Re-evaluation Counseling is a process whereby people of all ages and of
all backgrounds can learn how to exchange effective help with each other
in order to free themselves from the effects of past distress experiences.
Re-evaluation
Counseling theory provides a model of what a human being can be like
in the area of his/her interaction with other human beings and his/her
environment.
The theory
assumes that everyone is born with tremendous intellectual potential,
natural zest, and lovingness, but that these qualities have become blocked
and obscured in adults as the result of accumulated distress experiences
(fear, hurt, loss, pain, anger, embarrassment, etc.) which begin early
in our lives.
Any young
person would recover from such distress spontaneously by use of the
natural process of emotional discharge (crying, trembling, raging, laughing,
etc.).
However,
this natural process is usually interfered with by well-meaning people
("Don't cry," "Be a big boy," etc.) who erroneously
equate the emotional discharge (the healing of the hurt) with the hurt
itself.
When adequate
emotional discharge can take place, the person is freed from the rigid
pattern of behavior and feeling left by the hurt.
The basic
loving, cooperative, intelligent, and zestful nature is then free to
operate.
Such a person
will tend to be more effective in looking out for his or her own interests
and the interests of others, and will be more capable of acting successfully
against injustice.
In recovering
and using the natural discharge process, two people take turns counseling
and being counseled.
The one
acting as the counselor listens, draws the other out and permits, encourages,
and assists emotional discharge.
The one
acting as client talks and discharges and re-evaluates.
With experience
and increased confidence and trust in each other, the process works
better and better.
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