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    New Paradigm Psychology: Embracing The New - Putting The Heart Into Counseling And Psychology Practice
    New Paradigm Psychology: Embracing The New - Putting The Heart Into Counseling And Psychology Practice
    New Paradigm Psychology: Embracing The New - Putting The Heart Into Counseling And Psychology Practice
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    New Paradigm Psychology: Embracing The New - Putting The Heart Into Counseling And Psychology Practice

    By Claudia Vayda

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    What if there was a way, not just to help people get over the bad times, but to help them achieve to the utmost of their potential? A way to be with clients and be absolutely our best without getting burnt out, drained or exhausted? New Paradigm Psychology addresses these questions by introducing the idea of energetic interactions between the therapist and their clients, and then showing how to manage boundaries around these interactions to prevent feeling exhausted or drained or even depressed and anxious after interactions. It also discusses the importance of 'psycho-spiritual' qualities such as hope, unconditional love, and compassion in practice. New Paradigm Psychology is both for very experienced as well as new therapists. Importantly, it is not a new therapy, but instead gives new skills and strategies that can be used alongside the therapist’s choice of framework.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Hunt Publishing
    Release dateJul 27, 2018
    ISBN9781782799085
    New Paradigm Psychology: Embracing The New - Putting The Heart Into Counseling And Psychology Practice
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    Claudia Vayda

    Claudia Vayda is a Psychologist who has over 20 years' experience in counselling and therapy. She is passionate about the importance of the development and maintenance of psychological clarity and self-awareness in the practitioner, and how this enhances practice and results with clients.

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      New Paradigm Psychology - Claudia Vayda

      enthusiasm.

      Introduction

      Therapy is an ever-changing field to work in. It is the constantly moving, living breathing ebb and flow of relationship, emotional interaction and energetic connection. It is the exploration of the messiness and complexity of humanness.

      It’s very hard for us to tell objectively how effective we are, how well we do our job. Therapy moves in fits and starts, quickly, slowly and sometimes seemingly backwards. In fact, all therapists show some level of faith, trust and hope, just to stay in the job. We have to trust that our work is effective and having some impact for the benefit of the client. Of course we have visible and obvious ‘successes’—and, indeed, ‘failures’—but with other clients it can often be hard to tell, and sometimes the benefits of the work we do with people flower long after therapy has ended, and we are no longer in contact.

      I think it is because of this difficulty in quantifying what we do, that therapists are some of the hungriest professionals I have come across for professional development, books and conferences, always wanting new learning and skills to integrate and to add to their ‘tool box.’

      I aim to keep this book readably short—I know how much you all have to read!—and to really focus on some simple concepts and processes that are equally beneficial to the treatment of clients in therapy, and to our own self care as counselors and therapists. This is not a new treatment approach, but simply an exploration of how to enhance both the therapist and clients’ experience of therapy, to get better results and to move the act and idea of therapy into much more of its potential as a healing, nurturing and growth encouraging practice. It is also applicable to far more than simply the therapy hour. It is in fact relevant to a whole lifestyle change for us, as therapists, to enable us to live as much of our own potential as possible, as well as being able to assist others to reach theirs. This book is a reminder that in order to be the most effective therapist and psychologist we can be we must see our work as fully in alignment with how we live our lives. It is possible to get a good outcome working with a client, when we do not walk the talk of what we teach, but we will never get the best outcome that way, neither for ourselves nor for those who consult us.

      In this book I will be addressing issues, such as holding a space for clients, and minding our own energy, as well as noticing what other people’s energy does to us and how to address this. I will be delving at times into the ‘spiritual’ field, but bear with me! When we work with people we all come to understand that there is more to what is going on than a simple chemical imbalance or a lack of resilience, important though these are. The question is why, and how to assist, and we have to move further into areas that aren’t typically psychological to address these issues. This is not new, in fact the frontiers of what is relevant to, and interesting for, psychologists are constantly being pushed out, and spirituality has already well and truly been introduced into the literature of psychology. I aim here to explore just a bit further, and discover what could be helpful to us as practitioners.

      Over and over therapists write books that make the obligatory nod to their preferred treatment style, involving tools-skills and techniques. However, the largest portion of this particular book is about the relationship, the sense of safety and support for the client, and the miracles that happen that we cannot really explain. These miracles occur only when there is love and compassion in a judgment free zone.

      Essentially we are no different from our clients, and are walking the same path on this complicated human journey. The practices and disciplines outlined in this book, and indeed the ideas discussed and expounded here are as relevant for use on the self of the practitioner as they are for use with clients. I would go even so far as to say that unless you submit to the discipline of these practices and make the commitment to be the best you can be, then you will not be able to use these ideas to any useful degree. This is not a book that tells you how to fix people. It operates on the ancient axiom, Physician heal thyself. All then flows from here. The greater your clarity, understanding, compassion and awareness, the more you can be of service to other souls walking this path. Welcome to the beginning of the journey.

