In this essay I will analyse my own counselling session in which my counsellor‚ Lys‚ and I established a cause for the anxiety I was feeling. As part of this analysis‚ I will identify key skills used to establish an effective counselling relationship. Reflecting upon my experience of the counselling process and integrating it to current theory will enable me to use this experience to develop my own skills as a counsellor. To facilitate my analysis‚ it is necessary for me to not only define what
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Unit One: Assignment 01 Development of person-centred counselling skills By Joanne Graves Make best use of the setting in which helping session takes place. Clarify with clients their understanding and expectations of the helping relationship. The area in which I used to conduct the counselling session was a communal area however I seated my client and myself away from people‚ windows and near the door to the room allowing maximum confidentiality. I felt it was important for my client to be
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Unit 01 using counselling skills 1.1 Counselling is to help the client to open up about there feeling inside and thoughts when the client has no one to talk to and is in need to talk to someone. Core counselling skills are... Paraphrasing Reflecting Summarising Focussing Active listening Empathy SOLER Paraphrasing is focusing on the main facts. Reflecting and paraphrasing are similar it’s reporting back to the client what’s been said it is a way of indicating that we are listening
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Interview Skills Q1. Briefly explain how you would go about assessing this client’s developmental and mental health status. A. In a counselling session with Tim I would allow him to talk in as much detail as he liked about his situation. There would be certain questions I would want to ask him regarding his developmental and mental health. I would make sure I was relaxed and natural in order to make him feel comfortable‚ and not feel as though I was pressuring him for answers. I would use mainly
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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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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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theoretical perspectives in counselling‚ personal centred‚ cognitive behavioural and psychodynamic I will look at the general theory‚ the view of the person in therapy‚ the blocks to functioning of the person in therapy and the goals and techniques of each theory. I will compare and contrast the three approaches looking at the similarities and differences between the three counselling perspectives and how the counsellor in each theory differ in their techniques to counselling their clients. The person
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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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office taking a room apart from others and putting mobile phones on silent can aid communication by making it easier for both parties to concentrate on the counselling process. 5. List two basic micro-skills of counselling and briefly describe how they can be used to facilitate the relationship between counsellor and client. All micro skills are
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October 2013. Exploring the contribution of the working alliance to the development of an effective therapeutic relationship in both Psychodynamic Counselling and CBT Introduction (300 words approx) In my essay I shall be exploring my understanding of the working alliance‚ and effective therapeutic relationship in both Psychodynamic Counselling‚ and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. I shall include my experience gained in class and outside of the classroom setting. With situations of when I have
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