Bring out the hero in your client
Every individual has tremendous potential for goodness. Recognizing and promoting their own best qualities or strengths can help your patients find inner peace during times of great stress.
"I give patients a list of virtues common to great heroes or leaders," says Joy A. Carey, PhD, counseling psychologist and health educator at the Seattle Cancer Treatment Center in Seattle. "If patients make these virtues a greater part of their lives and consciously choose to practice them, they can reduce stress, boost self-esteem, and promote greater harmony. They also improve their ability to handle difficult situations such as chronic or terminal illness."
Qualities that Carey includes on her list of virtues include:
· caring · thankfulness
· confidence · perseverance · patience
· courage · honesty · kindness
· creativity · humor · mercy
· flexibility · tolerance · trust
· modesty · forgiveness
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