Additionally, developing self-awareness helps the client to rediscover meaning in life. Some clients will, however, need a more structured therapy than is typical in a humanistic person-centered approach. One of the strengths of using a humanistic/person-centered approach when working with clients is the warmth and caring of the relationship that (hopefully) develops between counsellor and client. The counsellors active listening and full emotional availability will provide them with a healing environment within which they can explore their emotional experiences safely and without judgment. Central to the therapist's role in client-centred therapy is respecting the clients values as well as maintaining a therapeutic nonjudgmental attitude.
This is the ability to be you without pretence or façade. This is also called genuineness; it is the most important attribute in counselling according to Rogers, in this the counsellor is keen to allow the client to experience them as they really are, the therapist being authentic. Unconditional Positive Regard: (UPR) this is a non-judgemental, Respecting and accepting the other person as they are, Rogers believed that for people to grow and fulfil their potential it is important that they are valued as themselves. The counsellor has a genuine regard for the client, they may not approve of some of the client’s actions, but the therapist does approve of the client. The therapist needs an attitude of “I’ll accept you as you are.” The therapist must always maintain a positive attitude to the client at all times.
Essentially, courage is strengthened with confidence in self and nothing can be achieved without courage. In my opinion, both empathy and sincerity are two of the most important qualities to have within a counselling relationship. Empathy can be defined as understanding a client’s problem from the client’s perspective and being in the client’s shoes and understanding the client’s frame of reference. Trust is built on the ability of the counsellor acknowledging what the client is saying by using empathic responses, e.g. The client says “I don’t know what is happening” with the counsellor responding “you seem to feel confused.
A/601/7635 Research Methodologies in counselling 1. Understand the purposes of research in counselling 2.1 Explain the importance of research for the counsellor. I believe that the main importance of research for the counsellor is that it makes a massive contribution to the quality of service that a counsellor can offer their clients. By continually staying up date on new research that is available a counsellor is able to gain new knowledge and expertise that can improve and enhance their practise. Counselling is seen as a fairly isolated profession, this highlights the need to share research and to create an open book attitude for the practise of counselling.
The main purpose of stage one is to build a non-threatening counselling relationship, help the client explore their situation and then be able to focus on chose issues. At this point the helper/listener helps the client to identify problems and then assess their own resources. At this stage most people are reluctant to change and may resist. Through positive exploration of new perspectives and constructive challenges to rooted negativity the client is able to move to the next stage. Some of the stage one exploring skills include; Open ended questioning, silences, focusing, empathy, paraphrasing, structuring and summarising.
Describe why it is essential that the mentor has good communication skills Good communication is integral to the mentor-mentee relationship; therefore the ability to communicate effectively is essential. Mentoring involves a lot of discussions and open conversations between the mentor and the mentee, therefore the mentor should know how to effectively get the message across to the individual with ease. This is especially important during the giving of feedback to the mentee. The mentor must be able to relay feedback and remarks constructively and positively without demeaning the mentor’s self-esteem. Good communication skills, such as active listening and questioning skills are essential for the mentor to ensure that learner fully understand what being discussed.
As stated earlier some are born to help others, being a human service worker comes from more than just books. It also comes from desire and personal experience. Having good listening skills is important and a key element. Some client like to talk in circles constantly repeating themselves or just have a problem opening up to others. It will take an experienced therapist to get that client to feel comfortable enough to open up and talk about their issues.
I think the humanistic-encouraging trait is important because like any other leader, people must trust you, set goals that are attainable, learn how to resolve issues in a constructive manner, and encourage your followers. I enjoy listening to people’s problems and helping them think positive and find the healthiest or best solution. I am normally the person my friends come to when they need to talk to someone. I believe as a manager a person must have a sense of how a person is and deal with each person individually if needed so each person as an understanding of what is the mission is. Controlling as a manager is something I believe I will have to work on.
The client must be ready for change, have psychological resources and social support in order to ensure a positive outcome in counseling (Neukrug, 2014). Introduction As a counseling student at Liberty University it is important to learning and understand how to be successful in producing the desired outcome when counseling clients. In counseling it is not beneficial to just counsel but a counselor must be effective and efficient in the counseling process. In counseling, the counselor and client have created an interactive relationship where both parties play pivot role is the success rate of treatment. Before counseling starts, an evaluation of the client is needed to determine possible obstacles
In conclusion we will see why it could be argued that the latter approach is the most useful for many clients. The term counselling is virtually interchangeable with psychotherapy. Psychotherapy means ‘healing the mind or soul’ (Nelson-Jones, 2011, p.3) and counselling tries to do the same. For counselling to work on a one to one or group basis then the clients must be there willingly. For many the relationship between client and counsellor is crucial to the success of the therapy and is based on trust and respect.