Re: Alcoholism
- Subject: Re: Alcoholism
- From: kluoto@divi.com (Kurt Luoto)
- Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 17:12:43 -0700
Patrick Farrell <pfarrell@jones.edu> wrote:
>
> Rene wrote:
>
> > I gave training to therapists at alcohol & drugs clinics.
> > Many of them seemed to suffer from burn-out symptoms.
> <snip>
> > first impression: Who are the patients and who are the therapists?
> > I couldn't distinguish on a psychological level. Your experiences?
>
> I concur.
>
> I was working to become an Alcohol Counselor a few years ago. I went
> thru the application process and get to the final interview. I had
> all the right answers and the interviewer was impressed. Then at the
> end, he [...] said, "Pat, I have one question ...
<snip>
> The question: Why would you want to take all these peoples' problems
> home with you?
Does this issue, the counselor/therapist/changeworker/etc taking
the clientele's problems home with him, seem to come up especially
with clients with addiction behaviors? If so, I wonder why?
Not having a great deal of experience counseling others, I would have
expected this to be a potential issue when doing changework with almost
any sort of client population. I also don't see why a counselor
couldn't learn to leave the clientele's issues "at work" rather than
"taking them home" (put those NLP skills to good use, and all that).
For example, I just can't imagine Bandler carrying around *anyone's*
problems (perhaps not even his own) ...
-- Kurt Luoto