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From: Gunars
Date: 05 Oct 2006
Time: 00:40:40 -0500
Remote Name: 24.19.13.251
Catherine, I remember meeting you in SID-4 in San Diego. I liked your attitude then and I like your wisdom now. A question: Do you offer a client a "moveable feast" of therapy options and together choose the medium of therapy, be it fluency shaping, stuttering modification, counseling, unconditional self-acceptance training, social skill building, etc.? Do you try to share your knowledge of techniques while understanding that the client is the expert in who he or she is, what he or she is willing to do at what time? Are you willing to let him or her take the responsibility of his or her part of the therapeutic alliance: 1) mutually respecting and unconditionally accepting each other while still working on those aspects of what you don't like about the clients speech and attitudes, 2) mutually agreeing on the goals, and 3) coming to an agreement where the client sets his own homework tasks and carries them out. From what I read, I think you do. Am I right? Gunars