The Change Process in the Anger Counseling to the
Married Women Experienced Family Events Shu-Yin
Liu Abstract The purpose of this study was to
investigate the changeprocess of the married women through the
counseling sessionabout the anger events. By comparing the
sucessful andnonsucessful change processes in the counseling of
familyevents, a novel model of anger counseling was given to
themarried women experienced family events. Counselors were 5
doctoral students who are enrolled ina counseling psycology
program,the clients were 6 volunteeredmarried women, and family
anger events were attributed to those6 clients. Five counselors
and clients were matched individually,and each pair were
conducted 6 sessions of counseling interview.Each session is
taped and the change process of the clientsduring the counseling
period was analysed by open coding thetranscript of counseling
sessions . The major findings were as follows:1. The change
process of the clients can be divided into sixstages in
sequence. The sequence of the six stages were as :presented
anger problems and the related experiences, explorationand
experience, discovery and awareness, renewal and reorientation,
action and finally, being changed.2. The inner-linked process of
the clients in the process of angercounseling was : linking the
past and the present, linking cognitionand emotion, linking
emotion and behavior,linking the inner andthe outer world.3.
When the change stages were developed, there exists a trend that
can berecognized as that the concentration point are innerward
and come back tothe client herself.4. The change is stepwised.
There are differences in the extent of change among different
clients; and the change is not all-or-none.5. The change process
of the clients in the sucessful change (SC) andnonsuccessful
change (NSC) after counseling were compared and theresults
includes:(1) It is lack of stages of action and of change in the
NSC but not in theSC.(2) It is at least 10% higher reactive
ratio at the stage II(eg., explorationand experience ) in the
NSC than that in the SC; and,it is the lower reactiveratio at
the stage III(eg., discovery and awareness ) in the NSC than
thatin the SC.(3) The anger emotion in the NSC can not be
transferred and catharsis at thestage III and IV (eg., renewal
and reorientation); in contrast, theclients in SC changed and
developed themself to a holpful change when thecounseling stages
preceeded.(4) The clients of the NSC in the counseling process
can not avoid thedefense of the self-disclosure and the role
played by the counselor incounseling session; however, there is
no such phenomena in the counselingprocess in the SC.6.The
clients may solve the anger problems and achieve the changesby
means of embarking three levels of changes including catharsis
,restructuring of thought, as well as learning and performing
thenew behaviors.According to the above results , it is
suggested that the conclusionsmay be helpful for the furture
investigations of the change processand for the educational
training and counseling practice of the counselors.