[nabs-l] Seeking alternative techniques for working with problems with couples?

[Jedi]

Gerardo,

While visual information is important to the sighted while 
communicating, that doesn't mean that visual information is absolutely 
necessary when communicating or observing how others communicate together.

I think I can best answer your question by asking you some of my own. 
How do you know when someone is looking in your direction when speaking 
to you? How do you know how someone is feeling? What changes do you 
observe in voice quality, tone, rate of speech, speech direction, and 
the use of silence? What other non-visual techniques do you use to help 
you communicate with the sighted? What about smell and touch? Are these 
important? what about the distance between you and the other you 
communicate with? What I'm saying is that you will use the same 
techniques to observe couples communicating as you do when you 
communicate with others. And of course as is true with any good 
counselor, psychologist, and/or therapist, ask questions to make sure 
you're interpreting things correctly. Does this help?

Respectfully,
Jedi


Original message:
> Hi listers, especially psychologists or who are studying in the field:
> Unfortunately in university because I didn't have blind psychologist role
> models to look up or ask questions I wasn't orientated right in my course of
> studies thus my question. Any ideas of what alternative techniques or if
> it's possible to work with couples facing problems? Due to the amount of
> visual info required to see how their communication is and other factors
> what alternative techniques do you guy use? Can we blind psychologist work
> with family therapy or problems with husband and wife? Hope I made myself
> understood; I have the idea but don't know if I expressed it right. I
> sometimes have the feeling that my mother especially thinks my teachers
> passed me because of my blindness because she has the exptectations that as
> a psychologist I should have all the answers and know everything! Has this
> happened to you guys also? We're also human bings and have our problems and
> emotions and feelings!
> Any ideas aprreciated or experiences.
> Gerardo


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