger, phobias or the full gamut of emotional distress which is so often part of the human condition.
In this way the therapist should seek to work in therapeutic alliance with the client to help them achieve a number of key things:

• Re-enforcement - helping the client to focus on their gifts strengthens and talents. This is akin to the positive psychology (focused on building on the best in people). It s from this place that clients can stand to see and value their capacity for positive change. The Human Givens has been described as the ‘heart of positive psychology’.

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