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The concept of building a relationship of assistance, its history, and its relationship with social work and spirituality. It also explores other forms of helping relationships and how to build them, including support groups and different types of interviews. The document delves into the methods of personal development in new age culture and how they approach the helping relationship. It emphasizes the importance of active listening and sympathetic understanding in forming and building the help relationship.
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1/ The concept of building a relationship of assistance 2/ History
4/ Relationship of assistance and social work
6/ The relationship of help and spirituality
6 - 2 / Help relationship in new age currents 7/ How to build a relationship of help 8/ Forming and building a relationship of assistance 9/ Conclusion
The helping relationship will be favored by four qualities or attitudes, "non-directive", of the companion according to Carl Rogers:
Each of the major currents of psychotherapy presents its methods of helping the relationship, somewhat departing from the principles of Carl Rogers:
Depending on the specific laws of each country, the title of psychotherapist may or may not be regulated. 6/ The relationship of help and spirituality: 6 - 1 / Auxiliary Relationships and Practical Theology: "Healing the soul" Healing the soul is a concept of practical theology. Theodore Harnack defines the healing of the soul as: "The individual's exercise of an effective spiritual activity and influence." It is a conversation with a preacher, and it takes place on the occasion of happy or unhappy events in which personal advice is necessary or expected. At first, the idea of psychology was absent. It intervened in the first psychoanalytic works at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century. But priests note that modern psychology is gradually being preferred to soul therapy by "people in the grip of loneliness." The concept still exists, mainly under the name "pastoral dialogue", but with a tendency to want to distinguish the approach of psychology from this dialogue considered "biblical anthropology in the service of the believer". 6 - 2 / The relationship of assistance in the currents of the new age: Methods of personal development in new age culture include the idea of the help relationship in various ways. Jacques Salome, in his work on the subject, defines it as “a situation in which a participant seeks to promote the emergence and implementation of internal latent resources in one party or another, as well as greater potential for expression and better use of these resources. But the new age has its own distinctive orientation, it wants “Forgetting left hemisphere analytic thoughts” and instead reinforcing feelings by expressing themselves through “body and scr eam.” Thus, the helping relationship is based not so much on interview and analysis as on the conviction that new sensations must be experienced. Diverse the old status of the pastor and psychologist.
The help relationship focuses on the person and not the problem (the caregiver is not there to provide a solution to the problem of the sick person but until she finds the solutions herself), The caregiver will use paraphrasing: he will repeat in other words what the person just said.
The person being treated understands that they are being listened to. The person being treated can express himself more. The person being treated feels respected. Paraphrasing is a valuable tool for the caregiver.
To show the patient that he cared for her, this attitude allows to belittle the situation, to reduce tensions or to satisfy the patient. 8 - 2 / Sympathetic Understanding:
This empathetic understanding allows the caregiver to enter into the world of the person being cared for, trying to make sense of the situation, and the caregiver must also inform the person of what he or she has understood. To do this the caregiver can use s everal verbal or nonverbal communication techniques (gesture, thoughtful smile, hand on the shoulder).
This position of empathic understanding aims to: Allowing the caregiver to understand what the person being treated is going through. Helping to correct the perception, if necessary, of what the therapist conveys to him. Encouraging him to express himself more about what is happening to him. Telling him that they are important, that we care about them and him, and showing a desire to understand them. This will therefore allow the person being treated to have an experience where they will not feel alone in searching for answers to their needs. 8 - 3 / Charity: This means that the caregiver recognizes the other as a unique being and has the ability to make his or her own decisions, understands that the person treating has the abilities and the caregiver is there to help find or re-engage them.
8 - 4 / Authenticity: 8 - 4 - 1 / Concept: Authenticity is a state of internal agreement between what a person really is, what they perceive, think and feel about them and what they communicate. The person being treated has difficulty trusting them and will therefore check if they can trust the caregiver. The caregiver must show that he is caring, genuine, and trustworthy.
This will allow a person to gain a high level of knowledge about himself and the ability to relate to his environment. 9/ Conclusion: Building a helping relationship is one of the basic positions that the therapist must develop and demonstrate through listening to the sick person, so the person being cared for feels that they are being listened to and understood and will foster an adapted helping relationship.