Can You Explain Spitting In The Client's Soup Technique In Adlerian Counseling?

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Can You Explain Spitting In The Client's Soup Technique In Adlerian Counseling?

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Answer 1

Spitting in the soup is when a counselor talks to a client about a possible future behavior in a negative light. The theory is, this can make the client less likely to engage in that behavior because it is then seen as less desirable.

Who wants to eat soup that's been spit in?

Answer 2

When you are diagnosed with cancer. The night before surgery you take up smoking after 10 years of quitting. You then rationalize it by saying, " I have cancer anyway, I might has well smoke."

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Counselor reduces usefulness of client's "payoff" for a particular behavior. Ex. Client behaving like a martyr, counselor encourages client not to be the martyr

Answer 4

It is a technique used in the adlerian counseling as a therapy technique. The main purpose is to make the person well adjusted to the society. In this technique the client is made to learn that when something irritating happens, do not give the required response and it will itself extinct. In this way it has more or less same relation as when someone spits in your soup intentionally and he want to see your hyper state just for the sake of fun. You don't give the response and then it extinct and you start living better life.