How to Coach Yourself and Others Empowering Coaching And Crisis Interventions | Page 109

This book is in B&W, not color - Print page in Grayscale for Correct view! TEACHER: I’d be interested in exploring what the client did. Did he or she try long enough? At the right time? In the right way? Sometimes problems get worse before they get better, and clients may give up too soon. A mother might try ignoring her child when he has a tantrum and then tell you ignoring doesn’t work, but she may have abandoned this tactic after a few minutes when it appeared that the intensity of her child’s tantrum was increasing. In this situation you could help her anticipate this obstacle so that she would not be demoralized if it recurred. Or maybe she has been giving her child lots of nonverbal attention, not realizing how this has been reinforcing the tantrum. STUDENT: I can think of another example. One of the members of my work group was having trouble with her supervisor. She told us that there was no point in talking to him because he didn’t listen anyway. But from the way she described how she talked to him, I wouldn’t listen either. She was vicious and cruel. TEACHER: So, if she were your client, she would need some help developing awareness about how she affects others. For [email protected] Property of Bookemon, do NOT distribute 109