心理咨询英文对话

Psychological Counseling Dialog

(C: Counselor V：Visitor)

C：(smiling)Nice to meet you! I’m happy to do something for you!

V: Well , thank you! I’m a student in Grade Three in a high school. It’s the last year for me to preparing for the College Entrance Examination. But I always feel down recently, and I don’t want to do anything when I feel very bad, so I skip some lessons. While skipping lessons makes me feel ashamed and regretful. These make me can’t concentrated on my study.

C: That is to say, your black mood makes you unsatisfied with you study. Actually it’s common for students of your grade to feel depressed. Some other ones also reflect they don’t want to go to class. But they always stick at having class, concerned for being criticized by parents and teachers. (generalization)

V:Er……Maybe my emotion changes too fast. What makes me feel depressed now is the time I feel depressed is longer, while the time I feel happy is shorter. C: So you still have time feeling good. It’s merely not longer than before. (focus on positive information, ignore the negative)

V: yeah

C: What do you most hope for now then?

(question presuppose, suggested the counseling goal is to change)

V: I hope I could go back to the excellent fettle of study.

C: (delightedly) Then, you used to be in a very good studying state. Could you tell me when you felt good of study fettle and how you made it？

(lead visitor to focus on his successful experience, improve his sense of personal control)

V: When the term started. At that time, I was always in peace and could

concentrated on my study, I felt confident of myself, even for my poor grade in class. I’m sure that I could catch up with others. So I could study systematically. C: what did you do else to keep your good emotion state?

(continue to focus on successful experience)

V: I studied hard, and didn’t compare with others. So I could keep peace inside myself.

C: You have excellent study ability looking from this perspective. (approvingly)In addition, you focused more on ego, target and proceeds. These two factors made you feel good.(praise visitor to promote his confidence) Then, do you feel that you have the ability to change your current state?(learn visitor’s current situation)

V: Yes. I still feel very confident of myself(smile).Although in bad state, I could keep better-than-average level. I could do better if I change current situation. C: yeah, I believe you could. Y ou said that you would skip lessons when you feel depressed. What do you think makes you feel ashamed and regretful?

(specific technology)

V: I missed what the teacher taught my classmates. When I went back to class, I did not know what to do. I feel that I was wasting time. This made me more depressed and nervous .

C: Would you feel better when you skip lessons？

V: it merely made me feel better when I’m absent. I felt more depressed when coming back to classroom.

C: It seems skipping lessons couldn’t solve your problem? What do you think could settle your problem better?(guide visitor think in positive direction)