1st Edition
Relationship Counselling - Sons and Their Mothers A Person-Centred Dialogue
By Richard Bryant-Jefferies
Copyright 1998
154 Pages
by
CRC Press
184 Pages
by
CRC Press
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Young men trying to resolve traumatic experiences and relationship issues with their mothers is not an area that has attracted a great deal of attention, and yet it is not uncommon.
Peter is 28, still living at home and feeling ‘like I just don’t have a life I can call my own.’ As he tries to remedy this, the reaction he gets is ""So, where have you been?"; "What time do you call this?"; "I’ve... Read more
Introduction. Counselling session 1 - beginnings and introductions. Counselling session 2 - 'seen and not heard'. Counselling session 3 - 'I'm wondering if counselling is really right for me?'. Counselling session 4 - reactions to his father's death. Supervision 1. Counselling session 5 - discomfort within the therapeutic relationship. Counselling session 6 - cancelled appointment. Counselling session 7 - a memory surfaces, 'can I have a drink of water?'. Supervision 2. Counselling session 8 - 'why didn't she love me' and cathartic release. Counselling session 9 - 'what is love?', and the client reacts to questioning. Counselling session 10 - learning to feel loved. Supervision 3. Counselling session 11 - a night in the cells, time to move on. Counselling session 12 - the truth revealed, Peter is left confused. Peter reflects on his experience so far. Michael reflects on his experience as Peter's counselor.
Biography
Richard Bryant-Jefferies
"A wide variety of health and social care professionals and students should find this book of interest. … It uses experience-based but fictitious dialogue… contains both counselling sessions and supervision sessions to enable readers to 'step into' the counselling process…"
—Care and Health Magazine, December 2004
