A person who performs in front of crowd on guitar, feeling totally comfortable and in control may be the nervous wreck, wracked by self doubt when asked to dance at a family wedding.
Self confidence is context sensitive.
In other words it is not that a person is self confident, it is more that they are self confident in certain situations. (or flipped around they are not confident in some specific situations.)
This is a much more useful way to look at self confidence as the client may well have an area in their life where they feel relatively confident. It may be that their confidence is only challenged while at work or when with certain people.
By drawing out the distinction it becomes possible for the client to understand that if they have some level of confidence in one part of their life perhaps it's possible to bring it to another part.
By understanding the distinction we can move more quickly and more effectively into the realm of therapeutic change.
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