youth and community
Interpersonal Skills and Counselling
Within this essay I hope to demonstrate how my understandings of analysis, the theoretical perspectives of communication, basic counselling skills, have improved measurably by interpersonal communication skills for managing my professional environment.
My manager requested one afternoon that I interview Child A. When I approached Child A, my thoughts were on whether she would bolt or stay and converse. This was probably my Adult Ego stage. Heron (cited in de Board, 1998, p42) describes this, “as the state where we plan, consider, decide and act rationally and logically. It is the state of where we consider the situation ourselves and decide based on facts”.
I was feeling that I should remain relaxed, even though she was trying to pull away from my manager. Child A had been known to lash out when she felt cornered; Tudor and Hobbes (2002) cited in Corey (2012) “the Child Ego State consists of feelings, impulses and spontaneous actions”. These actions from the child were also part of the Child’s Ego state which transponded into the Rebellious Child, the part where the child attempts to resolve her problems by rebelling, mainly through an angry response.
Preferring that someone else was standing in my place, I relied on professional practise by referring to Heron (cited in de Board, 1998, p31) describes this as the “Natural Child one part of which is fear”. I have to admit I felt a bit like Toad when he describe himself waking up screaming from a nightmare, in The Counselling of Toad, to the point where I wanted to scream and walk away. But didn’t because of commitment.
Berne (1961) also describes this state as, "The manner and intent of your reaction is the same as it would have been when you were a very little boy or girl." Therefore I had begun to emphasise with child A.
When Child A eventually looked in my direction a smile of euphoria and empathy came over me, I was able to identify what the real problem was and
Within this essay I hope to demonstrate how my understandings of analysis, the theoretical perspectives of communication, basic counselling skills, have improved measurably by interpersonal communication skills for managing my professional environment.
My manager requested one afternoon that I interview Child A. When I approached Child A, my thoughts were on whether she would bolt or stay and converse. This was probably my Adult Ego stage. Heron (cited in de Board, 1998, p42) describes this, “as the state where we plan, consider, decide and act rationally and logically. It is the state of where we consider the situation ourselves and decide based on facts”.
I was feeling that I should remain relaxed, even though she was trying to pull away from my manager. Child A had been known to lash out when she felt cornered; Tudor and Hobbes (2002) cited in Corey (2012) “the Child Ego State consists of feelings, impulses and spontaneous actions”. These actions from the child were also part of the Child’s Ego state which transponded into the Rebellious Child, the part where the child attempts to resolve her problems by rebelling, mainly through an angry response.
Preferring that someone else was standing in my place, I relied on professional practise by referring to Heron (cited in de Board, 1998, p31) describes this as the “Natural Child one part of which is fear”. I have to admit I felt a bit like Toad when he describe himself waking up screaming from a nightmare, in The Counselling of Toad, to the point where I wanted to scream and walk away. But didn’t because of commitment.
Berne (1961) also describes this state as, "The manner and intent of your reaction is the same as it would have been when you were a very little boy or girl." Therefore I had begun to emphasise with child A.
When Child A eventually looked in my direction a smile of euphoria and empathy came over me, I was able to identify what the real problem was and