Psychology Prepare/Enrich Sessions Case Studies
Session One
During the initial stage of the first session, I inquired feedback from my clients, Salomon and Donna, on their on-line assessment experience. The first to talk was Salomon, who said that he was fascinated with the number and the nature of the assessment questions that were used in the questionnaire. He also indicated that in a number of cases he had to go deep in his thoughts, attitudes, and feelings in order to respond to the assessment questions. Then Donna took her time and explained that the assessment questions also motivated her to make some inner analysis to provide answers to the questions. Both Salomon and Donna indicated that it was both interesting and challenging experience to respond to those questions and become aware of their deep feelings and emotions.
Sharing Strength and Growth Areas
The results of the Sharing Strength and Growth Areas analysis indicated that the couple had a conflicted couple typology with a few elements in their strength areas. I communicated to the couple that their strength area included spiritual beliefs as the only element of their strength. At the same time, I revealed that in the possible strength area was the family and friends. I also told to Salomon and Donna that their possible growth areas were communication and financial management, while the growth areas included conflict resolution, partner style and habits, sexual relationships, and roles and responsibilities. In this view, I explained to my clients that they could use their strength areas to enhance other aspects of their marital relationships.
Further, I explained that their spiritual beliefs provided strong implications for providing a strong foundation for the resolution of compatibility issues. This strength reflects consistency in values and attitudes that play a major role in breathing life in their relationships on an existential level. Additionally, family and friends category was
their possible strength area, which indicates that they had comfortable relationships with family and friends. This indicates that the couple is comfortable with their family-friends time spending balance and the quality of relationships that they had with the two groups of individuals.
More attention was drawn to the communication, conflict resolution, and roles and responsibilities. I explained that the communication sphere was responsible for the ability of partners share their feelings, attitudes, remarks, ideas and needs. Here, listening and hearing skills are heavily important. Next, conflict resolution was explained as another ability of the couple to express feelings and attitudes regarding various experiences, that occur due to various situations. At this point, the openness of partners to the recognition of conflicts is crucial, in order
to be able to negotiate …
