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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September 13‚ 2013 Journal Entry 1 1. In your journal‚ write the eight areas of the self-assessment and record your scores for each as follows: 60 1. Accepting personal responsibility 68 2. Discovering self-motivation 68 3. Mastering self-management 53 4. Employing interdependence 51 5. Gaining self-awareness 46 6. Adopting lifelong learning 50 7. Developing emotional intelligence 66 8. Believing in myself 2. Write about the areas on the self-assessment in which you had your highest scores
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Reflective Journal Assignment – 3 Student Name – Amanjot Sandhu Student Id – SAN07246163 Week 1 – Reflective Journal This was my first day in class for the unit Co Ordinate the Work Environment. Amongst the class mates each one introduced the self to others‚ and Adrian as a teacher for the unit introduced himself to all of us. Today’s lecture was based on housekeeping and overview of unit outline. I learned about different ways to contribute and practise effective workplace practises.
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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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CASE STUDY DEBBIE ROGERS - 25/05/11 1. A) Robert perception of his role as husband and father is that “it’s my job to be the breadwinner and look after my family and its Maeve’s job to look after the kids.” My assumption would be that this response reflects his early childhood experience. The Psychodynamic Approach recognises that many of our actions and responses reflect the effects of our earliest experiences‚ which affect our relationships and our perception of the present. Essentially
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What is a Reflective Journal? A reflective journal is a way of thinking in a critical and analytical way about your work in progress. It shows how different aspects of your work interconnect. The journal can record: • where your inspiration comes from • how you make use of your ideas to develop your work • your awareness of the cultural context (setting) in which you work This context includes: other artists’ work and their ideas; the ideas of critics and theorists; social‚ political‚ aesthetic
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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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The Importance of Transferable Skills for the Counselling Psychologist Counselling Psychologists work therapeutically with clients of all ages and backgrounds helping them to cope with and overcome problems and difficulties arising from everyday life. Therapy is an activity which takes place when someone who has problems allows another person to enter into a particular kind of relationship with them. A person seeks this relationship when they have encountered a problem in life which they cannot
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Ethics are an essential part of the administration of psychological tests and it is necessary that all test users follow the ethical guidelines when using any type of psychological test. Psychological tests are an important tool in terms of many professions in an array of settings such as in clinical psychology‚ education‚ and even business. However‚ misuse of psychological test by the administrators is a constant and troubling issue that has the potential to harm the individuals involved and even
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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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