2.7 Reflecting on personal meanings

The extract of the paper you read in Activity 2.6 suggested it is important that counsellors and psychotherapists consider how they themselves understand infidelity, and how their own social background and relationship and family history impacts their understanding. You have already been considering your own sense-making around infidelity; Activity 2.7 takes this a step further.

Activity 2.7 Self of therapist reflection

Timing: Allow 20 minutes

Our own values and personal limitations impact on the way we perceive and work with infidelity in therapy practice. Think about your values and feelings regarding infidelity in terms of the following different levels:

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Having considered the various ways infidelity is defined it is now time to consider how infidelity is understood. This means considering infidelity theories which you will explore next in Topic 3 Understanding infidelity.

2.6 General public and practitioner definitions