Qualitative research of key point of client's change in counseling / 中国心理卫生杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To analyze the key point of client's change in counseling,and found the cognitive,emotional and other characteristics in the key point of change.Methods:Totally 14 foreign cases and 5 domestic cases with good outcome that came from the published literature in the area of assimilation model were analyzed.The secondary data analysis was used to analyze the cases'data.Results:Analysis revealed that 9 categories were generated from the data,which were understanding the causes of the problems,the accompanying feelings,the emergence of a new awareness,removing the problematic voice's threat,discovering behavior pattern,allowing the coexistence of both original conflicts,directly expressing the problematic voice desired to be expressed,viewing things with different perspectives,finding out the direction of future action.Conclusions:Behind the key point of client's change,changes in cognition could lead to changes in emotion,so that the problematic voice's threat could be removed and the coexistence of original conflict could be allowed,and then bring about the relief of the client's inner conflict.