In this sense the therapist is non-directive because they are tracking and following the client. Metaphorically the therapist is walking alongside the client, sometimes a few paces behind and sometimes a few paces ahead, sometimes stopping to discuss where to go next, but always going wherever the client goes.
Martin Seligman developed the theory of learned helplessness, and defined it as the motivational and behavioral deficits displayed by humans when exposed to uncontrollable circumstances.
More specifically, is it possible that when many inhabitants of a country are children of multiple generations of poverty that they can suffer from what could be described as âlearned helplessnessâ, which, as the name suggests, is a feeling of utter disempowerment and uselessness (see graphic).