Some of the stage one exploring skills include; Open ended questioning, silences, focusing, empathy, paraphrasing, structuring and summarising. Stage two is about Helping the client Establish Aims and Goals.The primary purpose being to facilitate the client in developing an objective understanding of their situation. Here the helper/listener assists the client/speaker explore their options and possible goals. By establishing what the client/speaker really wants and needs they are then encouraged to consider new perspectives and possibilities auctioning those that are realistic. By assisting the client/speaker to develop rational decision making process they can then go on to make decisions and deal with situations themselves as they arise.
They are delivered by trained practitioners who work with people over a short or long term to help them bring about effective change or enhance their well being” (bacp.co.uk). Counselling is a process that gives clients time and space to work through their problems and understand how they are feeling and why. Counsellors are there to facilitate this change and development. (1.2.) Explain their own philosophical approach to counselling Where I am in my training I feel that I have a good understanding of the person centred approach to counselling.
Unit 1: Using counselling skills (K/502/6966) The learner will: 2. Know how to establish a helping relationship Reflect on classroom discussion and respond to the following statement. Describe the boundaries that need to be taken into account when starting a new helping relationship (2.1) When a practitioner first meets a new client, they should set the boundaries in the first session. The practitioner should make the client feel as comfortable as possible and let them speak as much as they can. They should try to get as much information as they can so they can then set a few goals.
When counselling professional is listening to their client, they are using counselling skills as the main tool in applying their expertise, as this definition illustrates: Counselling, often described as ‘talking therapy’, is a process aimed at providing clients with the time and space to explore their problems, understand their problems, and resolve, or come to terms with their problems , in confidential setting. (Sutton and Stewart 2008). In practising counselling skills, counselling professionals have clear aim in assisting their client while their practice is governed by counselling ethics. In the United Kingdom, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) is the largest organisation that governs work of counselling professionals. One skill that makes possible for all other counselling
I noticed a few moments where I had gotten nervous and sped up my speech, which only led to me getting tongue twisted and I stumbled on a few points. I also kept noting all dates as being in the nineteen hundreds, I was so nervous that I had not realized at the time of my speech that I was making that mistake. I thought I had done a good job on organizing my outline, but after several practice runs I noticed I was going well over the time limit. Shortly before my speech I had omitted a few points, in doing so I compressed the sub-topics of fermentation and pasteurization too much. This made it sound unclear as to what points I was trying to convey in the speech, possibly causing confusion in my audience.
The goals should also be in coordination with your values and your purpose for the goals. It can often depend on what the couples are coming to counseling for in order to help the couple decide on what some of their goals should be. For example: A couple may come into the counselor office and needs help with their relationship because they seem to always argue. One of their goals could be how to help them minimize and eventually stop arguing so much and be able to discuss things in a decent manner. Goals can and will sometimes go wrong.
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The goals that were talked about in earlier sessions are beginning to be embraced by the client, who is questioning the counsellor more, in an effort to start the changes. Words like “so when are we goal setting please?” And “I really feel you’re helping me see the light” are also affirming statements. Along with this, the client’s appearance may have changed, as may their facial expressions. The positive-ness with which they are starting the sessions also are a dead giveaway. The client may also come to the sessions having drawn up their own plans for progressing.
With the help of a counselour we can find ways to accept and make peace with things we can’t change and make positive changes where we can. Counselours can quide us to explore what really matters to us, what and who we value, our beliefs, hopes and needs . ( I book understanding counseling) Mcleod 2010 suggets that by attending a counseling session you may be able to delineate on your own experience as a means of relating to the clients that are in need of help, gaining an understanding on what it is like to be a recipient of help and reflect on the implications of the experience for a better understanding of the helping process. My essay will focus on my feelings before, during, and after my one hour face-to-face session, I will also be focusing on the skills that my counselor used during our session that could often be overlooked, skills such as body language, listening, empathy, paraphrasing, knowing when and how to ask questions, just to name a few. These skills may seem insignificant when in-fact these skills determine the difference between a helpful or a non-helpful session.
Assessment of the presenting problem, its degree of severity, discovering undeveloped opportunities and resources and developing clarity in what the client is undergoing and where the issue lies are explored by both the client and the counsellor in a collaborative approach. This stage is therefore designed to help clients spell their story with coherence to their present issues, concerns, reframe their story to identify latent problems, construct new perspectives to the issues, clarify with more details, uncover unused resources and opportunities and to identify the most pressing problem that needs to be resolved. Aiding clients to unburden their problems by building rapport and establishing a safe atmosphere to engage and commit to a purposeful dialogue is imperative to the entire helping process that is to follow. It is also important to keep in mind that the counsellor is always a facilitator and a collaborator throughout the process and the ideal client takes on an active role to participate and own responsibility to work through their problems with the encouragement, support and guidance of the