The supervisor should mainly ask questions rather than make interpretations or offer solutions. The questions should be based on ideas that develop during the conversations. The aim for the supervisee is to find a new perspective which fits their particular professional context. The supervisor should work within the ethical framework maintaining boundaries which are acceptable to the supervisee. Asking questions which the supervisee already knows the answers does not help the narrative.
An individual care plan must be followed, if it is in place, it is a prescription for services, and funded as such. To deviate from an individual's care plan goes against their personal objectives and therefore is not billable. Staff who support the individual have participated in proposing the plan and are invested in serving them to achieve their outcome. Person-centred approach puts the person's goals and what matters to them at the forefront and their desires, strengths and abilities are all factored in. It is the approach that service agencies are trending towards naturally and the funding agencies have followed suit and reinforced that is the way to serve an individual.
Such ability is considered at the essence of all effective therapeutic relationships. Clearly if the therapist holds certain judgements for the client which for whatever reason cannot be put aside for the benefit of the client there is an immediate barrier to effective rapport building. At the very least the client may detect in some intangible way such a barrier and sense it as the therapists’ ‘dislike’ of them which would immediately hinder their susceptibility to relaxing and engaging honestly with the therapist. ‘If your belief system gets in the way of working with a particular client, then you must refer that client to someone else who would be comfortable with them’ Ericksonian Approaches A Comprehensive Manual Battino & South Crown House Publishing 1999. Building a positive regard with your client however, goes beyond your own personal beliefs.
A counselor can be honest and disclose parts of her life that can be beneficial to the client, should be used only in discretion, and should never confess or vent her own feelings to the client; this would not be therapeutic to the client and may cause more problems. Warmth is a deep process, to allow the client to be one with the counselor, and emotional bond when the client is feeling lost and alone. Just knowing that someone cares how they feel and what they feel. A smile or a touch with another human being is very strong therapy for the client. Immediacy, I would say is best described as being totally involved with the client getting to know the client as himself, and how he is feeling at the moment, instead of reliving the past.
SAS offers its software for a free 30 day trial and then has an annual licensing agreement with its customers. This provides the customers with free upgrades and customer support. This is a very strategic business model that has worked very well for SAS, the initial first-year outlay is low compared to if they sold the software outright, but the revenues over time from the customer are higher as long as licenses are renewed. The company and their CEO Jim Goodnight also believe that greater level of market penetration is better than short term margins on sales. Also, at the heart of the SAS business model rests one single idea: satisfied employees make for satisfied customers.
If a person is committed to change or wants change we simply walk beside them and help them determine the best course of action. If a person is in contemplation about change we as helpers need to remember not to take the good side of the argument. If you argue for the good side it only leaves the client one spot to stand and usually that is to defend the other side. So if you tell someone that they must change something, or they must do something, people will come up with excuse after excuse. So rather than getting someone to defend their current behavior, we want to get them talking about change.
The main therapeutic techniques are: Logotherapy, the “I-thou model”, and the self-in-world concept. However since existential counseling is not a technique driven therapy, techniques from other therapies can be used effectively with an existential therapeutic focus. It appears applicable to a wide variety of counseling situations in which clients are seeking to resolve issues concerning the ultimate ‘meaning of life’ and does focus on the collaborative nature of the counselor – client relationship. Running Head: EXISTENTIAL COUNSELING 3 Existential therapy or counseling is classified as a humanistic theory by Maslow due to its focus on helping people achieve their full potential in life (Maddi, 1978). It is viewed more as an attitudinal or philosophical approach to counseling rather than a theory of therapy because it is loosely based on existential philosophy and it is not tied to any particular therapeutic technique (Sharf, 2004).
As more is learned about causing factors the helping skills will change according to the diagnosis of the client. However the interpersonal skills such as; communication, trust worthiness, compassion, and a caring heart will not change. These are skills that cannot be taught but must exist in order to be an effective helper in the human service field. A helper must remember that in the end the result that everyone is looking for is a solution to the problem at hand right now and how to prevent the client from running into the same problem in the
Narrative Therapy Approach to Family Counseling Name Liberty University Marriage and Family Counseling I COUN 601 Dr. NNE March 05, 2013 Abstract Michael White and David Espton developed the narrative therapy approach in the early 1900’s. Narrative therapy is a therapeutic approach where the therapist allows the client to re-author his or her life story into one that moves into a positive direction. Narrative therapy, which has been around since the early 1900’s, is still one of the most popular therapies used today; narrative therapy will continue to be used for many more years to come. In this paper, the history of narrative therapy, its techniques and some modern-day uses of the therapy is discussed; plus the author discussed personal Christian viewpoints and how it relates to the narrative therapy approach. Narrative Therapy Approach to Family Counseling Due to the fact that all humans are different by the grace of God, each person requires a different type of treatment to meet their counseling needs.
(Rogers, 1979) 6. The communication to the client of the therapist’s empathic understanding and unconditional positive regard are to some degree achieved PCT emphasises the relationship between the counsellor and the client. For PCT to be effective, the client must be aware, to some level, of the existence of the therapist’s empathy and unconditional positive regard for the client. If not, they do not exist in the relationship for client and so change cannot occur in therapy (Rogers,