Asian Journal of Counselling


Vol. 6 No. 1, Page 7-34, 1999

Internal Dialogue as an Underutilized Psychoeducational Resources: Hearing the Anticounselor

Paul Pedersen

Abstract

While most counseling theories acknowledge the vital importance of internal dialogue or how clients process information, there has been little attention to how that internal dialogue can become a resource in the counseling process. The article describes a conceptual model for utilizing internal dialogue through a Triad Training Model that matches a coached client with a procounselor and anticounselor in a three-person team to articulate the client' positive and negative internal dialogue when matched with a culturally different counselor in a role-played interview. Culture is defined broadly to include demographic, status and affiliation variables as well as ethnographic characteristics. The advantages of a counselor trainee receiving immediate and continuous - positive as well as negative - feedback from a procounselor and anticounselor are discussed.

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