Counseling Principles III: Strategies and Tactics

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Counseling Principles III Strategies and Tactics
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Career Counseling Is

• Easy
• Difficult
• Really, really difficult
• but can be made easier

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Institutional Regression

• Asylums Erving Goffman
• Lord of the Flies William Golding

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Signs of Unconscious Process

• Inappropriate affect
• Over-determination
• Word-body discordance
• Intellect-emotion discordance

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Psychological Defenses

• Aggression
• Denial
• Intellectualization
• Dependency
• Avoidance

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Anxiety and Depression

• One coin, two sides
• Learned helplessness
• Assessing seriousness

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Interpreting and Confronting

• What
• When
• How

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Referring for Therapy

• Normalize
• Personalize
• Frame in terms of career success

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Ingredients of Success

• Capacity for empathy
• Comfort with power
• Positive (and accurate) self-image
• Healthy relationship with authority

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Your Survival Kit

• Psychic aikido
• The one-sided tug of war
• Hercules or Atlas?
• Gentle confrontation
• The double-bind

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Your Survival Kit (continued)

• Dealing with the What do these tests mean?
  question
• A handy three-box model
• Caring versus investing
• Community