What kind of questions do Therapists ask?
I've been thinking about seeing one. I don't think money is an issue. But I really want to know what they ask. If its really worth my money to have a person just sit there and listen to me complain about my life.
Why does my therapist ask the same questions over and over?
shes just asking you the same question from diffrent perspective.some people react and answer questions diffrently just because the same quiestion is worded diffrently.so when you lie and make up people right after you say you have no friends,it confuses your therapist,so he/she has to figure out what is going on so she keeps asking the same question with diffrent words. id advise you to just say what ever is true,or else it will probably continue
What is the hardest question to ask as a therapist?
I think the more difficult questions are usually the ones that are in some way confronting or challenging a client's perspective. From a clinical standpoint, they're not that hard--it's relatively easy to know what needs to be asked--but as humans, we're taught to be courteous, and to defer to others' understandings of themselves and their world. As therapists, that isn't always our job.For similar reasons, questions about topics that we experience as very personal and private, or that clients experience as personal and private, can be hard the first time or two they come up. Those tend to be land mines; we don't always know they're there until we step in them--but having found them, we'll go home and figure out how to defuse them before the next session they arise in!The most difficult questions for me are the ones that I know have the potential to interrupt or end the clinical relationship. There are moments of intensity in therapy where a particular question has to be engaged, to move forward--and it's rare for a client to decide they would rather stop moving forward than face that issue, but it does happen. As one of my professors was fond of reminding us in graduate school, though--it all comes down to the clinical relationship. A solid clinical relationship can withstand a lot of intensity. And the strength of that relationship is protective for the therapist, as well as the client--it's a little like how I imagine a surgeon must feel, as they make their first incision. It can be intimidating, or even frightening; but you scrub up and get on with it, because you know your purpose. You know that opening into someone's experience is the thing that may save them.
Massage question? any therapists out there?
hmm, let me first state this, the first thing always to do is make your client comfortable, so if this is an uncomfortable thing for you, I would make sure I voice that. I ask my clients be be nude, with drape always, if they choose to have clothes on I also tell them this up front, that if they do not feel comfortable than we can work around the clothes, the reason for the nudity is to be able to obtain full strokes on the muscles that are generally inhibited by clothing. To answer your question directly, the difference between the two modalities is the stroke, timing and movement, I am not sure why no drape, the strokes require long fluid movement. I have 7 years of experience, teaching and applied, haven't yet found a reason to have my client undraped. For all massage therapists let's hope that this is maybe her misguided opinion as to how she was taught.
What is the most important question a therapist should ask?
You can observe a lot by just watching. And in doing so you become curious and want to know more about that person in front of you. You ask them questions. Most people have a positive response to an Other’s genuine interest in them- they become more talkative and disclosive.Sometimes the questions you ask are purposeful and guided by some idea of where you want to go. Other times you throw questions out like bread scattered on the water; you are pretty sure that pertinent information will surface- you just aren’t sure what or where.In those first few sessions, the client and therapist are forming a relationship and one of the primary tools in this process is the dialogue of the questions asked and questions answered. Questions can become a kind of implicit caring; the responses are hopefully the beginnings of trust.There is no most important question. It is the questioning itself that is most important.
What questions do therapists ask their patients who are cutters and suicidal?
Cutters are very often NOT suicidal. Cutting is a coping mechanism to handle strong emotions or feelings or stresses that they do not know how else to deal with. Most therapist will ask extensively about family school romance, moral conflicts, financial and sexual actions and attitudes including your masturbation behaviors. WHY? Because all these are the most likely to cause or relate to the stresses in your life. Expect open ended follow up questions like How did you react or how did that make you feel, did you notice any emotions at that time?