New Hope
CE Exam, July 2003
William Gaultiere, Ph.D.
Director of New Hope & Psychologist with ChristianSoulCare.com
(714) 971-4213, DrBill@CrystalCathedral.org
Respond
to each statement from the caller/chatter as if you were the
New Hope Counselor. Do so without looking ahead to the chatter's
next response! Practice offering the care and counseling
skills that we teach and doing so with the Spirit-Directed
Counseling approach we discussed. Then compare your responses
to the model, which is an actual transcript of a New Hope
Online chat.
Chatter:
feeling desperately suicidal
Counselor:
Chatter: just feel like nothing matters anymore
Counselor:
Chatter: yes, I can't go through life anymore, it's too much
for me.
Counselor:
Chatter: yes
Counselor:
Chatter: I have one, but I am scared to do it
Counselor:
Chatter: to hang myself
Counselor:
Chatter: I will kill the pain I am going through now. My
life of misery. I hate life!!!!!!!!!!
Counselor:
Chatter: I have suffered from bipolar disorder all my life.
Nothing has helped me so far. I am 25 years old with a good
job, but my emotional disorder is causing me much grief, and
I may be losing my job because of it. I am academically gifted,
but emotionally unstable, and I can't go through life like
this anymore. And I don't know what to do.
Counselor:
Chatter: yes, it does not help me!!!!!. I just need to get
rid of the pain I am feeling right now. I don't know how else
to get rid of it except by killing myself.
Counselor:
Chatter: I don't know.
Counselor:
Chatter: yes, talking to someone until the pain subsides/crying
until i ended up throwing up and then was too exhausted to
kill myself, then fell off to sleep and awoke in the morning.
Counselor:
Chatter:
I am far away from family. I have no friends. I don't have
a faith as yet.
Counselor:
Chatter: if He can do that for me, then tell me.
Counselor:
Chatter: I'm scared.
Counselor:
Chatter:
I don't know God, how will He take over my life?
Counselor:
Chatter: Yes, I have a bible. I've read it in and out, and
could not understand why God would want me to suffer like
this despite my crying out. I've turned to so many Gods.
Counselor:
Chatter: Then why do I suffer so. If God loved me, he would
not let me suffer so.
Counselor:
Chatter: I wish for God to take away my pain.
Counselor:
Chatter: I need to go, I've been crying and feel like throwing
up now.
Counselor:
Chatter: I wish you could be here to hold my hand or give
me a hug.
Counselor:
Chatter: Thank you for your help. You have been very good
to me. I wish you could be here with me right now, but you
have been so good to me. Thank you.
Chatter: Are you still there?
Counselor:
Chatter: Thank you for your prayer.
Counselor:
Chatter: I felt something touch me!!!!!!!! Is that God's healing
hand???!!!!!
Counselor:
Chatter: I feel like something has touched and soothed me
inside, like a sense of calmness covering my body!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Counselor:
Chatter: I've never felt soothed like this before in my entire
life!!!! What is happening to me? I feel so warm and calm
at the same time.
Counselor:
Chatter: THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Counselor:
Chatter: I will now take my leave, don't feel like killing
myself anymore. God has a plan for me and He saved me tonight.
Bye.
Counselor:
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