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Barefoot Counsellor

This book provides guidance for barefoot counselors on counseling processes. It discusses how problems arise in the mind and proliferate thoughts, creating difficulties. The book covers six counseling propositions, including the counselor being in a state of congruence while the counsellee feels incongruent. It also addresses self-disclosure, the facilitative dimension of nondirective counseling, and the action-oriented dimension of assertiveness and initiative. The goal is for counselors to understand and accept counsellees so they can take charge of their own lives.

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Barefoot Counsellor

This book provides guidance for barefoot counselors on counseling processes. It discusses how problems arise in the mind and proliferate thoughts, creating difficulties. The book covers six counseling propositions, including the counselor being in a state of congruence while the counsellee feels incongruent. It also addresses self-disclosure, the facilitative dimension of nondirective counseling, and the action-oriented dimension of assertiveness and initiative. The goal is for counselors to understand and accept counsellees so they can take charge of their own lives.

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barefoot counsellor

Written by Fr.Joe Currie.

Reviewed by:
Rupak Majumder(B2-46)
About the book

This book deals with several counselling processes and


vivid illustration of this processes. It also gives an insight
of one’s personality.

How a problem arises in one’s mind, how this small


problem proliferates into the thinking process and
creates several travails in the mind of counsellee.

This book is a counselling guide to the barefoot


counsellor.
Contents
 Proposition one
 Proposition two
 Proposition three
 Proposition four
 Proposition five
 Proposition six
 Self disclosure
 The Facilitative dimension
 The action-oriented dimension
 Dimension of counselling
Proposition one

 Two people, the counsellor and the counsellee.

 An intensely personal and subjective


relationship.

 Person to person relationship, not as a scientist


and an object of study.
Proposition two

 The counsellee is in a state of incongruence.


 He is anxious or prone to anxiety, confused.
 Not able to accept himself or others, or his
present situation
 The state of incongruence

IDEAL
REAL ME POSSIBLE
ME
ME
Proposition three

 The counsellor is in a state of relative congruence.


 He can accept himself better.
 He is in a better control of his feelings whether they are good
or bad.
 He can communicate them to others IF and WHEN
appropriate.
Proposition four

 The counsellor experiences EMPATHIC


UNDERSTANDING of the counsellee.
 He lets himself go in understanding the others.
 He sees the world as if he were the counsellee.
 He is good in listening and responding.
Proposition five

 Unconditional positive regard from the


counsellor to the counsellee.

 He “prizes” the counsellee as a person of self


worth, a person of value irrespective of his
conditions, behavior or his feelings.
Proposition six

 Providing optimal therapy that enable the client to explore


the strange, unknown and dangerous feelings in himself.

 The result is the movement of the counsellee in positive


directions i.e moving toward self-actualization, growing
toward socialization.
Proposition six

 The more the individual is understood and


accepted, the more he tends to drop the false
fronts with which he has been meeting life.

 He will be confident enough to take charge of


his won life and not be dependent on others
and their expectations.
Self disclosure

 “Will the real ME please stand up?”


 There is a conflict between our ideas and
reality.
 The sharper the conflict, the more vehement
the excuse; “he protests too much.”
 As we cannot be happy with our self, we
shall remain uneasy with our self and
therefore with others
The facilitative dimension
 According to Carkhuff- it is the nondirective,
personalized approach.

 The counsellor provides a relationship that is


characterised by
1.responsiveness or a listening attitude;
2.warmth,acceptance and respect; and
3.feminine “sensitiveness”
The action-oriented dimension

 Assertiveness or taking the initiative in the


interview;
 Offering directions when called for; and
 Masculine “frankness”.
 Immediacy and concreteness.
 The art of confrontation.
Dimension of counselling

Genuineness

Action-oriented dimension

Understanding Acceptance

Facilitative dimension
Criticism

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