ABSTRACT

This study collated person-centred therapists’ views on their use of questions in person-centred counselling. It asked whether the therapists considered that questions are useful and how they seek to implement them. Six experienced person-centred therapists were interviewed and their comments analysed using Thematic Analysis. Therapy transcripts by Rogers and Mearns were also analysed to obtain examples of their questioning techniques. Results suggested that these person-centred therapists ask questions regularly for many reasons including; to check their understanding or to clarify an issue for the client; to challenge the client; to enable the client’s processing; and sometimes just out of curiosity. However generally, questions were used to represent the counsellor’s way of being and subtly facilitate progress in the counselling relationship.

摘要

这项研究整理了以人为本的治疗师对他们在以人为本的咨询中使用问题的看法。它询问治疗师是否认为这些问题有用以及他们如何寻求实施这些问题。六位经验丰富的以人为本的治疗师接受了采访，并使用主题分析对他们的评论进行了分析。还对罗杰斯和梅恩斯的治疗笔录进行了分析，以获得他们的提问技巧的例子。结果表明，这些以人为本的治疗师定期提出问题的原因有很多，包括：检查他们的理解或为客户澄清问题；挑战客户；启用客户端处理；有时只是出于好奇。然而，一般来说，问题是用来代表咨询师的生活方式，并巧妙地促进咨询关系的进展。