Personal Therapy

Social Reflection (S-R Therapy)

       

                             Every time we hear social reflection we may immediately think of our interaction, our relationship to communicate to others.  But if we are going to analyze the meaning of Social Reflection it is about taking the time to figure out who we are, as individuals and as a human in terms of social interaction.  Social interaction is a dynamic, changing sequence of social actions between individuals (or groups) who modify their actions and reactions due to the actions by their interaction partner(s). In other words they are events in which people attach meaning to a situation, interpret what others are meaning, and respond accordingly.
 When we say reflection it is a thought process and a technique for evaluating  our own performance. It involves looking at our own learning and development needs like love and belongings. Understanding and acknowledging of our feelings and feelings of others is an important part of this process. This therapy is based on Adlerian approach which emphasize the the interpretation of unconscious life that the individual are victims neither of their genetic endowment nor of their social conditioning. Rather, they are responsible for themselves and learn to respond in adaptive, creative ways to our surroundings.

View of human life

In order to understand who we are as a human in terms of social interaction we can set some questions that would help to reflect our own self and behavior toward to other:

·         What can I do to build a strong relationship?

·         What resentments do I need to resolve in order to move forward more optimistically with the understand of others?

·         What did I make mistakes to my family, friends, and classmates?

·         How does my misbehavior started that affect to others?

This sample of questions guides to examine our self  interaction what kind of person we are. Social Reflection also allows us to identify and ‘own’ our traits, both our personality traits and our value. When we are able to recognize our traits, as we reflect we are able to monitor our interactions with others. Both from the standpoint of why we are feeling the way we do and our actions that result from those feelings.

Development of Maladaptive behavior

        People who are feeling depress, isolated, lack of attention, aggressive, neglect, rejection, etc. are the common factors that develop their misbehavior. According to Adler people need to cooperate with and contribute to society in order to  realize personal as well as social goals. Regarding to  social interest as a force that opposed a striving for superiority, that  prevented people from being selfish. We all know that our child is often change their behavior based on what they see or being imitations to others. We can apply this therapy to help our client to realize them what they are done on their socialization.  talk to them and explain very well how does the social interaction help and what can contribute for the benefits to us.

Function of the therapist          

            In this therapy the counselor need to establish and maintain accepting,caring,supportive and cooperative relationship. The counselor and the client work together to realize them the importance of social acceptance and interest. This approach focus to the client that prefer to be alone or being isolated rather than to have a big group. As a teacher we should aware the differences of our students what they want to choose or what they want to have and especially what they are needs. The counselor should demonstrate what are the good ways on how to build a good relationship to others. We should relate the importance of this saying that" No man is an island" in this thoughts the client should responds what are the appropriate act toward to others.




Goals of Therapy
   The goal of this therapy is to show the importance of social acceptance,understanding of the feeling of others, social interest, the feeling of community.To help the client to  learn how to be most effective in directing their own socialization. Special attention will be paid to exploration, play, creativity, wisdom, and positive reinforcement -- that focus of this therapy to the client.


Major Methods and Techniques

• Encouragement= One of the best ways that the teacher/counselor encourage the client to have an social interest. This technique is use to build a relationship and to foster a client change.
•  Modeling= In this methods The counselor will demonstrate the importance of socialization. The client observe and imitates the appropriate behavior  in terms of communication.
• Role play=The role-play process provides students with an opportunity to 1) explore their feelings, 2) gain insight about their attitudes,and 3) increase problem solving skills.
• Instruction= The counselor teach the client to reflect their behavior how they see themselves in communication skills.

References:

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