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in his book The Road Less Traveled,
famed author and
therapist M. Scott Peck wrote,
"In
the course of psychotherapy, most therapists will come to recognize
how a
patient views the world...It is essential that therapists arrive at this
knowledge,
for the worldview of patients is always an essential part of
their problems,
and a correction in their worldview is necessary for their
cure."
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Project Worldview can help you do this. After
you understand our framework for characterizing worldviews in terms of
104 worldview themes paired to form 52 choices, and have used
our resources to explore your own worldview, we recommend you do the
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#1
After acquainting your patients with what is meant by the term worldview,
give them a copy of the Choices We Make
booklet, or at
least direct them to the smart phone scrolling version of it.
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#2 Devote at least one session to discussing these choices with your patient, and perhaps additional ones with choices your patient faces that pose particular challenges. And you may decide to spend additional time probing for what you suspect, but what the patient is not telling you.
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#3 When appropriate, ask your patient to use worldview analysis programs, and reflect on the results and indicated contradictions . If careful
attention is given to input, the one person program can provide a good %
estimate A second
program can be used to estimate the extent to which the patient's worldview correlates #4 As appropriate, spend some time with your patient discussing particular worldview themes as they relate to challenges they face. The web pages for these themes are wonderful resources to use in this regard! Examples: #41 Struggling
With A Basic Need: Self Esteem #52 Physically
Challenged ==>Independent
Living #201B Positive Expectations* (see below)
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*The last theme above has some
value. In exploring it, you may want to look over the
descriptions on "Related Words, Beliefs, Background
for Choice #1 of
the following terms:
adopting healthy beliefs magical
thinking useful fiction wishful thinking
Having said that, we believe that often the most important thing a therapist can
do for patients
whose traumatic state doesn't require their escape from reality to escape
from pain,
is to help that person avoid wishful thinking and be firmly
grounded in reality.
That is, to encourage your patient to value the other theme
in choice #1 more highly: #201A Evidence-Based
Accordingly, we end with what famed psychologist and human
potential researcher
Abraham Maslow concluded about self-actualized
individuals.
To paraphrase him, he felt such people
“see
life more clearly than others due to a better understanding of themselves.”
And that self-actualized individuals have the “ability to see life clearly,
to
see it as it is, not as they wish it to be.”
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