{"id":69020,"date":"2025-11-14T19:09:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/the-degree-of-self-disclosure-in-counseling\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T19:09:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:09:42","slug":"the-degree-of-self-disclosure-in-counseling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/the-degree-of-self-disclosure-in-counseling\/","title":{"rendered":"The degree of self-disclosure in counseling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the level to which the counselor reveals his personality to the client, voices facts from his life, thoughts or feelings. The degree of self-disclosure in counseling can vary: from the communication of individual demographic data about oneself to full self-disclosure, including even experiences and problems that are not related to the process of psychotherapy. There are several types of self-disclosure:<br \/>\n 1) Intentional: the psychotherapist decides to do or not to do self-disclosure in the session, controls this action.<br \/>\n2) Inevitable: the client, interacting with the therapist, involuntarily learns some things about him through indirect reactions.<br \/>\n3) Incidental: Does not refer to the context of the therapeutic conversation, but to what happens outside of the sessions.<br \/>\n4) Client-initiated: when it is important for the client that the therapist tells something about himself.<br \/>\nIn each specific case of the relationship between the consultant and the client, the issue of self-disclosure should be resolved separately.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the level to which the counselor reveals his personality to the client, voices facts from his life, thoughts or feelings. The degree of self-disclosure in counseling can vary: from the communication of individual demographic data about oneself to full self-disclosure, including even experiences and problems that are not related to the process of psychotherapy. There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-key-psychological-concepts-in-counseling-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}