Meeting 6

Person-Centered Theories:
Satirs Communication &
Human Validation Process
Cheung, M., & Leung, P. (2008). Multicultural practice and
evaluation: A case approach to evidence-based practice.
Denver, CO: Love.
Instructors who adopt this book may use this PowerPoint to
teach your course without prior permission. Please address
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Watching Carl Rogers in Action

Interviewing Gloria

http://www.youtube.com/user/esherborne3
Please watch this on your own
Pay attention to Rogerian techniques that can be used in social work
not as a pure approachtranstheoretically with other approaches
Rogerian techniques:

Use of minimal encouragers

Active listening
Validating clients answers (by echoing, positive regard)
Rapport building
Providing feedback
Reflecting meanings
Reflecting feelings
Paying attention to clients nonverbal responses

Listen to Rogers self disclosure as a learning process

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Satirs Humanistic Theory:

Human Validation Process

Focus:

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Expanding ones
past experience to
include what the
current experience
is
Touching base with
ones vulnerability
Identifying ways to
live with nurture
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5 Postures that Explain

Human Interactions

Placating: Not able to see self worth and cant fulfill

needs to grow
Blaming: Not able to communicate effectively with
others; being a loner
Computing: Ignores and denies feelings that belong
to self or others; always calculates costbenefits
Distracting: Takes focus off the conflict through
attention seeking
Leveling: Is empathic and positive when interacting
with others
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Satir Communication Theory

1. Dysfunctional families do not appropriately practice communication skills

Thus, the individuals growth will be blocked

2. Family communication patterns are passed from one generation to the next

Thus, we must create a nurturing environment for

our children
3. Families are guided to understand that sometimes failure is a normal part
of life

Thus, no blaming is necessary to pass through

problems
4. Therapy usually ends when the family is able to communicate well with
each other and self-esteem has been restored

1. Thus, it is not good to end when the individuals

still obsess with a sense of unfinished business
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Techniques

The therapists role is always active and encouraging,

trying to help each family member gain access to the
fullest potential:

Techniques
Communication
Stances
(The therapists
role is always active
and encouraging)
Family Sculpture
Sculpture
Communication
Family Stress Ballet
Stances
Ropes
Family Stress Ballet
Family maps
Ropes
Role Playing
Family maps
Chronologies
Role Playing
Chronologies

Family

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Family Sculpture

A nonverbal experiential technique, in which

family members position themselves in a tableau
that reveals significant aspects of their
perceptions and feelings

Therapeutic Procedures:
Volunteers standing for the familys weaknesses

Therapist standing for the clients to perform the

mapping

Drawing in regard to positions and postures

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Chronologies
goal
Chronologies
Goals:
To empower family members to think about
each members characteristics and relationship
patterns
To locate thought patterns that
have formed the basis for the developed or
developing relationships within the family
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Chronologies
Birth of grandparents
Birth of parents
Parents met each other
Parents education, occupation
Parents marriage or other significant events
Birth of I.P.
Birth order of siblings
Education of siblings
Marriages or other events related to siblings

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Therapeutic Comments According to

Humanistic/ Validation Process Approaches

It sounds to me

Im noticing that

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Practice:
Therapeutic Comments

It sounds to me
My sense is
Does that fit for you?
Is that working for you?
Please acknowledge your
feelings.
Check that feeling out.
Lets process that feeling.
Can you stay in the now?
What are you feeling right
now?
Would you change he to I
in this statement?
Thank you for noticing what I
just said.

Im noticing that
Whats coming up close to me
is
What I see is
What you said is
Its been clear that
Whats true for me is
Its important that you take a
look at
Have you asked yourself
Are you willing to take a risk?
I would like some feedback
from you
How about sharing more?

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Five Stages of Therapy

Stage One: Late Status Quo

Stage Two: Resistance

Stage Three: Chaos

Stage Four: Integration
Stage Five: New Status Quo
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Video: Forgiving Parents

Video: NLP Comprehensive. (1989). Families
and relationships: #3--Forgiving parents.
2897 Valmont, Boulder, CO.
What specific techniques did Virginia use to
help Linda understand her communication
problem with her mother?
What techniques did Virginia use to help
Linda?
What are the strengths in this approach?
What are the weaknesses in this approach?

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Time for Joy (Satir, 1972)

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I am me.
In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. There are
persons who have some parts like me, but no one adds up
exactly like me. Therefore, everything that comes out of me is
authentically mine because I alone chose it.
I own everything about memy body, including everything it
does; my mind, including all its thoughts and ideas; my eyes,
including the images of all they behold; my feelings, whatever
they may beanger, joy, frustration, love, disappointment,
excitement; my mouth, and all the words that come out of it,
polite, sweet or rough, correct or incorrect; my voice, loud or soft;
and all my actions, whether they be to others or to myself.
I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears.
I own all my triumphs and successes, all my failures and
mistakes.
Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted
with me. By so doing I can love me and be friendly with me in all
my parts. I can then make it possible for all of me to work in my
best interests.
I am me and I am okay.
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References

Cheung, M., & Leung, P. (2008). Multicultural

practice and evaluation: A case approach to
evidence-based practice. Denver, CO: Love.
Goldenberg, H., & Goldenberg, I. (2008). Family
therapy: An overview. Belmont, CA: Thomson
Brooks/Cole.
Satir, V. (1972). Peoplemaking. Palo Alto, CA:
Science and Behavior Books.
Satir, V. (1983). Conjoint family therapy. Palo Alto,
CA: Science and Behavior Books.

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