Advanced Counselling Skills For this part of the assignment I am using examples from a 50 minute session recorded within the learning environment. I play the role of the counsellor‚ and another student plays the role of the client. In order for me to answer the learning outcomes‚ I have watched the DVD recording. 2.1 - Open the session‚ explaining the working agreement including the following:- What is on offer? Limitations Time boundaries Ethical boundaries in line with professional code
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Egans 3 Stage Counselling Model This essay will describe the skills and theories involved in the first stage of Egans three stage integrative helping model. In his person centred counselling model‚ Carl Rogers detailed 6 core conditions for effective counselling. However‚ he concentrated on 3 that he considered were essential for the counsellor. These 3 conditions were a. ‘unconditional positive regard’ which describes how the counsellor displays complete acceptance of their client
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INTRODUCTION Psychodynamic counselling and therapy involves a number of important elements‚ which perhaps is what makes the psychodynamic approach more and more interesting to those who go on developing in their work. (E.g. Erik Erikson ’s work on life stages and the object relation theory) While in no sense wishing to undervalue the importance of basic listening and responding skills‚ nor the centrality of a positive therapeutic relationship‚ the ongoing experience of working with people leads
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Maintaining and developing a counselling relationship Counselling is a process that enables a person to clarify issues that are problematic and to take decisions about managing their lives better. “Counselling takes place when a counsellor sees a client in a private and confidential setting to explore a difficulty the client is having‚ distress they may be experiencing or perhaps their dissatisfaction with life‚ or loss of sense of direction or purpose. It is always at the request of the client as
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C0602- Counselling contexts Tutor: Kevin Hogan Submission date: 31st May 2013 ‘The importance of diversity in counselling contexts’ The importance of diversity in counselling has been the subject of much research over the last 50 years Patterson (1996) and is aimed at preventing inequalities among different population groups regardless of ethnicity‚ gender‚ sexual orientation‚ social class‚ age‚ physical abilities and religious beliefs/beliefs. (Patterson‚ 1996) When considering the different
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To have good ethical practice within counselling it is important that there are boundaries and contracts in place that are agreed to and understood by both the counsellor and the client. At the start of each new counselling session it is important that a contract is set out between the client and counsellor. The BACP states ’good practice involves clarfiying and agreeing to the rights and responsibilities of both the counsellor and the client at appropriate points in their working relationship’
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Advanced Counselling Skills Unit 4 20th April 2015 Sharon “Eve” Hanley Student Number : 00302197 Advanced Counselling Skills (300 words in headings) 1. Understand the process of a series of counselling sessions. 1.1 Identify the stages of a series of counselling sessions. A well-structured counselling session provides an essential framework for both counsellor and client. Many authors describe the structure of a counselling work in terms of a beginning‚ middle phase and end Jacobs (2004). Gray
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questions: What is counselling? How does a counsellor differ from a friend? In this essay‚ this topic will be further explored and expanded upon. I will give a greater understanding of both‚ and by doing so we will be able to more accurately decipher the two. Let us begin by defining the question: What is a counsellor? “You may be surprised to find that there is no single definition of helping that holds true for all contexts‚” (Peter Saunders (2011). First Steps in Counselling. Ross-on-Wye: PCCS
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Unit K/601/7629 Professional Organisational Issues in Counselling 1.1 Define what is meant by the term counselling Counseling is a therapeutic relationship with a trained professional to help you understand the underlying causes of your problems and help you to find different ways of coping with and dealing with your difficulties. 1.2 Explain their own philosophical approach to counselling “Counselling is a multi-dimensional process to aid the well-being of an individual‚ using techniques
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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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