Who would study psychology unless they had some issues?! Chapter 370 - 367 [Group Counseling]

Nan Zhubin chose a different consultation room today.

Instead of conducting the consultation in the school’s consultation room, he asked Teacher Xiao Zhao to find an alternative location.

Unlike small, cozy consultation rooms that provide privacy and a sense of enclosure.

What lay before him was a vacant activity classroom, roughly 200 square ters, about half the size of a basketball court.

The ceiling here was very high, with window sills at least 1.8 ters above the ground. Sunlight stread in through the windows, adding a warm hue to the empty classroom.

In the northeast corner of the activity room, there were over a hundred folding chairs stacked up, not placed tidily.

Twelve of the folding chairs were set up and positioned right in the center of the activity room.

This is where Nan Zhubin would conduct the consultation for the students.

It was the first consultation after a major event.

Nan Zhubin didn’t plan to consult with the students one by one, but instead use a special format.

"Snap—"

Teacher Xiao Zhao was sitting on one of the open folding chairs among the twelve. Upon seeing Nan Zhubin, she quickly stood up.

"Mr. Nan, we’re doing group counseling today, right?"

"Yes, we’re doing group counseling." Nan Zhubin nodded and added cautiously, "Let’s start with group counseling, and if things aren’t right, we might need to switch to group therapy."

Group counseling, also known as group consultation or small group guidance, targets groups and employs appropriate strategies and thods, facilitating interaction amongst group mbers to bring about a psychotherapeutic intervention process in social exchanges.

Because the intervention is aid at groups, consultants usually face multiple clients in a single session, typically 6 to 8 people.

In practical applications, group counseling is often used for clients who share similar circumstances—for instance, employees with similar grievances within a company, students experiencing similar pressures at the sa school, or witnesses of a similar traumatic event.

In many Western movies or TV shows, there’s often a circle of people sitting together, usually veterans with PTSD, or people with alcohol dependencies, or stargazers of sorts, where everyone takes turns talking about recent experiences, sharing feelings, and offering opinions.

This is a variant of group counseling, a simplified version.

Because the act of gathering people with similar experiences to share feelings itself has therapeutic value, group counseling is quite efficient.

In certain situations such as natural disasters like earthquakes or disease-affected areas, psychological experts often provide psychological aid using group counseling, targeting not only those affected but also the volunteers aiding them.

However, due to the inherent therapeutic effect of gathering similar people to share feelings, the requirents for coaches in group counseling are quite low.

So consultants let clients chat among themselves, purely acting as spectators, only responsible for signaling "start" and "end." Others might even design embarrassing little gas that make it seem like third-rate corporate team-building.

In fact, a well-prepared group counseling session has multiple segnts, each revolving around the session’s purpose and having its own the.

The group counseling Nan Zhubin intended to conduct today was much more complex because he was facing multiple clients simultaneously.

Today, he needed to maintain 200% focus.

"Have you prepared all the things I asked you to?" Nan Zhubin turned to Teacher Xiao Zhao.

"Of course." Teacher Xiao Zhao gestured toward Nan Zhubin.

The young female teacher’s eyes flashed with excitent; she had been thrilled since learning that Nan Zhubin would conduct group counseling for the students.

She also hoped to learn formal, professional group counseling techniques from Nan Zhubin’s intervention today!

Nan Zhubin took a deep breath: "Today, you’ll be my group counseling assistant. Let’s go over the process once more, and before the students arrive, we’ll finalize the preparations."

Teacher Xiao Zhao nodded repeatedly.

...

The sunlight streaming through the windows was briefly blocked by drifting clouds, plunging the activity room into temporary gloom.

But today seed to be a sunny day, as the blocked sunlight quickly penetrated once more, casting into the activity room.

"Knock, knock, knock—"

A knock on the door.

"Co in." Nan Zhubin said.

The door to the activity room opened, revealing a slim, middle-aged man with a thermos cup and a tracksuit, smiling as he entered.

Behind him was a shadowy line of students.

"Oh, Teacher Zhao, this must be Mr. Nan."

Teacher Xiao Zhao quickly stood up: "Yes, Teacher Liu, thank you for your trouble, for interrupting your training."

The teacher with the thermos waved his hand: "Oh, these kids are my responsibility now. Bringing them here is natural for . I can also take the opportunity to rest a bit."

Nan Zhubin observed the interaction between the psychology teacher and the physical education teacher, estimating that this middle-aged teacher must be Lin Junkai’s new coach.

Teacher Xiao Zhao ntioned earlier that this teacher was excellent.

After observing for a while, Nan Zhubin nodded internally—based on the dialogue just now, the coach did not seem averse to "interrupting training for psychological consultation."

"Teacher Zhao, Mr. Nan, I’ll leave these students to you temporarily, please take good care of them," said the teacher with the thermos, maintaining a smile.

[Blink rate decreases, gaze focuses.]

[High attention.]

"Certainly." Nan Zhubin nodded solemnly.

Perhaps sensing the environnt’s seriousness, the teacher with the thermos skillfully waved his hand.

"Oh, I’m overthinking," he said as he turned to guide the students inside, apologizing to Nan Zhubin, "After all, you’re Mr. Nan, Jiang University’s Mr. Nan..."

Led by Lin Junkai, the students behind the teacher with the thermos stread in, like ducklings following their mother duck.

"Then I’ll be on my way." The recently present teacher with the thermos soon waved and disappeared.

Nan Zhubin’s gaze withdrew and focused on these students.

Wang Rui’s sports team consisted of eleven people, excluding Xu Pengcheng and Li Mingchen, who was immobile; there were ten people.

The activity room for the group session had twelve chairs, aside from Nan Zhubin as the group counselor and assistant Teacher Xiao Zhao, there were ten positions left.

Nan Zhubin and Teacher Xiao Zhao didn’t sit together, but instead positioned themselves at the "nine o’clock" and "six o’clock" angles on a clock, their lines of sight forming a right angle, enabling them to capture the clients’ reactions as much as possible.

Simultaneously, the students began paying particular attention to seat selection relative to Nan Zhubin and Teacher Xiao Zhao’s positions.

Group counseling comnced quietly before the students took their seats.