Introduction
Interpersonal Counseling is a short and well-made psychotherapy which is based on a manual. This type of counseling addresses an individual in depth to solve any and hopefully all types of personal issued the individual face.
There are four areas of social dysfunction:
• Grief
• Role Transition
• Interpersonal Deficits
• Interpersonal Disputes
1. Interpersonal Disputes
a. This issues usually happen due to marriage, family, social-life and the personal occupation of the individual.
b. This is likely to happen when the person have different opinion about a problem with another person which could lead to a disagreement, sometimes this may even lead to a dispute between the individual.
2. Role Transition
a. A condition where the patient
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After identifying the problem, the therapist will help explain what the issues are and how they would help solve the problem. This is the most essential step within the program as how the program will develop is based on the understanding of the patient toward their problem and their respond to the issue in hand. It is important that the patient realizes that he is experiencing depression and that this is impairing the ability of the patient to function at maximum capacity, this will help the patient understand the purpose of the treatment and help them focus on the …show more content…
The treatment will help address the patient so that they will understand what are the interpersonal problems they are facing in hopes that they will be able to reconstruct and maintain a positive attitude toward the problems they face. When the therapy is coming to an end, the therapist will remind the patient about this fact and this will help the patient to be more confident and independent by seeing how much have they accomplished.
During the ending of the session, the therapist should consider to either continue treating the patient or to stop treating the patient as they feel it is sufficient enough that the individual has overcome the problem on their own. The role of the therapist is to obtain the trust of the patient, in essence to become their ally. During the sessions there are no task or assignments given to the patient, the goal is to solve the interpersonal problem the individual is facing.2
Communication during Counseling
Counseling does not only involve the process of explaining the problem, therefore a counselor must not only give advice but they must also have faith that their patient is going to recover and become better. Only by having faith that they will be able to convince the patient to open up and be able to share with the counseling.