Reflective Practice In Counselling

The essay will consist of two case studies on the reflective practice of counsellors’ belief system. Wong-Wylie (2007) defines reflective practice as an individual that reflect on their personal experiences of others. The first case study focuses on a married couple that have asked for counselling they are disputing the husbands' fidelity. The first section will examine the married couple and the two belief systems of the counsellor. The next section will research the second case study and two belief systems of the counsellor. The case study is: Client is sad over a relationship break up and the counsellor and client are mutually attracted to each other. The next section will focus on the impact and implication of case studies; the affect
Kondrat 1999 found evidence that objectiveness comes from a distance between the ‘subject self and object self’. This relates to the first case study of counsellor belief system; the counsellor is biased of the clients marriage breakdown and has their own beliefs from their past relationship and is very one sided with their opinion; “...counsellor believes that everybody is hiding something significant...” and “...most relationships will fall apart in the long run...”. In contrast, White, Fook and Gardener 2006 define critical reflection as an individual that views their behaviours, takes into consideration the cultural history circumstances, examine their beliefs and changes their behaviour. This relates to the second belief system of the counsellor because the counsellor is taking into consideration their own social awareness and personal beliefs and trying to alter their behaviour and how they interact with them. The way the counsellor alters their behaviour is through questioning themself. “The counsellor finds that they keep on slipping into older sibling mode and for the counsellor this means having a sensed feeling of knowing what’s best because they are the eldest and more experienced in these
Without it, the practitioner would not be able to make accurate observations or correct assessments”. This relates to the second case study and second belief system of the counsellor. The counsellors belief system is they have simple conscious awareness; “The counsellor finds that they keep on slipping into older sibling mode...” This means that the counsellor is aware that their approach is changing from counsellor to sibling and redirect their awareness back to counsellor and client