Therapists, Mentors & Coaches
Doctors came to see her singly and in consultation, talked much in French, German, and Latin, blamed one another, and prescribed a great variety of medicines for all the diseases known to them, but the simple idea never occurred to any of them that they could not know the disease Natasha was suffering from, as no disease suffered by a live man can be known, for every living person has his own peculiarities and always has his own peculiar, personal, novel, complicated disease, unknown to medicine. - Leo Tolstoy
Therapists, mentors & coaches: an introduction
key points:
1.) what makes some psychotherapists, counsellors, mentors & coaches more helpful than others?
2.) links are provided to five ways of increasing therapist helpfulness - feedback, therapeutic alliance, expectancy & hope, deliberate practice & therapist resilience.
"The secret of patient care is caring for the patient." William Osler