What is the end of mind-reading fortune telling?

In psychological counseling, what is open-ended questioning?

I think all students majoring in psychology should have a deep understanding. Every holiday, my relatives and friends will ask me what my major is and what I plan to do in the future. I am proud to tell them that I am a psychological counseling major, and then explain to them what psychological counseling is for. But the answer I got was nothing more than "just chatting casually, relying on deception, fortune telling, priests and brainwashing. Guess what I'm thinking now and how much money I can earn?" Wait for some ironic or misunderstood psychological counseling answers. Then, as professionals of psychological counseling, we also have the responsibility to help the public understand psychological counseling correctly.

What is psychological counseling?

First of all, I want to tell you that psychology is a science, which studies the law of human development and summarizes the characteristics of human behavior based on scientific practice. Psychological consultation, also called psychological consultation, is supported by the results of all psychological empirical analysis and logical dialectics, and contacts with the outermost appearance of people to meet their psychological needs. Psychologist Rogers interprets psychological counseling as a process of providing psychological help to individuals through continuous direct contact and trying to change their behaviors and attitudes. The ultimate goal of psychological counseling for individuals is to help individuals develop their personality and make them have the ability to solve life difficulties. If it weren't for the growth of personality, even if someone can help you solve the current difficulties, we still can't face similar difficulties in the future.

The effectiveness of psychological counseling.

Let's get down to business. Is psychological counseling useful? Let's look at the story of a helper.

The helper has always maintained a rational attitude. He kept suppressing his emotions to keep his rationality, so he kept a very rational attitude in the consultation. Until the consultation process reached a bottleneck, the counselor said, "I really don't know how to tell you." You see too clearly and think too clearly, but it is not good for you. You should learn to think less rationally and feel your emotions with your heart. "

The previous consultation benefited the seeker a lot. Whenever a counselor asks a question, the seeker will spend many days thinking about it and how to answer it better. Then throw this answer to the consultant perfectly at the next consultation. What puzzles the helper is that the consultant doesn't agree with the result of his thinking. However, this time the counselor's words made him even more depressed. In the process of counseling, he was not distracted for a long time. Outside of counseling, I have been wondering why the counselor said this. He finally realized that he misunderstood the relationship between reason and emotion, overestimated the power of reason and underestimated the rationality of emotion. At the beginning, I said that people who ask for help always think that they should be rational and don't let sadness, fear and escape appear. This is also the crux of his problem. Because all emotions are human nature, all emotions are reasonable, and existence is reasonable.

Under the hint of the psychological counselor, the helper understands that the key point is not to calm down or suppress his emotions, but to think about why he has such emotions. The only way to calm your mood is to face it and accept it. This is the effect of consultation.

Let's look at a related study. MaryLeeSmith and GeneVGlass( 1977) used the meta-analysis method to count the results of 375 psychotherapy studies and calculate the effect of each of them. Simply put, it is a measure of the improvement degree of psychological problems of people who have received psychotherapy and those who have not received psychotherapy. By converting the scale into statistical data that most people can understand, Smith and Glass found that there is a positive correlation of about 0.30 between psychotherapy and the improvement of psychological problems. What is the concept of 0.30? According to statistics, the relationship between many drugs and curative effect is only 0.0 1, and whether you take medicine or not can only explain the effect of 0.0 1%. However, considering the huge population and high risk of illness, the use of this inefficient drug can still save thousands of lives in theory. 10% psychotherapy, the curative effect is already very high.

Psychological counseling is not everything.

I also need to state here that psychological counseling is not everything. There are many settings for psychological counseling, which are all set according to psychological principles. Many people who come to the counseling room for help hope that the counselor can give them a positive guarantee to ensure that they can face their psychological problems optimistically, but basically no counselor will promise you. Psychological counseling attaches great importance to the relationship between counselors and help-seekers. A counselor will never be the one who gives you any advice to solve life problems. Counselors will only encourage you to think positively. Growth must be painful. Without the personal efforts of helpers, the growth of personality is impossible. There is no panacea in this world. Eating it can be painless and solve all your troubles.