2010年6月17日 星期四

諮商員自己的悲傷──悲傷輔導與悲傷治療


(Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy-A Handbook the Mental Health Practitioner by J. William Worden)
  
  失去所愛的人,是任何人都無法忍受的一種最深刻而痛苦的經驗。不僅親身經驗的人很痛苦,旁觀的人因為自己對失落的無能為力,也會感到痛苦。(Bowlby, 1980)

  痛苦是不可避免的,雙方都能覺察到彼此無法給予對方所要的,助人者無法讓死者復生,而喪親者也無法因得到幫助而使助人者滿足。(Parkes, 2001)

  因此諮商員容易感到挫折和憤怒。此外,諮商員也可能對旁觀他人的痛苦感到非常不舒服,因而將自己和喪親者的關係縮短。別人的喪親經驗除了會挑戰助人者自己是有幫助的需求外,至少在三方面會觸動到諮商員:

  首先,與喪親者工作,使我們覺察到自己的失落,有時也會感到痛苦難當。但是,如果諮商員已經完成自己的喪痛,且找到了失落的解決之道,這個經驗就能夠幫助做到有效的處遇。

  第二個會影響諮商員的是諮商自己所害怕的失落。一旦案主的失落經驗和我們最害怕的一種失落類似時,我們潛在的憂慮不安就會阻礙有效的諮商關係。

  第三個挑戰是諮商員的存在性焦慮和對個人的死亡覺察。當一個案主尋求悲傷輔導時,諮商員便會接觸到死亡是不可避免的感覺,也會接觸到對個人生命不可避免的死亡的不安。

  但是,好好的面對我們都會死亡這個事實是可能的,不要把這個主題藏在內心,造成不安。並且我們鼓勵諮商員去探索自己的失落史,這樣的探索會讓諮商員更有創造性的做出處遇。

  以下有幾項問題,花些時間在書上或其他紙上,寫下你的回答;也花些時間,仔細思考你的答案。可能的話,和朋友或同事討論。思索自己的生命,可以幫助你日後的工作更有效。

1. 我所記得的第一個死亡經驗是:
2. 當時我幾歲:
3. 我記得當時的感受是:

4. 我曾經參加的第一個喪禮(守靈或其他儀式)是悼念誰:
5. 當時我幾歲:
6. 對這個經驗,我記得最清楚的事是:

7. 在近期內,我所遭遇的死亡失落是(人、時、地):
8. 我應對這個失落的方式是:

9. 對我而言,最困難的是誰的死亡:
10. 之所以困難,是因為:

11. 在我生命中,目前仍活著的重要人物之中,誰一旦死亡會是我最無法面對的:
12. 之所以最困難是因為:

13. 我對失落的原始應對方式是:

14. 什麼時候,我知道我的悲傷已經解決了:

15. 什麼時候,和案主分享自己的悲傷經驗是很適當的:
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2010年5月4日 星期二

有效諮商員的人格特質


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以下所列出的有效諮商員之人格特質在相關研究中均被支持(如Norcross,2002a, 2002b; Skovholt & Jennings, 2004)。列出這些具療癒性人的特質,主要的目的是希望可以藉此來自我檢核,並發展出個人認為最能促進他人人格成長的人格特質觀點。

1. 對自己有足夠的認識
2. 尊重及欣賞自己
3. 能接受改變
4. 能選擇及經營自己的生活
5. 可靠、真摯及誠實
6. 有幽默感
7. 會犯錯誤,並承認自己的錯誤
8. 活在當下
9. 重視文化的影響
10. 真誠關心他人的福祉
11. 展現有效的人際互動技巧
12. 全神貫注地工作而從中尋求意義
13. 展現熱情
14. 維持健康的人際界線
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2010年1月26日 星期二

I Am Going On A Journey

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I am going on a journey,
Won't you come along?
I need someone to help me.
A person big and strong.


I'm walking on my journey
But my feet are very small.
Can you stand beside me,
And catch me if I fall?


At times when I can't keep up
With life and all its fears,
Can you put me on your shoulders
And wipe away the tears?


When the steps I take are not big enough
And it's hard for me to grow
I know I can depend on you
To let me take it slow.


I'm going on a journey,
Please, won't you walk with me?
I need someone who understands
The place where I should be.


I promise when the road is tough
And you want to turn back home.
I will hold your hand real tight,
So you won't feel so alone.


I'm going on a journey
I don't know where it ends,
But if we walk together,
We can always be best friends.


And when the journey's over
And we find where we should be.
I know that you will be so glad,
You took this path with me.


I'm going on a journey,
Please, won't you come along?
I need someone to guide me
A parent—big & strong.


Written by Sally Meyer

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Blessed Are Those




I. Blessed are those who stop and listen to my chatter. You may not understand me; but I love when people talk to me, for I long for companionship, too.


II. Blessed are those who take my hand and walk with me when the path is rough, for I easily stumble and grow weary. But thank you, too, for letting me walk alone when the path is smooth, for I must learn independence.


III. Blessed are those who take the time to tell me about special happenings, for unless you make special effort to inform me, I remain ignorant.


IV. Blessed are those who wait for me. I may be slow, but I appreciate your patience.
V. Blessed are those who are not ashamed to be seen in public with me, for I did not choose to be born thus. It could have been you as well.


VI. Blessed are those who do not pity me, for I don't want pity. All I want is understanding and respect for what I have learned as well.


VII. Blessed are those who notice my accomplishments, small as they may seem to you. I must work long and hard to learn many of the things you take for granted.


VIII. Blessed are those who include me in their games, even though I may not understand the rules, I still like to be included in your activities.


IX. Blessed are those who think of me as a person who loves, and hurts, and feels joy and pain just like you do, for in that respect I am normal.


Author Unknown
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WELCOME TO HOLLAND



byEmily Perl Kingsley.


I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this......

When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The Coliseum. The Michelangelo David.

The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting.


After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, "Welcome to Holland."
"Holland?!?" you say. "What do you mean Holland?? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy."


But there's been a change in the flight plan. They've landed in Holland and there you must stay.
The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It's just a different place.


So you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.


It's just a different place. It's slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around.... and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills....and Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts.


But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy... and they're all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say "Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That's what I had planned."


And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away... because the loss of that dream is a very very significant loss.


But... if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things ... about Holland.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Welcome to Holland" is an essay, written in 1987 by Emily Perl Kingsley, about having a child with Down Syndrome, though it is applicable to many other birth defects, and is given by many hospitals and child-care professionals to new parents of special-needs children.

The essay, written in the second person, employs a metaphor of excitement for a vacation to Italy that becomes a massive disappointment when the reader's plane lands instead in Holland.
"Holland?!?" you say. "What do you mean Holland?? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy."

The metaphor is that the trip to Italy is a typical birth and child-raising experience, and that the trip to Holland is the experiencing of having and raising a special-needs child.

But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy... and they're all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say "Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That's what I had planned."

In the end, however, an effort is made to express that the "trip" is still well worth it:

But... if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things ... about Holland.

A song was also written in 2004 by Will Livingston based loosely on the story, also titled "Welcome to Holland".
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