Questions to Guide your Introduction to this Course
- What do we believe about effective therapy and the people who do it?
- What is worldview and why is it important to understand both your own and your client's? How does this affect what we do in therapy?
- We might talk about one role of counseling as "increasing intentionality." What does this mean? What would we see as a result? What other kinds of change might we expect to see as a result of counseling?
- What is the "core" of ethical responsibility? What elaborations of this guide our work as therapists? Why?
- Look at the outcome research done on therapy. Why do people fail to return to therapy? Are there additional complications for minority clients?
- What changes in symptoms occur when people choose not to go to therapy? Why?
Various worldviews
(From the Memphis Commercial Appeal)
- Kindergarten Teacher To get to the other side.
- Plato For the greater good.
- Aristotle It is the nature of chickens to cross roads.
- Karl Marx It was a historical inevitabililty.
- Timothy Leary Because that's the only trip the establishment would let it take.
- Saddam Hussein This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we were quite justified in dropping 50 tons of nerve gas on it.
- Captain James T. Kirk To boldly go where no chicken has gone before.
- Hippocrates Because of an excess of phlegm in its pancreas.
- Johnny Rotten Because it was stapled to the punk rocker.
- Fox Mulder You saw it cross the road with your own eyes. How many more chickens have to cross the road before you believe it?
- Richard M. Nixon The chicken did not cross the road. I repeat, the chicken did NOT cross the road.
- Machiavelli The point is that the chicken crossed the road. Who cares why? The end of crossing the road justifies whatever motive there was.
- Freud The fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken crossed the road reveals your underlying sexual insecurity.
- Einstein Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road moved beneath the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.