What Is Person-Centered Therapy?

The Satya model, also known as the Satya communication model, is a theoretical system created by Ms. Virginia Satir, the first family therapist in the United States. The Satya model is also called joint family therapy ^{[1 ]} . Family therapy is a new method of psychotherapy. It starts from the aspects of the family and society, and deals with the problems of individuals more comprehensively. The most important feature of the psychotherapy method established by Satya is that it focuses on improving personal self-esteem, improving communication and helping people live more "humane" rather than just eliminating "symptoms". The ultimate goal of treatment is to achieve "physical and mental integration," Consistent inside and outside. "

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The Satya model does not emphasize morbidity, but expands psychotherapy into a growth-oriented learning process. As long as people who are concerned about self-growth and potential development, they can gain something from this model. The popular explanation is her dynamic explanation of the various problems that people and people have in their interaction with the family and society. It has a very clear guiding value to the life of modern people. It is precisely because of this feature that her theory does not And cultural change without losing practicality.

In 1951, Satyar first tried to treat a family using a method that was later called the "Satya Model." At the beginning, she dealt with a teenage girl diagnosed with schizophrenia, and after 6 months, she developed well. But then she received a call from the girl's mother, saying that Satyr had separated their mother-daughter relationship.

With her keen insight, Satya sensed the implied meaning behind her mother's dissatisfaction. She asked the mother to meet her with her daughter. When the mother and daughter came to see Satya, Satya found that the good relationship she had established with the girl had disappeared, and the girl returned to the state she was six months ago.

Satya continues to treat the mother and daughter. A new, good relationship between mother, girl and Satya is slowly being established. At this time Satya invites the father / sir in the family to participate. As a result, when he became a member of the interview, the originally established therapeutic relationship fell back to its original state.

Satya learned at this time that she might have approached a key issue. It was this problem that later became an opportunity for her to create a new treatment model. She asked if there were other members of the family. When the remaining son / brother, known as the "Pride of the Heavens", came to the treatment interview and showed his important position in the family, Satya saw more clearly that the girl was being " The role of "strength of power" and her painful struggle to survive in the family.

These experiences and subsequent experiences led Satya to discover that treatment is not limited to "the identified patient", but also requires the intervention of the entire family system. That is, she can change the entire family by improving the relationship between family membersof course, naturally changing each individual member of the family.

This also made her start to use the "sculpture" technique very powerfully. She let the client represent and present the communication information with different body postures. These body postures can reveal and make the client aware of information that he did not realize, and thus change. For example, Satya let the "arrogant of heaven" stand on a chair, and his parents posed for him in worship, leaving no room for his daughter. By having family members perform this scene, Satiya made them aware of the feeling they often deny. This realization also prompted them to change their relationship with each other. Based on this experience, Satiya has developed a family-oriented treatment that helps the family with a systematic approach, which has a huge impact on the therapeutic community.

1. Confused person

People who have insurmountable obstacles in intimate relationships, parent-child relationships, and family relationships, but who have not found a suitable solution People who can't let go of the past and find it difficult to start a new relationship People who hope for a higher quality of life have better expectations for life, people who want to grow their souls, and improve their quality of life Psychologist ^[2]

Satya's four helpful goals: ^[3]

1. Change is possible. Even if external changes are limited, internal changes are still possible.

2. Parents do their best at any time.

3. We have all the necessary internal resources to successfully cope with and grow.

4. We have many options, especially to respond appropriately to stress rather than to respond to the situation in real time.

5. Treatment needs to focus on healthy and positive parts, not pathologically negative parts.

6. "Hope" is the most important component of "change".

7. People connect because of the same, and grow because of the difference.

8. The main goal of treatment is that everyone can make a choice for themselves.

9. We are all proof of the same vitality.

10. Most people tend to choose a response that is familiar to them rather than comfortable, especially under stress.

11. The problem [difficulty] is not a problem. How to deal with the problem is the problem.

12. Feelings belong to us, we all have them.

13, human nature is good. They need to find their treasure in order to connect and confirm their self-worth.

14. People often repeat patterns that they are familiar with as they grow up, even if those patterns are not functional.

15. We cannot change the events that have happened in the past. We can only change the impact of those events on us.

16. Appreciating and accepting "the past" can increase our ability to dominate the "now."

17. The goal of so-called humanity is to accept that parents are also humans, not just to get along with their roles.

18. Self-worth is presented in the way of coping. The higher the self-value, the more humane the way of coping.

19. Human processes are universal and therefore applicable to all situations, cultures and environments.

20. Process is the way to "change", the story content forms the context, and "change" happens there.

21. The main goal of the Satiya model is to achieve consistent and high self-worth on the surface.

22. Healthy interpersonal relationships are based on equal values.

The Satya model considers people to live in environments, relationships (or systems). Therefore, the appearance of a symptom has a lot to do with the interaction between people, others, and the environment. Among them, the various relationships and coping styles that a person experiences in a native family have the most significant impact on a person's life.

