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Originally Posted by lucozader
The article is from the Guardian, which is a UK publication. Not everything is American y'know.
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I know. I am not an American originally
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It's common for organisations (charities) to offer twelve weeks of counselling here. It's often person-centred, not goal oriented at all, aside from any goals that the client chooses to set themselves.
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I don't see person-centered and goal-oriented as separate "modalities". Any therapy is "person-centered" IMO because the person in therapy is at the center or therapy
. Short-term therapy tends to get much more focused because of the time constraints, that's what I meant. All these terms like "psychodynamic", "person-centered", "goal-oriented", "CBT" is just a psychobabble that, in and of itself, has no meaning. At the end of the day, therapist operates much more from their own personal biases than from any terminology.
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It's weird, I read it and thought 'woah, she felt that way in twelve weeks?' too, and then I realised that my extremely intense ET for my previous therapist came along at the ten session mark, so I've been there myself.
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Some people feel that way after the first meeting. Just like super neglected kids will instantly cling to any adult who shows kindness to them. Abused and neglected animals show the same behavior. Adult humans are no different. Some people carry such enormous hunger for human connection that anyone who acts kindly toward them would instantly become the object of their intense love.
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Also I was creeped out by the kiss on the head. That's not normal. It makes me wonder what else was going on in that relationship.
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That's a good point. I can't think of any circumstance that would compel me to kiss a client in any way, no matter how innocently it may seem. The kiss is not necessarily an indication that something was going on in the relationship, but it's an indication that the therapist got more involved emotionally than he should've.