Micro-Counselling Skills Micro-Counselling Skills are specific aptitudes that a counsellor can utilize to enhance their therapeutic alliance and establish a foundation for communication with their client (AIPC‚ 2009). These skills can each be learnt individually and when mastered‚ empowers a counsellor to effectively construct a working relationship and engage clients in discussions that is both helpful and meaningful. Rapport Building Rapport Building is the first step in initiating a therapeutic
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who has to forget about his ability to paint marvellous pictures‚ the condition which results in to loss of a potential painter and frustration on the part of the student. The service that we intend to provide can simply be expressed as career counselling for aspiring candidates. But the scope of the mission is not limited to just guiding a student to established career choices but to understand the candidate as a person‚ consider his family background and then providing him with the most suitable
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1.1 Identify Core Counselling Skills Counselling skills are necessary tools used by trained counsellors to help clients through issues. At some point in their lives‚ people will find themselves in situations where they take on the role of counsellor without having had any training or understanding of the concept of counselling. This is quite common when a friend or family member needs some guidance. Core counselling skills include non-verbal communication (NVC) where facial expressions‚ body
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Counselling a stranger can be difficult‚ counselling a friend is fraught with difficulties. I found this practice session particularly challenging as I asked a very old friend to play the part of the client. I understand as a result of this session why being a therapist for family and close friends is not advised. Even though I was playing the role of the counsellor‚ my inner self was in a constant tug-of-war between being a friend and keeping a professional step back as required by a counsellor
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ways in which counselling attempted to address my peers client’s difficulties through Person -Centred counselling. I am going to commence with my client’s presenting issues‚ and include any perceived risks. I will also be exploring the client’s presenting issues in relation to Rogers’ personality theory. Following on from this‚ I am going to discuss how an effective therapeutic alliance was established with my peer‚ and reflect on how this relationship developed throughout the counselling process. This
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Length: 2‚515 words The purpose of this essay is to discuss the positive and negative use of integration within Counselling. Much has been said about the integration of therapies and Christian values. The practice of secular psychotherapies has brought much conflict; many Christian counsellors have taken a different stance regarding the integration of psychology and religion. Some have embraced integration wholeheartedly whilst others reject it just as vigorously and many others fall somewhere between
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What are the tenets of an existential-humanistic approach to counselling and how relevant is this counselling approach in the African cultural setting? Existential-Humanistic psychology looks at individuals as a whole person and living in a socially interconnected and holistic world. It focuses on helping the individual self-discover the healing process‚ leading eventually to improved self-esteem. High self-esteem has many positive social benefits: individual happiness (Shackelford‚ 2001)‚ academic
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Overall‚ I did an okay job facilitating the session. I believe that had strong moments for example the role paly. In addition‚ near the start of the session (5:50)‚ I was able to go deeper with the client and explore her feeling of vulnerability. The client mentioned the feeling of losing‚ so I asked her to explore this further. When the client began to explore how it felt to lose she explained it felt vulnerable. When I confronted her about feeling vulnerable around her mother‚ she responded with
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Critically discuss the case for counselling to be evaluated through randomised controlled trials. In the following essay a critical discussion for the case for counselling to be evaluated through randomised controlled trails will be discussed. A randomised control trial requires firstly finding a collection of individuals who are all in search of help and who have a comparable problem. These can be identified through the use of a questionnaire for example‚ by comparing outcome scores. These
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How do research findings support counselling work? Research. 1.a. the systematic investigation into and study of materials‚ sources‚ etc‚ in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions. b. an endeavour to discover new or collate old facts etc by the scientific study of a subject or by a course of critical investigation. [Oxford Concise Dictionary] When entering the field of counselling the first thing that becomes evident is how much there is written and theorised upon. A great deal of research
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