It can be seen that people affect and are affected in various relationships. Therefore, the occurrence of symptoms is not as simple as a cause leading to a result. It is the interaction between people and the people around them. Poor communication in these relationships leads to various stresses, emotions, and symptoms. Therefore, it can be seen that one is that no one is a simple victim or persecutor in the process of the generation of human stress, emotions, and symptoms, and everyone must bear some responsibility for the generation of this relationship. Second: You can improve your psychological condition by improving the way you communicate with others.

"The relationships and coping styles a person experiences in a native family have the greatest impact on a person's life." Among these family relationships, the ones with the greatest influence are those from childhood to adolescence (born to 16 years old). The relationships experienced in the family have the most profound impact.

When you grow up, the ways of thinking, behavior, and feelings that you experience and learn before you reach adolescence will always affect your life, work, and relationships. The relationship with the parents is internalized into the heart, and then it will be repeated in the relationship with loved ones, children, friends, supervisors, subordinates and others.

Therefore, Satya created a family map and influence circle to help people understand how they are related to others in the family or the entire interpersonal relationship circle. What is their different attitude toward coping with others? The coping stance is a summary of the ways in which people respond to others, the environment, and themselves under pressure. The above picture shows four coping stances for survival.)

Satya created the aforementioned "sculpture" technology, which can show people's psychological symptoms and affect the relationship. And further, improve these poorly communicated relationships to improve people's mental state ^[1]

Application fields of Satiya model

1. Personal growth and family harmony

Promote personal mental maturity, effective emotional management, effective interpersonal communication, harmonious close relationships, harmonious parent-child relationships, and the growth of children and adolescents.

2. Enterprise applications

Corporate culture, change management, stress management, leadership improvement, corporate coaching, employee effectiveness improvement, team communication, team meetings, event design and organization.

3. Helper's ability to work

Psychologists, educators, social workers, corporate coaches, and other workers who need to coach others to grow.

Applications of Satiya Model

1. Personal issues (relationship with yourself, relationship with others)
2. Couple issues (marital relationship, intimacy)
3. Family problems (parent-child relationship, relationships between three generations, youth problems, children's academic problems)
Satya Home Therapy Workshop:
The first stage: Retrospective Native Family Remodeling Self-native family refers to the family where the individual grew up. Psychological research has proven that the original family affects us earliest and lasts the longest. For example: family atmosphere, parental behavior, family rules, etc., have a long-term, far-reaching impact on our beliefs, values, behavior patterns, and sometimes even affect our lives.
When we start our own growth with the psychological imprint of a native family, we will encounter many problems. For example, many problems that seem to be husband and wife are not actually husband and wife problems, but psychological trauma brought by the original family. Old illusions reappear when interacting with close people; previously, the satisfaction that was not obtained from the parents is now in Love is doubled, and intimacy is overloaded. So, the first step in spiritual growth is to look back and deal with unfinished expectations.
After completing the traceback of the native family, we set our sights on improving our inner self-worth. Satya believes that the existence of each individual life is valuable in itself. Only when we can value ourselves in this way can we value others and love others equally. If we don't like ourselves, we will be jealous or fearful of others. When we have high self-worth, when we can appreciate ourselves from the heart, we are more capable of facing our lives with a noble, sincere and brave attitude, full of energy and love. ^[4] At this stage, various Satya-style experiential activities and exercises will be used to trace back to their native family and deal with unmet expectations left over from childhood. Help everyone learn to bring love, clean up the influence of the native family on themselves, draw a line between here and now and the past, so as to live clearly in the present. Lead us to examine our self-worth, clean up the negative effects of past experiences on us, lead us to enhance our self-worth, and reshape our hearts.
The second stage: the dance of relationships. When we clean up the impact of past events and reinvent ourselves, we understand ourselves more clearly, care for ourselves, and appreciate ourselves. This is the basis of all relationships. When we love ourselves more, we ask less of others. The less you ask of others, the more you trust yourself. The more you believe in yourself and others, the more you will be able to give love. The more you love others, the less fear you have. Communicating more with others will increase a connection. Therefore, only self-confidence can help you get rid of loneliness and no longer alienate family, others, collectives and nations. Healthy relationships all come from a calm, safe, and confident mind. The more a person lives in the present, the higher his self-worth, the more he understands and cares for himself, and at the same time has the courage to change his behavior, harmonize himself with others and the situation, walk through in the relationship, and dance.
At this stage, everyone will be led to learn to appreciate themselves and learn to appreciate others. At the same time, through a series of activities, everyone can learn how to better understand themselves and others, and our interaction mode with the world, so as to get along with others better and obtain an ideal interpersonal relationship, close relationship, parent-child relationship. ^[2]