THE PRA GROUP PHILOSOPHY
SPECIFICS OF A HELPING RELATIONSHIP

Any attempt to interact productively in a professional relationship should be within the specifics of a clearly and concisely described approach. These specifics, at the least, must touch on three particular areas of information exchange. These areas are the rights, responsibilities, and beliefs of each person which the interactions must respect. The PRA GROUP wants to establish these at the onset of any efforts to contribute to any helpful process.


Rights of the participants include:

  • Safety, protection, and freedom for independent decision making.

  • Acceptance by others of the choices and actions that result.

  • Control by the owner of all personal property and goods.

  • Self determination of the use of knowledge gained.

  • Opportunity to achieve adequate understanding of all concerns.

Responsibilities of the participants include a willingness to:

  • work things out in a talk and action format.

  • provide opportunities for all to have their say.

  • keep a clear head tilted toward problem and need resolution.

  • efforts to clearly understand the requests of others.

  • experience what someone else might feel or think.

Beliefs guiding the helping relationship:

  • Learning is a total body experience

  • Action results from thinking

  • Effective change results from planned strategies

  • Self-defeating patterns are the major sources of problems

  • Accurate assessments provide information for change

  • There is a Guiding Power which affects all change

Within this framework, more productive effort can be directed to the tasks at hand that warrant attention and efforts can focus on current needs. When all parties in the helping relationship stay continually aware of the elements affecting them, the end result will be much better for all involved. The participants get three things: useful information at hand, more productive mental and emotional processes, and effective self-chosen behavioral change. The helping person gets the satisfaction of knowing what has been provided was successful through the demonstrated willingness and change by the participant(s).

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