Posted by Mitchell on January 22, 2003, at 16:39:46
In reply to Re: therapeutic conversational techniques, posted by Dinah on January 22, 2003, at 8:49:45
Dinah wrote:
> Would you mind telling me what concrete effects this project would have on PB posters, or what requirements it might bring them?Researchers cannot say what concrete effects this board has on participants. It would be even more difficult to say what effects a specific training aid will have. It is easier to say what effects it might have. It might help people learn to better help each other.
When doctors talk to us about our problems, we benefit from their training in how to talk to people. But in self-help groups, people often want to help don't know how. Unless the doctors' training is worthless, the same training might be useful for lay people who try to help each other. Some of the techniques are as simple as knowing when to give information and when to ask for information.
The only requirement I imagine is that if people want to read the page about ways doctors have learned to talk to clients about problems, they would be required to click a link leading to the page. My concern is that access to that kind of training now involves too many requirements, like paying for a book or a class. I am suggesting the information may be freely distributed without cost.
One concrete effect would be people who read such a guide would receive free training, on demand at their leisure, in brief therapeutic techniques without having to tell anyone that they had studied the subject. I am not the one to write such a guide. My suggestion is that writers with access to the best science could write a useful guide.
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