Parent Effectiveness Training Paper

There are many ways of understanding and dealing with clients, but there is a line that does not need to be crossed when handling them. There needs to be a person on the other side trying to help the situation the client may have gotten themselves into instead of judging and disrespecting the client. Everyone needs to be supportive and understanding when dealing with people that are already afraid to come forward and ask for help from professionals. I believe that for anywhere, communication is important and with that makes people feel important and welcome into anywhere they walk into. This creates a roadblock between the clinician and client and this is not the way to start the relationship because the client might shut down and not want the help from you anymore which is not what is wanted. …show more content…
Within Dr. Thomas Gordon’s Parent Effectiveness Training we are giving twelve different roadblocks that could disrupt and set barriers between worker and client. One of these bad roadblocks are exhorting, moralizing, and preaching. This is where the clinician tells the client what they need to do instead of helping them through the progress of what they are trying to achieve and doing it for themselves. Clients need to realize how important it is for them to figure out something on their own, because someone won’t always be there to guide the way when a problem comes to the surface. Some of the workers express to the patient that they know all the answers and they should do what they say. Saying specifics to patients of what they should do is not giving them the personal choice and options they really do have and making it seems that they have to do as they say. Some of these keywords that are often said and not realized are “should” and “ought.” For example, “You know that doing that is wrong!”(pg.