A Creative Model: The Three-Selves

ABSTRACT

This article presents a Three-Selves Model illuminating ways the self can be expressed: closed, absorbent, and flexible. This model integrates three counseling approaches which are described, and a creative poster is offered to illustrate the model. Then, the model is applied to a hypothetical case to reveal how the model can promote awareness, congruence, and choice.

KEYWORDS:

• Counselor education
• creativity in counseling
• family counseling
• intervention
• posters
• supervision
• the self

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Notes on contributors

Jane A. Warren

Jane A. Warren is a full-time faculty member for the hybrid Masters Counseling Program with Saybrook University, Oakland, California and resides in Laramie, Wyoming.

Angela Garfield Weingartner

Angela Garfield Weingartner finished her PhD in Counselor Education with the University of Wyoming, is a MBTI Certified Practitioner, and is an Adjunct Professor with Saybrook University, Oakland, California; she resides and practices counseling in Denver, Colorado.