User talk:John Talbut

Vagueness may be useful in therapeutic settings in order to avoid imposing external interpretations on things, but in a dictionary, it should be avoided at all costs. I really don't see how anyone who doesn't already have a good idea about what co-counselling might be could possibly find out what the term means from your definition.

First you say it's self-help, which implies that you're talking about an individual, then you refer to "each person" taking "equal turns", which sounds like group therapy. Then you refer to "supportive attention". The obvious question: "attention to what/whom?" Finally, you say they "work on their own issues". What does this mean? Does it involve desktop publishing? power tools? Sacrificing farm animals to appease the gods?

Please have pity on the poor English-learner from somewhere in Central Asia who's only heard mental health issues discussed in their own language and just wants to be able to read something they found on a web site somewhere. Thank you. Chuck Entz (talk) 07:34, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

Emotional competence
This entry needs to be moved to start with a lower case E. Wiktionary is case sensitive and for the most part only proper nouns are capitalised in English entries. 37.110.218.43 10:28, 11 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Done! John Talbut (talk) 10:38, 11 October 2023 (UTC)