Describe some aspect/s of your learning about helping in a counselling way, and what this has taught you about yourself In this essay I will explore my learning about importance of active listening, role of empathy, impacts that transference and countertransference have in counselling, as well as the importance of supervision for counsellors. Through examples from my experiential learning in class, my reflection on the influence of a long forgotten experience from my teenager years on my adult life and journal entries, I will illustrate how this course has helped me in heightening my self-awareness and learning about myself. Helping in a counselling way can be interpreted in two different ways; one is helping by using counselling skills, to assist someone in their professional role, the other is use of counselling skills by trained counselling professional. When a doctor or a nurse is listening to a patient during consultation, they use counselling skills to help them in understanding and supporting their patient in addition to their medical expertise. 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.
Abstract In this paper, Tracy Freeland will be discussed from an adolescent psychologist’s perspective. Information about Tracy was gathered through watching the film, Thirteen, and through psychological interviews with Tracy in a client based setting. Using this information, a report of Tracy’s family and friendship background, her presenting issue, and an explanation of her behavior from a biopsychosocial perspective are given. By doing this, one should have a more complete understanding of the sometimes-perplexing phase that every human being experiences in life. This period of development is known as adolescence.
Active Listening and Counselor Self-Efficacy: Emphasis on One Microskill in Beginning Counselor Training Dana Heller Levitt ABSTRACT. By emphasizing active listening over the other microskills, it is hypothesized that beginning counselors will feel more efficacious and better able to hear clients, thus performing better in skill areas. In this pilot study with five Master’s-level counselor trainees in their first counseling practicum, an emphasis on active listening in instruction and individual supervision resulted in increases in active listening and self-efficacy ratings, as well as performance in three skill areas (reflection of feelings, challenging, and immediacy). These results suggest the importance of attending to counselors’ strengths and reducing anxiety in the first counseling experience. [Article copies available for a fee from The Haworth Document Delivery Service: 1-800-HAWORTH.
Introduction In this account I will concentrate on an established clinical skill that I have been practicing for many years. Presenting this assignment reflects the assessment and care delivered to a patient within my working practice. Using Gibbs model (Gibbs, 1988) as a working model will allow my thoughts / feelings, evaluation, analysis, conclusion and action plan to be deduced. I will apply critical thinking and underpinning knowledge to evidence based practice and thus concludes with an evaluation of increased clinical competency and personal development. Reflection as a learning tool allows me to identify the positive and negative aspects of my practice and to draw upon previous experiences and apply them to new situations “Reflective practice has, however, the potential to help practitioners in all fields unlock the tacit knowledge and understanding that they have of their practice and use this to generate knowledge for future practice”.
(p.16) My primary aim was to learn but I also achieved a measure of resolve with my problem. My feelings before, during and after the session are analysed and discussed, the session is summarised, the key skills used by Annie and their impact on me are identified and challenges for the counsellor and the client are identified with suggestions for strategies to best manage these challenges. Verbatim dialogue from the session is provided throughout the essay as examples and, finally, the overall experience is considered I had
Here’s an example: “Caitlin called and said, “My Mom’s dead!” Dialogues are important because they help your readers visualize your experience. Good job, Andrea! *Andrea 6568721 has requested that you respond to the Main Idea/Thesis: You can still work on developing your main idea by making sure that it expresses clearly what your narrative is about. Remember that the purpose of a narrative is to tell a story. It is about a series of events, but you have to remember that those events must revolve around a single idea.
Kay uses Sophie to represent the opposition to the message of the novel as a whole: love and family overrules everything. Kay first introduces Sophie in the chapter ‘Interview Exclusive’, around half way through the novel. So far in this chapter Colman has been speaking in first person. The chapter name suggests that that he is being interviewed and we are not just reading his thoughts. This becomes clearer when Kay introduces Sophie, the interviewer.
According to Bulman and Schutz (2008) the art of reflection can help students and nurses learn from experiences and improve their own practice. To do this they need a self-awareness that enables them to describe honestly how a particular exposure affected them (Bulman and Schutz 2008). In order for practitioners to reflect there are different theoretical models used as a framework for reflective practice. Gibbs (1988) developed a reflective framework involving six stages which aim to guide the practitioner by asking a series of cue questions. The first stage sets the scene of the reflection by asking for a description of the event, the second stage looks at what the practitioner was thinking and feeling thirdly
I have read the ACAP Student Plagiarism and Academic Misconduct Policy and understand its implications. I also declare, if this is a practical skills assessment, that a Client/Interviewee Consent Form has been read and signed by both parties, and where applicable parental consent has been obtained. Have you ever considered why a person wants to see a counsellor, or what has to been so significant or challenging in their life that they feel they need to talk to someone? Lisa Popelka (2013) suggests that people go to see a counsellor for a range of reasons, for example, the feeling of being anxious about a part of their life that they have no control over, having a hard time coping with general life stressors, or the client might feel lost or insecure and may need assistance with direction in their life. In this essay I am going to look at a counselling session that took place.
The most common type of behavioral treatment includes the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy also known as CBT. A study was conducted comparing cognitive behavioral therapy and Educational Support Groups to see which one works better (Curtis, 2004). The experiment contained four stages. These stages included teaching patients to realize irrational thoughts, confronting otherwise fearful situations, cognitive restricting and assigning homework. The Educational Support Groups consisted of group therapy, communication and assertiveness.