Psychological Self-Help: a Five Step Model

Abstract

Counselors have a variety of methods available to help facilitate clients' growth. Ultimately, however, clients must learn how to help themselves and assume responsibility for their own lives. One of the primary means for helping clients develop their own self-development systems is educational interventions. With this approach, the counselor assumes a teacher role at various stages in the counseling process in order to teach clients specific skills to cope better with problems of living. This article presents a five-step method that can be used both in counseling and as a self-help method to be learned by clients.