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Abuse Survivors Program – A S©
In childhood abuse often comes from those that we look to for protection, teachers, parents, guardians, aunts, uncles, grand parents, siblings and priests. Yet just as the abuser may vary from survivor to survivor so to the forms that the abuse may take, sexual, mental, emotional, physical and in may cases a combination.
It is possible that many of these abuses go undiscovered during the childhood years. With the child at first being to young and to scared to trust anyone enough to tell what is happening to them, to becoming adults who believe that too many years have gone past for anyone to care.
What are the end results?
Adults who go through life suffering from the effects of their abuse in silence, suffering from, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and often failing to reach their full potential.
Human Needs
As babies we come into this world with basic and instinctive needs When our needs are not met, we fail to progress fully and completely. I believe that we are all capable of reach our full potential, despite our start in life.
Using Solution Focused Brief Therapy and Life Coaching I aim to help each individual to attain their ‘Self Actualisation’, their full potential.
A.S© PROGRAM
A.S Program is devised using a two part system.
‘Without a positive sense of the future the client is still living in relationship to the abuse, rather than meeting her own needs in the context of a healthy personality (Dolan-1991).’
Part 1 of the program is therapy based, the outcome of which is to allow the client to see past the abuse and look toward a more positive future.
I aim to use both Solution Focused Brief Therapy and NLP Techniques to gently guide each client to this point.
Benefits of Solution Focused Brief Therapy
Solution Focused Brief Therapy is a client lead therapy which techniques are in use within mental health institutions and social services and has been found to be a useful and effective tool in moving clients forward, to a more positive outcome.
Although the therapies primary focus is on the clients positive achievements and the recognition of these, it does not ignore the clients need to visit and discuss the presenting problem or situation in relation to their past.
Neuro Linguistic Programming - NLP
Neuro Linguistic Programming is a therapy that has been devised from studying the human mind and how it works. It was devised by closely observing and modelling those who were at the peak of their profession in human behaviour and the human mind.
Using NLP techniques, where it is deemed needed, the client may be aided to detach from their past experience in order to work through the effects. The aim of this is to try to ensure the emotional well being of the client at all times.
Goals
With long term emotional disturbances we acquire many faulty habits, which do not enhance our lives. Each issue the client brings to the program will be treated separately and in the clients own time. This ensures that the client and not the therapist are in charge of their healing. It is human nature to slip backwards during and change work we may under take on ourselves. During this program each client will be aided to view these backward slides positively and not become stuck on the negative.
At the end of part 1 of the program the client will be in a more positive position to move forward.
Part 2 of the program will use Life Coaching. The aim of this is to move the client towards achieving goals or dreams, which they have but until this point in their live were unable to fulfil due to the effects of their childhood.
The aim of this is to allow clients to begin focusing a more positive future, and seeing it unfold before them.
Life Coaching
Life coaching is not about counselling. It is about offering individuals alternatives towards achieving their desired work related and personal goals.
Life coaching removes the interference that stands between clients and the achievement of their potential.
Life coaching focuses on results and nothing but results.
Life coaching works on all areas and aspects of life. |
