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Originally Posted by sittingatwatersedge
what if the silence did follow something you (the T, in practice) said? What are you taught that had you done "wrong"? what were you supposed to do differently to prevent a silence after you say something?
it's curious to me, as if an intervention or interpretation by the T is supposed to be followed by instantaneous buy-in or comment from Client, or else the T did something wrong
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Sorry, I think I caused a misconception with my previous, sloppy post. The only thing "wrong" about having a silence follow what the T said was that it didn't count as a counseling response, as the course was focused on how we would respond to clients. We were supposed to learn to respond with silence. If a silence followed what the T said, that was perfectly fine for the purposes of therapy; it just didn't count as a counseling
response so we would have to repeat it to get credit.