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If a specialist treats your problems with indifference, or even disdain, this will negatively affect therapy.
Sometimes you can meet a low-skilled specialist, or even a charlatan who is not able to solve a person’s problem and simply extracts money from him.
RBC-Ukraine writes about what three things a professional psychologist should not allow during therapy with reference to a publication by the Kyivdvoryk Center for Psychology and Development on Instagram.
What things a psychologist cannot allow in therapy
“A psychologist is a person to whom you can tell about your deepest experiences. These relationships are built on trust and mutual respect, and also have certain rules. Psychologists and psychotherapists have an ethical code, which is very important to comply with, because otherwise it harms the therapy process and treatment of the client,” experts explain.
They identify several critical ethical violations that are important to point out to clients during psychological therapy.
Condemnation or indifference
“We are all very different, each person has his own values and lifestyle. The internal guidelines that the client has may not coincide with the views of the therapist, but condemning the client for his views, or imposing your own, is absolutely unacceptable,” experts note.
Empathy is also a very important trait for a psychologist. If a specialist treats your problems with indifference, or even disdain, this will negatively affect therapy.
Gossip
It is very important for psychologists and psychotherapists not to simultaneously accept into therapy people who have a certain relationship with each other (for example, separately counsel a man and a woman experiencing a relationship crisis), or already have a certain relationship with the therapist.
However, sometimes during a consultation a psychologist may find out that some of his clients know each other. If such a situation happened to you and a psychologist begins to tell you news from the life of another person, gossip or share his personal opinion about the client – this is a very gross violation of ethics.
Instructions on how to proceed
Uninvited advice can be heard from relatives and friends, which is often associated with the inability to withstand our emotions, with the desire to find a quick and universal solution to the problem. This is unacceptable in psychological counseling.
“A psychologist or psychotherapist is a professional who gives tools and, together with the client, searches for an individual path to healing. Together with the client, you can perform therapeutic techniques, homework, together develop hypotheses and test them. But in no case should you give directive instructions about what how to act or communicate with other people,” experts explain.
