Leadership By Encouragement

Psychological Fingerprints [Book Excerpt] In this book we will be presenting both verbal and objective non-verbal creative approaches to accessing life-style. Psychological finger-prints are always present. This book helps the clinician, like the famous detective Sherlock Homes, to better understand the every present, and yet often overlooked invaluable clues to understanding a person's psychological finger-prints. As a child grows, both psychological finger-prints and one's personal physical finger-prints become clearer and clearer. Our psychological finger-prints can be used for better or worse. The same style that carries us to our heights of success is the same style which leads to our depths of despair. To use a baseball metaphor, the goal of the counselor is to help clients keep their eye on the ball, to "improve their batting average." The person still has the same bat, the same stance but the coaching is better, being to better discern balls and strikes. The similarity between both the psychological and physical finger-prints is that they are consistent, recognizable, re-occurring, and unique. The task of the counselor is to work with individuals so they can discover the psychological finger-prints of consistency, uniqueness, and predictability. Life-style is one clue for learning about one's psychological finger-prints...