All throughout Stan's life he has battled with emotional problem as well as millions of others around the world. Over Stan's life time he has experienced things like low self-esteem, self-blame, and emotional abuse. Many people who have been through these same experiences often feel hopeless and feel like they are all alone or maybe even unwanted. As social workers it is our job to steer our clients away from these negative thoughts and help them be in control of their own thoughts and emotions. This is why I chose to use the Emotion-focused therapy model to assess Stan's case. This approach is used to help clients who lack skills on how to deal with emotions and helps them to strengthen themselves by attending to their emotional experiences
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Building a good relationship with the client is key in the beginning of therapy and the first key step in the therapy processes. In the emotion-focused approach the social worker and client focuses on emotions, heighten emotional awareness, and try to identify the clients core problems. The social worker should act as the emotional coach by leading the client into their own emotional process. Clients will begin to experience new emotions because they are now reflecting on their experiences. In a successful therapy session, a client should feel a sense of more resilient and …show more content…
In Stan's case he expressed that he lacks motivation, encouragement, self-esteem and he wants to be more accomplished in life. In my service agreement with Stan I would make sure to establish a plan to help him become more powerful in his own life as well as have more control over his feelings. I would make sure to that all the goals that we establish are goals that Stan understands and embraces. Without setting reasonable goals that the client can understand and actually accomplish the treatment will not be successful. During the intervention process it's important for social workers to be great listeners and to be able to show empathy, identify client's strengths, and immediate needs. Social workers also have to be teachers for our clients, we have to teach skills for
Building a good relationship with the client is key in the beginning of therapy and the first key step in the therapy processes. In the emotion-focused approach the social worker and client focuses on emotions, heighten emotional awareness, and try to identify the clients core problems. The social worker should act as the emotional coach by leading the client into their own emotional process. Clients will begin to experience new emotions because they are now reflecting on their experiences. In a successful therapy session, a client should feel a sense of more resilient and …show more content…
In Stan's case he expressed that he lacks motivation, encouragement, self-esteem and he wants to be more accomplished in life. In my service agreement with Stan I would make sure to establish a plan to help him become more powerful in his own life as well as have more control over his feelings. I would make sure to that all the goals that we establish are goals that Stan understands and embraces. Without setting reasonable goals that the client can understand and actually accomplish the treatment will not be successful. During the intervention process it's important for social workers to be great listeners and to be able to show empathy, identify client's strengths, and immediate needs. Social workers also have to be teachers for our clients, we have to teach skills for