Maria et al,
I don't focus too much on "diagnosis" in my role as coach. I find that to be
a box that I don't like to put people in as long as insurance is not in the
picture. I do agree that structure can impact outcome. I also know that the
divorce coaching process follows the same path as what we normally call
"therapy": the client expresses concerns, fears, emotions; I make some sort
of intervention; the client a) feels better or b) changes self-destructive
behavior, etc. I call that a form of therapy. However, I do make it clear to
all involved that I am not the client's therapist. I am the coach, and my
role is limited to pre-divorce and during-divorce support. My role as coach
ends when the Collaborative Process of the divorce ends. On reading your
post carefully, it seems that you are defining "therapy" narrowly and I am
defining it broadly. That may be where the disconnect lies. Siri
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Siri,
I agree, as my prior comments would indicate, that MH training is essential
to being a divorce coach. However, I do not agree that coaching is
short-term solution focused therapy. While it shares lots of elements with
Short-term, solution focused therapy, the contract with the client is
different and my
responsibilities as a professional are different. Further, it is important
in the nature of CP work that we not create the relationship that diagnosis
implies. Even if their functioning has been compromised by the stress of
divorce, we are not their therapists. As I have said before, our work may be
therapeutic but it is not therapy.
We have learned a great deal about the fact that structure can dictate
outcome and process. I am suggesting that the structure of diagnosis and
treatment needs to be different from divorce coaching especially if we are
asking our
clients to be the best of who they are. Maria Alba-Fisch, PhD
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