Part 1 – personal learning
In part 1, I will describe what I have learnt from Egan model stage ǀ and stage II, and all my personal feeling observations from working with class client.
According on the book, Egan model stage 1 is to help the helper address a main question which is 'what is going on?' (Egan 1994, p. 200). But before the helper and patient start any virtual consult, a healthy trust should be built up between with them. In the class, when I try to approach to Costa, he came into conflict with all my questions straight away. As a practitioner I would like to expect a perfect clinic patient, who was easy to talk with and carried less wariness. But Costa is kind of difficult to deal with. He is 50 years old Greek male, married, has 2 children in the college. His wife brought him into the clinic. She was quite worried about him, because he has prostate problems, over weight issue, hypertension and type 2 diabetes. In the first consultation, Costa seemed does not want to talk much about his illness state. I knew most guys refuse to talk about prostate cause it releases to genitals. He maybe feel shame and embarrassed about this kind of topic. In the Egan model stage I what I should do is to make him to trust me. As long as I move to the topic about his work and family life, he seems put down the heart of alarm, his sitting position looks more relax and his tone turns much more soft. From the conversation, I felt Costa is patriarchy husband. He loves his family. He works hard to support family. And meanwhile the commercial environment was becoming more and more cruel. This is why as family business he needs work
