This study started from this question that is there have some family counseling model which can help more efficiently than short-term telephone counseling. Therefore I studied what is the critical point of telephone counseling and what can be its alte...
This study started from this question that is there have some family counseling model which can help more efficiently than short-term telephone counseling. Therefore I studied what is the critical point of telephone counseling and what can be its alternative plan above all.
The study method is identifying the difference between the theory and reality of telephone counseling. Especially I analyzed and collected statistics about telephone counseling data recently in three years of Seoul Women University's family counseling association with classifying it into itemized contents and counseling contents. With this analysis I could figure out the efficiency and effects of telephone counseling, and recognize necessity of the family counseling model for over passing the limitation of telephone counseling.
Among lots of family counseling theories, I found that Solution-Focused Family Therapy theory is used usefully and can be a great help of this. For structuralizing sixty minutes more efficiently, focusing on rather solution than problem and rather positive than negative makes a big change in short time . Also it is not concerned about consulter's weak point, but strength, so Solution-Focused Family Therapy is useful in here. And with this therapy, a consultant set a goal with a consulter, so it makes synergy effects, because most of consulters use this telephone counseling by their own choice.
Moreover it blocks up that only consultant leads to set a goal, and supports consulter to a professional position to make his or her own goals of counseling, which can be possible, so the efficiency of counseling can increase. The biggest worry of consultant can be solved in Solution-Focused Family Therapy. Whenever they consult consulters without any information about them, they feel the need of questions which can understand consulters more effectively.
That question has two strength points. One thing is that make consultant to manage counseling immediately, and the other is that it has successful and effective question technique to understand consulters in a short time.
This question technique makes consultant to find consulter's exceptional things, strength points, and the degree of change, in addition to this, it makes counseling progress more systematically in a short time. Also it is not problem-focused questions, but solution, so that it gives counseling lot of powers. This Solution-Focused Family Therapy overcomes the telephone counseling's weaknesses and shows the family counseling model with telephone to make a help consulters more effectively. If some theory is very good, but no consultants use it in the real counseling field, it's not good anymore, that's why I show counseling cases.
Solution-Focused Family Therapy, thus, makes up the weak points of telephone counseling and maximizes its strength, so I expect it helps telephone counseling makes more professionally with this new family counseling model.