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In Lieu of Therapists, Benchmark Opts for "Coaches"

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TheWho:

--- Quote ---You're right. They only state that they have therapists to prospective parents. On their website they used to claim they were "counselors" so if you want to split hairs that it would be "benchmark replaces 'counselors' with 'coaches"
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That was my only point, thanks.  The title of the thread should be In Lieu of "Counselors", Benchmark Opts for "Coaches".  If they want to tell parents that they have therapists, when they don’t, that is a problem, but I don’t think many parents will fall for it for very long.  I had my daughter’s therapist at ASR speak directly with her therapist at home and she had a private practice also.  Plus they need someone to distribute meds etc.  all the parents would discuss the various counselors, therapists, their backgrounds, schools etc. as we all sat together at dinner... if there was a therapist without a degree it would had surfaced fairly quickly.



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psy:
So I called Penelope Valentine this morning and asked her a few questions on the phone about coaching.  I don't think she knew who I was, otherwise I doubt she would have talked to me at all.

Among other things I did confirm that Mel Wasserman definitely created his workshops/seminars from est/Lifespring material (Yes, I know we all knew this long, long ago, but one more confirmation isn't a bad thing).

About coaching, I asked her a few questions about this page of hers.  Among other things, I wanted to know the purpose of this skill that is taught:

"Revealing the Barriers to 'What Is'"

she responded:

"one of the skills when we do our coach training talks about the barriers of parents seeing what is actually in front of them.  Parents who have a struggling teen and young adult often are not able to clearly see what is right in front of them so... when we talk about revealing the barriers that's what we do, we talk about what the problem may be, we look at it objectively, how they can assess it... we look at some of the barriers that might, um, be in place which could be, um, expectations that they have for their child...  It could be, um.  Negative self-judgements, um, it could just be fear of change."

What didn't surprise me at all was that the coaching seemed to be, as she was explaining this, more oriented at coaching the parents than the students.

It's good she paused so much during her speaking... gave me ample time to type it down word for word.

Che Gookin:

--- Quote from: ""psy"" ---
"one of the skills when we do our coach training talks about the barriers of parents seeing what is actually in front of them.  Parents who have a struggling teen and young adult often are not able to clearly see what is right in front of them so... when we talk about revealing the barriers that's what we do, we talk about what the problem may be, we look at it objectively, how they can assess it... we look at some of the barriers that might, um, be in place which could be, um, expectations that they have for their child...  It could be, um.  Negative self-judgements, um, it could just be fear of change."


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I bet at no time does it ever come up that the problem lies with the parent.

Anonymous:
FUCK COACHES! OATS

chuckAluck:
yo. whats up. i went to benchmark for over 2 years. the counsilors, thats what we had to call them when i was there, dont know shit. coaches?! half of them could coach young criminals. dont get me wrong, some of the people there are all right. but the company and the way they conduct their buissiness is just plain wrong. not to mention technically illegal. :ftard: i just thought that was kool.

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