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Four Phases of Therapy
• Phase 3: Encouraging Self-Understanding/Insight
– Interpret the findings of the assessment
– Hidden goals and purposes of behavior are made conscious
– Therapist offers interpretations to help clients gain insight into their
lifestyle
• Phase 4: Reorientation and Re-education
– The encouragement process
– Change and the search for new possibilities
• Action-oriented
• Useful vs. unhelpful
– Making a difference
• immediacy, advice, humor, silence, paradoxical intention, acting as if, spitting in
the client’s soup, catching oneself, the push-button technique, externalization, reauthoring,
avoiding the traps, confrontation, use of stories and fables, early
recollection analysis, lifestyle assessment, encouraging, task setting and
commitment, giving homework, and terminating and summarizing