Counselor as Scholar Practitioner Shawn P. Mahan Walden University Counselor as Scholar Practitioner Mental health counseling encompasses a wide variety of knowledge and skill sets. Obtaining a clear grasp and interpretation of these useful tools requires observance of efficacious guidelines. One of the skills necessary to demonstrate proficiency as a mental health counselor is that of becoming a research specialist. The author intends to isolate these key characteristics of development needed to meet the demands of scholar-practitioner. Through this identification, the reader will attain a greater understanding of the requirements needed for competent mental health counseling.
In this Essay, I will be demonstrating my understanding of the communication skills that social workers need to develop and use to meet the needs of service users. I will identify strengths and weaknesses from the case study in relation to communication and will discuss how they can be improved. I will also identify knowledge and theories that was or could have been used to inform practice. This TMA will reflect mainly on the case study of Roy and how the social worker Rosie worked in assessing the needs of the service user Roy. It will also show that I reflect on my experiences of using knowledge and skills and how they have helped my own social work practice.
This information will aid the hypnotherapist in building a rapport with the patient; also allow a connection trust to be formed. Of course the information acquired on the patient is the key to the initial assessment and to establish if the therapist is necessary but inevitably it comes down to the therapist and their manner. The reason why an ethical therapist would offer a free initial consultation is because it would show the commitment to the client through devoting their time to them, to talk, get to know them and make them feel comfortable. A hypnotherapist can find out why the client has come to see them, what their problems are and whether or not hypnotherapy is right for them, and whether they have had hypnotherapy before if not then the therapist can explain to the client what hypnotherapy is and how it can help them, they also will need to find out whether they are on medication or not, and to see if they will need their gp’s permission before giving hypnotherapy. The first consultation can be free and last up to 30 minutes.
These theories assist counselors in communicating plans coherently of treatment goals for clients. A counselor may have many thoughts, ideas, or feelings about why clients seek therapy and how clients can learn to change. However, having a model or models as a guide can lead to success with treatment ideas for clients. More important, models are scientifically researched and have sets of values about why clients come to therapy and how clients can change. The educational path this writer explores requires studying helping skills and an in-depth look in to different models and goal of models.
Reid (1993) defined reflection as a process of reviewing an experience of practice in order to describe, analyse, evaluate and so inform learning about practice. Read (1993), adds that reflective practice is potentially both a way of learning and a mode of survival and development once formal education ceases. Page and Meerabeau, (2000) described two fundamental forms of reflection: reflection-in-action, and reflection- on- action. Understanding the differences between these forms of reflection is important. It will assist practitioners in discovering a range of techniques they can use to develop their personal and professional competences.
The therapist would see me as a client which is the reason this type of therapy is also know as client-centered therapy. He/she would see us as equals developing a relationship to help me find some of the issues I am dealing with. Person-centered therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, is based on three principles. The first principle is that the therapist is congruent with the client. The second principle is that the therapist provides the client with unconditional positive regard.
According to Professor Draper ,getting to know the person behind the illness is the key principle of person centred nursing care.We as the care providers needs to listen diligently to our patients conditions, treat as a unique human being. Psychologist Carl Rogers, founder of person care centred define as " structure result from distributing pont of view and assertion of oneself ". It is a positive persuasion belief of our senses, ideas, and valuing of a person capabilities of what he/she can do. It is having assurance to see her actions as interactions made with confidence. Roger use these therapy in treating individual as a person to improve his quality of life.
Kerry Macleod Page 1 Tutor: Emma Redfern Course code: Brist2s ‘Evaluate the claim that person centred therapy offers the therapist all that he/she will need to treat clients’ Rogers was an influential psychologist. He had a humanistic approach and was the founder of the person centred therapy approach. His approach is still relevant and widely used by therapists today. Rogers seemed to have a very optimistic and positive viewpoint on mankind. The humanistic approach is essentially positive as it identifies the basic goodness of the individual.
The moral obligations for individuals within this profession should be within the guidelines of the legal requirements. In essence, the ethical considerations are to help the staff meet a particular standard and allow the professionals to be efficient, fair and competent in their field. These attributes could be similar to some legal regulations in the profession. Ethics and morality in general are subjective and at times open to individual perceptions. There are many external factors that can determine the moral views of an individual.
Advocacy is when a person is being helped to say what they want or saying it for them. It is about empowering people to speak up for themselves or making sure they are heard. Advocates should not be dependent on anyone else involved with the person needing an advocate so they can dispute for a service user’s rights without forcing them to act in a certain way by what that person thinks may be the easiest or cheapest to do. This is not always as easy, as advocates may not always recognise the feelings and needs of the person they are advocating for. It could be debated that it would be better if service users could be helped to argue their own case.