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Personalization – Attribution of personal responsibility (or
causal role or blame) for events over which a person has no
control.
Some of the techniques used in the cognitive behavioural model
are:
- Homework (researching sources that are helpful to solve the
problems)
- Confrontation of situations in which the problem surfaces.
(analysing risky situations, preparing how to cope with them
and exercising strategies)
Focus points are:
- Change in thinking is a start, but it is not enough: the actual
behaviour must change.
- Not the problem, but the solution should be the focus. In
solution-oriented conversations, the problem and its
consequences can be defined and discussed. Emphasis
however must always be on the solution rather than the
problem.
- The solution is obtained through change. “Change” therefore is
an interesting approach in the coach / coachee
communication:
- What has changed since last session?
- How was the change realised?
- How did coachee cope with the new situation?
- What are possible consequences?
- How does coachee feel about it?
- The use of slogans and clear language often inspires coachee to
sudden insight or motivates him to think independently.
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