FM 22-102

WALL-TO-WALL COUNSELING

1 April 2009

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FIELD MANUAL ` Headquarters Department of the Army 22-102 1 April 2009

WALL-TO-WALL COUNSELING

Table of Contents

Preface ………………………………………………………………………….. ii

History of Wall-to-

Wall Counseling ……………………………………………. 1

When should you wall-to-

wall counsel? ……………………………………….. 3Minor offenses …………………………………………………………………

..3Major offense

s …………………………………………………………………

..4

Other serious offenses …………………………………………….

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5Determining when wall-to-

wall counseling is appropriate ……………………... 7

Preparing for a wall-to-

wall counseling session ………………………………... 9

The wall-to-

wall counselor’s toolkit ………………………………………….. 11Restraints ……………………………………………………………………… 13

Conducting the wall-to-

wall counseling session ……………………………… 15Basic blows ……………………………………………………………………..

Advanced blows ………………………………………………………………

. 16

Using these techniques ………………………………………………………...

17Follow-

up actions ………………………………………………………………

Triage ………………………………………………………………………….. 19Legal problems …………………………………………………………………

Special circumstances ………………………………………………………….

16A sample wall-to-

wall counseling session ……………………………………..

A final word ……………………………………………………………………

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FIELD MANUAL Headquarters Department of the Army 22-102 1 April 2009

WALL-TO-WALL COUNSELING

Preface

Military leadership is the process of influencing others in gaining respect and confidence in order toaccomplish the mission. Leaders have many tools available to them to assist them in accomplishing thismission, and one of the most important is counseling. Effective counseling will help make poor soldiers intogood ones and good ones even better. It can correct marginal performance, and it can be used to convincesoldiers to make the Army their career.However, there are some soldiers who will not respond to counseling. Perhaps the soldier is incapable of

learning the simplest of tasks. The soldier may be rebellious, challenging authority just to see if he can “getaway” with it. He may have been raised in a neighborhood where the fist wa

s mightier than the word; wherefighting was the only way to survive. In any case, there are some circumstances where a good kick in the pantsis just what the doctor ordered to bring the soldier back to earth.

That’s what this manual is all about.

Although the teaching of a good solid knock upside the head in military academies ceased long ago, the needfor it has only intensified in recent years. The influx of large numbers of college-trained soldiers has broughtwith it not only more-intelligen

t soldiers, but also soldiers who need to know “why” they have been sent to dosomething. The leader, upon being asked “why” he has sent a soldier on police call, may feel the need to just

haul off and hit the soldier upside the head.The leader will learn all the minutiae of wall-to-wall counseling, such as when it is appropriate, when it isinappropriate, how to prepare for the counseling session, how to conduct the session, follow-up actions, stayingout of jail, and circumstances in which wall-to-wall counseling may be indicated but in which specialtechniques are called for.The proponent of this publication is the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas 66027.Submit changes for improving this publication on DA Form 2028 (Recommended Changes to Publications andBlank Forms) and forward to Commander, U.S. Army Combined Arms Center, ATTN: ATZI-SWA-DL, FortLeavenworth, Kansas 66027.Use of specific gender in this publication is for ease of reading. Whenever the masculine or feminine genderis used, either gender is intended.This publication supersedes FM 22-102, 1 April 1989.

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