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Training at The Minster Centre Personal Qualities Extensive
research studies have shown that a number of personal qualities
of the psychotherapist or counsellor play a very important part
in determining the effectiveness of the therapeutic relationship.
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- Empathy: the quality which enables someone to
enter the internal world of another person and be aware of what
is going on there
- Genuineness or Congruence: the quality which
enables us to be aware of our own inner world and what is going
on there;
- Unconditional Positive Regard or Non-possessive Warmth:
the quality which enables us to give consistent warmth of regard
to another person;
- Concreteness: the quality which enables us to
put feelings and ideas into words which are not vague or abstract;
- Respect: the quality which enables us to treat
other people as on a level with ourselves, and worthy of our engagement
with them;
- Confrontation or Challenging: the quality which
enables us to detect contradictions in what is being said and done,
to detect falseness and bring it to notice;
- Immediacy: the quality of being present in the here and now, which enables us to relate to and speak to what is coming up in the moment.
We believe that most people are capable of developing their personal
qualities and, further, that counselling and psychotherapy training
must provide the opportunity for their development.
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