RESPECT SCALE Level 1.0 Verbal and non-verbal responses communicate overt disrespect, or negative regard, declaring the other person’s feelings and experiences unworthy of consideration. The helper may make herself/himself the focus of the evaluation, actively disapprove of behaviour, impose her/his … Continue reading →
Rogerian Genuineness For persons seeking therapeutic services, it is important that a therapist is able to be genuine with his client. This genuineness is a bit different than perhaps one would naturally assume to be genuine, so I would like … Continue reading →
Empathetic Communication Scale Level 1.0 The counsellor’s verbal and behavioural responses are irrelevant, subtract significantly in affect content, and do not attend appropriately to the other’s expression. The counsellor communicates no awareness of even the most obvious expressed surface feelings … Continue reading →
Transference Theories of transference and counter-transference are often presented in such a way as to appear complex, and as such can be resisted by trainees. However these concepts can be useful to be aware of in therapy, not only for … Continue reading →
The Adlerian approach Alfred Adler was a colleague of Freudâs in Vienna. He became interested in psychology following his observations, as a doctor, that physically healthy patients would often have genuine physical symptoms. After a few years, it became clear … Continue reading →
The Jungian approach Carl Gustav Jung sometimes compared his work to Gnosticism which taught that there was a primordial oneness of all reality and existence and that there is an inherent longing for a return to this unity. The Gnostics … Continue reading →
Erik Erikson Erik Erikson conceptualises the basic nature of human beings in three domains. Biological processes (and the unconscious) are important to human psychological development, as in the Freudian system (see Section 1.3), but are nonetheless more easily subjugated to … Continue reading →
Definition of Hypnosis There are many theories about what hypnosis is/isn’t. Listed below are several of them: Hypnosis as a Permissive State: This is an older, more traditional perspective. Here the emphasis is on the passive nature of the client, … Continue reading →
Welcome to Brookhouse Hypnotherapy Manchester’s Blog Hello thanks so much for visiting my website. I have now created this blog so that you can get an idea about some of the issues that I believe are important, not just to … Continue reading →
