Contact Work Concepts
The Practitioner
- Assumes full responsibility for contacting the client
- Validates clients’ experience
- Values the importance of clients' psychotic expressions
- Recognises that hallucinations and delusions are meaningful
- Acknowledges clients' self autonomy process towards meaningful experience
- Contributes to the clients' healing process
Practitioners’ Attitudes
- Compassion
- Acceptance
- Non-critical
- Non-judgemental
- Non-directive
- Interest
- Curiosity
- Receptivity with 'what is going on'
- Person Centred - this approach is deeply respectful
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