      Chapter 1

      The changing role of psychologists: choosing your path

      Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. Aristotle

      As I read journal and books, attend conferences and speak with colleagues, I have started to wonder what is happening in counseling psychology. There seems to be a widening split, almost a crisis of identity. On the one hand there is such a huge and burgeoning interest in the interface of spiritual ideas and psychology. The exploration of the place of such things as compassion, altruism, gratitude, love and joy in the happiness and the mental, emotional and physical health of the human being is enjoying much attention from a wide variety of scientists, researchers, spiritual leaders and those in practice in the helping professions, such as psychologists, counselors therapists and doctors.

      On the other hand we have the increased scientificization (yes, I have made this word up) of psychology. As psychology has become more regulated, and more mainstream, we have developed a far more pathology focused and medical-like attitude and approach to our work. There is a push for evidence based therapies that can be manualized and even administered by computer, a focus on pathology and diagnosis, and a lessened interest in creating relationship and coming from the heart in therapy.

      So where are we going, and how can we reconcile these two seemingly opposite ways of being? It seems to me that the way it is going suggests that we can choose from a couple of paths. The path I and many others are choosing is the path from the heart. The true work of exploring what it means to be human with our clients, not so that they can be happy, or live perfect lives or be free from emotional pain, but so that they, and we, can experience, learn grow, and develop. It’s about making room in our lives to wonder, experience, and find joy, even in the midst of difficulty and pain.

      Coming from the heart honors the humanness of our relationships with our clients and truly puts us alongside rather than in a one-up position. We are sharing the journey.

      This book is for those of us who feel called to a different work, a new way. It is for those who would like to work as therapists and counselors with all kinds of people, and to be able to help facilitate their growth and movement emotionally, mentally and spiritually.

      Psychology as a profession is changing under our eyes. What once was considered quite an alternative and even controversial field has now become so mainstream it is even covered by Medicare. There are psychologists in every school and every corporation. The roles of psychologists are ever widening, and there are now many different types of psychologists all requiring different training. Counseling psychology, and therapy, is my interest and focus here, and it also is changing, with so many different counseling approaches, techniques and schools of thought. As psychology changes, we as psychologists and counselors need to start deciding what it is we want it to become, so we can direct the changes and not be dictated to by government, or insurance companies.

      I see that we are entering a new era in psychology, so let us take the opportunity now to decide what that will look like. We need to be ready for this next challenge and start working now on what we want to see. I can see psychology, if we allow it, take a role in nurturing, developing and healing, trailblazing a new way and taking a place among the teachers and healers in the new world.

      I see the aims of psychology to be for a psychologically healthy society; to promote and focus on health, rather than disease. To move towards an individual approach for clients or perhaps to simply understand that all are on their unique, but of course similarly human, journey. To move away from the paradigm of normal, of right and wrong ways to feel, of fixing those who don’t fit in; to be the forerunners in the development of self-empowerment, and human spiritual growth in humanity. To allow our understanding of humanness to be a resource for humanity as it grows, learns and develops.

      Wouldn’t it be wonderful if people could, and did, see a psychologist or therapist preventatively, as is becoming more common in both traditional and complementary medicine? Imagine having clients who wished to come in to maintain and even further strengthen their mental/emotional health, their resilience, happiness, contentedness and self-worth; having clients who are looking for a positive outcome, a reaching higher towards their potential, rather than simply looking for the amelioration of symptoms. This would be such a wonderful way to work, with motivated and healthy people who wish to go just that bit further, to meet more of their potential. We know, as professionals, that there is always more work to be done—on ourselves, as well as with our clients. There is always further to go if a client wishes it. It seems, though, that as we medicalize psychology we run the risk of losing these ‘healthy’ clients, they simply see us as not for them, that they don’t have enough pathology to warrant coming to see us. We are now seeing an increased interest in areas such as coaching and mentoring, and perhaps this is why, so as to be able to offer ‘healthy’ people an opportunity for growth and development, where they do not feel they have to be mentally ill. It would be a pity for Psychologists to lose this group, though, as we have the skills and training to work strongly and effectively in helping people be the best they can be. I am concerned that as we continue the trend of medicalizing psychology we end up with a counseling field split into fragments. As we start to call what we do ‘psychological treatment’, rather than ‘therapy’ or even ‘counseling’, we start to lose a cherished part of our role. Treatment implies fixing something that is wrong, sick or diseased, and so it limits the kinds of clients we attract and so the kind of work we do. This means some of what we could be doing is lost, and so other models are created to meet the needs of those who wish to do more and be more, but are not ‘sick.’ Coaching would be an example of that. The idea of coaching in this context had to be created in order to encourage those ‘healthy’ people to access more of their own potential.

      I am not suggesting that psychologists do not work with the mentally ill, I understand that for many of us this is a critical and important part of our work, and rightly so. I am simply suggesting that this should not be the limit of our work, and particularly not be seen as the only useful work there is to be done. In trying to help people be able to fit in to society we can forget to look at society and wonder how it can be changed and influenced for the better, and where our role could be in this change.

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