Veränderungsepisoden und Bedeutungskonstruktion im personzentrierten Therapieprozess

Abstract

Episodes of change and construction of meaning in the person-centred therapy process. What enables a professional in the course of therapy to distinguish, among the manifold phenomena that occur, those changes which are meaningful for the therapy process? For the author these are no objective facts, but complex constructions in the form of narratives and configurations of perception. On the basis of the person-centred theory of therapy, the author derives orientation frameworks for the perception of and conclusions about changes. In this he refers to the goals of the process and of therapy. Indicators are concrete phenomena like increasing self-exploration and the deepening of experiencing, but also much more abstract elements like, for example, the reduction of incongruence or the change of the self-concept. In the individual phases of therapy the signs of change are significant in different ways. Changes in the therapy process become evident as patterns. These are illustrated by a series of therapy excerpts focused on change and coming from the context of student counselling.