TITLE:
Psychological Duty and Therapeutic Relationship: The Point of View of Attended Clients
AUTHORS:
Emanuel Meireles Vieira, Gabriela Di Paula Dias Ribeiro, Bianca Nascimento de Souza, Jacqueline de Oliveira Moreira, Paula Affonso de Oliveira
KEYWORDS:
Psychological Duty, Therapeutic Relationship, Point of View of the Client, Person-Centered Approach, Humanistic Psychology
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.5 No.7,
May
28,
2014
ABSTRACT: This work
aims to examine what the clients cared for in a service of psychological duty,
guided by a person-centered therapy, and consider meaningful as for the way the
psychologist on duty relates to them. For that, semi-structured interviews were
done with 5 clients cared for by this service, and the phenomenological method
of research was used to analyze the interviews. Thus, we reached six analysis
categories: 1) feel heard; 2) interest from the psychologist on duty; 3) feel
welcome; 4) confidence; 5) unlimited time; 6) self-knowledge. Through the
analysis of all the categories, it was possible to reach the conclusion that,
even in a service that is so distinct from the psychotherapy as the duty
service is, it is possible for the client to realize those that, according to
Rogers, would be the necessary and sufficient conditions for the change of
personality. Besides, it was possible to perceive the relevance of the quality
of the presence of the psychologist on duty in the established relationship
with the interviewed clients.