Contact Skills
Professor Garry Prouty's Pre Therapy is an approach which
focuses on clients who are difficult to engage. It is applicable
for clients who experience regression, psychosis, learning
disabilities, special needs, dementia and alzheimers disease.
Making connections with clients successfully in order to engage in
meaningful conversations has thwarted clinicians for decades. This has
resulted in clients being
psychologically isolated and trapped within their own being.
However,
Prouty's natural flair of reaching through in making contact
with clients has
been a major break through. Following years of working with clients
suffering
from regressive behaviour and psychotic experiencing, Prouty eventually
formulated his expertise in 1994.
Pre Therapy is a Person -Centred and deeply respectful approach, bringing
alive the meaning of Carl
Rogers 'Psychological Contact': this is the essential contact
which is necessary for all people to engage in
reciprocal relationships. Over all apsychotic people are unaware
of their individual functioning within psychological contact. Pre
Therapy' Contact Reflections are the Skills which encourage
psychotic clients who are out of touch with their own sense of self, in relation
with other
people and their surroundings to regain their essential contact;
clients are
increasingly able
to engage in the daily activities of life and at the same time the
tenacity of
psychotic experiences begins to recede.
This is the Essence of Prouty’s Pre Therapy Contact Skills.
Introduction to Contact Work Pre Therapy and the work of Garry Prouty
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