在实践萨提亚的过程中，以前会注重工具的掌握，现在越来越感受到“信念”的重要，心中有信念，手中的助人工具就能够发挥更大的作用，当我们如果活出这些信念，就能达到萨提亚女士所倡导内在和谐、人际和睦的状态。从今天起，与大家探讨每一条信念。看看哪一条信念最触动你？
对人的信念：
- 我们都是同一生命力的明证。We are all manifestations of the same life-force.
- 人类的过程是普遍性的，因此适用于一切情况、文化及环境。Human processes are universal and therefore applicable in different settings, cultures and circumstances
- 人们由于相同而有所联接，由于相异而有所成长。People connect on the basis of sameness and grow on the basis of being different.
- 父母在任何时候都是尽他们所能去做。Parents do the best they can at any given time.
- 父母常重复在他们成长过程中熟悉的形态，即使那些形态是没有功能的。Parents often repeat he familiar patterns from their growing up times, even if the patterns are dysfunctinal.
- 感受是属于我们的，我们都拥有它们。Feelings belong to us; we all have them.
- 人性本善。他们需要找寻自己的宝藏，以便联结及确认他们的自我价值。People are basically good. They need to find their own treasure to connect and validate their own self-worth.
- 健康的人际关系是建立在平等的价值上。Healthy human relationships are built on equality of value.
对“应对”的信念：
- 我们拥有一切所需的内在资源，得以成功地应对及成长。We all have internal resources we need in order to cope successfully and to grow.
- 问题 (困难) 不是问题，如何应对问题才是问题。The problem is not the problem, coping is the problem.
- 多半的人倾向选择对他而言是熟悉的而非舒适的应对，尤其在压力之下。Most people choose familiarity over comfort, especially during times of stress.
- 我们有许多选择，特别是面对压力做出适当响应而非对情况做出实时反应。We have choices, especially in terms of responding to stress instead of reacting to situations.
- 治疗的主要目标是各人可以为自己做出选择。A major goal of therapy is to become one's own choice maker.
- 自我价值高低呈现在应对的方式上，自我价值愈高，应对的方式愈人性化。Coping is the manifestation of the level of self-worth. The higher one's self-worth, the more wholesome the coping.
对“改变”的信念：
- 改变是有可能的，就算外在的改变有限，内在的改变还是可能的。Change is possible. Even if external change is limited, internal change is possible.
- “希望”是“改变”最重要的成分。Hope is significant component or ingredient for change.
- 我们不能改变过去已发生的事件，只能改变那些事件对我们的影响。We cannot change the past events, only the impact they have on us.
- 欣赏并接受“过去”可以增加我们支配“现在”的能力。Appreciating and accepting the past increases our ability to manage our present.
- 所谓全人性的目标是接受父母也是人，而不是只以他们扮演的角色来相处。One goal in moving towards wholeness is to accept our parental figures as people and meet them at their level of personhood rather than only in their roles.
- 过程是“改变”的途径，故事内容形成情境，而“改变”就在那里发生。Process is the avenue of change. Content forms the context in which change can take place.
- 萨提亚模式的主要目标是达到表里一致及高的自我价值。Congruence and high self-esteem are major goals in the Satir Model.
- 治疗需要把重点放在健康及正向积极的部分，而非病理负面的部分。Therapy needs to focus on health and possibilities instead of pathology.
- 症状是潜意识对问题的解决之道。核对现有问题如何成为案主的难题，认真看待问题，但治疗工作却未必要局限在此范围内发生。The symptom is a subconscious soltion to the problem. Check how the presenting problem is a problem for the client. Take the problem seriously, but not necessarily as the area on which the therapeutic work needs to take place.
- “运用自己”是治疗师最有力的治疗工具。The therapist's use of the Self is the greatest thapeutic tool he/she has.
