TRAUMA AND ABUSE COUNSELLING Case Study 1‚750 words Topic: Childhood Abuse A lady‚ Hannah‚ now in her fifties‚ has come to see you. The perpetrator was her father‚ who was highly influential in the church. She (as well as several sisters) was sexually and emotionally abused between the ages of 9 and 16. As a child Hannah made several attempts to disclose the abuse but was unable to feel heard or believed. Hannah has attempted to tell a school nurse‚ a school friend. She has also
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Explore the subject of ’self disclosure’ by councellors Disclosure in the dictionary is ’the act of revealing and exposing to view’ My understanding of self disclosure in this context is to mean revealing the counsellors personal information and emotions. In this unique relationship this is to be expected when the client is communicating‚ in fact it is actively encouraged‚ because that is their roll in the therapeutic relationship. However my exploration will concern when is it acceptable for
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PRE MARITAL COUNSELLING WHAT IS IT? Premarital Counselling is therapy with two people prior to their marriage‚ to help give them more realistic ideas of what to expect and how to cope with living with another person as a spouse; relating to each other as a committed pair. By taking the time to explore the reasons you came together‚ your similarities‚ your differences‚ your hopes and your dreams‚ as well as your expectations of one another‚ it is sometimes possible to avoid the disappointments
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1.1 The three stages of a counselling skills session are the beginning; here‚ the ‘ice’ is broken and the listener should try to make the speaker feel at ease. An introduction is made which helps the speaker understand what counselling skills are and the process of using them. Reference should be made to the BACP framework and the speaker should be invited in by use of gentle questioning. The beginning also gives the speaker the chance to introduce the topic they wish to discuss‚ and the listener
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K/601/7629 Professional organisational issues in counselling. 1. Understand what is meant by counselling. Counselling is time spent with qualified practitioner about experiences‚ difficulties‚ feelings and behaviours one maybe facing. It is a safe place for a client to be heard‚ in a confidential setting that is non-judgemental. Counselling is time for the client to feel they are valued. Their feelings‚ thoughts and behaviours are empathised with and through working with different theories and
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1- Understand what is meant by Counselling 1.1 The term counselling facilitates personal and interpersonal functioning across the lifespan with the main focus on emotional‚ vocational‚ social‚ educational‚ health related and developmental concerns this encompasses a broad range of practices that help people to improve their well being‚ alleviate stress and maladjustment‚ reslove crisis and increases their ability to live more fully functioning lives. Counselling is unique in its attention to
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The first question that I tackled was what do of a client makes a sexist or racist remark. The advice that the book suggests is somewhat vague‚ honestly. They suggest to both acknowledge and diminish the comment‚ depending on the circumstance. The authors say the need to address such is dependent on the client’s illness and the therapist’s values (Pipes & Davenport‚ 1999). There is a distinction made as to how to handle the comment if the client shares the same race or sex as the therapist. My take
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Introduction. This Presentation will look at the psychodynamic approach to counselling‚ focusing on how problems arise and continue. Then how therapy seeks to resolve these problems. We will look at conflict between ID and superego and unresolved childhood problems. Then we will look at defence mechanisms. From there we look at how therapy brings the unconscious into the conscious to resolve conflicts. Slide 2. In psychodynamic theory‚ there is the structure of the personality‚ which consist of three
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Humanistic is a term in psychology relating to an approach which studies the person as a whole and the uniqueness of each individual. The main goals of this counselling approach are to find out how individuals perceive themselves here and now and to recognise their strengths‚ growth‚ self-direction and responsibilities. This approach is optimistic and attempts to help individuals by offering a non-judgemental‚ understanding experience. Unlike other therapies the client is responsible for improving
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may be dysfunctional‚ but they aren’t emotionally insensitive or unintelligent‚ and are very likely to hear the implied feelings of the therapist. Obviously‚ this will do little to establish or maintain the kind of trust necessary for effective counselling. I need to recognise this more in myself. I am sure that intellectually I try to have no prejudices; however I know that I do because I can tell by the tone of my voice or the little voice that may appear in my head. I know that I am hypocritical
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